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new bike taken for a spin along the canal towpath
new bike taken for a spin along the canal towpath
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Yep, it's blackberries. Thankfully there weren't many fresh thorny branches laying across the path.
Saw your post in C&V about that bike, really cool machine. I have a Miyata as well (1983 710), although it's still configured as a pavement bike. Miyatas have so many nice little touches, even their plastic headbadges are cool:
Douglas State Forest, Douglas, Mass. Awesome morning. Got a great tip on a cool trail from a woman on horseback, and got good directions from a woman walking her dog on the Southern New England Trunkline Trail. The Miyata Alumicross I built up over the winter is pretty amazing; some of the trails I used were clearly more geared toward mountain bikes.
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Yep, it's blackberries. Thankfully there weren't many fresh thorny branches laying across the path.
Saw your post in C&V about that bike, really cool machine. I have a Miyata as well (1983 710), although it's still configured as a pavement bike. Miyatas have so many nice little touches, even their plastic headbadges are cool:
Saw your post in C&V about that bike, really cool machine. I have a Miyata as well (1983 710), although it's still configured as a pavement bike. Miyatas have so many nice little touches, even their plastic headbadges are cool:
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@bonsai171 (below) and I had an amazing ride today. 40 miles with about 1/4 of that off pavement.
Almost no cars. We saw horses, cows, a flock of guinea hens, hawks, deer feeding in a field and were chased by dogs too many times to count. The ride started cold but it warmed up to the perfect temperature and the rain yesterday meant zero dust.
He can push that heavy bike really well!
Almost no cars. We saw horses, cows, a flock of guinea hens, hawks, deer feeding in a field and were chased by dogs too many times to count. The ride started cold but it warmed up to the perfect temperature and the rain yesterday meant zero dust.
He can push that heavy bike really well!
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Went and did 30 miles on the Oak Creek bike trail with an amigo from MO...and then got the whacko idea to explore some MMR (Min Maintenance "Roads")....seen peeking over the hillock. No cars, only one marathon trainer. Bright, sunny, and nice.
5-15% MMR on dirt/mud rutted farm roads. Disc brakes needed on the way down....30-30 gearing needed coming back up.
5-15% MMR on dirt/mud rutted farm roads. Disc brakes needed on the way down....30-30 gearing needed coming back up.
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I was going to ask the same thing of @Marcus_Ti about his carver.
I'm really happy with it, both the build and how it rides. For an MTB company, Niner has made a really nice road bike. It handles like a road bike and responds best when ridden like a road bike. I say this because somehow along the way I got caught up in the "Do it all" or "Any road" hype pushed by manufacturers. Maybe the fact that Niner is an MTB company or maybe I looked at too many video's of guys running non suspension gravel bikes on singlegrack but I tried to take it on very rough trails and it doesn't work. I had to keep reminding myself that that the original goal was a fast gravel bike.That's really what it is - a sporty endurance road bike which handles really well on gravel and is built tough like an MTB. It was ridden hard descending today and it bounces around in bumps, especially washboard on turns. Maybe it needs less air in the tires? After riding Di2 I don't want to go back to mechanical.
The Fabric Scoop saddle flexes up and down, feels really weird like a tire going flat at times. The flared bars are amazing and I don't know why every bike doesn't come with them.
The hardest part is not cleaning it meticulously when I get home. Putting it away dirty is really difficult.
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I'm really happy with it, both the build and how it rides. For an MTB company, Niner has made a really nice road bike. It handles like a road bike and responds best when ridden like a road bike. I say this because somehow along the way I got caught up in the "Do it all" or "Any road" hype pushed by manufacturers. Maybe the fact that Niner is an MTB company or maybe I looked at too many video's of guys running non suspension gravel bikes on singlegrack but I tried to take it on very rough trails and it doesn't work. I had to keep reminding myself that that the original goal was a fast gravel bike.That's really what it is - a sporty endurance road bike which handles really well on gravel and is built tough like an MTB. It was ridden hard descending today and it bounces around in bumps, especially washboard on turns. Maybe it needs less air in the tires? After riding Di2 I don't want to go back to mechanical.
The Fabric Scoop saddle flexes up and down, feels really weird like a tire going flat at times. The flared bars are amazing and I don't know why every bike doesn't come with them.
The hardest part is not cleaning it meticulously when I get home. Putting it away dirty is really difficult.
-Tim-
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I was going to ask the same thing of @Marcus_Ti about his carver.
I'm really happy with it, both the build and how it rides. For an MTB company, Niner has made a really nice road bike. It handles like a road bike and responds best when ridden like a road bike. I say this because somehow along the way I got caught up in the "Do it all" or "Any road" hype pushed by manufacturers. Maybe the fact that Niner is an MTB company or maybe I looked at too many video's of guys running non suspension gravel bikes on singlegrack but I tried to take it on very rough trails and it doesn't work. I had to keep reminding myself that that the original goal was a fast gravel bike.That's really what it is - a sporty endurance road bike which handles really well on gravel and is built tough like an MTB. It was ridden hard descending today and it bounces around in bumps, especially washboard on turns. Maybe it needs less air in the tires? After riding Di2 I don't want to go back to mechanical.
The Fabric Scoop saddle flexes up and down, feels really weird like a tire going flat at times. The flared bars are amazing and I don't know why every bike doesn't come with them.
The hardest part is not cleaning it meticulously when I get home. Putting it away dirty is really difficult.
-Tim-
I'm really happy with it, both the build and how it rides. For an MTB company, Niner has made a really nice road bike. It handles like a road bike and responds best when ridden like a road bike. I say this because somehow along the way I got caught up in the "Do it all" or "Any road" hype pushed by manufacturers. Maybe the fact that Niner is an MTB company or maybe I looked at too many video's of guys running non suspension gravel bikes on singlegrack but I tried to take it on very rough trails and it doesn't work. I had to keep reminding myself that that the original goal was a fast gravel bike.That's really what it is - a sporty endurance road bike which handles really well on gravel and is built tough like an MTB. It was ridden hard descending today and it bounces around in bumps, especially washboard on turns. Maybe it needs less air in the tires? After riding Di2 I don't want to go back to mechanical.
The Fabric Scoop saddle flexes up and down, feels really weird like a tire going flat at times. The flared bars are amazing and I don't know why every bike doesn't come with them.
The hardest part is not cleaning it meticulously when I get home. Putting it away dirty is really difficult.
-Tim-
Mate and I were riding out in farmland, and improved or unimproved it was a ball, even a nasty 15% descent on basically dried double-track mud farm road (thank goodness I had discs or I might have rear ended him). 45mm tires at 30-40PSI eat loose-pack dirt and gravel easy, and it is a tank WRT handling anything....but is maneuverable slow, and stable enough fast. Just a fun blast of a bike that can go most anywhere that there's something of a path.
Hard front/tail bikes will always be harder on the body than suspended on unimproved surfaces. Our track here is fairly well worn, so it is more manageable compared to wild-land DIY track.
Only have a few gripe-list things in the first 400 miles and change of shakeout, and 2/3 of them are the build rather than the frameset... (1) The IRD Defiant crankset is a bit flexy especially out of the saddle punchy climbs (it is a square taper crank, and flex is inevitable compared to modern hollow-axle external cup cranks). (2) I do miss having a wing-style handlebar for the tops, one of my mates has a stash of Specialized bar-shapers to take a round-section bar and give it a wing -so in 2 weeks I should be fixed up on that. (3) The one thing I dislike about the frameset, is the rear lower eyelet position for racks-it is a strange config that I believe even Lynskey has now abandoned.
The crank is probably going to get replaced when the new FSA finally goes on sale I'm thinking.
SIDENOTE- I did go and get a K-Edge chain-catcher for my Di2. Di2 is amazing, except for the 2 PITA dropped chains I had....the first I chalk up to a misaligned FD, a too-wide limit screw, and an inadequately-torqued clamp collar....the 2nd I chalk up to the DA/Ultegra FDs simply not being designed for a 30T low gear (E-Tube only lists road cranks as low as 34)
PS-One of the perks of bare titanium (learned it when I retired my Kestrel CF and got my Seven)....it looks clean with a wipe of a damp paper towel, or even your bare hand
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Mixed surface ride. It was one of those rare days when the road in front of me was good and open, I was going fast, making big power numbers, but it was so easy I could have been convinced someone else was doing the work for me.
Mixed surface ride. It was one of those rare days when the road in front of me was good and open, I was going fast, making big power numbers, but it was so easy I could have been convinced someone else was doing the work for me.
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During a sidetrack from a gravel ride today, i did some singletrack to eventually meet up with more gravel roads.
Such fun on twisting single hardpack.
Such fun on twisting single hardpack.
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Full moon midnight work commute.
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More pics from IA - since we all love IA so much!
PSA: The more you know...
Took off my MSO 50s/60TPI and put on Ravager 40s/120TPI - It's a big beautiful improvement - the benefits are huge!
Why'd the turkey cross the road?
PSA: The more you know...
Took off my MSO 50s/60TPI and put on Ravager 40s/120TPI - It's a big beautiful improvement - the benefits are huge!
Why'd the turkey cross the road?
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Went and did 30 miles on the Oak Creek bike trail with an amigo from MO...and then got the whacko idea to explore some MMR (Min Maintenance "Roads")....seen peeking over the hillock. No cars, only one marathon trainer. Bright, sunny, and nice.
5-15% MMR on dirt/mud rutted farm roads. Disc brakes needed on the way down....30-30 gearing needed coming back up.
5-15% MMR on dirt/mud rutted farm roads. Disc brakes needed on the way down....30-30 gearing needed coming back up.
Just curious - I have them, but haven't worn them yet.