It’s been very dry around here, bodies of water notwithstanding:
The downside of the dryness has been lots of brush fires:
But the upside is that trail conditions are optimal:
Lately my preferred trail-meandering bike has been the Roaduno:
[Photo was taken a week or two ago. Note how the color has drained from the landscape since then.]
Since receiving it I’ve made various changes, the most significant of which have been the switch to drop bars and the unlocking of the inner chainring to achieve a two-speed setup, and I’ve been extremely pleased. However, part of the fun of a quirky bike like this is experimenting with it, and I’d been thinking it would be nice to have something a little bigger than that 38-tooth ring, so I decided to provoke everybody who’s already offended by the whole “dinglespeed” thing and go all the way by converting the bike into a “thringlespeed.”
Obviously I could have achieved thringle-fication by adding a third ring to the crank that was already on there, but instead I decided to switch it for this:
