The last person to post a picture from their last bike ride wins access to the white courtesy phone.
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You're dressed for the arctic, 39F is shorts weather!solo night time 90 min road ride tonight. it was 39* out.
Not when it's windy and damp
Y U no studded tires?
Generally not needed here. More money and hassle than benefit for the limited use they'll get.
Will maybe homebrew with a set of old mid fats in future, just because.
Frozen dirt, some decent snow (rarely) then freeze/thaw mud season. This batch of glazed ice on our trails (covering everything) for this long is an aberration.
Get a load of Boosty McBoostface over here.
Studded tires hook up nice on roots too.
What size? I have a Surly Bud and Lou with grip studs that are still serviceable, replaced 'em with Wrathchilds this year - the Surly's are yours if they'd be useful to you.
wazzup with da poop bag?
Lots of people being walked by their dogs on these trails - someone dropped an unused bag and I tend to pick up trash when possible. @Bunnista did better, she found someone's credit card.
Og ride egg. At the end of yesterday’s ride I found a camelbak complete with wallet and SS card. Found the owner via facebook, got a hug for a reward. Today, swing, ice cream and changed a swaztika into a US flag. Just doing gods work. I guess someone’s got to do it.
Thanks. Much appreciated, but save them for someone more local to you. They'll surely get more use from them than they would down here from me. Fatty tires work pretty well for me, and some winters we don't even get enough of anything to need those.
Yes, but they suck on the rest around here, unless it truly is iced over EVERYTHING. Have used them in the past, and do not enjoy them enough on rocks or any other non-iced surfaces enough for me to really want to deal with swapping tires/yet another wheelset.
Now, with the way the climate is changing, if we were to start getting more iced over stuff like this...but that has been the rarity for my area. Usually crusty snow for the most part. Melts a bit and refreezes with a crust generally not thick enough to require studded tires.
Short spin and had to traverse a muddy shitscape on account of this dozer, but I'll take it on baby Santa day.
No studs, or would they be overkill most of the time?According to my new awesome made in China $8 low pressure air guage, I had just over 2psi in the tires today. So slow, but no way around it with the ice. Butt hole got a workout today clinching.
Engage clench mode now.
They'd be useful a portion of the time when we get these dumb thaw and then freeze situations.
But I'd rather go hike or do something else rather than deal with changing tires. Not to mention the price of studded fat bike tires...
I'd take those studded B&L if you still want to sell...?
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You have no ice. Nice.
I'd rather ice.
This was mostly just sloppy, goopy, muddy crap. So I went back to the car after a quarter mile.
That pretty much describes trail conditions by us. Predicted Temperatures looking out ten days don't look any better.
Same here, but we still have plenty of ice and slush in shaded areas, too. I wish everything was either frozen, or all clear of ice. This is garbage.
