Rigid and Fun

Pics from yesterday's intensely technical, slow, immensely fun and satisfying ride.

This is my cheap, piece of junk bike and I simply love it.






I put the "Zion" steel fork (and beefier front tire) back on it and greatly prefer it to the more flexy carbon fork I was running (at least in technical bits). There is something sooo immensely gratifying about finessing a rigid bike through difficult terrain. I love the precision involved in the braking, in getting the front up just enough so you barely feel the wheel land, in using momentum, strength, balance and one's wits to pick the best line.

An outside observer might have thought I was up to something else given all the happy "Whoops!" occurring when I cleaned something tricky.