Prepared for climate warming...

Cool. Especially as the water flies all over your backside while you're paddling.

Impressive as hell!

I noticed the four brake levers. At first I thought, whoa, redundant cables, he must crush those things. Then it occurred to me that he has, y'know, four wheels, so, four brakes. Derp. Then I wondered how they're setup. My guess is unlike a regular bike where one hand is front and the other hand is back, I think he probably has it setup so that one hand is left and the other hand is right (brakes). This would give him some skid steer control unlike just front/back. I have seen similar single sided brake levers on a friend's sand rail I used to drive.

That's a cool rig.

Pretty awesome.

I can see it moving forward slowly if you pedal like crazy, but I don't see how the steering system would be effective at all. I think it only goes straight.

Fool:

Woman Bike Mechanic.

NSFW language getting a fat bike over an electric fence.

I laughed awfully hard at that.

Prolly cuz I'm completely pickled atm...

Griff,
The inch finally saved up enough dosh to guy the bike of his dreams, a GIANT Stance. He picked it up shortly after Christmas with his mother. When he picked it up the guys at the shop told him that he could never ride it in th ewinter because the salt would destroy it.

Back in my pre-auto, bike only days I rode all winter in Burlington, VT an would rinse my bike off with hot water after each ride, then wipe it dry and lube as needed.

Is there something special about today's bikes that precludes a post salt ride rinse? I'm wondering about the disk brakes, their mechanism seems crevice-y.

What are your thoughts?

Sorry I missed your post foot. Wow, the Trance is a nice ride. He has good taste.

I'd guess it's the crevice issue. Our old bikes were pretty clean in comparison. My buddy who is wicked fastidious only uses compressed air to clean his full suspension. That wouldn't be sufficient to remove salt. I'd hate him to get salt embedded in his pivots or brake mech. Any chance he'd ride a pos bike on the salty pavement and save the Trance for trail riding? He is your kid though so maybe he'd carefully rinse and dry the bike...

But if the boy doesn't beat it up, I'll never get handed down to 3foot. :lol:

He says it might be tedious to clean the bike so he will use his POS schwinn until the salt is gone.

He's already handed down his Magic Marys since the new bike came with Ardents.

good plan

Welcome to the crazy world of incompatibility which is modern mtb bikes. These are amazing machines... of course I just picked up new 2.3 tires and rescued and cobbed some Avid V style brakes from a broken frame for my '91 now I just need daylight... or lights. I should be riding now that the snow got et.

And in the 80s I thought Shimano was bad with their incompatible parts...

Shimano was the blueprint for Steve Jobs. Incompatibility is money in the bank.

What a coincidence! I hate them both,

Ascari

Took an old friend for a swamp ride this am.

No fenders? You got wet. You were counting on Pete giving you a bubble bath, weren't you, you crafty devil. ;)

Memories...

Fuckin' A, man.:thepain:

ow!

You probably shouldn't ride your bike while barefoot, but I did everything else barefoot in the summers back then. Those pedals on bare feet were horrible.

We duck taped carpet scraps to them.

duct tape!


Luxury!

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!
Not you, Bike!

built for and with curves!

right turns are my speciALity!

Standard formula... one competitive sport + Reward($ / fame) = Cheating. Sigh

I kept reading his name as Vajay...

It's going to turn into GASCAR tearing bikes apart after races.

I suppose the teams could have factory certified bikes, but there is always Tom Brady.

If your name was Jay Vajay...


...in the phone book you would be liste as Vajay, Jay!

Spit warning you fat, stupid, lazy dumbass dick!

Little punk action. :haha:

Good lord that looks painful

Got an old worn out tire and a bit of spare chain? Of course you do, now build yourself a belt...

Cute.

Try and drag that fucker through seven or eight belt loops.



I thought so.

I think Popular Mechanics had a kid's project making a belt out of a bike tire and a Matchbox/Hot Wheels-type car for a buckle in the most recent issue.

Like this? Smart people put the belt on the pants before the put the pants on them. :p:

I like.

It did.

Funny coincidence too, because a few weeks ago my son made one of these high end belts. So to see an article about another kid making a custom belt just a week later was a bit of a coincidence.

Or recycle this way...

Niche-y.

If you were going to ride your bike in the Tour Divide Race from Canada to Mexico, would you ride it 2100 miles to get to the start? This girl did.

She is a monster! 183 miles on the first day with full packs, road through a lung infection, and sucked it up despite the route change which took her win. Solid person.

impressive.

I'd like to see the load out for her travels. Where does she get food and water, etc. Camping? I guess she's in a bivy sack. after that everything else would just be ballast.

Imma effort the bike packing packing list.

thank you!

http://cellar.org/2017/bikepack.jpg

Two guys tour the divide route.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3n4yaU64j4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlX4jcTepKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QVbSf4scdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjKyRmrC42M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHR0-JUX5N0

This guy crosses the continental divide in winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_28YltsuY

Bike touring the National Parks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ivbYvq9WU

Oldies but goodies...

I think he sort of took liberties with the Arabic, but it's cool.

Sometimes the uphills take some urging. ;)

Gots to have gears...

That bike is teh awesome!!:devil:

The Dutch use bikes for everything.