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The Official Road Bike/Cycling Thread

rupps5 said:
I will be trying zwift this winter with my Kickr. Looks like fun in a painful kind of way
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I've fallen for Zwift on my Kickr Snap. Best, most efficient workout on a bike I've had in years. It's pretty entertaining. Kinda like the racing sim games for cars, but on bikes. They have organized group rides with drafting even, races too. Or just ride around. I can do it any time, and a n hour on Zwift is more intense than being on the road. I'm a California Sierras Death Rider who's done 140+ mile rides with 14,000' of climbing. You could theoretically train for that ride on Zwift.

I did no road or cross or mountain riding the entire summer, all on Zwift. With just that base I strava'd an epic ride on every road at Burningman, on dirt and powder. 69 miles total. 5 hours, 15 minutes. All from virtual riding....

755 watt intervals - go Zwift!
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My pain cave set-up while watching the '16 TdF
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The bounty of 69 real (really tough) miles at Burningman with nothing but Zwift miles for a base.
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^^Pretty cool. If you haven't ridden a rigid drop bar bike offroad, then I highly urge you to try it before plunking down the cash. It's not for everyone.

Also, I thought I recognized the area in the article from the pics. If he actually cleaned the whole climb up Jim Branch with that gearing, dude's a beast!
 
Specialized ht angles are too steep for me. Probably want a more relaxed geometry for gravel grinding. I would go with the warbird over the spec.
 
rupps5 said:
Specialized ht angles are too steep for me.
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I have a Specialized Tricross and that's my only complaint. Offroad it's just a tick squirrely. It's more cross oriented though so I knew that going in when I bought it. I'm now looking at gravel grinders myself.
 
Thanks for the input fellas, appreciate it. Always wanted to ride drop bar offroad just didn't want a dedicated cross bike. I want to keep things fresh and fun riding bikes, not that I'm bored now but I think something like this will keep me on my toes and more focused.

HT angles are identical on Warbid & Sequoia in size 56. I was also considering the Jamis Renegade but want something unique and different.

My buddy has a Cutthroat coming in a couple weeks. I'm going to check that out before making a decision but I'm leaning towards this (Cutthroat) or Sequoia, just like the wider foot print better.

This would be my 3rd go to bike as far as usage behind my full squish and fatbike so I'm not sure the extra coin on the Cutthroat can be justified and what's that old cliché...steel is for real. 8)
 
Well with the weather here not being suitable for MTBing the last 3 wks, snow then 50 with rain and snow and more mild weather, just not freezing things up at all. We did a couple gravel grind/urban assaults, some fellas had cross bikes others had hard tails with skinny tires and I tagged along on my fat bike with 15 ibs of tire pressure, lol. It was OK but I was working harder than most.

So with the extended forecast including rain & mild temps and the ground already saturated I went to my buddy's shop and forked over the coin for the Sequoia Elite. What a cool bike, I'm going to throw on my pedals & fenders and get ready for the maiden ride tomorrow.

I'll post some pic'sa after prep.
 
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OK got'er ready to go...fenders, ATAC pedals, cages. I'm going to run the alloy seat post tomorrow then switch to a Specialized CG-R Carbon post (just won it on ebay for 113.50, retail 200.00)
Notice the wide flared bars, the little rise in them above the 7 degree rise stem, nice beefy wheels & tires (tubless system) very comfortable bike. Nice riding position. Here's some pic's...








 
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33 miles of gravel & streets of Pgh, love the bike, perfect for gravel grinding/urban assaults! Awesome!

Oh, and a couple of IPA's at a local craft brewery afterwards. Awesome again!
 
So, 60 degrees & sunny in the Burgh today. Took the Sequoia on a 10 mile loop I do on my MTB's. Some double track and a lot of technical single track...let me tell ya,... off road drop bar riding on a skinny tire rigid bike is abusive, lol.

Got beat up pretty good, tried to keep my normal speeds through some sections and just couldn't stay on the hoods, had to drop down for control. I'm sure there is a learning curve for riding these things offroad but I only know one way at the moment so I'll be sticking to tarmac, gravel & double track on this bike for awhile.

Still had a blast and don't regret the purchase at all. It was a little soft/muddy but not too bad. "thumbsup"


 
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These came from Specialized ready to go, tubeless rim tape & tubeless ready tires. Just had to remove the tube that came in the tires, add sealant and I was good to go. "thumbsup"

Any tire & rim can be made tubeless. Just use good rim tape from Stan's or Orange seal (even Gorilla tape works) Tires that are not tubeless ready are slightly more difficult to bead up and require more than normal sealant because of their casing, sealant oozes out the sidewall for a day or two, just add more sealant and air it back up and it will be fine.

I've done this on my FSR & Fatbike with non-tubeless ready tires and it works fine. You just need to be a tad cautious riding because non-TR tires do not have a reinforced sidewall and could be prone to damage easier than TR tires.
 
While any tire and rim might be seal up via a ghetto tubeless setup, keep in mind you are not making them tubeless as they were never designed to be. Factory tubeless tires and rims are designed that way from the factory not only to help them seal up, but have a different bead shape on the tire, and bead channel on the rim for safety reasons. Rolling a tire off the bead at high speed on a MTB would suck, but doing so on a road bike on one of our mountain descents could be a death sentence, literally. Spend the money and do it right, or stick to tubes is my advice having been down the ghetto tubeless road before.
 
gdb85 said:
These came from Specialized ready to go, tubeless rim tape & tubeless ready tires. Just had to remove the tube that came in the tires, add sealant and I was good to go. "thumbsup"

Any tire & rim can be made tubeless. Just use good rim tape from Stan's or Orange seal (even Gorilla tape works) Tires that are not tubeless ready are slightly more difficult to bead up and require more than normal sealant because of their casing, sealant oozes out the sidewall for a day or two, just add more sealant and air it back up and it will be fine.

I've done this on my FSR & Fatbike with non-tubeless ready tires and it works fine. You just need to be a tad cautious riding because non-TR tires do not have a reinforced sidewall and could be prone to damage easier than TR tires.
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I'll be looking into this thanks

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