Rigid Update
Last night was the first full run I had with my Rigid bike. A few days ago I was only able to take it out for a few miles, but last night we did about 11miles of riding at the Fullerton Loop.
Going into this rigid conversion, I honestly thought I’d get beat up like crazy. To my surprise, my ride was rather pleasant. Sure its stiffer than having a suspension fork, but I quickly learned that if I were to soften my grip on the bars and put some weight towards the back, the jarring effect weren’t so bad.
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09/19/2008
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09/19/2008
RL I’m just curious… on a rigid, could you take those downhills the same speed as you normally do? It seems like with a more stiff bike that you would have to slow down more or break your face on the handlebars.
09/19/2008
Great question. Going down on Nora Kuttner (the long hill that ends at Euclid) I was fast, but not as fast. Reason being, it was dark and my lights aren’t that great. But for the most part I was riding at the same speed as I did with a suspension fork. There were some parts I wanted to go as fast as I could to see how well it handled the trail without crashing.
09/19/2008
Had you never ridden a fully-rigid mountain before? You dang whippersnappers!
09/19/2008
Back in the day I used to have a few of them back in the 80’s and 90’s as a young buck, a Mongoose and Schwinn.