![]() ![]() Just casually Wafering in 90 degree San Diego. She’s petite, sweet, a bit quiet, but she can ride the fck out of any dirt, is an expert scuba per, caves, wrecks, all the scary stuff, is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, can quarter an elk, won Rock Cobbler in 2018 and is one of only a handful of women to Everest on a MTB four weeks before this. I emailed the race director begging for a spot for Echo, and they got her in. We had always talked about doing something epic to celebrate. Then it dawned on me that my fellow “sick b*tch” and best friend of 20 years might want to go with me to celebrate our 20 year “frienpersary”. I signed up for 2020, then after a year of pandemic cancel/reschedule/cancel again I said “screw it” to most of 2021 except this one. “It’s awful, but you’re a sick b*tch, you’ll love it.” – this from my friend who did the race in 2019, she gave me her early access entry code, and from our shared experiences at The Rock Cobbler and Kansas, I figured I knew what I was in for. The landscape has a an ominous lack of trees. There’s a reason the adorable wild Icelandic Ponies (don’t call me a pony, I’m a grown-ass-man-horse) are hearty, low to the ground and seem to have a sense of humor. Not quite all of them, there are a few off-brand Fcks left in the clearance bin, but most of the Fck store has been entirely decimated. ![]() Not the first word that one would typically hope to describe a “vacation,” but that’s not how we roll over here.ĭire. The following account was originally published on Casey's blog, NoFcks Given Gravel.ĭire. A landscape that is remote, rugged and unpredictable! ![]() The growth is evident with vast lava fields all around creating a surreal landscape. It traverses the continental rift between North America and Eurasia - a rift that grows one inch every year. But of course, ”we want to be closer to the consumer”, mhm.Casey Cohenmeyer describes her brutal experience at The Rift in Iceland. The Rift is a 200 km (125 miles) off-road bike race through the dark lava fields in the Highlands of Iceland. When Madison dropped them, it was game over. He also said they will go direct ”to be closer to the consumer”, when in reality they were impotent to build a dealer network in relevant countries, even when they had the Athertons, and they were notorious for changing sales people who played hardball on the dealers and tried to screw them over, forcing them to make preorders larger than they could sell etc. Of course, throughout the years Max said a lot of things. Otherwise, why are limiting our views, only thinking of Commencal, or, if it is Commencal, they won't do carbon? I recall the Skin days very well also, I actually was at the press conference of their launch and there was no talk about environmental impact. ![]() I am honestly wondering how it compares in quality of workmanship to a top alloy bike of today, considering there still is such a thing. It has an integrated headset and a pressfit BB and, of course, the Gradient tubing Klein was famous for. Writing all this, I am looking on my closet at a late generation Attitude Team, with a leftover frame that was still made in Chehalis, Washington, before Trek took over. How light and safe to ride can you make a Cannondale Super V? What a about a Raven? What about a first generation Scalpel in CAAD guise? A Klein Adept? A Klein Palomino? And I am sure the list doesn't end just here. Regarding the XC alloy bikes of yesteryear, we could take a peak a bit back in history. And said machining is done on the inside of the frame, where tooling access is far from what acces on the outside (facing the usual pivot locations and the BB, the headtube and the seat tube for example) is. Similar story with the twin-mast 'seat tube' and the upper rocker going driving the shock via the pivot axle, tolerancing that must be a PITA and machining probably has to be done after the frame is fully welded. Milling the insides to dimension isn't that hard, but has to be done after the fact, after the welding process, unlike with a machined/forged tube end that can be machined to size before welding. The seatstay is just a folded over tube with bosses welded in there, capturing the rocker. You can do a lot with correct design (minimise the amount of flexing for example), but you give the frame an expiration date even more so than with just general riding (all aluminium frames have a finite lifetime).Īs for the Supreme, not impossible. How many of the ultra light bikes back in the day had 29er wheels? Disc brakes? How many of them lasted half a season or a full season? And yeah, you can make a flex stay, there are a few out there (Scott being one of them and over in the tech rumors a few were mentioned fairly recently as well). ![]()
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