Your latest bike purchase?

[americancyclo]

@hozn 116699 wrote:

eliminate (?) dropped chains in the woods.

You run GP4000sII in the woods?

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Phatboing 116852 wrote:

What shoes? I’ve been hoarding good platform-pedal shoes, because there are too many that look like skateboard kid shoes.

Technically, they’re….uh….skate shoes.

http://www.adidas.com/us/zx-vulc-shoes/C76980.html

[hozn]

@americancyclo 116854 wrote:

You run GP4000sII in the woods?

Ha, no. I run the big 42mm (Specialized Trigger) tires in the woods. Rode w/ @GuyContinental and @GB this AM; it was awesome — no dropped chains, no chain slap (at least nothing significant).

I will say, though, that I love the GP4000S tire. I ran that on the gravel at Poolesville and have run it on the couple-mile section of deep gravel at Diabolical Double last year. And I’ve ridden them on the Brandymore castle “shortcut” a few times I trust this tire far more on rough terrain than those Challenge Strada tires.

I was thinking that one of these days I would actually ride the 25mm tires through Lake Fairfax for fun. I might take a spare tire with me, though, since I think that’s pushing my luck.

[jabberwocky]

@hozn 116856 wrote:

I was thinking that one of these days I would actually ride the 25mm tires through Lake Fairfax for fun. I might take a spare tire with me, though, since I think that’s pushing my luck.

I actually rode my old CX bike with 28mm Paselas (at ~110psi) through Lake Fairfax many times. Its doable, though I do think people who actually find that fun are mentally ill. :p

It did teach me to be VERRA CAREFUL picking lines through the rocky stuff over by the lakeside campground though.

[hozn]

@jabberwocky 116857 wrote:

I actually rode my old CX bike with 28mm Paselas (at ~110psi) through Lake Fairfax many times. Its doable, though I do think people who actually find that fun are mentally ill. :p

It did teach me to be VERRA CAREFUL picking lines through the rocky stuff over by the lakeside campground though.

This is awesome; you’ve convinced me that I should try this. What’s the worst that could happen !? (Probably dented rim, honestly; that’d kinda suck.) I’ll probably skip the newer more technical north sections.

[jabberwocky]

@hozn 116859 wrote:

This is awesome; you’ve convinced me that I should try this. What’s the worst that could happen !? (Probably dented rim, honestly; that’d kinda suck.) I’ll probably skip the newer more technical north sections.

My favorite “cross bike offroad” story is the time I had a last minute client meeting in The Reserve (between Georgetown Pike and Old Dominion Roads sort of between McLean and Great Falls). My bike and I got a ride there with my boss but was on my own to get home because he had a plane to catch. In my full work clothes, with a huge roll of architectural drawings sticking out of my panniers, I rode down Old Dominion to Georgetown Pike, then to the top of the CCT and all the way down to Lake Fairfax and on to the W&OD, all on my old Redline CX bike with road slicks.

I think that one trip fully cemented my intense dislike of drop bars offroad.

[Rockford10]

New bike!

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2012 Salsa Vaya, all tricked out. Some of the trickery has been removed and more will be replaced (hate the dual pedals!). But, it’s great!

[Powerful Pete]

@Rockford10 – Need.More.Pictures.

And do I spy a Brooks saddle?! Awesomeness.

[dkel]

@Powerful Pete 116885 wrote:

@Rockford10 – Need.More.Pictures.

Yeah, man! That pic stinks! Doesn’t nearly do the bike justice.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Me too.

[ShawnoftheDread]

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[TwoWheelsDC]

@ShawnoftheDread 116888 wrote:

Me too.

Rule 8.1 compliant. Also, I thought you were going to go with a SRAM drivetrain, but maybe I’m imagining that…

[ShawnoftheDread]

@TwoWheelsDC 116890 wrote:

Rule 8.1 compliant. Also, I thought you were going to go with a SRAM drivetrain, but maybe I’m imagining that…

? Tires, tape, and saddle are all black.

I wanted SRAM Force, but other considerations overruled my wants.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@ShawnoftheDread 116891 wrote:

? Tires, tape, and saddle are all black.

Right, in compliance with Rule 8.1…and really, 8.4 as well.

[KayakCyndi]

@ShawnoftheDread 116888 wrote:

Me too.

Very, very nice!

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