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platypus
Observations from today’s ride up Lea Valley canal. 1st ride on an mtb for 25 yrs!
Single speed is fun
Suspension had come a long way, my last set of forks were mk1 Pace. I discovered halfway through the ride I can lock them out
Cannot jump, at all
Manuals, can’t do them either
Bars are really wide
It’s really nice not encountering any cars for a whole ride (I bought an mtb off the back of Lance Armstrong saying this on one of his TDF podcasts, if you’d said a couple of years ago I’d be taking his advice...)
Basically I can’t ride mtb for shit but had fun!