Bedrock & Paradox

I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

Avarice

So, my hands hurt a lot after this past weekend. A hard day out, to be sure, but I want to continue having such days without being all jacked up, and plan for many this year. Maybe I should just get new gloves.


Or perhaps I should go the more bling route and get one of these:

Willits WOW, steel, 29er only, obviously put together with compliance in mind. At $250 its cheaper than ti or carbon. Still, I don’t like spending and engineering my way around problems. So, new gloves, and some tweaking of the bike position. Lowered the brake levers, to alter my descending position, and may raise the bars a hair, though otherwise everything feels very good with that height and I’d rather not break something that isn’t.

Let’s have another look…..

This is, if nothing else, some serious out-of-the-box work. It would I think look good in expedition orange, that great rust color my parents had in down jackets from the early 70’s.

The aforementioned Pepo Sav Blanc is, by the way, excellent with broiled lamb.

DaveC

5 responses to “Avarice”

  1. Cellarrat Avatar
    Cellarrat

    I donno I’m begaining to think that any time you ride for 12 hours my hand are gonna hurt…tried drop d all about finding hand nervania but so far 15 degree bend on a flat bar with ergons has been the cats meaow…. Too each his own

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  2. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    I just was at the hardware store and bought a new pair of work/gardening gloves.They had the oh so pricey ($20) deerskin models and they were quite soft, so I picked them up.They felt so great on the hands, so I thought I’d try riding in them.Love them. As of today, I probably have 12 hours on them, much of that rigid. Seem a lot tougher than the typical bike gloves that I’m always sewing up and repairing anyway.I wonder if good leather gloves are anything like a good leather saddle?Hands are still sore from rigid, however.I also think that WOW fork is unlikely to be any more compliant than any other rigid construction. If it is, then it will be flexy and imprecise. You can’t have it both ways without a mechanical linkage.I looks coolish anyway.

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  3. Dave Harris Avatar
    Dave Harris

    Silly stiff man. May I recommend a REBA?

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  4. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Yeah, I’ve thought about that too. The thought of doing maintenance on something like that makes me cring, perhaps without justification. We shall see.Eric, I’ve honestly never noticed lack of steering precision, I don’t think I ride that hard.

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  5. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    If it helps, my Rebas have been maintenance free.Change the oil once per year.I don’t ride that hard, but I do like to charge hard into corners, brake hard and late, and rail them as much as possible. That is hard on the front end of the bike.

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