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Epic rides

6/29/2015

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Kidical Mass held its first "Epic" ride yesterday: a 13 mile roundtrip from one park to another, mostly traveling along the Sacramento River Parkway. The Sacramento River Parkway is beautiful but less continuous than the ARP and it's much less intuitive because of the "private property" sections and detours. Still, it's carfree and passes along the levee with a great view of the river and going to through the park detour offers a shady route dotted with playgrounds.

Big Brother rode the entire route, plus the sections to and from our house with an added stop at Nama and Gampa's for ice cream, a 24 mile day! He was thrilled that this was the second longest day he's had so far. Little Brother happily rode on Smurfette's deck because HaD #2 is getting an oil change for the Alfine 11 hub and to replace the crankarms we stripped out. The only downside to Smurfette is that we don't have any wrap around bars for it so LB had to hold on the whole time, including a touchy time about a mile from home when he fell asleep and I had to hold him up as best as I could while still riding.

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A small group of hardy riders!
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Sneaky shot of the Beavertail version 2 by John Lucas
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Little Brother successfully testing out the Beinn Small... I don't think the CNOC is going to last as long as we had planned. The main issue with the 16" bike is the small chainwheel which causes him to spin out after reaching a reasonable pace. We'll be searching CL for an illusive Small now.
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Proud of this biking monster!
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Kiddo didn't wake up very happily but recovered quickly.

This afternoon, I decided to pick up Big Brother from his day camp with the Bike Fioday Tandem for it's first test run with a passenger. My friend Neil had fixed the broken spoke and I was able to get the wheel back on. We're still needing to get the cable splitter for the drumbrake but since Sacramento is so flat, it's not really necessary around here. The ride was a success! Even without a stoker, it still rode smoothly and comfortably. With the kiddo on back was a bit wobblier but that's mostly because we don't have crankarm shorteners to make it easier for him to reach the pedal. When he was helping, I could really feel the added speed.

We have some work still to do for the bike: new bottom bracket, drumbrake cable, bar tape, pedals (plus toe cages for the small stokers), a new saddle, and a few minor adjustments but I'm pretty excited about this new addition to our fleet.

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Kath Youell link
6/29/2015 02:15:01 pm

He looks thrilled with the tandem. That's so awesome.

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Markphilips
7/2/2015 05:20:41 am

Adding a banana seat to an Electra Mini-rod enable my son to ride it for several years when he was 6 thru 11 years old. The banana seat was set to its lowest setting; and the sissy bar had 4 holes to adjust seat height. It is not a new idea and it was a great solution to growth spurts. The inspiration came from vintage Schwinn stingrays.
https://flic.kr/p/dxUc8j

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Markphilips @velograteful
7/2/2015 05:44:53 am

The Bike Friday tandem with the telescoping seat posts is probably the one of the best bikes we ever had. It gave me peace of mind especially when on group rides. When my step-son started riding the tandem, we had the stoker seat post all the way down. To make that happen the seat post/saddle length was cut short to reach the shortest setting possible. Fortunately, we didn't have to use tandem kids crank arm shortener.

Here is a photo of me and my stepson at a Bike Picnic in San Diego https://flic.kr/p/abpFP5

Adding a custom e-assist to the Bike Friday Tandem Traveler XL enabled us to climb steep hills when we lived in Carlsbad,CA. Here is the link to the photo: https://flic.kr/p/d6MFtd

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