Properly it snowed closely right here yesterday because it did just about all over the place else which implies it’s going to be fairly troublesome to experience for awhile AND NO I’M NOT GETTING A GODDAMN FAT BIKE…as tempting as a few of these cutting-edge new fashions could also be:
Sure, I understand a few of you tundra-dwellers love your fats bikes and get good use out of them, however I’m not getting one for the handful of days a yr it’s too snowy to experience right here in New York, and I’d reasonably have fourteen barely completely different street bikes to select from the remainder of the yr as an alternative. (Reality: you’ll be able to match six (6) street bikes within the area it takes to retailer one (1) fats bike.)
And no, THE JONES IS NOT A FAT BIKE:
Technically, it’s a “plus” bike–although I did use its plus-size predecessor, the Marin Pine Mountain, in New York Metropolis’s first-ever fats bike race method again in 2016, in Cunningham Park, Queens:
Alas, I can not discover the associated submit in my archives, which is a disgrace as a result of I’ve just about no recollection of the race. I do appear to do not forget that the race had already been postponed as soon as–resulting from a snowstorm, paradoxically–and that I used to be barely in a position to negotiate the course on the Pine Mountain. I additionally do not forget that they’d some demo fats bikes on the race and that I attempted one out, and although it labored significantly better within the snow than the Pine Mountain I’M STILL NOT GETTING A FAT BIKE.
Additionally, I’m method too busy in my ongoing quest to find The Spirit of Gravel:
Within the days earlier than this most up-to-date snowstorm, whereas everybody else was working round doing silly stuff like “shopping for groceries” and “different issues it is advisable survive,” I used to be squeezing in some last-minute driving. Particularly, having beforehand in contrast the PRJCT GRVL bike to the Jones, I now endeavored to juxtapose it with the Roadini:
As its title would counsel, the Roadini is a greater street bike than the PRJCT GRVL bike, although having ridden in with gravel tires (or GRVL TRS within the correct Gravelese) I do know that additionally it is Moderately Gravelable:
Nonetheless, I wouldn’t be tempted to detour onto the forbidding Trails Behind the Mall on it like I used to be on the PRJCT GRVL bike–which in flip is just not almost as off-roadable because the Jones–from which I conclude that I may simply make do with solely the Roadini and the Jones for my graveling wants (GRVLNG NDS), although the PRJCT GRVL bike additionally occupies an interesting center floor between the Roadini and the Jones, although that’s not even addressing the opposite bikes I personal that may additionally successfully traverse that very same center floor, which ought to in all probability lead me to the last word conclusion that I’ve much more bikes than I would like, although as an alternative I select to stay in denial and as an alternative fake I’m exercising restraint by declaring that I’M NOT GETTING A FAT BIKE:
I’m not, both.
Talking of the PRJCT GRVL bike, although I wasn’t available in the market for a broccoli bike within the first place, and although I now have one anyway, I however discover myself gravel bike window purchasing:
And within the technique of doing so I stumbled upon this:
I’ve by no means had a Lynskey, I’ve no relationship with Lynskey, and I’m not telling you purchase a Lynskey. Nonetheless, holy crap. That’s solely a bit of greater than the PRJCT GRVL bike within the singlespeed trim:
Plus it has exterior cable routing!
What am I lacking?