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February 23, 2008 at 10:23 pm | In Pedaling | Leave a Comment
Tags: Song

This guy had some good things to say about the 29er Song Brendan brought out to the 24HOP last weekend. I’m glad he took some photos because it seems as though neither Brendan or I did, go figure?

This shot shows off the great detail that went into the production version of the flex plate.

Here is the proto version I’ve been beating on for the past few months.

with version 1.2 flex plate

The latest and greatest offers mucho tire clearance for even the biggest of 29er tires.

In the time I’ve spent on the song, I’ve noticed that the “suspension” does a great job of knocking he edge off of rolling fast stuff and really helps out to plant the rear wheel on technical climbing enhancing traction. I’ve never noticed a bottoming of the travel and can definitely tell that this is neither a hardtail nor a full squisher, which I like. I can see this being a great bike for rides of epic proportions. The proof is in fact in the puddin’ if you notice that Mary took all but 1 of her 13 laps last weekend at the 24HOP, opting for the song over her lighter (20ish pounds) Fifty Five hardtail.

TMP

February 11, 2008 at 1:23 pm | In Pedaling | 4 Comments
Tags: Krein, Song, TMP

It is almost mid February, the sun is shining, the skies are blue and we are topping off around the mid 70’s, fancy that. My weekly routine has switched off from morning bike rides in favor of running with the dogs before my daily 8am class. Immediately after class I’ve been getting in to work on the thesis (update soon) and somehow school has been consuming me until sometime between 6 and 8pm. Saturday was irresistible and I got out to TMP with Sadcow. Pretty standard stuff, moving quick and jamming hard when someone decided to head up John Krein trail from the East side? Anythings worth trying once right? A very small percent of this trail from the East is anything but hike-a-bike, even going down this thing only tricks you into thinking you are in any way controlling your bike. Nonetheless, it was interesting and I don’t see myself going up this way again. We did find a great rock face/ledge that looks off expansively to the south and west though. I am also proud to say I cleaned the ride down the West side of the trail. The trails are in great shape from all the moisture we’ve had and should make for great conditions at the 24HOP next weekend.

pics.