This is the view from my living room on a clear day and it’s simply incredible
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As I pull into my neighborhood, I see the tip of Baker and the Twin Sisters and it still special if small.
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have you told us about these bars before? are they wood?
That’s my buddies bikepacking rig. Like me he gets a bit of hand numbness at times. Hes a tradie so its partly occupational I think. Hes about 90 kgs and has not had any issues with them. Loves them.
I have this local lunch-time Work From Home loop that I established during lockdown. I would sometimes hit it hard, trying to see which of my bikes was faster, hardtail, fully 29er, full 26er, gravel bike. On a good day I am at around 60 mins. PB is 56. I spent most of saturday installing shifter guts into my buddies sram SS levers so we could run his dropper post off them. Yesterday, monday, I decided to do a loop of my circuit to test it out. There were a few people out on the trails, a lot of them with headphones on, or just really fecking deaf. So the bike has these ridiculous 60 cm Walmer bars on it, and because he is a merrikan, the levers are all backwards. So I did my WFH loop, first time on a proper singlespeed for years, first time on this bike, and I only crashed twice, the last time, quite hard, while going up hill. I had forgotten how aggressively you have to ride an SSer, just to keep on top of the gear. The dropper worked real good. I got home and Strava told me I’d done a 60 minute time and picked up two 3rd fastest times. And there was no way I was trying to go hard. I just wanted to test the fricking dropper and try not to crash. It’s not a very light bike, but I found the position actually really good. A hell of a lot of fun. 465 m vert in 15 kms of very nice singletrack.
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Is that dude in the first picture eight feet tall? His headtube is longer than my arm!
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Holy fuck that headtube. HY!
Damn. Every bike is a minivelo when you’re that tall.
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Can you imagine drafting off him!
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You’d be under the draft.
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If that’s a 700c wheel, I measure ~7.25 ft.
And still looks like some bar drop with that saddle height. Probably used half of a shop roll of hose for those brakes and tandem derailleur cables. Looks like a rock lobster?
Welp, riding buddy felt the need to climb 3000 feet over 10 miles of dirt this morning. Good thing I packed a breakfast sandwich! The ride down got a little rowdy, but not too bad all things considered.
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He’s 6’11, former pro bballer
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I’ve met that dude a few times & he’s a nice guy.
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Glad to see that stoke on the family fun time.
