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Old 11-29-17 | 08:09 PM
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Bikes: Foundry Chilkoot Ti W/Ultegra Di2, Salsa Timberjack Ti, Cinelli Mash Work RandoCross Fun Time Machine, 1x9 XT Parts Hybrid, Co-Motion Cascadia, Specialized Langster, Phil Wood Apple VeloXS Frame (w/DA 7400), R+M Supercharger2 Rohloff, Habanero Ti 26

All these new hipster bike dumps are horrible. Garbage bikes being left anywhere someone decides to leave it, people riding on sidewalks who may not even know how to ride with no concern for pedestrians. They are a nuisance all over the place but I have noticed them more and more where I live and we have a bike share program established that is docked and maintained. Since the bikes don't have a place to go it teaches or reinforces the idea of not putting things back where you found them and keeping things clean. "I found it blocking the sidewalk or an actual bike parking spot so why bother finding a better spot."

I have ridden airless tire'd aluminum bikes and you feel every little thing and not in a good way. People continue trying to claim they have a new miracle wonder of "airless" tires that will magically unseat 120+ years of pneumatic tires that have been working just fine. It is just old vintage technology that wasn't great back in the 1800s and hasn't gotten better at least not for a bike. Maybe if you put those airless tires on a full suspension carbon downhill bike with a suspension seatpost and used it for just the road and paved pathes the bike might be a little better.
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