On May 4, 6:39 pm, Shaun Meehan <meehan.sh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! The riding looks fantastic and you both have great looking bikes > (especially the AHH). What kind of bike is your friend riding? You > guys have mad riding skillz! Thanks for sharing the great pictures. > > Shaun Meehan
Thanks Shaun! I have to say, I was really surprised at the ability of the larger diameter tires to smooth the rough stuff as much as it did. I know a bunch of people are really hot on the 29er off road tip, but I have so far been skeptical. No longer! The trails are a crazy mix out there. You get sections of wide super fast smooth packed dirt that will change to rough solid rock then drop into a tight twisty singletrack with foot tall drop offs and steps. It keeps you on your toes, but is just a blast to ride. We did parts of the loops twice just because they are so fun. My buddies bike is a custom titanium bike that he designed with Daryl Funk of old school "FUNK" mountain bikes of the late 90ies. The fabrication was done by James at BlackSheep. He took visual inspiration from his 190? Iver Johnson with the trussed top tube, but designed it to be disk brake specific and with clearance to run basically any size wheel and or tire. He has a set of 650b wheels with Neo-Moto 2.1's, and the 700c set that he can run anything from road slicks to monster cross tires on. Not sure but he may have a 26" set built too. Essentially built with a road/touring geometry, but able to go anywhere. The bottom bracket height came out a bit lower than planned at 10", but oddly enough my AHH with 42mm tires was within a couple millimeters. We were both smacking pedals all weekend, but just sort of road through it and revised our technique as we went. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
