Pointless Prize – Real Supple Ride – #FSrealsuppleride

[Steve O]

Although I don’t believe I have any bikes that would qualify (#realrattlyride), you may want to make sure that the points only apply to the individual rides and not the daily points. E.g., someone commutes to and from work on their road bike and then pulls out their Fat Bike to ride around in the snow that evening. Presumably they only get #FSrealsuppleride points for the evening ride.

[CBGanimal]

I like it…I commute on 2.3!

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[Judd]

@CBGanimal 195187 wrote:

I like it…I commute on 2.3!

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Chris just won.

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[epilsk]

I just ordered a new bike with 50 mm tires so this will give me an additional incentive to ride it!
https://www.konaworld.com/sutra_ltd.cfm

[Judd]

The ol Timberjack has 3” wide tires so I might be a contender in the mid-range category.

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[elizsnyder]

I am SO IN!
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[drevil]

Woot! So the realsuppleride Pointless Points board is up and running. Muchas gracias to Merlin for gittin’er’dun!

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/generic/suppleride

As was predicted by Judd earlier, CBG has a YOOJ lead over everyone else. I know that my buddy Al S uses his mountain bike exclusively with 2.2″ tires that I gave him, so I’ll remind him to put the proper hashtag in his titles for eligible rides.

Take some pics of those realsupplerides (stationary or in action) and post them here.

I might have to bust out my 4″ slicks to try to catch up with CBG. I just gotta remember to not run them tubeless

Fat Tire Blowoff by ricky d, on Flickr

[drevil]

@drevil 196547 wrote:

As was predicted by Judd earlier, CBG has a YOOJ lead over everyone else. I know that my buddy Al S uses his mountain bike exclusively with 2.2″ tires that I gave him, so I’ll remind him to put the proper hashtag in his titles for eligible rides.

Looks like Al updated his eligible rides with the hashtag and has jumped into the lead. Now it’s a competition!

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[JoM]

Drevil, can you put 16″ tires on my fat bike?

[consularrider]

I’ve gone back and amended my ride titles for January 1 through January 9 to include #FSrealsuppleride4. I was back in the Midwest for the holidays and brough my Pugsley fat bike with me. It has 4 inch Dillenger studded tires for the winter.

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[drevil]

@consularrider 196865 wrote:

I’ve gone back and amended my ride titles for January 1 through January 9 to include #FSrealsuppleride4. I was back in the Midwest for the holidays and brough my Pugsley fat bike with me. It has 4 inch Dillenger studded tires for the winter.

Yeah Chris! With the amount of miles you do, quadrupled with those tires, well, it’s going to be tough for the rest of us

Last night I rode with my Surly Black Floyd 4″ slicks, and talk about crazy oversteer. The tires grip the ground so well that even a slight turn of the bars makes it want to dive in. It’s a little scary riding with no hands when my fat bike is set up this way. It was nice to see my 10 miles turn into 40 points in the supple ride contest though.

Ritchey Commando with Surly Black Floyd 4″ Slicks #thatswussupple by ricky d, on Flickr

[Steve O]

So I was riding along on a Capital Bikeshare bike, and I thought to myself, “Hey, Steve, this ride seems really supple, doesn’t it?”
“Yes, it does,” I thought back.

My question is, what level of suppleness is a CaBi bike? Which hashtag is correct to use?

[CBGanimal]

@Steve O 197011 wrote:

So I was riding along on a Capital Bikeshare bike, and I thought to myself, “Hey, Steve, this ride seems really supple, doesn’t it?”
“Yes, it does,” I thought back.

My question is, what level of suppleness is a CaBi bike? Which hashtag is correct to use?

For simple folks…measure the width of the tire…

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[Steve O]

@CBGanimal 197018 wrote:

For simple folks…measure the width of the tire…

I don’t carry my calipers around when I go get a CaBi bike. Nor do I bring one home to measure it there, although I guess I could.
I was hoping someone would just know this.

[bentbike33]

There should be size information on the sidewall, but eyeballing it, I would say no more than level 2 (and they may be only 1.75″ =~ 45mm, which would be too small).

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