I felt like getting out for a ride today, but didn't want to exactly burn up the legs. I decided to plug in the eFatty for an hour or so, then take a power-assisted ride 6.5 miles to the local trails, ride around un-powered for awhile, then ride back powered. It was a good time. The weather cooperated. It was lower 40s when I left in the morning and mid-lower 50s and sunny when I came back.
Just into the trails in the park. The sun didn't get much higher than this, which is one of the cool things about this time of year.
I took a turn to take a difficult loop. The terrain got lumpy, including the bridges over the swampy area
The difficult trail joins with a fire road. It's lumpy and kind of a high-friction surface. Slow going, on this unpowered eFatty. I've ridden it on my gravel bike before too. It's a lighter bike but the tires tend to sink into the terrain more.
There were a couple sections of the trail (even away from the lake) where they were deep sand. I needed power or hike-a-bike to get through the longer sections like this. The flatter/shorter sections like this, I could JUST power through in a low gear with only leg power applied.
We can see here Lake Michigan peeking out from between some bushes on a sandy trail
I explored every trail I could, but some were just impassable. Need a hedge clippers in here.
I picked up this Blackburn pump while on vacation awhile ago. This is the High Volume setting, where the middle tube telescopes out to get more volume per pump stroke. It was a LOT faster than my micro pumps I carry with my road & gravel bikes. I set them to 18 psi, turned on PAS1 and motored back home.
Ride stats
Just into the trails in the park. The sun didn't get much higher than this, which is one of the cool things about this time of year.
I took a turn to take a difficult loop. The terrain got lumpy, including the bridges over the swampy area
The difficult trail joins with a fire road. It's lumpy and kind of a high-friction surface. Slow going, on this unpowered eFatty. I've ridden it on my gravel bike before too. It's a lighter bike but the tires tend to sink into the terrain more.
There were a couple sections of the trail (even away from the lake) where they were deep sand. I needed power or hike-a-bike to get through the longer sections like this. The flatter/shorter sections like this, I could JUST power through in a low gear with only leg power applied.
We can see here Lake Michigan peeking out from between some bushes on a sandy trail
I explored every trail I could, but some were just impassable. Need a hedge clippers in here.
I picked up this Blackburn pump while on vacation awhile ago. This is the High Volume setting, where the middle tube telescopes out to get more volume per pump stroke. It was a LOT faster than my micro pumps I carry with my road & gravel bikes. I set them to 18 psi, turned on PAS1 and motored back home.
Ride stats
