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[Today at 04:39:31 PM] Singletrack Samurai: got it so the road course is a lil dirty

[Today at 04:42:39 PM] FACTORe: yes - of the 7 miles loop almost 2 of ti is dirty

[Today at 04:43:15 PM] FACTORe: I got some 24mm's kevlar belt for this race and webster - the 22s would not be good

[Today at 04:44:17 PM] FACTORe: that is as big a tire I can run with my frame clearance

[Today at 04:46:10 PM] Singletrack Samurai: cool.. should be a good time, I used to ride my road bike on dirt roads all th time I love hitting a dirty corner at 17Plus, can you say DRIFT

[Today at 04:46:43 PM] FACTORe: the dirt road looked pretty packed

[Today at 04:46:56 PM] FACTORe: I dont think they would have us ride 6 inch deep sugar sand

[Today at 04:48:59 PM] Singletrack Samurai: nah the roads I used to go on where packed as well, it was FUN, i would tell people and they thought I was crazy for riding my road bike on dirt roads

[Today at 04:49:40 PM] Singletrack Samurai: you can go just as fast as you want too, there is a little resistance there and you got to expect the drift in the corners if your really haulin

[Today at 04:51:54 PM] FACTORe: sounds like a blast - I am racing with cat 3s for the first time so we will be haulin (they will be anyway and I plan on trying to keep up)

[Today at 04:54:31 PM] Singletrack Samurai: DO IT

[Today at 05:03:29 PM] FACTORe: so - after talking it over with a few folks - actually going to run the tubulars instead and run them down in pressure a bit - cant do that with clinchers because of pinch flats

[treadlight]

I am so happy that I am back in the mid-atlantic region.....ssrigid29er friendly biking community....unlike where I spent the last 4 years.....so late in the learning curve

[syadasti]

I am so happy that I am back in the mid-atlantic region.....ssrigid29er friendly biking community....unlike where I spent the last 4 years.....so late in the learning curve

FL is more suited for 29ers than the mid-atlantic area but 29ers MTBs have been around for nearly 30 years:

[ClintonRH]

Must be wheel envy.

[Homer 2-Niner]

it seems as though i've been summoned back to the thread i began. i have lots to say. i'll start here: this thread was not meant to offend anyone and maybe at the same time it was.

   it was simply a metaphor for somethings i've been going through and perhaps how i could remember a simpler time. yes i ride a rigid single speed. i ride it because it reminds me of a simpler time. too often things get way over complicated. just like this post did.

   now, enough of that crap. on to the offensive part. i ride a single speed because i am better than most of you and i enjoy putting that out there. thats why single speeders ride them. cause i can ride the same trails you do with one gear and no suspension. i ride it all day. race it for a 100 miles or how ever far you're willing to go. now there are lots of guys on this forum who are just as fast or faster and some are better riders. but i enjoy looking at them from my trusty rigid single speed. cause they know that it might kill me, but i'm going to stay with them for as long as i can.

   single speeds are masochistic. thats part of the fun. punishment. riding it rigid just adds to it. and it gives you a sense of accomplishment. let me tell you... even single speeders respect guys hammering on rigid's it's tough! some guys on here said they enjoy pushing themselves. and gears, suspension and all that other noisy crap does not allow you to push yourself. i don't know, may be it does.. it didn't for me. it made it easier. i did the same 100 mile race on a geared hard-tail and on a rigid single speed and i was 1 hour 20 minutes faster on a single speed. and i was probably stronger when i rode the geared bike. but i didn't push myself cause i had all those gears to make things easier for me..

now having said that. i ride it because it's pure. if you have never ridden a single speed you'd never know. but as kids we all grew up riding single speeds. some of them were fixe's or with coaster brakes... man those where the good ole' days!

ultimately, i hope this thread makes you mad. i hope it makes you want to ride more. i hope it makes you want to ride faster. and i hope it makes you consider, "can i ride these trails on a bike with one gear"...
and the next time some guy or gal on a single speed comes blasting up behind you on a climb, get out of there way, cause they can't shift and track standing on a climb is fun.. but only for a second..

in conclusion. i love you all.. well, not really, but you all ride so you're all ok in my book. see you on the trails. just watch out for me and Homer.. -bob 

[chisel]

SS rulzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! i'm sold!!!!   I am going out on mine for my next ride!

[Luis]

it seems as though i've been summoned back to the thread i began. i have lots to say. i'll start here: this thread was not meant to offend anyone and maybe at the same time it was.

   it was simply a metaphor for somethings i've been going through and perhaps how i could remember a simpler time. yes i ride a rigid single speed. i ride it because it reminds me of a simpler time. too often things get way over complicated. just like this post did.

   now, enough of that crap. on to the offensive part. i ride a single speed because i am better than most of you and i enjoy putting that out there. thats why single speeders ride them. cause i can ride the same trails you do with one gear and no suspension. i ride it all day. race it for a 100 miles or how ever far you're willing to go. now there are lots of guys on this forum who are just as fast or faster and some are better riders. but i enjoy looking at them from my trusty rigid single speed. cause they know that it might kill me, but i'm going to stay with them for as long as i can.

   single speeds are masochistic. thats part of the fun. punishment. riding it rigid just adds to it. and it gives you a sense of accomplishment. let me tell you... even single speeders respect guys hammering on rigid's it's tough! some guys on here said they enjoy pushing themselves. and gears, suspension and all that other noisy crap does not allow you to push yourself. i don't know, may be it does.. it didn't for me. it made it easier. i did the same 100 mile race on a geared hard-tail and on a rigid single speed and i was 1 hour 20 minutes faster on a single speed. and i was probably stronger when i rode the geared bike. but i didn't push myself cause i had all those gears to make things easier for me..

now having said that. i ride it because it's pure. if you have never ridden a single speed you'd never know. but as kids we all grew up riding single speeds. some of them were fixe's or with coaster brakes... man those where the good ole' days!

ultimately, i hope this thread makes you mad. i hope it makes you want to ride more. i hope it makes you want to ride faster. and i hope it makes you consider, "can i ride these trails on a bike with one gear"...
and the next time some guy or gal on a single speed comes blasting up behind you on a climb, get out of there way, cause they can't shift and track standing on a climb is fun.. but only for a second..

in conclusion. i love you all.. well, not really, but you all ride so you're all ok in my book. see you on the trails. just watch out for me and Homer.. -bob 

I love you Bob... well said.

[Scott]

I need a Niner SS, please build me one

[Darrinw2001]

Some of you guys take yourselves WAY too serious...    I really love these kinds of threads.... 

[Singletrack Samurai]

Some of you guys take yourselves WAY too serious...    I really love these kinds of threads.... 

You DO include yourself in that statement dont you?

[Homer 2-Niner]

this is actually getting pretty funny!

[Darrinw2001]

Some of you guys take yourselves WAY too serious...    I really love these kinds of threads.... 

You DO include yourself in that statement dont you?

Of Course I do!

[Chuckona]

Pshh! I ride roller skates.

[VELOMATT]

"Pshh! I ride roller skates."
 
 
The 2x2 kind or roller blades?

[Homer 2-Niner]

i'm going to have to say the 2x2 kind... with the high socks and the weird strips at the top! may be a sweat band too...
 
 
 

[Moto Ace]

"the world should ride a rigid singlespeed!"
 
That is not what Bob was thinking when he and I rode in Ellijay back around 2001.
We had some good battles up the mountain.
 
Ted