I’ve ended the day serving as a bike mechanic…🤷🏻♂️ We decided to swap the bars with his older (size smaller) bike, because the new one is slightly too big for him, measuring freakishly wide 700mm…
He’s 7 and the bike is designed for kids age 8-11. Previously I replaced the tires so it’s now lower to the ground and shoved the saddle all the way to the front…😂
I’m always a little conflicted about riding my mountain bike on the road to get to the mountain bike trails. It’s mainly that it always feels so slow compared to my road or cyclocross bikes. However, riding to the trail only adds about 6 minutes versus driving there, which means more riding time overall, which is good. 🤷♂️
Among the many benefits of shaving your legs as a cyclist, it gives ticks a lot less to grab ahold of to hitch a ride.
A number of the less-wooded areas of the mountain bike trail had tall weeds and grass leaning in right at leg level, and ticks are definitely common here.
I’ve been running 38mm Panaracer GravelKing tires tubeless on my Soma Stanyan for years, but the front tire I just put on has enough wobble to rub in one spot on every rotation. (The wheel itself is true.)
Two shops told me that the tire wasn’t seated right, but I checked and remounted multiple times and it’s seating fine. Even used some rubbing alcohol to lubricate the tire where it seated, but it always mounts up perfectly fine. The tire is the problem.
The second shop gave the real answer after chatting with the folks there for a bit: I should go down a size. It’s a real bummer, but even the Soma website says it can do up to 35mm. :blobfoxsad:
The only other realistic alternative is a new frameset, or at least a new fork, but that will have to wait for a while. :blobfoxgooglycry:
'However, figures published this week show injuries on the roads fell by a third in the final quarter of last year compared to the same period a year earlier. After a review, the Welsh government agreed to more 30mph exemptions but insisted that most roads should remain at 20mph.’
The hysteria about 20mph was just that - rabble rousing based on no attention to the details. That included Times reporting.
Heute fahren wir eine kurze Etappe, dafür gibt es am Abend mit dem Besuch der Mezquita noch eine Portion Kultur und Geschichte.
Die heutige Etappe bezeichnete die Reiseleitung als “aktive Erholung”. In der Tat waren es nur gerade 60 Kilometer, auf eher flachem Gelände. Ein einziges Mal wurden wir von einer währschaften Rampe überrascht, die andern Höhenmeter entstanden durch welliges Gelände. ...
This morning, 06.06.24, we crossed the friendship border tunnel from Greece to Bulgaria 🇬🇷 —> 🇧🇬
Soon after the border we met a very old man on a very old bicycle without gear and without breaks 😱 He was so funny, talked with hand and feet and in his own language, we answered in swissgerman 😅
And finally, after a couple of km in this new country we could leave the mainroad and cycle (+ hike a bit) on a super nice offroad track through green nature and shade giving woods 😍
Reason number 467 to transport your young kid around on a bike: instead of having to haul them, against their will, all the way back to the car at the end of a playground session, the transportation can come to exactly where they are and you can just scoop them up #BikeTooter#cycling#bike#parenting
Dodging showers today but didn’t mind being caught in the rain a couple of times. Probably would have been ok, but there was snow overnight up high so kept it simple on the West Highland Way. #mtb#cycling