Colleges are closed for Midwinter Recess and meaning this weblog is simply too. Nonetheless, since 2024 is The 12 months Of Paring Down, I’m benefiting from the downtime to stock and assess my velocipedal holdings as they presently stand. So between Monday and Friday I’ll make an intensive accounting of all my bicycles, not together with those belonging to different members of my rapid household, or elements and frames stuffed deep in a storage unit, which is to say it received’t be very thorough in any respect. Nonetheless, it will likely be a roughly full image of all fully-assembled bicycles presently owned, operated, and recurrently ridden by me. This can permit me to find out whether or not or not I have to proceed divesting or buying because the case could also be, and is fully for my very own edification. So whilst you’re welcome to learn and remark don’t anticipate to be entertained, although truthfully you shouldn’t expect that anyway.
See you again right here Monday, February twenty sixth.
I Love You,
–Tan Tenovo
Jones LWB
Use: “Mountain biking” (no matter meaning), path rides, mixed-terrain rides, snow rides…
Wadrobe: Common garments or bikey garments
Miscellaneous notes: No bike I’ve is as concurrently snug and succesful because the Jones. If I needed to I might even add racks and fenders and make the Jones as sensible for around-town driving because the Platypus–although once more, fortuitously I don’t need to make that call and might have each. The Jones is the bike I select if I would like to have the ability to journey on any kind of terrain with out limitation, and due to the upright place I don’t really feel like I have to dress up in particular garments with a purpose to journey it, which is why I take it on trip with me. (I’ve ridden the Jones in bike garments with clipless pedals, and I’ve ridden it in jorts with flat pedals and sandals, and each approaches swimsuit it equally properly.) Whereas I used to have a number of “mountain bikes” (no matter meaning) I’ve come to comprehend the Jones is the one one I would like, since I can journey it on any kind of path, and but I don’t must be on a path with a purpose to take pleasure in it, as a result of it feels good as quickly as I roll it out the entrance door. It additionally makes good use of contemporary stuff like tubeless tires, disc brakes, and single-ring wide-range clutch drivetrains while remaining a essentially easy bicycle because of the absolutely inflexible body.
