***I plugged the time period “Jones” into eBay and these are the bikes that got here up. Anyway, I’m nonetheless on trip, you’re not studying this. See you after Labor Day.***
In the end we every a lot come to phrases with the truth that our wants are essentially at odds with our wishes. Right here’s what that realization appears like in bicycle type:
The “beginning bid” means that maybe the vendor is trolling, as does the pairing of Speedplay pedals with a whole set of wheel reflectors:
On the identical time, there’s an simple sense of cohesion right here, and I don’t doubt the vendor’s declare that it rides properly:
Nonetheless, able to admit you’re performed along with your highway bike days however not but able to admit you need to be driving a Rivendell is an odd place to be.
Then there’s this:
Extra sedate to make certain, however nonetheless, a great instance of what occurs when individuals watch too many “Path Much less Pedaled” movies and begin chasing the Supple Dragon:
Social gathering Tempo could seem to be a good suggestion, however it may possibly go away you with a hangover afterwards.
Not that I’ve something in opposition to Jones-ified Pine Mountain, thoughts you:
I loved that bike very a lot. The Pine Mountain taught me to like plus-sized tires, and the Jones bars taught me that, properly, I wished an precise Jones. Nonetheless, it was a great one, and I owe it a debt of gratitude.
Sadly it appears like Marin now not presents a inflexible Pine Mountain. For that matter it appears like they’re additionally performed with the plus-sized tires, which isn’t stunning, since they’re now means out of vogue and the three.0 appear to have gone the way in which of the 23. (Two tire sizes I nonetheless vastly take pleasure in, go determine.) Sure, all of the plus-size tire post-mortems have already been written, and maybe my favourite indictment of them is that they “dumb down” the path for “entry-level riders:”
Mountain biker logic might be very troublesome to observe. Someway half an inch of extra tire width over the presently trendy 2.6 is tantamount to driving with coaching wheels, however a bicycle with entrance and rear suspension and a battery-powered pushbutton drivetrain isn’t. Humorous how that works.
Talking of children’ bikes, I’d completely trip this…although not at that value:
Certainly, I had that very body for awhile:
Alas, I suppose I failed to totally recognize what I had, and now the previous is solely too costly for me to relive:
Although it does include an autographed schmatta:
You may’t put a value on that…although you may blow your nostril in it.