Recent content by jabberwocky

Lol. Socks 1/2" too long, DISQUALIFIED! I spectate some of the local cross races, and yeah. Basically parties. Some people run the most outlandish bike they can find just for the lulz. Mountainbikes are relatively normal! Friend of mine mid race. His only comment afterward was that he...

Hah, I bet that was fun. I did the Alpine Gran Fondo in 2011 on the carbon road bike, which was mostly pavement but had two intense gravel climbs (Fultz Gap Road in WVa on the way out and Reddish Knob Road on the way back); a friend did the same ride on his gravel bike with semi-knobbies and...

I've commented before that I used to lead MTB rides after work at a local park that was between my office and home. Generally I'd ride my road bike home, switch to the MTB and ride back to the park, but if work ran late I would just ride there on my carbon road bike and ride that. 23mm Pro3s...

He rides normal gravel on it too, I've ridden with him on my ebike. Its not that unusual. There isn't that much difference between a flat bar gravel bike and a mountainbike. The local gravel group has several people who ride various mountainbikes.

Definitely untrue, I've known many people who ride MTBs for gravel. I actually have a friend who placed 2nd in the tour divide race who rides gravel on a niner MTB hardtail.

I mean, pretty much every manufacturer under the sun makes basic flat bar general purpose bikes with utilitarian specs. Its not like that ever went away. All the various genres and subgenres and nitpicking about various categories is more for enthusiasts. Its like that in every hobby. You...

Mine is pretty obviously from the Lewis Carrol poem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky We are all writing nonsense here. :p

As others have said, recumbent. There are lots of 2 wheeled options but recumbent manufacturers tend to only make recumbents so you need to look into them specifically. Cycling forum grandaddy bikeforums.net has a good recumbent subforum: https://www.bikeforums.net/recumbent/ BentRider Online...

Not sure this is even remotely true. The world is already ~30% powered by renewables; removing hydro, wind and solar still account for 15% globally, and that was entirely built out in the last 20-25 years (in fact, mostly built in the past 5). And thats without much concentrated effort on...

I live in a pretty walkable area but do drive generally for errands. Even then it means that when I do drive its only a few miles round trip for most things. I grew up in a more rural area where it was a 40-60 minute round trip to hit the grocery store/Lowes/whatever. To me, the argument for...

To be fair, this is what Specialized has done in the past and continues to try to do with their factory store model and dealer minimums and such. Over the past decade, there have been a few stores in my area that were almost driven out of business because Specialized (or Trek) decided they...

One of the arguments for electronic on ebikes is the cable routing often just sucks, especially now that every bike has to have internal routing for everything. On my revolt, the shifter cable loops into the headtube, across the top of the downtube above the battery, loops up and over the...

Is it worth the hype? Not really. Are they a nice luxury? Yes, absolutely. We may get to the point where cost and reliability gets to normal rider territory, but they are currently a luxury for enthusiasts. I had a cheap chinese electronic on my Revolt for a while (ltwoo egr) and did enjoy...

I mean, 2022 sucked too, and drove inflation up for quite a while after that. I vaguely remember that being a thing people were angry about. And that wasn't really anything the US had an influence over (Russia deciding to kick off against Ukraine wasn't, for once, the US screwing the world...

Oil prices effect more than just individual commuting costs. They raise all transportation costs (from trucking to aviation to cargo ships, most transportation is dependent on various fossil fuels). They also raise energy costs, since much of the grid is still dependent on fossil fuels in...