Dude I can’t fucken wait
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A shorter and very not winter ride for me back in town (it got up to 63 freedom degrees after the sun went down?) that included a short detour because of steam locomotive:
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My kid would LOVE that!!
Yeah my toddler would fucking have kittens at that sight.
Hit the trail on my comute this morning. My new to me serviced fork feels amazing. Not any faster but so much nicer. Lots of birbs out today.
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since when can we only upload 5 files at a time?
anyhow, had a baltika porter by the river after work (well, left a few mins early to be able to ride, and did still participate in workplace slack by the river). one park is done up to the 8s with lights, venus and saturn were looking real nice, and our local public outdoor skating rink is getting set up. it’s like a 5-7 min walk from our house. now we really need skates
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Took the new tandumb out for a shakedown ride, taking a 30 year timehop with tech/geo from our old C’dale was pretty awesome. We even managed to gap Amy on some of the flowy downhill sections.
My kid spent the whole ride spitballing me with name suggestions for the bike (the C’dale was known as “Big Green Bike”), eventually he ran out of ideas and just started suggesting things he was seeing on the ride…then he said we should call it what sounded like “Nips!” but I realized he saw the little MIPS logo on my hamlet. But the bike is pretty much NIPS now, Not Inclined to Pedal Solo.
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the real mvp here is that sheldon tat
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Sheldon’s write up on how to captain a tandem really did send me down the right path with these long bikes.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tandem.html
Bless the maker and his water…
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i’ve only captained a tandem on mtb trails and had no training but did not kill my dad either time. we used to “race” tandem mtb a lot. he also actually raced tandem mtb but we did the thursday night shits and giggles local race almost every week. fantastic memories. we never had anything that went squish tho- we rode a fisher gemini with the black and white splatter
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Wild, I’ve never seen a fish tandem. That brace tube on the back half is interesting.
EDIT: Tandem x canti combo musta made for some strong ass hands. I was in heaven today, newbike has Magura 4 pots which were just amazing compared to the oldbikes BB7/V-brake mullet.
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yeah he had the SE pedersen cantis which did an admirable job. can’t endo a tandem.
fisher signed it egen he did a group ride from wissahickon cyclery (now basically defunct- 100% just engin cycles now)
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I had a Gemini too, supposedly the designer did some 80s FEA and the “uptube” was the optimal design.
My memory says the guy was Rick Jorgensen? Tango Tandems?
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So some friends and I attempted (key word here) the ride that @jimmythefly wrote for me for the Holiday Ride Exchange (route below):
I roped a couple of crazy friends into attempting with me, and there were a couple of spots that were unknown, but we decided that most of it “should be rideable.” Boy were we wrong. Started from my house and rode ~13 miles to the start of the route. Rode about 100 feet onto the route before we were hiking (first foggy pictures). Hiked for about an hour, then were able to ride for a long while. By the time we hit the bottom of the first huge climb into the Angeles, it was already 12:30. The trail pretty immediately kicked up into a 1500ft climb over 2 miles of rutted hiking trail. Even with my fancy new subcompact was plainly unrideable. By the time we hit the top and changed our first flat of the day, it was ~2:30, with another 6000ft to climb and at least 50 miles. I was the only one with lights and there was definitely no food stops the rest of the route until we were done with the climbing. I knew the fire road we were on was rideable and fun, but also knew that even if we bailed to pavement at the top, we’d be descending a pretty busy Angeles Crest Highway in the dark (or, Jess and Colton would be in the dark, I’d be fine). So we decided to turn back and rip some singletrack and fire roads lower down, then head home. Jess and Colton got another 4 flats between the two of them on our way back into town and home.
All in all, a super fun day. With some modifications to the route (namely, circumventing the known hike-a-bike), This would still be very climby without being impossible. Seeing the looks on the faces of hikers coming down the trail we were pushing up was pretty priceless/
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Yowza! That’s what I get for trying to follow lines that look like trails on google satellite view.
Were the flats thorn-related or ?
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One pinch and a bunch of goatheads, all accumulated by my tubed friends running way too much pressure
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