Serious injury crash in Arlington July 28

[mstone]

@huskerdont 211315 wrote:

Then you’d have a mountain bike.

Current specialized diverge (for example) is spec’d to run up to 47mm in 700c or 53mm in 650b, and isn’t exactly a mountain bike. Road bikes with decent tire clearance are getting a lot easier to find these days (they just like to call them “gravel” or “all road” or somesuch).

[lordofthemark]

@bentbike33 211289 wrote:

If you do all of these things without benefit of a 2-stroke motor bolted to your bikes, I think you should be fine, especially as I know you are not a Clydesdale.

[huskerdont]

@mstone 211318 wrote:

Current specialized diverge (for example) is spec’d to run up to 47mm in 700c or 53mm in 650b, and isn’t exactly a mountain bike. Road bikes with decent tire clearance are getting a lot easier to find these days (they just like to call them “gravel” or “all road” or somesuch).

Correct, of course–I was being a bit facetious.

[mstone]

@huskerdont 211326 wrote:

Correct, of course–I was being a bit facetious.

I mean, if we really want to make fun of overkill on the C&O, let’s talk about the number of fat bikes popping up there these days…

[consularrider]

@mstone 211328 wrote:

I mean, if we really want to make fun of overkill on the C&O, let’s talk about the number of fat bikes popping up there these days…

There were a ridiculous number of e-fat bikes on the Root River State Trail (paved) in Minnesota yesterday.

[Henry]

@huskerdont 211315 wrote:

… hold on loosely … .

Wouldn’t that make them .38 Specials?

(Thanks. I’ll see myself out.)

[huskerdont]

@Henry 211377 wrote:

Wouldn’t that make them .38 Specials?

(Thanks. I’ll see myself out.)

I feel this deserves more likes, but perhaps BA readers are not of that period.

I have never owned one of their records, but that song does come into my head often in MTB or gravel situations where I’m reminding myself not to grip too tightly.

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