A few weeks in the past, I took the AMP Analysis B-3 to Cunningham Park in Queens, just for drivetrain issues to place a untimely finish to my journey. I’ve since solved these issues, so on Friday I returned to complete what I began:
Right here is a photograph of the bike subsequent to a leap from which I didn’t launch myself:
There’s a number of that kind of factor at Cunningham:
And each time I come again it looks as if they’ve added extra, although I’m by no means certain if the ever-expanding mounds of filth are for stunting functions or as a result of somebody wanted to cover a physique:
I believe that in quite a lot of instances it’s each.
Then there’s this part, which has been there for years, although I’ve by no means seen anyone on it:
Perhaps I’ve acquired all of it mistaken they usually’re excavating the stays of a misplaced civilization. Or maybe it’s the work of mound-building termites:
Regardless of the case could also be, I steer away from all that stuff and as a substitute hunt down the singletrack, of which there’s additionally a lot:
In addition to a full-on street bike I don’t suppose there’s any kind of motorcycle on which you’ll fail to have enjoyable at Cunningham, however you’d be particularly hard-pressed to not get pleasure from your self on a racy Nineties mountain bike with 26-inch wheels:
Actually, my solely grievance was that the big chainring–which I didn’t shift onto even as soon as–hit just about each single log crossing:
If one have been optimizing this bike for this a part of the world one would merely substitute it with a bashguard.
Aside from that the bike was entertaining and playful, and I occur to actually like these pedals, which have simply the correct quantity of concavity*:
*[Pretty sure they have to have a concavity now that the Pope just died.]
Clipless pedals would additionally go well with the bike and in addition perhaps mitigate the aforementioned chainring strikes by making it simpler to raise the wheels or leap over stuff, however for the time being I’m having fun with the flexibility to hop on the bike whereas carrying sneakers and scamper into wooded areas much more gratifying:
Queens actually is a wonderland.
