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Finally got my Tumbleweed frame back (frame repair then fresh paint) spent the afternoon building it up. Super stoked to get out for a good bikepacking trip here soon. It looks so clean without all the bags and racks on it. Also just forgot how much of a tank this bike is. 29x3 tires on an XL frame with 840mm bars makes for a massive bicycle!

Squeezed in a quick 12 mile +1600' ride on the singlespeed at sunset. Can't believe how smooth the Paul Hubs and White Ind freewheel feel, such a fun bike on the singletrack even being full rigid.
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My Brother Big Bro is an XL, also with wide bars (70 mm rise, 820mm wide Ritchey Buzzards) and it is a big bike when put up against those ridden by people under 6' tall...

Slightly smaller tyres, only 2.4" WTB Rangers, but it is still a big old bike!
 
CarloniousFunk said:
Finally got my Tumbleweed frame back (frame repair then fresh paint) spent the afternoon building it up. Super stoked to get out for a good bikepacking trip here soon. It looks so clean without all the bags and racks on it. Also just forgot how much of a tank this bike is. 29x3 tires on an XL frame with 840mm bars makes for a massive bicycle!

Squeezed in a quick 12 mile +1600' ride on the singlespeed at sunset. Can't believe how smooth the Paul Hubs and White Ind freewheel feel, such a fun bike on the singletrack even being full rigid.
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You have a Transit Cycles water bottle on your Esker! Cool. Did you get your Esker from Jenna?
 
jembourbe said:
It's been exactly three weeks since my last ride. Oral surgery recovery and things going nuts stressfully at work. But it was so good to be on the pedals again. Legs were good. Recovery was not.

This is gonna hurt, but YOLO . . .

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I did that once... Rode up a 24% grade at a ski mountain in NH. Once...

Couldn't stop munching after that, all day long. That ride put me in a serious calorie deficit.

Probably 7 years ago. The fellow I was riding with was older than me and used the hill for his Time Trial training. Defo national type champion for his age group.

This fellow:



I could ride with him on the mountain bike, but man he had speed and endurance. I saw him ride by once on his TT bike, while I was coming out of the woods. Never ever saw a bike go by so fast.
 
Taking a rest day today after spending the last 8 days biking 370 miles around the desert in SE Oregon with the gf. We crossed three mountain ranges, the Alvord desert, and went to 5 hotsprings. Absolutely rugged and beautiful landscape out there, biking through it feels like you're transported back to the wild West days. Might make a full trip report post later, have a ton of photos to go through still.
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gilamonster said:
Been off the bike for the last two months-some weird respiratory infection hit me hard. Went from bikepacking ready condition to been drained from 3 easy road miles. But, finally getting over and did 12 easy miles on the road yesterday. Looking forward to getting back after it now!
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Dang that's rough! Good to hear you're recovering and able to get back out more again. Being put down like that has got to be frustrating
 
CarloniousFunk said:
Taking a rest day today after spending the last 8 days biking 370 miles around the desert in SE Oregon with the gf. We crossed three mountain ranges, the Alvord desert, and went to 5 hotsprings. Absolutely rugged and beautiful landscape out there, biking through it feels like you're transported back to the wild West days. Might make a full trip report post later, have a ton of photos to go through still.
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I'd read the full report!
 
CarloniousFunk said:
Taking a rest day today after spending the last 8 days biking 370 miles around the desert in SE Oregon with the gf. We crossed three mountain ranges, the Alvord desert, and went to 5 hotsprings. Absolutely rugged and beautiful landscape out there, biking through it feels like you're transported back to the wild West days. Might make a full trip report post later, have a ton of photos to go through still.
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Damn son. Trip report ASAP!
 
Did the Dad's On Bikes ride again on Sunday; about 20km all up.

Had a mate drop by who was planning on coming through on his bike, but had to pull up at Dubbo... having ridden there from Melbourne... Fair effort.

Joking with the other Dad who rides with a trailer as we were climbing a hill - he was telling his son that he might need to get out and push; I asked if it was because he hadn't done any hills recently... turns out he'd ridden the 300km or so (and near 8,000 metres of climbing) back from the Coast that week in 24 hrs doing it proper non-stop; he said if he'd had to stop for a sleep he was traveling a bit light!

2x Surlys, a Curve, and my Brother - proper alt bike/adventure bike meet up!
 
Gerry McGerry said:
That's a fair effort in a car!
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He was running out of water stops; hitting 6 or 7 litres of water a day before he finished the day, rather than having a bit left so it was not doing him any good.

Yeah, I've driven it in the past, so know it's a hell of a run. He came up through the mountains a bit, and then followed the Murray for a bit.
 
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