bobmd

Great write up Vernon. I've owned all 3 iterations of the Tallboy. Totally agree with your take on this one. One issue that has come up for me is on my longer climbing days that I have easily completed on the other Tallboys, I am having a lot more thigh muscle fatigue on the TB3. I used to be the strong climber of my group, and now I'm mortal again. I switched from the TB2 mid-season last year, and all other things about me were unchanged. Weights of the bikes were pretty close. I had a 2 degree slackening headset on myTB2 so the HT angle is within 0.5 degrees. Only thing I can think of is I am running a 130 fork now, whereas it was a 120 with my previous TBs. Would that be enough to cause this? Or am I just getting old and slow? Thanks in advance!

i've been to nepal as a trekker. no question it's a special place with rich culture, simple folk. this video was done very well. something though rubs me the wrong way about the idea of bringing in a whole crew to film someone riding a bike that is worth most of the villager's annual incomes, and then some. just another display of western money happening here. something about bombing "trails" that are native people's walking paths doesn't sit right with me.