However posts about different forms of bicycling are acceptable.
Not this again
You need not be a ping list member to post in The Bicycle Thread. However anti-bicycle posts will be seen as trolling so let’s agree now to go separate ways. Thank you.
Add me please. I ride a Trek hybrid road bike and a Specialized mountain bike. I haven’t been able to ride much since I tore the ligaments in my leg, ankle, and foot in November but I plan to be back in the saddle by this Fall.
Just for fun, I lined up the back of the bike with the back of the car, and the car was only about two and a half feet longer than the bike.
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I need to find more time to ride.
You can add me to the list.
By the grace of God I have found myself fixing bikes (not stolen ones TMK) in my densely populated relatively poor city years ago, mainly Walmart-type products, and have come across many good sales on such things as tires (like $8.00 for a 20’’ x 2.125” and 26” tires for 12.00 with free shipping over $25.00) and 26” tires for 12.00 tubes ($3.00).
And the best buys I have found on low-cost (very good) patches, cement, brake pads, noodles, etc.
Or how to best patch a tire.
Just ask, but may all we do be as born-again instruments of God to further His kingdom, through His Spirit.
Used to enjoy riding, 15-40 miles at a time. Where I live now the roads too crowded and it just doesn’t work well. No spandex, no helmet, no “share the road!” attitude, just time to myself.
The country preacher stood a the church house door and greeted each of his flock as they left for the day and he stopped Bob to ask him a question.
‘I noticed you have walked to and from church the last 2 weeks. What happened to that nice bicycle of yours?’
Bob said, ‘I can’t find it, Preacher. Either I forgot where I left it or someone took it.’
The preacher was shocked to think of thievery going on in his small community so the next Sunday he gave a sermon on the Ten Commandments he lingered a bit longer on the part about Thou Shall Not Steal.
Sure enough, a short time later, he saw Bob on his old bicycle and the preacher crowed about the sermon helping Bob get his bike back.
Bob said, ‘That sermon sure did help! When you got to the part about ‘Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife’, I remembered where I left my Bicycle!’
Use to ride all the time in Florida. Too much traffic where I live now.
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Paramount Custom road bike
Cannondale 26/24 Lefty mountain bike
Schwinn Voyager tour bike
and a long wheelbase Danish cargo bike (among others)
Specialized - Stumpjumper, M2
Specialized - Sirrus, Carbon
Scott - Scale 930, Carbon
There are lots of twisty back roads to enjoy in my neck of the woods. Lots of dirt roads, single track, and also extensive rails to trails nearby.
Don't ride in groups on the road, and in fact can't stand roadies. Don't like most people.
Colnago CX-0 EVO with Dura-Ace 9000.
Diamondback Podium Equipe with SRAM Red
Willier Blade TT with Ultegra and HED 6 front and HED 9 rear.
Got a century tomorrow. Second one this season.
Bicycles should be banned from city streets and all HI ways.. JMHO.
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Roubaix Expert (carbon frame/Ultegra components)
Cannondale Trail 3
Cannondale street oriented hybrid (H400, aluminum frame.) This was my main bike for 20 years and is a fine urban commuter bike, but it starts to be work over 20 miles and shakes me to pieces on the C&O Canal.
I'm thinking about another bike for longer trail rides. The Cannondale Trail 3 is a trail oriented mountain bike (no really crazy downhill stuff). It's great for wet, sloppy conditions on the canal, and I appreciate it on the rocky or rutted sections, but it's heavy enough that I don't want to ride it more than 20-25 miles. Longer rides are frequent because the C&O Canal is out-and-back riding. Don't know where the right tradeoff is for longer rides.
A couple of bike shops have recommended the Specialized Sirrus X. For quite a few years, Specialized ran with the Sirrus/Crosstrail tandem for hybrids. This year, they've chopped the Crosstrail line way back and put a 38 mm tire on the Sirrus X for reasonable dirt/gravel capability. (The other Sirrus bikes remain road-oriented commuter/fitness hybrids with 30 mm tires.) Sale season is coming up, so I need to start test riding. Thoughts?
Think in terms of 40-60 miles on the C&O Canal; Harper's Ferry would be a good destination, or a through ride. Or riding out the W&OD, crossing at White's Ferry, and riding back on the canal. That's farther than I want to do on a mountain bike. I'm thinking hybrid or a gravel bike.
Back in the day there used to be some interest on FR when
Lance Armstrong was riding. Scandals pretty much ended it.
In fact I don’t know if a TDF thread runs each year now.
Fatbiker and roadbiker. More fatbike than anything.
Salsa Blackborow
Salsa Mukluk
Specialized Roubaix
Bianche Volpe hybrid. Central Virginia, near Lynchburg.