tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631046.post2171813574659201586..comments2023-10-18T12:00:36.746-04:00Comments on Big Bikes: Big Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18303656141935863563noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631046.post-21303347857182483772009-07-07T12:35:37.021-04:002009-07-07T12:35:37.021-04:00What does bacon and tater tots have to do with bei...What does bacon and tater tots have to do with being vegan? Maybe you've grown out of that phase?<br /><br />Still remembering a big 'round the world' 4th of July ride with you and JP from Ace, nine years ago, with many many connectors and amazing ways to get from Somerville to..oh...Norwood and back with 50% off-road. 50 mile day on mtb's, back before 29" were invented.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14719172541510343817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631046.post-76380540264158753792009-07-06T21:28:35.222-04:002009-07-06T21:28:35.222-04:00good stuff thom!
ever since i started riding 29e...good stuff thom! <br /><br />ever since i started riding 29ers 6 years ago, i haven't owned or pined for a road bike. you can ride with yer eyeballs falling out of yer head on a mtb just as well and personally i'd much rather ride my mtb on the road for mtb benefit than a much lighter skinny tired vehicle.<br /><br />my ole indy 29er (my only bike and now an 8 speed) is perfect for my daily 28 mile commute to work with the michelin xc at 2.0 at 55 psi and for off road i bleed em down to around 32 psi and i gotta a mtb. a coworker the other day asked me why i don't just throw some slicks on my bike for all of the commuting that i do and i told em that my michelins had over 2000 miles on em (no shit) split between road and dirt and pretty soon they would be perfect slicks and faster for everything everywhere. i don't know what michelin puts into their rubber, but man, these things hold up through everything for thousands of miles. anyway, love reading yer shit. may be if i get motivated to hang a # from my bars, i'll see ya around. some years i feel like it, and others not so much.<br /><br />oh, btw, get off yer ass and start takin names like you can and do!<br /><br />i still think back to the 2002 vt 50 while i was on that painful celeste green bianchi singlespeed. was fun to go back and forth with ya for awhile. <br /><br />roger whartonnewmarketroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278587698289889484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631046.post-43247731172111134662009-07-06T06:59:03.603-04:002009-07-06T06:59:03.603-04:00If I didn't write about new connectors I'v...If I didn't write about new connectors I've found I'd have nothing to ride about!rick is!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02039540336782835088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631046.post-87318720784693360432009-07-03T09:36:47.313-04:002009-07-03T09:36:47.313-04:00Good point about what bike you ride. The issue isn...Good point about what bike you ride. The issue isn't riding a road bike, it's doing the road _work_. Boring as some MTB snobs find it, you aren't going to finish strong at the end of a 2 1/2 hour race without road work, unless you're some sort of genetic freak.<br /><br />I got three commutes in this week (counting today), and tossed in an extra 90 minutes on mondays ride home. I got rained on, _hard_, both monday and tuesday, and the monday long ride home was partially in a biblical deluge. This morning was the first day since last week monday that I managed to ride with getting rained on. I agree bout starting in the rain versus getting rained on during the ride, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.zencyclehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00972746221081909463noreply@blogger.com