But going fast brings me joy
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People are too traumatized by ‘climbing up a hill is bullshit’ to remember descending
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I think it’s the kinda riding that is in your backyard that dictates the kinda bike thats gonna get you to ride more. Do you live near more road or off road?
They’re stupid fast… feels like putting your bike in eco moto mode.
How’s the sizing/volume?
its all road with a very small bit of levee gravgrav and singletrack. its really a job for 35mm tires.
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You are out in the country, yeah? Not urban? If you were in a city I’d say to SSCX the Squid. I love SSCX for in town stuff.
it ends up being much more urban than anything country.
you may foldsy arms me if you must, but ive grown to see a sscx bike as about the least fun anyone can have on a bicycle, regardless of environment. atmo.
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and really the so-ez would probably end up feeling like a sscx bike because im not sure i want to return to fixed.
thanks for coming to my ted talk-in-circles.
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They blow up a little smaller than 2.35” but in my case (a 2005 29er) this is a feature not a bug.
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do you enjoy road biking by yourself?
if yes - then sure
if no -
do you enjoy road biking with others?
if yes - then you definitely want a road bike to ride with other roadies because the wrong tires slow you down.
if no
then why are you considering a road bike?
gotta figure out what sparks joy and build the bike around it, but don’t build a bike thinking the joy will come after you’ve spent all the money.
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See here’s the problem. Going on rides where I smoke weed and eat tinned fish and cured meats is what sparks joy. And I’ve already built two bikes around those joys.
No to all of your other questions.
I guess I just want a bike for the sole reason of exercise by myself. But I think I know where this is going so no road bike for me.
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I rode some uphill in Portland, hated it, put my bike up on CL the day I got home.
E Z decision.
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I’ll take my state champ jersey and go home then. >
sup
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rim brake CAAD10 with tubeless 25s is my jameson recommendation
it’s not what you asked for and you probably won’t like it, but it’s an option
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I would encourage him to build something with parts that I would want to trade for when he got bored and changed his mind. It’s like you don’t know me at all.
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I would buy complete if it was a road bike because I understand them less than other bikes.
This keeps getting more boring by the second.
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Kind of like road riding!
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I love my comparatively fat-tired road bikes, I’ve had a 1st Gen Santa Cruz stigmata, Milwaukee road something, open up, Ron’s cr-1.
I know I could do a lot on 28s, I have, it sucked and I was younger, this is way nicer. They’re all somewhere between 35 and 40mm tire-wise.
I guess the value proposition lies in where you live, for me it lets me put up with a bunch of shoulder to ride some nice seasonal highways or other double track washboard fun.
I’m underbiked in Iceland a lot on the stigmata, I would be better off on some xc flat-bar crotch-rocket.
A thought
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