Anyone here know something about mountain bikes?

[gogmorgo]

Good bikes are good bikes. That one should serve you well.

I may be looking at getting myself another as well. The fattie is nice for doing fattie things, but going up hills with it is just dumb. High rolling resistance and so much rolling inertia don’t help. But it’s going to be a little while before I get something. I’m hoping that once Covid starts working it’s way back out of the system and gyms and stuff start opening back up there’ll be a bit of a surge of newer used bikes on the market.

[coheed]

On 8/14/2020 at 8:08 PM, gogmorgo said:

Good bikes are good bikes. That one should serve you well.

I may be looking at getting myself another as well. The fattie is nice for doing fattie things, but going up hills with it is just dumb. High rolling resistance and so much rolling inertia don’t help. But it’s going to be a little while before I get something. I’m hoping that once Covid starts working it’s way back out of the system and gyms and stuff start opening back up there’ll be a bit of a surge of newer used bikes on the market.

I'm sure in the next few months, especially with winter coming, this years equipment will be hitting the used market. Fat bikes look super cool IMO, but like you said they seem useful for only some stuff.

 

 I'm astounded with how easy it is to climb with this bike. My last one was a mid 90's rigid Trek, and even in better shape back in the day I remember it being harder than this bike.

[gogmorgo]

Another piece of advice in the form of a don’t-do-what-Donny-Don’t-did.

My coworker who rides competitively told me he cleans and oils his chains after every ride. I thought this was overkill, and have only been doing that if I was riding somewhere wet or muddy, and needed to wash the rest of the bike.

Well I went back out this evening just before sunset to do the loop where I ate $#!& earlier this summer for the first time since that happened. It’s not a super intense trail. Couple ups and downs but it’s a fairly level wide open path along the river, you cross a bridge and come back along the other side sorta deal. I downshift to go up a couple gentle switchbacks and my chain comes off. I stop, look down, and discover my chain isn’t just off the sprocket, it no longer exists. 

Well no, it still exists, but it’s still on the trail where it broke. The chain is only about a year old. 
And of course my phone decided right after that photo to do the thing where it dies at 10% battery life. Had to stash my bike in the bush and turn my half-hour bike ride into an hour-and-a-half hike home to grab the MJ and retrieve the bike.

At least it was a nice evening to walk home in the fading twilight.

[MiNi Beast]

A mountain bike is for mountain biking....

[gogmorgo]

3 hours ago, MiNi Beast said:

A mountain bike is for mountain biking....

Yeah good thing there’s a few of those around out here.

[MiNi Beast]

Damn thats beautiful 😍