Teary eyed wrote:Whoa...30...we only have 10..sounds like I'm losing the arms race!
Have not tried fat bikes yet. Although a good friend keeps trying to talk me into it.I just don't have any more room in garage..
Have SS rigid, geared HT, 2 dual suspensions, 1 cross, 1 road and an old 93' Bridgestone MB-2 rigid I keep toying with idea @ selling. The wife has a dual MTB, cross, townie. And now a teardop plus wifes convertible taking up big chunks of real estate..
I saw the teaser on that Foundry Ti model...very sexy! Several friends killing it on that Spec evo cx..and can't beat employee purchase!!
I wrenched and sold all thru college...landed me a few sweet Serotta road frames back in the 90's. So I know that's gotta be the next go to purchase!
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Up here many people that are serious about biking will keep an old bike for sloppy weather riding. So some of our bikes fit into that niche. I have a few bikes I could sell… or would not mind selling, but they don't seem to be that desirable.
I loved Bridgestone. I was sorry to see them leave the US market. I do have an 87 MB1, back when it came with the Nitto Dirt drop bars. I love that bike, but don't ride it much now. It is one I would just keep. I do also have a Serotta. hmm I don't recall the year.. I think early 90's also. It is their T-Max Mountain bike. I have it set up now for ice racing. We race some at a local hockey rink. It makes an perfect bike for that, and otherwise it is another that isn't worth much to sell. I would hang it on the wall for the few hundred I might get out of it.
Many people that test ride a fat bike immediately fall in love. I didn't. I did finally purchase a couple for my wife and I a few years ago to ride in the snow. Often with our freeze thaw cycles, one can ride on our snowmobile trails on a "regular" mountain bike. A few years ago my local trail just up the road, lost a lot of it's traffic. [They took the dam out on the river, so it does freeze up, and the snowmobiles could not get across to it] The trail ended up with just local traffic and no longer got packed enough. The Fat bike allowed us to ride it again. When the even fatter Moonlander came out, we purchased 2 of those also. We most often ride the Pugs. They are lighter [the way we have them set up] and faster. We have them set up with the Dillinger studded tires. The Moonlanders are for when conditions are too soft for even the Pugs. We have the very aggressive Lou and Bud tires on them. This year we have had a lot of snow, and more an issue it has stayed COLD.. so the snow isn't packing well. So much of our riding this winter has been on the Moonlanders. I would love to have something for a lighter faster fat bike. I wouldn't mind "trading" the Moonlander for the Ice Cream truck either.
When I first started riding the Pugs, It felt heavy [they used to be a bit heavier than they are today], but they allowed us to ride when and where we couldn't otherwise. After a while it just felt like a bike. Come spring.. we just kept riding and did much of our summer riding on them. They are just fun.
Getting back into racing, we did start riding some faster bikes more often.. but we still ride fat some also.