Riding bikes has long been my most creative activity. I’ve solved many problems and come up with ideas for so many things over 10s of thousands of miles. Even while doing the hardest intervals.
Yesterday, I came up with an app idea and even a potential name.
Garage sale buy of the day, LOL. Needed another bike bell. Bought this from a little kid who had outsourced a garage sale to his parents... apparently the kids got bored and wandered away from their garage sale. $1! #BikeTooter#garagesale
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: