WingedWords
Friend of Leo's
This popped up on YouTube. Micro adventures - such a simple idea to help get out of the routine.
Bicycles - Who Else Rides?
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Finally blew (some of) the dust of my bike and went for a gravel ride recently. Trying to get back in shape and lose some weight and experience some of the "micro adventure" as mentioned in the video above this post. I'm lucky to have a wide gravel trail that passes right behind my house and goes for as many miles as I care to ride.
A quick snapshot for the Surly fans, which I'm glad to see we have a few of here. Please pardon my finger in the shot.
A quick snapshot for the Surly fans, which I'm glad to see we have a few of here. Please pardon my finger in the shot.
Silent Otto
Tele-Afflicted
The Spin is In!
Today's ride was "two bridges". Beat hard into the wind on the way out and over the causeway, swift tailwind all the way home.
Joy.
Today's ride was "two bridges". Beat hard into the wind on the way out and over the causeway, swift tailwind all the way home.
Joy.
Silent Otto
Tele-Afflicted
A lovely little little film:
Der_Kruscher
Tele-Meister
Here’s a shot from an event I did last Sunday: Ride the Hurricane is a 40 mile out and back up to Hurricane Ridge on the Olympic Peninsula, here in WA. It’s a 17 mile climb to the top, but the ride home is pretty literally all downhill. Beautiful scenery and smooth, debris free roads…what’s not to like?
ctmullins
Tele-Afflicted
I hate you all. (Temporarily.) It's absolutely too hot to ride here. At all.
ChicknPickn
Poster Extraordinaire
I loves me a steel-frame bike. Together with the external cabling and rim brakes, you've got a treasure there. Never let it go, lest you get stuck with internal cables and silly disks. I know, someone's gonna have something to say about disks . . . .Finally blew (some of) the dust of my bike and went for a gravel ride recently. Trying to get back in shape and lose some weight and experience some of the "micro adventure" as mentioned in the video above this post. I'm lucky to have a wide gravel trail that passes right behind my house and goes for as many miles as I care to ride.
A quick snapshot for the Surly fans, which I'm glad to see we have a few of here. Please pardon my finger in the shot.
Der_Kruscher
Tele-Meister
Allow me to be that guy! I’m actually with you on everything: steel is great, internal routing looks cool (but no thanks), and rim brakes are elegant, simple, and light…but discs really do work better in some/a lot circumstances and I love not chewing through rims in the wet months here in Seattle. My Ritchey Road Logic Disc was an easy pick for me due to the steel frame and external routing. It’s a good bike.
tonepoet333
Tele-Holic
Here in this part of California, it's hitting 100, but my Wife and I do our ride at 8:30 in the morning when it's still cooler.
tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com
tonepoet333
Tele-Holic
I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but my Wife and I, while walking, are noticing a decline in the courtesy of younger bikers who do not ring a bell or call out "On your left". They just zoom by from behind, which really startles my Wife.
tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com
tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com
robt57
Telefied
My tag line on a cycling forum reads:
"I'm all about the 28" Rotors. Viva la rim stoppers!"
But we can have what ever we want. Paid 1000.00 for a mint canti Moots Psychlo-CX RSL with ENVE fork and King Headset. Was +4800.00 new.
I got a Tele habit to support, yo!
I'll ride with folk with discs, EV motors, it's not about that.
Although of late I question hills on rides with others on EV bikes.
Anerobic, what's that they say.
WingedWords
Friend of Leo's
I much prefer simplicity in bicycles (Occam's Razor and all that) and I've mostly ridden fixed gear with a single front (rim) brake for many years. I'd say that at least 75% of my speed control and stopping is done by back pressure on the pedals - a disc brake isn't needed in my circumstances (speed, terrain, load, traffic etc). I've got a bicycle with disc brakes and I see the advantages, but I can live without the more complex maintenance.
ChicknPickn
Poster Extraordinaire
I'll bet you recognize this brake:
Note the Kool-Stop Talon pads. No more screeching. I love those things!
RE. the e-Bike crowd: I was going to say something. And then decided not to. Who knows, I could find myself on one someday . . . .
robt57
Telefied
FWIW, I have two Canti high end bikes with Pauls Mini Moto brakes. I also have dics bikes, for my clyde/girth I find a 28" Rotor better than a 6" one for power at the levers.
robt57
Telefied
Maybe I am just an old cycling curmudgeon. But I did all the road disc and road tubeless. And have reverted away from disc on road bike, and have several tubed TL clinchers. I do like the TL for lower pressures, gravel and MTB. But not trying to get anyone to follow my path, or convince anyone of more than one thing. That a 30 year cyclist is on said path and maybe it might mean something for someone else's path.
I do have several tubular tubeless setups from 28-36mm. Yes, I typed TUBELESS TUBULAR. I carry a mini plug kit and sealant, and do not start out with sealant. Only if I puncture out in the wild. I figure with a new tire the sealant will be maybe ineffective by the time it wears a bunch and punctures are more likely.
I find the glueing/tubular aspect less hassle than the TL clincher fit games. Which tires like which rims, which are even possible to fix on the road if you gotta boot or put a tube in, etc etc. The tubeless design on tubulars caused me to give them another try starting a few years back. An upside is used tubular wheel deals are favorable. Like a Zipp 303 set I got for $150.00. Just had to clean up years of dried mastic before I could mount my tires. Time I got... The big coin goes to gear/gits.
Not sure I'd suggest that to a beginner VS TL. But if you can DIY a Tele from boards, you can glue up tires without gluing yourself or your clothes to the wheels I figure.
I do have several tubular tubeless setups from 28-36mm. Yes, I typed TUBELESS TUBULAR. I carry a mini plug kit and sealant, and do not start out with sealant. Only if I puncture out in the wild. I figure with a new tire the sealant will be maybe ineffective by the time it wears a bunch and punctures are more likely.
I find the glueing/tubular aspect less hassle than the TL clincher fit games. Which tires like which rims, which are even possible to fix on the road if you gotta boot or put a tube in, etc etc. The tubeless design on tubulars caused me to give them another try starting a few years back. An upside is used tubular wheel deals are favorable. Like a Zipp 303 set I got for $150.00. Just had to clean up years of dried mastic before I could mount my tires. Time I got... The big coin goes to gear/gits.
Not sure I'd suggest that to a beginner VS TL. But if you can DIY a Tele from boards, you can glue up tires without gluing yourself or your clothes to the wheels I figure.
robt57
Telefied
Not that I don't like the idea of taking my hands off the bars to grab a DT shifter in a pace line on a curvy bumpy descent or anything...
Bar mounted shifting is one of the inventions I approve of 1000% FWIW.
I do have one DT Vintage Serotta, I ride it solo.
Thinlinebetween
TDPRI Member
This was just as the big, white BELL bicycle helmets came out. I had been riding to work every morning for my summer job, down Michigan Ave in Chicago. I was ironically riding the the bike shop because wanted a better shifting situation, when a cab cutoff tge station wagon in front of me and slammed in his brakes to pick up a fare, my head hit the rear window of the station wagon. I was never quite as into bicycles after that. But I post the picture as a caution for those who ride in the street:
Thinlinebetween
TDPRI Member
I used to live in downtown Chicago and rode bicycles then motorcycles. Parking was much easier. I got hit 3 times on motorcycles, all 3 at the end of March on wet steeets and all spaced 3 years apart. So, the 12 year I didn’t ride until April. Before that, though I had my ass handed to me by a cab driver when I was 16. I kinda woke up in the ER, wondering why my mom looked so bad. Be careful out there!I got one of these
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And for around town I got one of these
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Cycling is fun !
It makes me feel good about myself . Even with these two bikes, I’m 95% an existing Street/urban environment cyclist .
My head is constantly on a swivel. I have lights front and back that are on and flashing whenever I am on the bike and - I’m sure that my number is up but I’ll keep riding until it is!
