glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
Sweet bike! New bikes are sooooooo nice. Perfect weather today for breaking it in.
My brother bought me one of these for Christmas: http://www.amazon.com/EcoGear-FX-Ta...?ie=UTF8&qid=1463891586&sr=8-1&keywords=tk120
It's stupid bright. I've been using it with a Twofish lockblock and I have to be careful of the aim or I get cars flashing their brights at me.
Harrison will take you up on the trail above town and you can try to keep up with him. He will stop and let you catch up
How do you mount that to your bike? That looks awesome!
...you can try to keep up with him.
I have a kuat 2-bike hitch that I love. I'm sadly going to have to sell it, as it doesn't work with the van.
I have a kuat 2-bike hitch that I love. I'm sadly going to have to sell it, as it doesn't work with the van.
here's what I've heard about 27.5+
if you ride for fun, and you don't care about speed, weight, or beating your friends up a climb or down a stretch, you'll love it. People say these are just a ton of fun. The wheels (and tubes) are extremely heavy though, and they're not as "spirited" as a performance bike (they feel a little more sluggish uphill and down), but they're a lot of fun. My buddy's hardtail Canondale Beast weighed in at 29lbs. That's a lot for a $2800 bike with a lefty and no rear shock. The tubes alone weighed 1lb each. (he switched to tubeless). I didn't like the geometry of the canondale beast (too steep of a head tube angle), but he loved it.
Personally, I'm a bit frustrated that the bike industry keeps changing standards. 26, 29, 27.5, fat bikes, 27.5+, 29+, 27 speeds, 1x10, 1x11, 1x12, boost rear hub spacing, pedal-assist, what's next? I kind of want to see where the 27.5+ movement goes and if it sticks. Long gone are the days where you could stroll into any bike shop and find a tire that fits your bike. I really feel for the shop owners, now they need multiple different tires in multiple different sizes, where in the past, they could order 10 different 26" tires.
The good news is that bikes just keep getting better and better and they're more and more fun to ride. The bad news is that they're getting insanely expensive ($4500 is considered "entry level") and if you want to buy a replacement part, or upgrade a fork or something like that, good luck finding one that happens to match your wheel size, headset size (fortunately tapered head tubes are now the standard), etc. I used to swap parts back and forth between bikes. Now that's nearly impossible.
How much $?
I have my steel framed hardtail 26er that cost almost $5k to build and now its worth maybe $1500 on KSL. .