a fine gentleman and scholar by the name of Stephen Wagner and i decided to take a break from the new-fangled, easily stopped, big-wheeled, front-suspended, and all around fine and good world of modern mountain biking, to slum it for a while on a couple of relics from yesteryear.. steel frames and forks? yup. rigid?! you bet. 26" wheels? hey, they still work! turns out. not satisfied to just go out and enjoy ourselves in the twilight of the normal riding season here in midcoast maine, we decided to add rules to the mix, for all of the other riders out there who are surely going to be tripping over their own feet to join this retro ride. they are as follows:
1. no modern wheel sizes. 26" is it. and before you heave your fatbike up with that 'gotcha' grin on yer face:
2. rim brakes only. sorry. and:
3. fully rigid, as mentioned.
if you can't bring yourself to ride under these conditions but still wanna ride this necessarily chill ride with a couple of cool dudes, you can! you just may have to suffer a penalty of sorts for each transgression. silly things like riding shirtless, or seatless.. fun stuff like that.
Frigid rigid, comin' atcha!
sometimes, it's good to get back to yer roots. radical.
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