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Armchair *ultra endurance* mountain biking? 

I'll be honest and say that I'm amazed at these athletes but I have zero interest in doing something like this myself. A five day trip with gear to make hot coffee and have a warm meal each night? That sounds like a blast. But 2700 miles is a loooooooooooooooooooong way to go.

Just now, mack_turtle said:

Steel toed boots and jean shorts too.

Yeah, I read an article about her a few days ago, boots and cut off shorts, snickers and gatorade. All of that was stunning. But I think past bikes were geared, at least in some races, so to now add rigid and singlespeed... holy shit.

On 6/9/2019 at 8:55 AM, June Bug said:

During the question and answer session, someone asked her how one could train if they don't have mountains or time to do long distances.  She suggested riding to the event -- that you'd be in pretty good shape after riding all day for four or five days. 

 

I rode to Walnut once and totally killed it. And by "it", I killed a six pack.

On 6/9/2019 at 8:55 AM, June Bug said:

Edited to add: Her bike is rigid single speed for this year's Tour Divide -- no suspension, no gears. 

 

OMG.

I'm giving Walnut a break as well. I actually rolled through there on the paved path late last night and it wasn't until I was already home when I recalled that everyone would be interested in a trail report so I didn't touch the dirt.

They're not those ones with thick chunky pads. The pad is very thin, you can't see it protruding from the outside. 

In semi-related product reports, I bought some Specialized gloves, fingerless for long roadie type rides, that have a pad in the palm that is supposed to relieve numbness but I actually think they're causing numbness where I didn't actually have any before. I've been pushing to do longer rides (for me) so I thought it was having ridden for 5 or 6 hours but even shorter rides bring numbness with these gloves, I am starting to believe. 

2 hours ago, TheX said:

So I got a pair of GS1's today, and they are EXACTLY the same as the GS3's. I have no idea what the difference would be.

from looking at their site, the main body of the grip is identical but the GS3 and GS2 add bar ends integrated into the grip end piece. 

Good jorb, D!

improve your skillz, not ur bike, full rigid is all u need.

15 hours ago, cxagent said:

Doing some planning in Reimer's Ranch. That is all for now. Probably have more details in about a month.

I want to have something solid to report before I report it. Otherwise it starts to sound like Fake News.

That's exciting, I like Reimer's and don't get out there often enough. I hope it pans out. Thanks for the work you do on behalf of area bikers.

10 hours ago, Seths Pool said:

You need to get the ergon GS-1s

Is the "s" for size small in that grip? Can you post a pic of how angled you have yours set up? It is so strange to me that you can do the shit you do with those paddles on your grip. I have some specialized equivalents for the bike I ride on the street but I can't imagine using them for technical off road rides.

Thanks! I'll check those out. They do go further (farther?) east than I am wanting but I'll see how they go along I35 at least.

thanks guys. I think I'll look at the heat maps some and search for more Strava routes but in some sections, there aren't a lot of options, so I might just SEND IT and report back.

UTM uses big numbers but those are out of range for UTM. UTM for Steiner area would look something like 14R 609854E 3365045N

Walnut is both "Complete Hero Dirt LOL" and also "Sofa King Muddy and Unrideable". It should be renamed to Schrodinger's park

Thanks friends! 

I've ridden some of these roads but it was a loooong time ago and I know things have changed with development and new roads and such. Can anyone comment on the route between Austin and San Marcos and beyond in terms of how dicey the route is? I can navigate through South Austin but I'm concerned with the FM/rural roads.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/6007516

garage space and the size of a cargo bike is a good point. Here is a fairly accurate rendering of how it will fit with the rest of the fleet:

looks Lucky, too.

Nothing wrong with a company throwing the kitchen sink of tech and light parts at a build other than the fact that any reasonable review should probably focus on a more mainstream bike to really be useful to the readers.

sent you a link via FB.

There are some large sized Sidis in the for sale section. I'm guessing you want either cheaper or more enduro looking shoes.

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