TAF, JA, or just WTH?

[BicyclePears]

It’s got those Berd spoke strings too.

Bentonville is an unserious town. Silly fucking place.

[frikki]

Perplexing!

Clearly untouched. Being picked up from somewhere? I can only imagine this just got assembled at a store. No pedals, no cages, one million zits.

But what do you ask for at a store to wind up with that? Is this the harley bagger of young x gens?

[akasnowmaaan]

…titanium!

Wait, no… titanium 32" wheels!

Wait, no… titanium 32" drop bar bike!

Wait, no… ADD A PINION!

[drwelby]

I’m guessing it’s a show bike headed cross country to MADE

[BicyclePears]

It was the guy who seemingly owns Viral Bikes, he had a little studio/shop underneath a coffee shop there.

[lbttbl]

I’ve always been intrigued by the pinion systems but have never ridden one.

[akasnowmaaan]

Same, but I keep going back to ‘I’m nowhere near hard enough on bikes anymore to need one’. And they are not cheap.

This would be a bad-ass bike to have.

[featherduster]

32in Geo

[b-roll]

So you’re saying that my approach of judging a wheel size based on that one bike I had is wrong?

[runwhatyabrung]

If pears is calling somewhere unserious I simply must experience it, if only for anthropological purposes.

[BicyclePears]

It’s like if REI made an REIsvillle.

[johnasavoia]

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=qd-559&store_cat=0&store_name=bamboobicycleworkshop&_oac=1

Felt transported back to 2011 stumbling on this ebay store.

[jame5on]

Pandas ate my fixie

[Rusty_Piton]

Now I kinda wanna build a bamboo bike for Roli using this kit.

Custom Bamboo Bicycle Frame Build Kit for Teens | eBay

[BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS]

@BicyclePears

It’s like if REI made an REIsvillle.

it’s like this but also to gain entry you must:

1. own and only drive a sprinter van. you may be allowed in if you drive a pickup truck with a tailgate diaper for your bike, but you have to pay the poor tax
2. have an e-bike
3. vomit at the sight of any rock that is not part of a perfectly curated/manicured rock garden

[BicyclePears]

They had paved berms. Do other places have pavement berms? I don’t want my berms paved, not ever.

[wickedwagon]

Only been there once. It was fun, but the trails had a weird vibe. Like it’s too perfect.

Or maybe I’m a dickhead and was looking for something to complain about

[BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS]

no this is absolutely true. it’s like the disney world of mountain biking.

[yonderboy]

We have some places where they use those turf stones to armor the berms against wet weather or to shore up a bad bench cut.

[jame5on]