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Montana rider

Montana rider

Tom Sawyer
Mar 14, 2005
1,946
2,622
First bike ride of '24 was a mixed media beach to pavement fat bike route from Monmouth towards Sandy Hook.
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First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin...

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canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
22,023
21,581
Canaderp
Absolute mint conditions today, on most of what I rode. Temps dropped back down after being crazy warm all week. Solid snow with a sprinkling of fresh snow on top.




I thought I had too high of air pressure when I left the car, but it was perfect. No crazy steep stuff today, but didn't spin the back wheel or push the front a single time. About 7.5psi in back and 5.5 up front.
 
6thElement

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
17,273
14,744
canadmos said:
Absolute mint conditions today, on most of what I rode. Temps dropped back down after being crazy warm all week. Solid snow with a sprinkling of fresh snow on top.




I thought I had too high of air pressure when I left the car, but it was perfect. No crazy steep stuff today, but didn't spin the back wheel or push the front a single time. About 7.5psi in back and 5.5 up front.
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Just how tubby are you tubby? :D

I'm normally 5psi out back, 3 psi up front.
 
canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
22,023
21,581
Canaderp
6thElement said:
Just how tubby are you tubby? :D

I'm normally 5psi out back, 3 psi up front.
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I'm like a freight train. Slow, heavy and lots of momentum.

:busted:


And while that's true, the trails were like riding on a sidewalk today. Didn't really need much squish.

It's funny looking at your ride from today, comparing to mine. We did about the same distance, but you climbed literally twice as much. I doubt my pressures would get up those inclines...
 
dump

dump

Turbo Monkey
Oct 12, 2001
8,482
5,150
slyfink said:
holy cow, they allow vanity plates in English in QC?! I'm floored...
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they allow pretty much anything with the latin alphabet, no accents or punctuation. Numbers too. Most of what you see is in english. Only seen 1 or two not english.
 
canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
22,023
21,581
Canaderp
Twas pretty good today. But had to run super low air pressure, which made it a bit of a chore. These tires gripped awesome though.





These sram levels work, as long as there is no snow on them. Oddly, the one I didn't touch feels worse and has some sort of changing bite point, compared to the other that I swapped levers on (and didn't bother bleeding after).
 
Jm_

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
20,184
10,716
AK
I rode with someone yesterday on the snow and I don't know what kind of brakes they had, but damn, howling with every single lever pull.
 
canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
22,023
21,581
Canaderp
Short ride close to home. Did the pond/swamp section twice, helping to pack it down. Lowered air pressure for it, but regretted that later. I should have rode that stuff last and saved the air for the sidewalk like trails everywhere else..

A few watery spots. Will the ice hold?


Nope :brows:


Match sticks... all these trees fell during two storms a few years back
 
johnbryanpeters

johnbryanpeters

Hero
Sep 27, 2001
36,829
18,428
Making moss sad in New Haven, Vermont
canadmos said:
Short ride close to home. Did the pond/swamp section twice, helping to pack it down. Lowered air pressure for it, but regretted that later. I should have rode that stuff last and saved the air for the sidewalk like trails everywhere else..

A few watery spots. Will the ice hold?


Nope :brows:


Match sticks... all these trees fell during two storms a few years back
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Ice did not hold on my ride.
 
Jm_

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
20,184
10,716
AK
Freaking swamp donkey always in my way.
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Freshly rebuilt air-spring (again) to fix the suck-down problem.
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