Took it out to the local regional park - all fire roads, lots of steep climbing and descents. LOVE IT! We have this black, hard soil that gets really big cracks in it. It's like riding through a rock garden. The bike just floated over it. It shifts beautifully, even under stress. I saw a coyote, maybe two, or the same one twice. And something that looked like a black squirrel. I need to find out what other kind of critter it might have been. There were also a couple of egrets at the reservoir.
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08-25-2013, 11:49 AM #1
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08-25-2013, 11:55 AM #2
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Thom ordered it with a dropper seatpost for me. I forgot to play with it today.
Seriously, I was just enjoying the ride so much.
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08-25-2013, 11:59 AM #3
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Droooool.
(Local populations of black squirrels aren't terribly uncommon, are you sure it wasn't a squirrel you saw? There are lots of them in an area near me, but they stay in maybe a 2-3 mile radius. But it could've been something in the weasel family, too.)Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
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08-25-2013, 12:05 PM #4
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I'm not positive it was a squirrel. It was squirrel sized, but I was going downhill and it was running off the trail... It was definitely black and different from all the other squirrels I saw.
VeronicaLast edited by Veronica; 08-25-2013 at 12:42 PM.
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08-25-2013, 12:36 PM #5
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I feel like that first photo should be accompanied by "Also Sprach Zarathustra."
It's beautiful.At least I don't leave slime trails.
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08-25-2013, 01:48 PM #6
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Whoa, that bike is hot. I'm so glad you love it. Did you happen to weigh it? I love my Santa Cruz, but light it is not.
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08-25-2013, 02:08 PM #7
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26.75 pounds. It's about a pound heavier than my aluminium hardtail.
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