You people have horrific taste.
I feel bad for people who didn't get to experience 90s mountain bikes. Or maybe I'm happy they didn't have to deal with it? Either way it was an amazingly awful time in bikes.
It was a crazy time, it all felt more experimental. My old Cannondale was pretty wild, huge smoothly welded aluminum tunes with a purple to blue fade paint job. It has a whopping 2 inches of travel. Super light but unforgivingly stiff. Tire tech was also totally hit or miss. In this TBT photo, I lost about 10 knobs on the rear tire as they just ripped off (Tioga Psycho)
Those bikes were so aggressively forward. It's bananas.
Mine wasn't serious, a bmw ebike and everyone knows that all bikes made by car manufacturers are butt ugly, except peugeot https://www.merlincycles.com/blog/when-car-manufacturers-make-bicycles-u-g-ly/
After considerable more research and visiting two bike shops I have come to conclusion that that ancheer bike is probably not the best purchase. Especially given that I am not all that savvy with maintaining even the regular bikes. This one seems to be my best and cheapest option. There is a part of me that wants to splurge a little and get this one, but here aside from price hike, the issue of having to maintain the gears deters me. Any thoughts?
Source.US television programme 60 Minutes investigated motorised cheating in professional cycling in a show aired last night, claiming that motorised bikes have been used in the Tour de France.
60 Minutes journalist Bill Whitaker interviewed motorised bike pioneer Istvan Stefano Varjas, three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond and his wife Kathy, and others. The show provided no direct evidence of cheating by cyclists.
Stefano said he told the French police that just before the 2015 Tour de France he again sold motorised bikes to an unknown client through a middleman, Whitaker said. He said he was directed to deliver the bikes to a locked storage room in the town of Beaulieu Sur Mer, France.
The programme indicated that the wheels were motorised. Varjas said enhanced wheels weigh about 800 grams more than normal wheels. The programme claims that Team Skys bicycles were heavier than all others in the 2015 Tour.
so I'm stuck at work until my missus finishes and drives 60 miles to pick me up as some cunt stole my bike from work.
pissed.
Guardian has that story too and then it finishes with saying Team Sky's bike were tested for motors after the time trial in 2015 and none were found, so what's the story? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...ied-using-motorised-bikes-tour-de-france-2015
Feel like motors would be a lot harder to hide than drugs.
The show provided no direct evidence of cheating by cyclists.
I'm getting angrier and angrier...
https://dirtmountainbike.com/news/stinger-trap-found-yorkshire-bridleway.html
Feel better Mascot. I'll try to up my trail riding to off set your non-riding
Holy hell does ERG make a HUGE difference on the trainer. The only thing I need to work on now is turning my legs over faster.
I still don't see the point. I'm quite capable of making sure I output the correct power. I don't need to worry about it screwing up on short intervals etc either.
Cheers buddy - I've PM'd you my Strava login details.
Might be night riding tonight actually
Ha ha..!This is night trail riding, but if you'd like I can do a 5 mile ride to the coffee shop and upload it with the title of "Thanks for the hard ride boys. Had some great pulls"
Riding trails at night is fucking wild. Everything feels so much smaller and you have to be absolutely heads up no matter what.