What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

Up nice and early on Sunday for a ride after a fitful sleep brought on by too many honey prawns at the Peking Garden, jumped into the car and it turns out I wasn't leaving at 6am as planned, it was 5am coz I forgot about daylight savings !


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NBD for the girlfriend with this flyweight:

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She wants something that'll excel on mellower trails and beat me on the climbs, so this should be perfect. Not much to it, reckon it's under 11kg easily although that won't last long given she's pretty dubious about the tyres (don't blame her). I'm not fluent in cross country stuff but I might grab a Forekaster for the front and maybe some bigger rotors if I have some spare 180mm centrelock ones somewhere.
 
Stredda said:
I suppose some people that have never really ridden a normal bike don't realise that it's just fine to not ride an Ebike. I know several people, including myself that ride both. It's no different than having an XC bike and an Enduro bike. Different bikes for different purposes. It's also the same as a guy I know that keep on at me to buy a gravel bike and that it would be much better bike to ride to work on. I'd just rather my Emtb.
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do you commute with semi-slicks or faster rolling tyres? or just raw-dog it with grippy trail/AM/Endurobro tyres?
 
Rode 'The Willo' yesterday, the 40k (shortest) loop. Did it on the Eeb last year, and I have been improving my fitness steadily so had a crack on the meat powered bike this time.
It did not go well.
I finished, but felt terrible after. Had to sleep when I got home, didn't eat for the rest of the day. Maybe didn't recover fully from sickness a week before.

And the bearings for my rear triangle have arrived, so I can rebuild and get rid of the creaks this week.

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ForkinGreat said:
do you commute with semi-slicks or faster rolling tyres? or just raw-dog it with grippy trail/AM/Endurobro tyres?
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I have a set of wheels with fast rolling and 3/4 worn out XC tyres on them. Once an XC tyre gets half worn or has a few plugs in it, it is put aside for commuting duties. I did run a 50mm gravel tyre for the full life of the tyre and I found it didn't seem to roll any faster, it got more punctures, it didn't grip as well as an XC tyre on either dirt or pavement, and I had to baby it down a set of stairs that I short cut through on the way home, while I can just send it with the MTB tyres.
My I9 wheels are my "enduro" wheels and these float between my Levo SL and the Stumpy and then the Stumpy has its original wheels which is my XC wheels.
 
crash3 said:
Rode 'The Willo' yesterday, the 40k (shortest) loop. Did it on the Eeb last year, and I have been improving my fitness steadily so had a crack on the meat powered bike this time.
It did not go well.
I finished, but felt terrible after. Had to sleep when I got home, didn't eat for the rest of the day. Maybe didn't recover fully from sickness a week before.

And the bearings for my rear triangle have arrived, so I can rebuild and get rid of the creaks this week.

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Well, at least you had a crack! Not enough food beforehand, do you think?
 
crash3 said:
Maybe? Now you mention it I had like two peices of toast? I did have an energy gel and a banana when I started to drop off in the race though.
Ah well, I'll keep training.
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I find that if you start to get hungry in a race it's already too late. A good high carb meal around 2hrs before a race is ideal, then depending how long the race is, keep a steady rate of carbs throughout the race.

Looks like a pretty good turnout. Maybe XC isn't dead just yet.
ozzybmx said:
#1 plate ? No pressure ;)
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Number 2 died!
 
Yesterday we rode Blores just before dusk... you know to avoid snakes :) We slacked it big time and just did the fun downs of Loser twice.

Today we had a funeral to attend to, not far from Lysterfield, so we were in the area, so why not?

We just did a soft lap of the main loop. Geez "they" have done a shjtload of work. Obviously with the endless traffic it can't be what it was, so it's pretty much a smooth as silk super highway in spots. A lot of effort in drainage too, so it would likely be ok in mid winter too. The gnarley roots of the initial climb on Middle are gone, and Sue always struggled there but loved clearing it when she did... yeah nah, it's easy as now. Dogpound descent is now awesome with great berms and easy jumps aplenty. The downs of Middle and Hug too, very good fun. How much dirt was shipped in? I'd say a lot.

Anyway, a four day riding weekend... so all good.
 
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