Death awaits you all!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for all the feedback the other day on the bike media biz. I guess I shoulda got a degree in Public Relations instead of Art Education and Inebriation. I’ve never been good at asking for shit. I prefer working for it myself and never having to ask for help, although I enjoyed my stint with Ellsworth’s Team Twentyfour when someone else asked for shit and all I had to do was ride. I know how to ride.
Sorry to go back on a Viking tangent yesterday. I felt the need to spin a yarn.
So what now? I got my big fat Rampage 29′er tire from Mike C. the other day. I mounted one up on my Bontrager wheel (all I got for now) just to see how it would look. Not bad, but still dwarfed in width and height by my old 2.5 Diesel. What did I expect? Alright, here’s where I get half-assed. I weighed the wheels on my bathroom scale.
26″ Industry Nine wheel with a 819 rim, Conti 2.5 Diesel, 8″ rotor, bolt on QR, and some leftover Stan’s goop
4.8 pounds
29″ Bontrager wheel (Rig take-offs), Bonty QR, Rampage, 6″ rotor, and a 2.1-2.5 26″ tube
4.8 pounds
What did I prove? Take into consideration all the variables of my weigh-in on a shitty bathroom scale (the scale is shitty, not the bathroom), probably nothing. In my mind though I see that I can run one of the fattest 29′er tires and not even notice a weight change. When I get my I-9 wheels things will only get better. I mounted the wheel on my Dean just so I could peer over my “enhanced” front end, and it looks pretty monster-trucky. I want to run things over NOW.
“Beware world, for death awaits you all with big nasty round rubber things.”
