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Fixin to head south from Arlingfun to Port A with 3 buddies for Spring Break, 1978.

Fair point. I rode my buddies single speed niner for a couple of weeks and I've never come so close to throwing up on a ride. That includes some full blown hangover rides with @Chief. He rode that god damned thing UP Captain Ahab in Moab while anyone that likes fun was going down. Freaking beast. However, the first time I took him down a lift assist DH park, he broke his leg within the first 10 minutes.

First, thanks for posting the video links. I've gone down a rabbit hole. My gravel bike is SS. There is a simplicity to it. Less to maintain, less to think about when riding.

I'll never understand the draw of shingle speed misery. Particularly rigid. But hey, you guys have a higher fitness level and pain tolerance than me. Carry on😎

C'mon dude - you can't fake that. If only you could see the label on that Falstaff, you'd know it was the real deal! 🤣

It is the perfect second bike. I don't understand those that have only SS, but having an SS as a second bike is great.

I have taken my old gravel bike off some drops. It was fucking terrifying🤣

Hell yeah son!!

I've got at least another decade in these bones, in that case. might as well enjoy it while I can, because I can't keep up with the cost of maintaining a bouncy bike. I know several 50+ riders on rigid bikes who can ride circles around me in Barton Creek.

Try here. I thought it was a helpful tool when comparing geos. https://geometrygeeks.bike

No doubt. That's why when I bought my SC 5010 in 2019, I made sure I demo'd it first. I put a Greenbelt and an RPR ride on it. I also made every effort to demo some of my runner up bikes, but I had less success securing them and ended up only doing a short demo on one of them, the Yeti SB5. But I like spreadsheets. And instead of trying to remember various points of various bikes, the spreadsheet allowed me to not constantly refer back to 2 score+ websites when I wanted to compare bikes. And it allowed me to absolutely rule out bikes that didn't come anywhere near my geo preferences. And it must have worked. The 5010 will break 16 thousand miles this week.