pete, Back on the bike after a needing a few days to recover after last week’s efforts. Still a little tender but couldn’t resist a quick out and back/up and down. #mtb #cycling #highlands
jerzone, Memory from Winter of 2022 on the fat bike. I don't like the insta360 go’s quality, but the feature where it keeps the horizon level makes some really interesting tire angles. Wheee!!
musicman, should I get a full suspension #mtb if I'd rarely need it? I'd use it some up at #duluth probably but the reality is thatd be like once a year. But of course I could be overbiked at Theo and it's not like thats a problem.
im mostly trying to decide between a Wyatt Vista and an Otso Fenrir. I have a Wyatt fat bike and an Otso gravel bike so I'm familiar with the brands but neither offers full suspension.
musicman, @billyjoebowers just because it's dumb or because it's too heavy? I have some limited ambition of doing Maah Daah Hey but the reality of fitting that in the schedule. idk.
I'm not in any hurry though. I won't be doing any MTB racing until next season at the earliest
billyjoebowers, I'm just not a believer in getting anything more complicated than what you need.
mark, This past weekend was pretty memorable. Went to Bentonville, AR for Bike Fest. I only brought my e-bike as our goal was to get as much riding in as possible over 3 days. Broke my lower cage on my derailleur, rain dumped on us in the morning of day 2, and day 3 was just perfect. Officially clocked 92 miles of riding during our trip.
Photo of my broken rear derailleur maybe an hour into our first ride. I was riding a bunch of skinnies (elevated wood beams that you can ride across like an obstacle course to test your balance) and I pretty easily cleared them all. But as my front wheel rolled off the last part, I started to pedal and I guess my back wheel was on the very left edge of the wooden blank. I think the power of the e-bike motor caused the wheel to spin and my back wheel slide off the end of the plank on the left and my derailleur landed right on the plank causing it to snap. It was a very costly mistake. I called all the bike shops and luckily found one that had a spare that I could purchase. Stayed off the skinnies for the rest of the trip. 😅 It was painful every time I passed them because I love skinnies.
My bike covered in mud. Not shown is the whole backside of me covered in mud as well.
Photo at night of a party going on at the YT Mill. YT is a (German??) bike company that is pretty popular in the US. They just opened a new shop in Bentonville.
mark, And this was a very fun trail that had a bit of everything. We rode it about 4x to get more comfortable carrying more speed, but I couldn't get myself to go faster to clear some of the jumps. But some of the locals say this is one of the fastest trails in the area. It's called Interplanet Janet. I know everything looks flat in the video, but it was mostly downhill and had great features.
matt, @mark That looks so fun! Also a bit bit scary 🫣
Honestly the closest I’ve sent o pod racing in real life.
bencardoen, Infrequently used singletrack motocross/mtb trail halfway up Eagle Mt, connecting to other even less frequently used, but magical trails. Only becomes accessible in April, but worth it, as it hugs the mountain side for a few km that feel endless (as good singletrack does). #mtb #hiking #nature #singletrack #trails #pnw
jerzone, Beautiful morning for a mt bike ride after overnight rain, which brought out a lot of Red Efts with birds in full song.
Big snapping turtle hiding in marsh next to trail
Tiny Red Eft alongside mt bike tire
A couple riders coming up pathway in very green woods
TimKStanton, @jerzone Looks like a wonderful ride!
jerzone, @TimKStanton Dark clouds were looming then it turned to blue skies and perfect temps. Roots were pretty damn slippery though ... whee!! “:^)
magicznylas, Polish Wojcieszów. Single tracki Dłużek oraz Okole. Wspaniały przelot pomiędzy nimi. Dłużek? Nuda. Choć dwie gleby zaliczyłem. Okole? W to mi graj. Były momenty. Urokliwy i najciekawszy technicznie. Utyrałem się jak jasna cholera.
Przelot? Z pięknymi widokami i ciekawymi miejscówkami pod przyszłe wyrypy.
Potem wpadły: zajebiaszczy pączek z porzeczkowym sorbetem oraz szejk o smaku maślanki z kruszonką (niebo!) w lodziarni znajdującej się w Świerzawie.#mtb #singletrack #gorykaczawskie #bike #trail
Rower MTB oparty o mur.
Silgletrack pomiędzy skałami. Dookoła las.
Widok nas wejście do lodziarni. Przed budynkiem, na chodniku stoi makieta loda.
senta_wolfsberg, German Moin,
nach 8000 km Ganzjahres-#AlltagsRadeln hat das #RaleighDundee eine Frischzellenkur bekommen:
Kettenblatt, Kette, Kassette, Schaltrollen, Bremsbelege und neue Pedale 😊
Eigentlich sollte die Federgabel auch neu, die Werkstatt konnte aber keine Alternative zur Suntour XCM 34 ranschaffen.
Hat jemand einen Tip für eine #MTB Federgabel besserer Qualität / mehr Komfort bis ca 400 EUR ?
#Fahrrad @fedibikes_de @mastobikes_de
Berge haben wir hier in #SchleswigHolstein nicht, aber Schotterwege.
mensch, German @senta_wolfsberg @Technokrat das wird sich heute vermutlich schon ändern.
hier bei uns staubt es schon nicht mehr.😉
neuimneuland, German @senta_wolfsberg @fedibikes_de @mastobikes_de Womit belegst Du die Bremsen? 😏
stevel, For some reason I find myself unable to join in conf calls today.
These cliffs are actually the remains of a limestone quarry: blocks cut here were carried by pony to the canal and beyond. The odd cones are not natural features: they’re the rubble just overgrownllangattock, south wales
#mtb #cyclingGrassy path up hillside. To the left : cliffs. In front a line of grassy cones l each about 5-6 metres tall
A black hard tail mountain bike rests on a stone. In. The background a range of welsh mountains: low and dark
stevel, And in the afternoon I went for a ride with B, who had to wait for me at the top of every climb. She now enjoys hills for this reason. e-bikes have a way of getting people who consider uphill climbs to be needless suffering to view them as “needless suffering for others”
Conical peak in the background is “Sugar Loaf”; we are in the Mynydd Du, “black mountains” of south wales
#cycling
stevel, Still mysteriously unable to make zoom calls today.
Looking east from Sugar Loaf/Pen-y-fal; the hill is Skirrid and beyond that: the great plain of England
crazy2bike, Ihr wisst ja.... #Mountainbiker machen den Wald kaputt und müssen deshalb aus dem Wald verbannt werden.
Um diesem absurden #Vorurteil, #Bashing und #Blaming gerecht zu werden, habe ich mir auf meiner #Biketour heute durch's #Krebsbachtal bei #Eigeltingen besonders viel Mühe gegeben, nicht nur den Weg, sondern auch das Bachbett ohne Rücksicht auf Flora, Fauna und Ökosystem zu zerstören - siehe Fotos.
Die fehlenden Bäume gehen natürlich auch auf meine Kappe... die habe ich mit dem Kettenblatt umgesägt.
🤷🤦🤡
#Forst #Förster #Forstarbeit #Vollernter #Waldgesetz #Bundeswaldgesetz #Landeswaldgesetz #BadenWürttemberg #BW #Jagd #Jäger #Lobby #Lobbyismus #Forstlobby #Jagdlobby 🤡🤡🤡
#FahrradFreitag
#OutdoorWeekend #OutdoorWE #OutdoorWochenende
Autogenix, German @crazy2bike @fedibikes @DerSchulze @jakob_thoboell @realspiffy @FriedeFreude
Also ich hab am Trial-Radl früher so um die 1bar gefahren, mit hüstel, 80kg ohne System.
Würd ich ich mit Sprüngen und Wurzeln etc nie trauen.
crazy2bike, @Autogenix @fedibikes @DerSchulze
Mit kantigen Steinen im Hochgebirge braucht es etwas mehr. Für "normale" Strecken im Tubeless Setup kein Problem.
magicznylas, Polish Odkrywanie starych biegowych miejscówek oraz kolejny rekonesans w pobliżu Winnej Góry — obczajka singli oraz trasy Solid MTB.
Las oraz wzgórza niezmiennie piękne, a okolica dzika. Na trasie zaliczyłem lekki wkurw, bo jakiś kutafon po zjeździe singlem urządził sobie popas, a papierek po batonie wyrzucił beztrosko pod koła, na ściółkę. Nie lubię po kimś sprzątać, a tym bardziej kalać wzroku syfem. Pozbierałem i pokręciłem dalej, ciesząc oczy soczystą zielenią.
#magiczylas #trail #mtbLeśna droga ciągnącą się wśród wzgórz
Kierownica i koło roweru MTB na tle single tracku wiodącego przez gęsty las.
Trasa MTB prowadząca na wzgórze. Dookoła brzozy i sosny.
pete, I've been taking my old #MTB out again of late and had forgotten how much fun an out and out #XC bike can be. But it needs new rear hub, cassette and chain, plus a new front rim. There's nothing inherently wrong with the specs of the worn out parts, but given that it's ~10 years old and tech has moved on, do I go like-for-like or use it as an excuse to upgrade from 10 speed to 12? 🤔
This dilemma is worryingly close to how most of my n+1 purchases start out.
#cycling #bikeTooter
pete, @enobacon This is part of the dilemma. I could increase range at the same time, which is always nice. I would need a new mech and shifter but that'd 'only' be another £100 or so and if I'm already spending a few hundred …
enobacon, @pete you may also find chainline problems with the frame geometry and tire vs the newly larger cog, though maybe that's less of an issue on larger wheel diameters.
crazy2bike, Der #April macht seinem Ruf ja gerade alle Ehre:
"April, April, der macht was er will"Während ich letztes Wochenende bei annähernd blauem Himmel und sommerlichen 25°C unterwegs war, waren es heute 1 Woche später phasenweise Graupelschschauer bei anfangs 6°C und zum Schluss nur noch 4°C 🥶
#OutdoorWeekend #OutdoorWE #OutdoorWochenende
jakob, German @crazy2bike @radlobby
Wir hatten hier 30°C. Ich fuhr in kurzer Hose und T-Shirt in die Arbeit (35km).Heute war ich in dicker Winterjacke unterwegs... und es war grad gut.
crazy2bike,
mark, My bike now has spokes made out of strings. It’s actually a material called Dyneema which is polyethylene. It’s said to have 15x the strength to weight ratio of steel spokes and floats on water. My wheels lost over 200 grams in weight. But what’s bigger is these spokes dampen chatter on the trail. It feels like I’m riding with half the air in my tires, but without being slowed down.
I’ve done 2 rides on them so far and I’m very impressed by the ride quality improvements they have.
Photo of a closeup of my mountain bike front hub which shows the spokes.
Photo of a closeup of my mountain bike rear wheel which shows the spokes.
Photo of a closeup of my mountain bike rear wheel which shows the spokes.
onpaperwings, @mark I'm sure there are! I'll give it a look. Bike tech is always fun.
tapforms, @mark I almost added Berd spokes to my new WeAreOne carbon wheels and Onyx hubs. But in the end I worried that there might not have been a local shop that would stock spare spokes or how to work with them. Plus it was going to add an additional $800 CAD or so to the price of my new wheels.
They look awesome though. Would love to try a bike with them.
crazy2bike, Auf meiner #Biketour heute kam Ich mal wieder an den #Riedseen bei #Hüfingen in der Nähe von #Donaueschingen vorbei. Dort habe ich diese geniale #Spiegelung von Himmel, Wolken und Bäumen fotografiert 🤩
#Wasserspiegelung #Reflektion #Reflektionen #reflections #Mountainbike #MTB #biken #Trails #Trailbiken
unity, German @crazy2bike @radlobby
Hammer Bild!
Shkspr80, @FotoVorschlag #FotoVorschlag #Fahrrad
Damals, zu #Corona-Zeiten, als #SocialDistancing der neueste Shit war und ich allein mit dem #MTB durch die heimischen Wälder geprescht bin.
Shkspr80, @metin Oh yes, I can absolutely relate. I actually hate #people and their loudness most of the time. 😄
And yes, it was taken with my #iPhone and the #Hipstamatic app. Some time in the past, I‘d buy every new HipstaPack they published but after a while it got too messy in my app so I stopped. Still quite a large collection though. 😅
metin, @Shkspr80 Recognizable! Some of the black and white films in Hipstamatic are very good. I also bought a number of Hipstapacks years ago.
crazy2bike, Weil man es nicht oft genug wiederholen und klarstellen kann:
☝️ Mountainbiker schaden dem Wald nicht und stören auch Tiere nicht mehr als andere Waldnutzer. Insbesondere schaden Mountainbiker dem Wald viel weniger als die #Forstwirtschaft.☝️
Dazu die klare Meinung eines Försters s.u.
Der Grund für das MTB-Bashing sind einzig und allein Lobbyinteressen, "Wir waren zuerst da"-Mentalität, mangelnde Kompromissbereitschaft und ähnliche, persönliche, irrationale Befindlichkeiten.
#Mountainbike #MTB #Biken #Wald #Natur #Waldgesetz #Landeswaldgesetz #Bundeswaldgesetz #Zweimeterregel #Interessenkonflikt #NaBu #Naturschutzbund #DeutscheUmwelthilfe #Lobby #Lobbyverband #Lobbyintetessen #Jagdlobby #Wanderverein #Albverein #Schwarzwaldverein #Alpenverein #DAV #DIMB #Trails #Trailbiken #DerWaldIstFürAlleDa
moppi, German @ilanti @crazy2bike @fedibikes
In deutschland sind an allem die GrÜnEn schuld !!!
Cyb3rrunn3r, German @moppi @ilanti @crazy2bike @fedibikes „DIE GRÜNEN“ ZITAT Heimathorstl.
tfrank_de, New Cannondale Scalpel prompted this:
It’s not about leading the cables through the headset no matter what!
It’s about having a tidy front and no mess of exposed cables! For aero, to reduce interference with bags, for aesthetics.
Now look at this, mtb industry and Cannondale and think again!
#mtb
#facepalm #worstofallworlds
@mastobikes
b4d, @tfrank_de @mastobikes My thoughts exactly...
billyjoebowers,
heavyboots, @billyjoebowers The question now is… HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVIE WRISTCUTTERS AND DID THEY ASK IF YOU’VE SEEN A LITTLE DOG? 😹
billyjoebowers, I do not know what this is but it feels bad.
developerjustin, First 10 mile ride of the year in four photos.
- “Why did I say we should do 10 miles?” - me, about to throw up.
- The view!
- The bikes!
- “10 miles isn’t so bad. Hey, a rockslide!” - me, slightly less about to throw up.
Rusted metal beam with phrase "YOUR FAMILY WANTS YOU TO WORK SAFELY" over a trail with wooden steps and an informational sign, with trees and a hilly landscape in the background under a clear blue sky.
Two mountain bikes leaning against a wooden fence with a scenic backdrop of forested hills and a clear blue sky with some clouds.
A person standing on a rocky trail near large rocks and boulders with trees and a clear sky in the background.
duncan_blues, @developerjustin Easy remedy against the about-to-throw-up bit on the first ride of the year: just keep riding all year round!
crazy2bike, Heute war doppelter #Kälteeinbruch. Zum einen war es deutlich kälter als zuletzt, weshalb ich bei Hose, Jacke und Handschuhen wieder eine Stufe dicker wählen musste - und dann kam ausgerechnet im Anstieg im Südhang doch die Sonne raus.
Andererseits habe ich mal wieder zu spüren bekommen, dass meine Leistung bei Kälte deutlich abnimmt. Zuletzt dachte ich, dass nach einem leider zu faulen Winter so langsam wieder der Leistungsturbo zündet. Aber heute war ich 1,3 km/h langsamer auf der #Trainingsrunde als beim letzten Mal. Also der andere, körperliche Kälteeinbruch.Davon abgesehen kenne ich mich hier fast nicht mehr aus. Wo im Herbst noch #Wald war, ist kompletter #Kahlschlag - überall.
#FahrradFreitag
#OutdoorWeekend #OutdoorWE #OutdoorWochenende
arappathor, German @radlobby @crazy2bike Fällt schwer zu liken, weil hier im Frankenwald vor zwei Wochen dasselbe: alles kaputt. Scheiße.
crazy2bike, Erste Tour dieses Jahr über den #Hegaublick nach #Hintschingen und über #Riedöschingen hoch zum #HelmutGroßPlatz oberhalb #Tengen und weiter über den #Postweg zum #Napoleoneck bei tollem Wetter. Allerdings ist aktuell wieder eine Zeit der krassen Temperaturunterschiede. Zwischen 8°C auf der nördlichen Schattenseite und 24°C im sonnigen Südhang war alles dabei.
Und last but not least liegen so viele Bäume (r)um, das ist echt krass.#OutdoorWeekend #OutdoorWE #OutdoorWochenende
tux, German @crazy2bike
Wenn ich hier bei uns durch die Wälder fahre, dann ist der Wind- und Schneebruch vom Dezember und Januar auch extremst. So schlimm war das noch nie. Echt abartig!
corduroy,
pete,
pete, Fantastic conditions for an #MTB ride today. Better conditions than I dressed for. 😅 #BeBoldStartCold #cycling #cumbria #lakeDistrict
Gravel track running alongside a dry stone wall in front of a mountainous skyline