The Fats Of The Land

Properly it snowed closely right here yesterday because it did just about in all places else which implies it’s going to be fairly tough to journey for awhile AND NO I’M NOT GETTING A GODDAMN FAT BIKE…as tempting as a few of these cutting-edge new fashions could also be:

Sure, I understand a few of you tundra-dwellers love your fats bikes and get good use out of them, however I’m not getting one for the handful of days a yr it’s too snowy to journey right here in New York, and I’d quite have fourteen barely completely different highway bikes to select from the remainder of the yr as a substitute. (Reality: you’ll be able to match six (6) highway bikes within the house it takes to retailer one (1) fats bike.)

And no, THE JONES IS NOT A FAT BIKE:

Technically, it’s a “plus” bike–although I did use its plus-size predecessor, the Marin Pine Mountain, in New York Metropolis’s first-ever fats bike race approach again in 2016, in Cunningham Park, Queens:

Alas, I can’t discover the associated put up in my archives, which is a disgrace as a result of I’ve just about no recollection of the race. I do appear to keep in mind that the race had already been postponed as soon as–as a consequence of a snowstorm, satirically–and that I used to be barely in a position to negotiate the course on the Pine Mountain. I additionally keep in mind that that they had some demo fats bikes on the race and that I attempted one out, and regardless that it labored a lot better within the snow than the Pine Mountain I’M STILL NOT GETTING A FAT BIKE.

Additionally, I’m approach too busy in my ongoing quest to find The Spirit of Gravel:

Within the days earlier than this most up-to-date snowstorm, whereas everybody else was working round doing silly stuff like “shopping for groceries” and “different issues you could survive,” I used to be squeezing in some last-minute driving. Particularly, having beforehand in contrast the PRJCT GRVL bike to the Jones, I now endeavored to juxtapose it with the Roadini:

As its title would recommend, the Roadini is a greater highway bike than the PRJCT GRVL bike, although having ridden in with gravel tires (or GRVL TRS within the correct Gravelese) I do know that it is usually Fairly Gravelable:

Nevertheless, I wouldn’t be tempted to detour onto the forbidding Trails Behind the Mall on it like I used to be on the PRJCT GRVL bike–which in flip will not be practically as off-roadable because the Jones–from which I conclude that I might simply make do with solely the Roadini and the Jones for my graveling wants (GRVLNG NDS), although the PRJCT GRVL bike additionally occupies an interesting center floor between the Roadini and the Jones, although that’s not even addressing the opposite bikes I personal that may additionally successfully traverse that very same center floor, which ought to most likely lead me to the last word conclusion that I’ve way more bikes than I want, although as a substitute I select to dwell in denial and as a substitute faux I’m exercising restraint by declaring that I’M NOT GETTING A FAT BIKE:

I’m not, both.

Talking of the PRJCT GRVL bike, regardless that I wasn’t out there for a broccoli bike within the first place, and regardless that I now have one anyway, I nonetheless discover myself gravel bike window buying:

And within the strategy of doing so I stumbled upon this:

I’ve by no means had a Lynskey, I’ve no relationship with Lynskey, and I’m not telling you purchase a Lynskey. Nonetheless, holy crap. That’s solely a bit greater than the PRJCT GRVL bike within the singlespeed trim:

Plus it has exterior cable routing!

What am I lacking?