Posts Tagged ‘mtb’
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Have you seen Lebron James on a Cannondale? It’s not pretty.
So, to solve that kind of problem, here comes The DirtySixer MTB with 36 inch tires.
There it is, parked at Erin Sherbert’s favorite bike rack - it’s next to the very same rack but look how different the bikes’ tires are:
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Looking at this thing freaked, me, out.
Now myself, I’m 6 foot 1 and a ton of fun so you’d figure one of these rigs would be great for me. But no, I’m not even close to qualifying for the DirtySixer club. You gotta be like 6 foot 5 or taller to fit proper.
Perhaps District Eight Supervisor Scott Wiener could use one of these rides for Bike To Work Day 2013 tomorrow? Why not?
Oh, the expense, what must be the crushing expense. I can only imagine what the MSRP is. That’s real titanium for the frame, BTW.
Now myself, I’ll have to make do with the MTBs sold for $200-something at the Marin Bikes Warehouse at 7th and Folsom in SoMA. (Fulton Street in 1st gear: Fuck, why can’t 1st gear be lower? Broadway Tunnel eastbound (scary scary): Fuck, why can’t 21st gear be higher? It’s like I’m being punished by Shimano for not spending enough or something.)
Anyway, contact Dave French if you’re interested.
All the deets.
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Thusly:
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Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, black, Blue, bright, california, calipers, coordinated, county, cyclist, cyclists, fashion, green, hardtail, helmet, lime, marin, marin bikes, mtb, pants, San Francisco, socks, street, tan, tires
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
This guy is all over town- see him with his surfboard trailer coming back from a day at dolphin-rich Ocean Beach? On this part of Scott Street in the greater NoPA / EaPA / Alamo Square / Western Addition area, he needs to take both lanes and snake his way up, as if he were ascending the twisty bit of Lombard.
Which is fine – dude’s a stud, of course. But it seems that $20 worth of Chinese derailer and cassette would be the perfect finishing touch for this expensive custom-looking rig*. Unless “too many gears spoil the ride” or something.
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Keep on keeping on.
*Upon further review, this thing is so custom that it might not actally be considered an MTB – the rear tire appears to be a good deal narrower than the front, for example. Wonder if the tiny surfboard wheels are in matching carbon fibre. Wouldn’t be surprised…
Tags: alamo square, area, bicycle, bike, board, carbon, cyclist, EaPA, east of panhandle, fell, fibre, Futility, hayes, hilly, mountain bike, mtb, NOPA, north of panhandle, ocean beach, San Francisco, scott, single speed, street, streets of san francisco, surf, surfboard, surfing, trailer, western addition, Wheels
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Only in Marin! That’s right, Marin County, the birthplace of mountain biking, and home to nuclear-tipped missiles, endangered deer, and marauding mountain lions (nee cougars), can’t abide you people building your own single-track MTB trails.
Michael Philip More is getting a ten-day jail sentence for illegally building a quarter-mile trail at the end of Robinhood Drive in San Rafael.
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Approximate path of the trail - the white line is a quarter-mile long
Does Michael More wish there were more singletrack MTB trails in Marin? Given that MTBers are mostly confined to fire roads in Marin County, signs point to yes.
Tags: arrest, arrested, bicycle, bike, china camp, community service, county, cycle, cyclist, illegal, jail, marin, Michael More, Michael Philip More, mount, mountain, mountain bike, Mt., mtb, pine, police, repack, robinhood, san rafael, single, singletrack, tam, tamalpais, track
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
What’s the funniest line in this article from San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Dan Giesin – Single-minded cyclists have old-school cool
“We’re shedding new light on an old tradition,”
“You feel like a purist,”
“You don’t need all those fancy gears.”
Too many gears can actually spoil the ride.
“…we single-speeders…”
“They are such a cool group,”
“It’s kind of a counter-culture,”
“There is that underground element: a little bit different, a little bit dangerous.”
This is called starting your own league, so it’s the same old thing. These people aren’t really dangerous either. They’re just having fun on bikes, nothing wrong with that. But you can have fun on bikes with or without gears, right?
There’s probably a more extreme element of fixed gear MTB-ers out there that eschews even having brakes. The photo below clearly shows the typical non-fixed, freewheeling setup:
simondbarnes via Flickr
It’s the same crowd that’s attracted to fixed gear city bikes that find single-speed mountain bikes appealing.
And arthroscopic surgery is becoming cheaper and cheaper these days, so you should get in on this fun as well.
Tags: cool, dangerous, fixed gear, knees, marin, mountain bike, mountainbike, mtb, no pain no gain, Pump House Gang, single speed, spot brand, tom wolfe, why do my knees hurt
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
This is it, the Birthplace of Mountain Biking, on Pine Mountain (not Mount Tam, sorry Wiki) near Fairfax, California in bucolic Marin County. Read all about it:
The first downhill time-trial race took place in Fairfax, California on October 21, 1976 on a fireroad now referred to as Repack Road, due to the need to repack hub bearings after a descent (the hub brakes used at the time would overheat, causing the grease within the hub to break down). Ten riders descended 1300 feet of Repack in about 5 minutes; the winner, Alan Bonds, was also the only one to make it to the finish line. The first bikes used for descending were known as “clunkers” or “paperboy bikes”: coaster brake cruisers using balloon tires first imported to America by Ignatz Schwinn. By 1979, two organizers and competitors of the Repack downhill, Charlie Kelley and Gary Fisher founded the company which named the sport, MountainBikes.
It looked like this. Gary Fisher, the Founding Father of Mountain Bikes, still holds the speed record with a time 4:22. (He also caught 36 in a single lunch break, but that’s another story.)
So, here it is. From top left to right middle, above the Meadow Club Golf Course and Lakes Bon Tempe and Alpine. Click to enlarge. Or, see a bird’s eye view if you prefer.
Tags: alan bonds, alpine, bikes, bon tempe, california, Canyon, Cascade, charlie kelley, fairfax, Gary Fisher, klunker, lake, marin, meadow club, mountainbikes, mtb, pine mountain, repack, tam tamalpais
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