The Proper New England 3 Bike Wardrobe - According to Angry

[rice rocket]

Originally Posted by November Dave

You all have some beauty bikes and are much better at picture taking than I am.

My fleet:
1. Gravel/road bike. Crux w/2 sets of wheels. Rides perfectly as a road bike, capable well beyond my desires to ride drop bars on singletrack etc.

2. Hardtail MTB. A bit squeezed for use case between bikes 1 and 3, but it's fun for ripping around green and blue trails and when I want to focus more on breathing hard and going fast on the climbs than jumping and screaming wheeee on the descents. Built with leftover parts from an old bike plus a generic frame.

3. All Mountain MTB. Ibis Ripmo AF. It's simply amazing how capable this bike is. Nothing beats it for enduro type of rides, it's great on both flow and tech trails, and it's a stellar park bike. The only real weakness is it kind of stinks to ride on road, so there are places I'll gladly ride the hardtail to that I drive to if I'll ride the Ibis.

I like your list, this is how my stable is evolving as well.

I don't have much opportunity to do park rides around here, so I'm more regularly on a 140/120 XC "downcountry" bike, with a quicker handling XC hardtail to bridge the gap on chunky gravel.

And since my gravel bike is pretty much full race bike nowadays, I've added more road components (narrower bars mostly), and acquired some new hoops for my local shop to build up for 30mm tires. Means my rim brake road bike will probably collect dust now, but I can't continue to ignore how much better discs are, and it had a good 13 year run.

[Likes2ridefar]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

JUST when I thought I had it all figured out, it occurs to me that I might need a Loose-Gravel bike.

650b! I’ve ridden 2.25” g one all around on surfaces like that and they floated over most of it like it’s not there…lovely ride around 20psi for me.

[November Dave]

Originally Posted by rice rocket

I like your list, this is how my stable is evolving as well.

I don't have much opportunity to do park rides around here, so I'm more regularly on a 140/120 XC "downcountry" bike, with a quicker handling XC hardtail to bridge the gap on chunky gravel.

And since my gravel bike is pretty much full race bike nowadays, I've added more road components (narrower bars mostly), and acquired some new hoops for my local shop to build up for 30mm tires. Means my rim brake road bike will probably collect dust now, but I can't continue to ignore how much better discs are, and it had a good 13 year run.

I bet your downcountry bike is a hoot, and I honestly don't even notice the handling difference between 32 and 40mm tires on the gravel bike. Enjoy!

[Alexi]

New England Bikes:

Garbage weather:



Less garbage weather:



Garbagiest of weather:

[bikerambler]

Salsa Fargo Ti for gravel, single track and winter riding.
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My Clockwork Do-it-All, errands, gravel, cc touring.
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Clockwork Touring, camping or cc tours
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[shinomaster]

I just got back from Boston and we went up to Maine, Portland actually, so now I've been to both. New England is so beautiful this time of year. People out west don't realize how green and lush NY and New Jersey are, it's a greener place than Oregon for sure which is mostly high desert and mountains. I would like to get to Jersey especially to eat Pizza and do some gravel riding.

[gbcoupe]

Originally Posted by bikerambler

Salsa Fargo Ti for gravel, single track and winter riding.
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My Clockwork Do-it-All, errands, gravel, cc touring.
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Clockwork Touring, camping or cc tours
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Damn, I thought my Salsa Primero had a steep sloped top tube!

[erolorhun]

Originally Posted by rice rocket

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