It's funny reading this article reminds me how horrifyingly shitty my first few mountain bikes were and yet how much I loved riding them. I'm glad we've reached the promised land where brakes stop the bike and bikes don't break every weekend.
My favourite eat crow moment was my first trip to Sedona. I had seen a small side bar about it in Bike Magazine. Loaded up the truck, GF and dog plus camping gear and we head south from Alberta to the desert for some winter riding. My GF was struggling with the tech so she was a ways behind me. I'm waiting when a pink jeep full of tourists passes slowly. I'm trackstanding...because cool...then start to lose my balance when I learn that desert dust + SPD = hard to unclip and fall ungracefully to the side of the jeep road, bike still attached, and impale my ass on some cactus spines, in front of the loaded Pink Jeep. My GF rolls up a few seconds later and laughs.
That was the start of many great road trips to Sedona and the last ride on SPDs I ever did. I bought a set of Time ATACs at a Sedona LBS and never looked back...until I saw the light and realized flat was were it's at.
Oct. 29, 2021, 7:56 a.m. - Vik Banerjee
It's funny reading this article reminds me how horrifyingly shitty my first few mountain bikes were and yet how much I loved riding them. I'm glad we've reached the promised land where brakes stop the bike and bikes don't break every weekend. My favourite eat crow moment was my first trip to Sedona. I had seen a small side bar about it in Bike Magazine. Loaded up the truck, GF and dog plus camping gear and we head south from Alberta to the desert for some winter riding. My GF was struggling with the tech so she was a ways behind me. I'm waiting when a pink jeep full of tourists passes slowly. I'm trackstanding...because cool...then start to lose my balance when I learn that desert dust + SPD = hard to unclip and fall ungracefully to the side of the jeep road, bike still attached, and impale my ass on some cactus spines, in front of the loaded Pink Jeep. My GF rolls up a few seconds later and laughs. That was the start of many great road trips to Sedona and the last ride on SPDs I ever did. I bought a set of Time ATACs at a Sedona LBS and never looked back...until I saw the light and realized flat was were it's at.