I've been riding trails all summer with Smart Sams on the Hillborne.
Almost feels like I'm back in the '80's riding southern California trails
on my old '86 ('87?) Ritchey Comp. After a few shock fork MTBs, I'm back
to riding rigid with the Sam. I do find that the bottom bracket is a
little low on the Sam which leads to an occassional pedal strike in the
ruts. I guess that just provides more reason to get out more to practice
technique. Frame, fork and rims seem no worse for the abuse (and Riv still
has orange Hillborne forks in their Web Specials section if things really
wrong).
John
On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 2:37:55 PM UTC-7, Lungimsam wrote:
>
> The kind with lots of sudden, deep, and uneven ruts, loose, big gravel
> chunks, roots, and rocks that stick up 6 inches from the dirt that
> your front tire will slam into when you can't see them coming because the
> shade is so dark?
>
> Don't wanna trash my Synergies or bend my fork blades doing this. My
> son-in-law (has mountain bike with shocks) is getting interested in the
> dirt trails around here and asked if I would go along.
>
> Mind you, neither of us has really any experience with these trails like
> this, though I fly along fast over hard packed fine gravel trails. Those
> are fun.
>
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