Bike ride, thoughts on new fork
Very steep in sections with nasty loose
sandy, gritty, soil on top of hard pack interspersed with rocks of varying
shapes and sizes.
Gummy Bear, who gave a name to a
trail calling it Gummy Bear? A short trail connecting the Los Barrilies Monument
rides. Very steep in sections with nasty loose sandy, gritty, soil on top of
hard pack interspersed with rocks of varying shapes and sizes. Nothing gummy
about about this ride. Only resemblance to Gummy Bears I can think is of the
smile on my face after ridding it, much like the smiley taste of eating Gummy
Bears. Unlike Gummy Bears there is nothing sticky about this trail other than
the cactus. It would be a BEAR to ride up hill, too steep and loose in sections.
Even the down hill can be a BEAR in spots. A grade A ride.
The new fork is a plush
handling Fox Talus RLS. I replaced a super light Rock Shox World Cup SID (it
came with the bike) with a heavier Fox at the urging of a couple of bike junkies
who had ridden my 3 year old Blurr. My Blurr went from a svelte 24 pounds of
quick climbing nervous down hill ride to a PLUSH, point and go, didn't even
notice the extra pound and a half going up hill. I knew in the back of my mind
the Rock Shox was the wrong fork for the Blurr, I gave it a chance, didn't think
it so bad. The change to a new fork wasn't hard, Tom (the bigger of the two, 6'2
185) blocked the door out of the bike shop until I gave in a bought the new
fork. To Tom's credit he did negotiate a modest discount for me. It was also
real sweet that I was able to sell the old Rock Shox on E-bay for half of the
cost of the new Fox Fork. In a nut shell, what I thought was the prefect bike is
now even better.
Still no
wind, should blow by
Thursday.
Posted: Mon - January 3, 2005 at 01:44 PM