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As for Rocket Ron, I like the Quasi Moto better. Have both.
I think the point of the Hans Dampf is multipurpose high-volume with deep knobs; seems fine to me for all kinds of riding situations.
Hell, I might run me some extreme overkill on the Oregon Outback. Maybe come along and snort and sneer and laugh!
On Jan 26, 2015 9:01 PM, "Jeremy Keith Spencer" <jeremy.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Big fat tires help, Mike!
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More cushion for the pushin'.
> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 7:43:27 PM UTC-8, Mike Schiller wrote:
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>> 5 foot drops on an rSogn.... pictures or it didn't happen! ( just kidding) You must have some skillz.
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>> ~mike
>> Carlsbad Ca
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Tone down the language, please.Both of you are overreacting, and the escalation is making this forum unpleasant.
On Jan 26, 2015 9:21 PM, "Jeremy Keith Spencer" <jeremy.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I came in peace. Fred drew first blood, Eric.
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:16 PM, eric moss wrote:
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>> Tone down the language, please.
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>> Both of you are overreacting, and the escalation is making this forum unpleasant.
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Unpleasant or entertaining?
Can we get back to talking about tire seating issues on Synergies?
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> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:07:03 PM UTC-8, Jeremy Keith Spencer wrote:
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>> You're the hater/troll/douche/elitist prick who started running his mouth off and actually wrote the phrases "you really have no idea who you're talking to" and that you're THE "very last person" I'd "want to get in a dickwaving contest with about where you've ridden a low trail bike." LOLz for days!!! Let me use a cliché real quick: "Who the FUCK do you think you are?"
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>> And at the Outback, did you wave your insecure little dick at all the chump retards who didn't have their kit dialed just sooo, just like your sweet little Elephant? I bet you did, cuz you're That Guy, didn't you?
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>> So... Who *am* I talking to? I'm really, really curious, Fred. Drop some science on me, bro. I wanna hear the legend!
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>> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 8:23:06 PM UTC-8, Fred Blasdel wrote:
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>>> Wow you really have no idea who you're talking to, I'm the very last person you'd want to get in a dickwaving contest with about where you've ridden a low trail bike
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>>> Still I'm glad to see someone else is taking their rSogn freeriding. I rode my old one at Duthie Hill a number of times before replacing it with a custom, doing drops and gap jumps with the eDelux flickering away.
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>>> Sorry your bike screams "chump" with the crosstop levers, retroshift, mini-DH tires, and yes especially the rat trap pedals.
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>>> I wasn't saying you need clipless, pinned platform pedals with grippy shoes totally count as foot retention. Even the Rivendellers have come to recognize them as great, and you should really re-evaluate what you're doing when you out-retrogrouch Grant.
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>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Jeremy Keith Spencer <jeremy.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hey, Fred
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>>>> Thanks for assuming that I'm a chump who doesn't have a clue what he's doing or know where or what he's riding, etc. I wanted and needed an option for more suspension/float and more traction in gumbo-y mud, sand, etc., all problems encountered in... the PNW! Among other places this bike goes. As for getting rad with "retentionless quill pedals," I ride MTB park-style singletrack, huck, etc., on this thing. Post Canyon, Hood River? Oregon and California and Washington nat'l forest trails, gravel and singletrack and muck and bushwhacking? Yes. Have taken it all over Marin County on trails where everybody else was on fully suspended carbon MTBs. Five-foot drops at speed on unstable terrain? Yep. All on this bike.
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>>>> I appreciate that you aren't riding this bike like I am and that for you these are "extreme overkill," and I appreciate that you don't get "especially rad" unless you're clipped in. But, you know, maybe watch your condescending tone? I'd be much better off without it.
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>>>> I posted this to show fat-tire fit on a bike I like and thought others might like as well. It was an FYI post.
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>>>> As for Rocket Ron, I like the Quasi Moto better. Have both. I think the point of the Hans Dampf is multipurpose high-volume with deep knobs; seems fine to me for all kinds of riding situations. Hell, I might run me some extreme overkill on the Oregon Outback. Maybe come along and snort and sneer and laugh!
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>>>> Thanks.
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>>>> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:37:29 PM UTC-8, Fred Blasdel wrote:
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>>>>> I have some Hans Dampfs and they're extreme overkill on an rSogn especially in the PNWet — they're better suited to a 6" FS bike getting hucked in decomposing rock
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>>>>> You'd be much better off with Rocket Rons, not that you're going to be getting especially rad on retentionless quill pedals
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>>>>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Jeremy Keith Spencer <jeremy.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> Ready for some Pacific NW mud and exploration.
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You're the hater/troll/douche/elitist prick who started running his mouth off and actually wrote the phrases "you really have no idea who you're talking to" and that you're THE "very last person" I'd "want to get in a dickwaving contest with about where you've ridden a low trail bike." LOLz for days!!! Let me use a cliché real quick: "Who the FUCK do you think you are?"
And at the Outback, did you wave your insecure little dick at all the chump retards who didn't have their kit dialed just sooo, just like your sweet little Elephant? I bet you did, cuz you're That Guy, didn't you?
So... Who *am* I talking to? I'm really, really curious, Fred. Drop some science on me, bro. I wanna hear the legend!
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Jeremy Keith Spencer <jeremy.k...@gmail.com> wrote:You're the hater/troll/douche/elitist prick who started running his mouth off and actually wrote the phrases "you really have no idea who you're talking to" and that you're THE "very last person" I'd "want to get in a dickwaving contest with about where you've ridden a low trail bike." LOLz for days!!! Let me use a cliché real quick: "Who the FUCK do you think you are?"Well for starters I'm the list moderator who approved your first posts this afternoon, excepting the one where you made an unprompted and unsubstantiated jab at SOMA.
I'm also responsible for convincing Sean to spec the hourglass rack mounts you're using on the rSogn fork, though I wasn't able to get him to locate the pump peg correctly.
You blew up at me saying "you aren't riding this bike like I am" but I rode mine about 7000 miles before selling it including multiple cross-state dirt tours and a brevet series, but it didn't look nearly as clean as yours when I sold it to a friend. In total I've put nearly 25000 mixed-terrain miles on low-trail front-load 650b bikes, including a lot of bike camping, alpine singletrack, and 100% of my grocery shopping for 4 years (until I got my first cycletruck).
And at the Outback, did you wave your insecure little dick at all the chump retards who didn't have their kit dialed just sooo, just like your sweet little Elephant? I bet you did, cuz you're That Guy, didn't you?No most of that sass was from the people with the bikepacking/pukebacking/pushwacking gear themselves, mocking each other's soft bags swaying like truck nuts. The official joke of the Oregon Outback was "Can you toss me my seat bag? It's the black x-pac one!"I did make fun of Donnie in Shaniko when he was puzzled that nobody's racks had broken, though I did give him a beer first (I'd bought all the cold beer in town before the store closed so I could give handups)
So... Who *am* I talking to? I'm really, really curious, Fred. Drop some science on me, bro. I wanna hear the legend!For the legend you'll have to visit Seattle for a Point83 ride, or wade into the deep end at http://tarckbike.com
dick waggin aside, how are you going to go about breaking that brooks in?
also, i'm not clear, is that a new bike build or what?
looks great!!
one other question, why are those rack struts bent like that?