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Are you lonely? Find a different forum that responds to your shit. Go away.

No, go away.

If your hands are too close to your body, you picked the wrong size frame. By that, I mean that you don't have to have a drop bar, or even a bike designed for a drop bar. People have an absurd fettish with putting a drop bar on every bike and an absurd notion that it will make them faster. Unless you're hell bent on winning and can maintain 20mph+ on a dirt road, aerodynamics don't mean much. If you just want to have fun spinning miles on mixed surfaces, a hardtail with a flat bar or even a rigid mtb would be just fine. Any bike designed with a drop bar in mind will have a shorter reach and shorter top tube than a flat-bar bike. The reach to the hoods on such a bike should be about the same as the reach to the grips on a flat handlebar. Putting a drop bar on a bike that was designed to fit you with a flat bar will most likely result in a bike that is way too stretched out to be comfortable because the additional reach of the bar + hoods is subtracted from the frame. For example, my mountain bike (flat bar) has an ETT of around 615mm, and my CX bike has an ETT of 545mm. The respective reaches are 412mm and 377mm. My feet, butt, and hands are in about the same orientation on both bikes when I out my hands on the hoods because the CX bike has a shorter top tube, longer stem, and all that drop bar reach to even it out. If I put a flat bar on the CX, it would feel two sizes too short and a drop bar on the mtb would feel gigantic to me unless I also install the stem backwards. A bike with a flat bar plus comfy bar ends or some kind of "alt bar" also works well for long miles on dirt.

But you just responded, so there's hope!

From DNP: Latta Greenbelt west to Davis, Dirt Colberg to Gorzycki (unless the backside of that hill has reopened behind the new apartments), left on 1826 up past the water tower, past Slaughter Creek and on up the hill to SH45. Not sure if the first trails there would be rideable, so I'd take neighborhood streets to the Bear Lake entrance. Ride around the lake, down Ski Lift, up to Bernia. My only concern is the Jeep road here, might be too mucky at the bottom of the hill. Fly down Escarpment, take a right at SH45 and ride the new bike path to 1626 and back to Escarpment. Do a gravel lap past the soccer fields in Circle C, then gravel past Alamo Drafthouse. Back down Beckett to DNP. It's a lot of pavement but it's better than sitting on my ass all evening. Pavement and hardpack is fun on a light-ish bike with 35mm tubeless semi-slick tires.

I've never made it that far south after a rain. It is pretty rocky down there so maybe. I plan to eat BBQ and drink whiskey to maybe feel better about not riding. It looks like shit outside.

1170 posts on a website where nobody likes you. that is crazy

People are afraid to say what they really mean, and that's sad.

Since it's looks to be raining all day tomorrow you aren't missing anything. But I took the day off and am ridding and imbibing all day. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

It was a link to "a very long article, from a gay person's POV". Just google "gay POV". I bet it will pop right up.

That Happy New Bass Day! I have a LOT of guitars/amps/pedals/etc but very few basses. Picked this up yesterday. Fender American Vintage '62 Reiisue Jazz Bass. Any bass players here?