Hello! It's been a while between posts, but I am actually in Australia for work!
Everything here is about the same as it is in the States... funny accents, everyone is real friendly but beer isn't as good. So! On to some Australian bicycle stuff!
I was browsing the internets the other day, and an ad came up about a new Australian (fittingly) chainring company. This product is a singular chainring for running with a 1x9 or 1x10 system. This is an increasingly popular way to setting up a mountain bike, as a single front ring. What this company is doing is offering some of the less common numbers of teeth.
A couple of things that I'm not sure about, according to the website: lightweight and revolutionary. I don't thing that selling uncommon tooth number chainrings are revolutionary, unless you mean that they actually make revolutions. Second, lightweight, yeah, maybe without the dual chain guides. This prompted the following discussion:
Geoffrey: yeah...
i don't see this as a revolution.
i can say the same thing about a single speed
why use 9 gears
when you are riding you are only using that one. save
weight, get rid of the rest
me: haha good point
and you're often standing, why have a seat?
sometimes you're not riding at all, you're at work or
having sex. why even have a bike?
this becomes an existential conversation fast.
Geoffrey: haha!
me: i'm making this conversation a blog post
Geoffrey: make it happen!
me: which will be redundant since you're the only
person who reads my blog
Geoffrey: eh, its a good read
Well there you have it. What may be interesting is to see if this company caters to the SRAM XX1 system 1x11 drivetrain coming out soon...
The view from work
Everything here is about the same as it is in the States... funny accents, everyone is real friendly but beer isn't as good. So! On to some Australian bicycle stuff!
I was browsing the internets the other day, and an ad came up about a new Australian (fittingly) chainring company. This product is a singular chainring for running with a 1x9 or 1x10 system. This is an increasingly popular way to setting up a mountain bike, as a single front ring. What this company is doing is offering some of the less common numbers of teeth.
A couple of things that I'm not sure about, according to the website: lightweight and revolutionary. I don't thing that selling uncommon tooth number chainrings are revolutionary, unless you mean that they actually make revolutions. Second, lightweight, yeah, maybe without the dual chain guides. This prompted the following discussion:
Geoffrey: yeah...
i don't see this as a revolution.
i can say the same thing about a single speed
why use 9 gears
when you are riding you are only using that one. save
weight, get rid of the rest
me: haha good point
and you're often standing, why have a seat?
sometimes you're not riding at all, you're at work or
having sex. why even have a bike?
this becomes an existential conversation fast.
Geoffrey: haha!
me: i'm making this conversation a blog post
Geoffrey: make it happen!
me: which will be redundant since you're the only
person who reads my blog
Geoffrey: eh, its a good read
Well there you have it. What may be interesting is to see if this company caters to the SRAM XX1 system 1x11 drivetrain coming out soon...
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