Breezer
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Thatās a good idea
But good stuff is is thin on stock
Ooo yeah that Inversion looks pretty good. Even have a fender + dynamo model (OOS for 56cm but maybe available somewhere)
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I miss my space horse
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Weird, the reviewer had a Space Horse and said this one left it in the dust.
I should have checked myself instead of taking his word. The power of placebo, I guess.
hot take- iāve been rambling about actual full suspension āroadā bikes since like 2016 and iām here for it. am i going to use my last trek prodeal ever on it? fuck no. but i would have a lot of fun on that thing with some fat slicks just being dumb.
upon further reflection my sticking point with it is that itās tr*k and therefore inherently uncool. the same concept from a different maker would be much more interesting
case in point:
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at this point to me Trek is so uncool that purchasing a well-designed Trek bike would be an interesting novelty. Like Iād buy a sick downhill bike or a fancy road bike or something (provided they are heavily discounted).
all the newer cop bikes around here are generic e-bike things now
A new way to underbike
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bummer,
part of the rwgps mojo is how all paths are equal and you just get to find out if a trail is something they auto-imported from a scan of a 1928 map and nobody has been there for 100 years, then get totally lost bushwacking for an hour, hoping you donāt run out of daylight on your way home
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This is one of my favorite ways to use RWGPS. During the COVID days I spent a lot of time in the woods looking for trails and forest roads that disappeared decades ago.
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Still trying to decide how I feel about the floating rack. I get why they made it look that way -it looks way cooler kind of cantilevered out back like a moto tailpiece vs. normie straight vertical rack struts. But Iām curious why they made it floating on linkage rather than just rigidly attached to the seatstays?
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I made a route in coastal Oregon with rwgps using heatmaps. Turned out most of the roads were long gone and at this point were just bear infested single track. Was still a lot of fun. Guess I posted it publicly and someone tried it out recently, only to have a bad time. Whoops.
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maybe it improves dynamics of the suspended rear and doesnāt shake your panniers as much?
Thatās one of the leading causes of hiker deaths out west. People will start following a trail, because theyāre desperate, only to walk off a cliff because it was a goat trail.
Itāll be interesting to see how often the trail maps get updated, especially in areas that are working forests.
I think itās more for buttrocket style packing, but with more support. Not necessarily panniers, more like dry bags and straps.
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oh yeah, NY isnāt serious like that unless you get up to the Adirondacks maybe,
much lower stakes, iāve had to wade a bit, find a way past washed out seasonal highways, emerge from the woods onto someoneās lawn etc. got some warning shots once. rarely see a bear.
Donāt forget to service the pivot pointsā¦ checks notes ā¦ in your rack.
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