This has been an interesting thread. Just last weekend I rode my Bleriot on a long single-track in the Sierra. I can count on one hand the number of times I have ridden a single-track trail, and my technique is certainly begging. Anyway, I did OK, but in particularly rocky sections (boulders, not gravel) my front wheel kept coming off the surface when I was climbing, and that always threw me off-balance, especially going around trees. I always made a point of falling off uphill, not over the trail rim. I had that much sense. I tried standing and leaning over the bars, but that was a cumbersome position, and I felt more in control sitting. There were many sections of this trail (8.5 miles long) where I did more walking than riding. I trust that is the "discretion" to which Jim refers!
I was using the Bleriot, jitensha straight bars, and Fatty Rumkins. Like I said, steep pitches or going over boulders up-grade and my front wheel kept popping off the surface. Aside from my novice technique, would a better cockpit help me out more? Or, is the Bleriot just not the best bike for this stuff? ________________________________ From: CycloFiend <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 9:06:00 AM Subject: Re: [RBW] Headlands Ride Report - Now Tam on 10/13/10 10:09 AM, James Warren at [email protected] wrote: > > I had a great Atlantis ride up Railroad Grade on Mt. Tam in Marin County the > day after the Rivendell garage sale. I used Marathon Extremes, knobby 40ers. > > On the say down, Hoo Koo E Koo was good, but then on Blithedale Ridge heading > down back toward Mill Valley, I chickened out a few times and walked the bike > down the steep stuff. I probably would have done the same on my MB-4 with two > inch knobbies, probably would have done the same on a full sus bike. The upper part of Blithedale Ridge (from where it connects with HKEK) has a couple of spots which are just about the steepest sections of roads on the mountain. This time of year, it's dry, dusty and very loose. There are a couple spots where if you did go "off piste", you'd have a while to think about what you did before you started hitting stuff. Nothing wrong with discretion! -- Jim Edgar [email protected] Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com "Maybe a bike, once discarded, pines away year after year for the first hand that steered it, and as it grows old it dreams, in its bike way, of the young roads." -- Robert McCammon, "Boy's Life" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
