Ha yes I think so! I’ve been planning group rides for 2.5 years in Denver and am having to get real creative to not re-trace previous routes. I really like finding the older neighborhood paths along creeks that don’t exactly connect perfectly but do make for some serene moments. The hard part is leading 10-20+ people through it all… from the front of a tandem…
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Yeah it sounds like I’ll be switching over as soon as I bust my current login session on Strava
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oops
Jan be Jannin’, but it’s about my buddy Don, so that’s cool. His brother is on my road team.
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Fucka Felt
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Hahaha
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All Felts are bastards
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lol tone deaf af, felt social media!
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Patron saint of fancy paintjobs on production bikes weighs in with…
… a fancy paintjob on a production biek
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nice crosscheck erik
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Came here to say nice surly
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It’s like Blue Lug but… more metal.
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Crosschecks are great. I love my crosscheck.
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All crosschecks are just crosschecks with the same geometry
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That’s funny, the only bike I have EVER heard my wife say “thats a nice bike” about, was my buddies copper-plated Straggler.
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My Surly brand bicycle Crosscheck (like capital C) is definitely not the best bike I’ve ever had, but it’s done light offroading, touring, commuting, road riding, and probably some other stuff I’m forgetting now.
I’ve done basically zero maintainence on it in the decade that I’ve had it (a new chain once? New brake pads?), I’ve stuck tires from 25-55mm on it, and have used it as a depository for all the parts that come off of other bikes.
It doesn’t have the elegantly refined ride quality of a nice bike built to my measure, but it fills about five niches and refuses to die.
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Erik’s crosscheck is one of my favourite bikes ever, doesn’t make it less bad that he is a nice guy (IRL friend) and has beaten the fuck out of that bike in probably every way imaginable. It’s legit 
I know this will come off as “AcTuAlLy It’S nOt PaInTeD”, but that’s an industrial copper plate finish he did way back in 2011.
This is way back when it was fresh:
How it finished his first PBP:
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That finish is super fuckin cool
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