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Jan022010
Night Before Excrutiation Exam
Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 3:42AM Here's a quick vid about putting everything together before an epic 85 mile mountain bike race.
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Reader Comments (5)
Hope you rocked the 85miles and had a blast. Set up looked sweet, but no clipless?? Crank-Brotehrs Egg-Beater pedals or their Candy pedals are a great options giving you easy clip and unclip, no clogging in mud and giving plenty of float and stability. I actually run Crank Brothers on all my bikes (29er, Cross, Road/Tri and Fixie/SS). Look forward to hearing of ongoing trail adventures. Keep Rising.
yeah lets hear about the pedal choice, since I have seen you rock rock the clipless pedals in the single track I know it was not a beginner thing but a choice, would be interesting to hear your thoughts on that. I could not imagine going that far on flats. hope the race was fun
Right on. I used to ride clipless and moved to flats on purpse. And as Drew said, I am very happy with them and can ride quite fast. Funny thing, when I moved to road biking, I took my eggbeaters with me and ride eggbeaters on all my road bikes.
But Drew's observation was right. About halfway through this thing, I was wishing for clipless. The race took so long (8.5 hours) and lots was on open road, clipless would have been a better move.
I might move back to clipless because I observed that I didn't "dab" anywhere as much as I used to. But I did run into a well-respected mountain biker recently who switched to flat pedals himself because he was faster with them. I think it's more of a course type and distance factor than anything else.
So, you're both right!
Can't say I've ever ridden platforms, most of my racing has been 8hrs to 24hrs, where clippless allows me to make the most of the entire pedal stroke. For the really long distnce punishment, I've also put a set of ROTOR rings on my 29er and Road/Tri bike to avoid the "dead zones" in the pedal stroke - I fully admit though that during "sprints" or "high cadence" the ROTORS suck. But for the grind they're awesome.
I agree. I'm just getting back into mountain biking and never did endurance mountain biking in the first place. A lot has changed since the mid-90s and I'm trying to adapt as fast as possible and apply my knowledge from Ironman endurance training.
I've got a lot of catching up to do!
This race kicked my ass, but I loved doing something totally different and the ADVENTURE of epic mountain biking is awesome. There were many times where I wished I could just leave the bike and RUN. LOL.