Alternately, you could ride your mountain bike on the road in the rain. If you want more speed, a pair of slick tires would get you pretty far along the way to road bike performance.
Or just buy a road bike, yeah. With fenders.
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Or just buy a road bike, yeah. With fenders.
I wish there was a good solution. Even tubeless wouldn't have saved me from the sidewall gash at the weekend.
There's a fortune to be made for whoever eventually cracks it.
Forgot to post about it, but I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago. First, a couple of days walking in Cinque Terre, then cycling around Elba, and then cycling through Tuscany. Such a great trip, I love cycling in Italy.
Hiking from town to town in Cinque Terre.
My ride for the occasion, an Argon 18 Krypton. Really nice bike, very stable on the descents and also easy to climb with. And it was just my size, not like my own bike at home which is a tad too small.
First climb on Elba.
Yeaaaaah! Gelato. Food of the gods.
Cruising along the south-western coast of Elba.
Meet Gelato Man, the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. No wonder this gelateria didn't have customers.
Reaching the top of Fausto Coppi's favourite climb when he used to train on Elba.
Tuscan vineyards and stuff.
Cool hotel in a huge forest. Lots of people go there to rent mountainbikes - there are hundreds of miles of paths everywhere. I wanna go back some day.
Not the best roads, but really fun to ride!
Starting the long climb up to Volterra.
View from Volterra.
Going fast!
Typical mid-ride refueling.
Darth Pinche
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Yes.
That's the crappy HTupolev phone HDR shot, though. Someone else got a much more color-accurate shot. Seriously fiery rainbow:
Made the 4x4 points race even more epic.
Hey that is the Redmond Velodrome! Noice!
Psychotext
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Don't even try. Just find a riding partner you can do that sort of thing with.
So my new Fuji has this odd click on the right hand push stroke under power. It sounds sort of like it's coming from the rear hub area. The odd thing is that my old Fuji del Rey has almost the exact same click.
Any ideas what it would be?
Any ideas what it would be?
bloodreign
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Yes.
That's the crappy HTupolev phone HDR shot, though. Someone else got a much more color-accurate shot. Seriously fiery rainbow:
Made the 4x4 points race even more epic.
Hey! I live right down the street from there.
Well I mean, taking your wife to Italy and then ditching her to ride your bike might be a challenging feat.
frontieruk
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Heres my credit card see you tonight usually works...
Psychotext
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My wife goes walking, I go cycling. Everyone has their own interests.
TarpitCarnivore
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Anyone have experience with WTB tires? They have a 650bx47mm road tire that will fit on most 700c rims, and is tubeless ready. I've just never ridden WTB so I'm not sure how good their stuff is. Downside is the two tires can add 1.5lb in weight because rubber.
http://www.wtb.com/products/horizon
http://www.wtb.com/products/horizon
Psychotext
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Quite popular in the MTB world. Mostly by virtue of being cheap though.
Been off the bike for a week and desperate to get out this afternoon, but a client took me to an all-day free bar in Cardiff for the football yesterday and my legs feel like I ran all the way home. Which I might well have done, to be honest - I can't actually remember much past 4pm.
Psychotext
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lol. Where were you?
Psychotext
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Ahh yeah, supposedly a good one, not had a chance to visit yet. I was at Lab 22 yesterday after eating at The Clink. Great night. 
Psychotext
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That was the middle of the day. Some of us were working.
frontieruk
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Sounds more like you chose badly than the entire range of bikes is useless...
When I got back into in 2012 I picked up one of these
It was fast, light comfortable so much so that when I finally got my bottle back to get on a bike I went to look at the 2016 version of it first, I loved the look and the paint which is apparently designed to fade in interesting ways in the sun.. But I found it it heavy, and though not slow it didn't feel as nimble as the 2012 version.
So I ended up with
Which again gave me the feeling of a light nimble bike with a lot of pace to it. Don't write off a range because you had a bad experience due to your choices.
When I started riding in 2012 I was commuting 7 miles each way on a giant rock mtb that's slow and unwieldy on roads love it off road though.
I wouldn't expect anything else
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/behind-the-wheel-peter-sagans-1970-dodge-charger/
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/behind-the-wheel-peter-sagans-1970-dodge-charger/
Psychotext
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Barking
Psychotext
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Where ya ridin?
At a place called Hardwood Hills, about 90 minutes outside of Toronto.
It was the mountain bike course during the Pan-Am games last year. 60+ km of nicely maintained single track
Nice!At a place called Hardwood Hills, about 90 minutes outside of Toronto.
It was the mountain bike course during the Pan-Am games last year. 60+ km of nicely maintained single track
And nice hangage.
Psychotext
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Can be even worse than that. Depends on how technical the terrain gets.
I've done 15 mile rides that nearly broke me.
I've done 15 mile rides that nearly broke me.
2002whitegt
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With the hot weather we've been having here in Houston this past week I'm hoping the local trails will be ready to ride soon. Until then it's bike cleaning time.
Christoff Yurievich
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Finished this book about the Tour Divide. I kept thinking to myself, "That doesn't sound too bad." And then I remembered they're doing this on mountain bikes, something I tool around on around here, not 165 miles in one day across some truly terrible terrain.
Not on my bucket list.
Psychotext
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Is definitely on mine, but I can't see myself getting 20 days to do it in (and doing it in 20 days would be tough). They're currently going at the mo, and the leader is beasting it.
http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide16
http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide16
Christoff Yurievich
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If I had someone to do it with - and, as you say, the time available - I probably could get through it. Right now I'm still thinking about how sore my knee was (and is) after just four days of "hard" riding. It gives me pause.
Had this year's first ride around my favourite local mtb-route today. Finally found a path between two nice roads that I previously thought were completely separate (big height difference). It's possible to cycle up from the lower to the upper, except a couple of short segments that require pushing. Was rewarded with a gorgeous area to play around in, complete with a very nice singletrack. I have to explore more up there and climb the singletrack the other way - it potentially goes up to the top of a mountain... and what goes up must go down! I don't think anyone else ever goes there with a bike, so I can have it all by myself.
The top of my favourite gravel climb. Perfect place to sit down and unwind with some food before thundering down again.
Did the Mountain Loop Highway today.
50 miles from Darrington to Granite Falls, with another 40 on the ends to complete the "loop." People said it was a pretty road, and I'm inclined to agree.
A park in Darrington at the start of the highway:
Pretty soon it stops being pavement and starts being dirt. Pretty smooth dirt, but it rained yesterday so there was a shallow goopy layer.
A lookout from early in the dirt section:
A view from the middle of a bridge:
The highway spends a lot of time running alongside water.
The trees make it hard to get good pictures of some of the views, but sometimes the trees have gaps.
The dirt section ends at the highest point, Barlow Pass, with about 30 miles left until Granite Falls. IMO the paved regions weren't as pretty as the dirt, but they weren't bad either.
Also landed my first KOM somehow.
50 miles from Darrington to Granite Falls, with another 40 on the ends to complete the "loop." People said it was a pretty road, and I'm inclined to agree.
A park in Darrington at the start of the highway:
Pretty soon it stops being pavement and starts being dirt. Pretty smooth dirt, but it rained yesterday so there was a shallow goopy layer.
A lookout from early in the dirt section:
A view from the middle of a bridge:
The highway spends a lot of time running alongside water.
The trees make it hard to get good pictures of some of the views, but sometimes the trees have gaps.
The dirt section ends at the highest point, Barlow Pass, with about 30 miles left until Granite Falls. IMO the paved regions weren't as pretty as the dirt, but they weren't bad either.
Also landed my first KOM somehow.
doing great things on that "new" adventure bike
Fuck a duck. It's been hammering down for the last 18 hours with even more rain forecast. My local trails were in tip-top condition this time last week, and now they're fucking swampland. It'll take two weeks of uninterrupted hot sun to get them back to how they were.
Man, I'm so pissed off with this bloody weather right now.
Man, I'm so pissed off with this bloody weather right now.
Psychotext
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Did my final training ride for the Yorkshire Dales 300. Had my bikepacking bags with weights in and ended up with a bike weighing roughly 20kg, plus another 5kg on my back (that's about 55lbs in weight total for you yanks .
Was painful, but on the bright side I'll be carrying far less for the actual event. Definitely need lower gears if I'm going to train with any more than that though, was nigh on impossible to keep my heart rate in my target range on the climbs.
.Was painful, but on the bright side I'll be carrying far less for the actual event. Definitely need lower gears if I'm going to train with any more than that though, was nigh on impossible to keep my heart rate in my target range on the climbs.
I started bike commuting to work today.
I work from home so that means I rode ten miles before work and took a shower.
I plan on doing this every day it doesn't rain. I plan on walking home at the end of the day, and taking a shortcut. It only takes a few steps if I take the right route. Too many showers otherwise.
I work from home so that means I rode ten miles before work and took a shower.
I plan on doing this every day it doesn't rain. I plan on walking home at the end of the day, and taking a shortcut. It only takes a few steps if I take the right route. Too many showers otherwise.
jakonovski
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Love mountains, those are awesome pics HTupolev!
My knee has finally healed so I can ride without worrying. Went for a 50km ride, mostly along pathways:
My knee has finally healed so I can ride without worrying. Went for a 50km ride, mostly along pathways:
TarpitCarnivore
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Anyone ride Crank Brothers? Curious how the Candy pedals are versus something like the A600
Did the Mountain Loop Highway today.
Is this a gravel bike? There are so many different bike classes these days. Are there significant differences between a gravel bike and a cyclocross bike?
It could be called a gravel bike.
In the early days of mountain bikes, suspension forks did not yet exist, and MTBs were basically beefed-up touring bikes with extra-long wheelbases, wide rims, and straight handlebars.
I took one such bike - a Specialized Stumpjumper manufactured in early 1984 - and gave it drop handlebars, less-knobby tires, and fenders.
"Gravel bike" is not a very well-defined category. For some, their gravel bike is a cyclocross bike. Some manufacturers treat "gravel bike" as a sort of more-endurance-oriented cyclocross bike. If you host a ride with gravel sections and tell people to bring their gravel bike, you may very well mostly get people showing up on old bikes equipped with wide tires.
I didn't even catch that, it looks very new. I guess it doesn't have brifters, but if you changed the handlebars, that was your choice.
The first bike I'd seen referred to as a "gravel bike" is the Ridley X-Trail, but looking at their site, they don't even call it a gravel bike.
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