????I'm convinced a ponderous and thoroughly upright bicycle with only the bald and rotten front tire exchanged for a perennially good snow tire is among the most enjoyable riding experiences possible.
With any luck the white stuff gets deep enough to pull out the road race bike.
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I edited my earlier reply to clarify my thoughts on your post @rando.What manner of reply to this is possible? Where is your quadruple instigation lost inside the text quoted?
I edited my earlier reply to clarify my thoughts on your post @rando.
A good bicycle snow tire has tall sharply defined tread blocks, a self cleaning tread pattern, and the largest casing your frame will allow to ensure a healthy footprint. If the paths you intend to ride are icy, a carbide studded version of the same is ideal. And you definitely want these sorts of tires on both ends of your bike to avoid falling down regularly.
The road race bike comment makes no sense to me at all as slippery roads are the bane of road racers...
Hm. Perhaps a different meaning for the word 'fun' of which I was previously unaware.Then firmly removed the exact element making these types of bikes actually fun, crashing.
Hm. Perhaps a different meaning for the word 'fun' of which I was previously unaware.
No. Usually something gets scraped, bloodied, broken, snapped, bent or other expression of fubar.Surely you must've enjoyed at least one moment unceremoniously depositing you in the soil or beleaguered in mud.
...horses for courses, as they say. Pugsley loves the snow. Gina (my Colnago C60), not so much. That said, if it's dry, I'll be out on the road in the 20s, eyes watering, praying not to flat.
At 58 and still with a penchant for very technical trail riding, falling down holds decidedly less appeal these days. I equip myself with the best tools for the job these days in order to minimize the risk and likelihood of falls, while still doing the same sort of MTB riding I was doing 25 years earlier.
Some knee replacements are highly successful. Get your bike fitted professionally. Take it slow....at 64 y.o. I have convinced myself there is no shame in the occasional dismount and walk-over. When I pack it in, I just cannot heal up like I used to. And I bounce between wondering which is worse: MTB or road.
I'm five weeks post-op on a total knee replacement, so I don't yet know what that will feel like on a bike other than the wind-trainer, which sucks. Have fun wherever you're riding, fellas!
At 44 years old I had a total knee replacement of my left knee. At the time both the ortho and the in-theater consultant from Stryker (manufacturer of the replacement knee) described my grotesquely arthritic knee as among the very worst they'd seen. The knee replacement was the seventh surgery on that knee and I had a tough recovery, apparently due to the built up scar tissue. After six months of physio I only managed 110 degree max range of motion with about 105 degrees pain-free movement. This was not near enough range to accommodate the 175mm MTB cranks I'd ridden previously. One year post-op some work with a professional bike fitter resulted in me moving to 160mm cranks which allowed me to pedal smoothly and comfortably through the entire pedal circle. At the time 14 years ago, high-end MTB and road cranks in lengths shorter than 165 essentially didn't exist. The folks at Lightening Recumbent Bikes made me two sets of their crazy lightweight custom composite crankset & BB in the required 160mm length and I've used them ever since. There are more choices in the market now in sub-165mm lengths including high-end Ebike cranks....at 64 y.o. I have convinced myself there is no shame in the occasional dismount and walk-over. When I pack it in, I just cannot heal up like I used to. And I bounce between wondering which is worse: MTB or road.
I'm five weeks post-op on a total knee replacement, so I don't yet know what that will feel like on a bike other than the wind-trainer, which sucks. Have fun wherever you're riding, fellas!
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