I love my Joe Appaloosa. It is a freaking great bike. I did my 35 mile
hilly commute to work again today and I just love how I can ride as hard as
I like and still arrive at work fresh. I'm not saying the Joe Appaloosa is
a club race bike, and I'm not saying you will be able to keep up with your
road-bike friends on group rides. I'm not even suggesting that you will
match your personal bests on Strava. What I am saying is that the Joe
Appaloosa is remarkably easy to ride. It is stable and predictable, yet
plenty maneuverable and agile. When it's loaded, it takes some effort to
get it moving, but once it gets moving it keeps moving. It poured
yesterday, and I bombed the wet roads with my fat tires with no concerns.
My front-load setup continues to work great. I confess I did change out
the Sun Race shifters (which I like) with the short and stubby Silvers that
come as part of the IRD Silver SOS Shifters
<http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/sh5.htm> (which I love). On my ride
through Hayward, I pass Tennyson Park, which has a small skate park. I've
often thought of riding my Rivendell timidly on the ramps and such, and
did, very timidly.
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Joe shreds?
Now my Want to Scavenge part of my post:
You bought a 58cm Joe Appaloosa. You are a crank arm length zealot and you
only ride 175s. You can't stand that your 58cm Joe Appaloosa came with
weird 173mm crankarms, and want to change them out, and are grumpy that
your complete bike is now going to cost you more to make perfect. Sell
your 173mm Silver crankset AND bottom bracket. I offer to pay $140 shipped
(to El Cerrito CA) for a set of 173s.
You bought a 700c wheeled Joe Appaloosa. You are a "supple tire" zealot
and only ride tires that are Jan-approved. You can't stand that your Joe
Appaloosa came with "stout" tires, and are grumpy that your complete bike
is now going to cost you more to make perfect. Sell your Kenda Kwick
Bitumin tires to me. I offer to pay $60 shipped for a pair.
Bill call-me-Joe Lindsay
El Cerrito, CA
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