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No Storm Bret here, but it´s been sunny, muddy, icy, and chilly as well, as I was chasing the sun until I found the snow up in the mountain behind the city... So when my toes were solid frozen, I returned back home. Almost 24 km , with 910 m alt and 1:45 hrs. Cheers.

...that even might be required! Check the manual. 😉

Here´s another contribution from Eastern Europe. Bulgarian "Balkan" Folding Chopper Style from the early ´70s... Nickname: "Balkantche". hey were actually sold as a Chopper version, with 20" rear wheel and 18" front wheel. I found it in a Gipsy settlement around Cherven Bryag and bought it for...

That´s a huge frame. :LOL: even the seller himself states: "The biggest 26" wheel mountain bike I have ever seen!"

Having seen Lenin and Karl Marx here, i just could not resist showing our local copycat: Ex-Yugoslavia Communist Leader Tito ..and at the same trip another local hero, this time from more ancient times: Alexander the Great (in my part of the world also known as Aleksandar Makedonski)...

the bike is winterized, but winter´s not coming yet ...

Impressive! So are we just waiting for 46" to become the next thing?

Would you post to Croatia? Obviously for a bit more?

Catching autumn colors in the countryside on the roadbikes with Mrs. oligali. 3 hours of pure Zen.

Somebody might have needed a helping hand…

there are some trees in the background...

I´m in. Literally. Obviously only sock-deep, but couldn´t get around it...

Actually, it´s yesterday´s ride 🤦‍♂️ As our local MTB club is celebrating 30 yrs, they´re organizing a little fun xc-race with a devoted 26" category. So the wifey and I took out our old crappy survivor 26-ers and did a little test ride in and around the local woods... About 2 hrs of fun...

A quick ride around the neighborhood doing 27km and 700 m alt in 1h 25 min.

here you go...

...and here´s the current gravel bike: Cannondale F3000 SL (disc only) with 27,5 (conti race kings 2,0 fit just about up front, the back is good for bigger rubber), full xtr 3x9, MT-8000 brakes w chinese carbon copy (in carbon) of surly corner bar. Headshock´s 75 mm of travel are working almost...

A ´92 Tange Prestige Stumpjumper comp with 27,5" wheels and chinese V-brakes working (more-or-less) with Tiagra 3x9 brifters and shimano xt/xtr mechs... not light nor pretty but very comfortable and, being even more important, enjoyable to ride. now it´s delegated to cafe racer duties, and a...

Almost caught the sunset yesterday on the mountain above the city in just over 2hrs, with 32,5 km of gravel and 920 m alt...

early evening yesterday over the city: 16km, 1:20h and 550 m alt in the woods:

it´s brand-new and the road is one-directional leading up the eastern part of the mountain and then another one-directional strip of same quality tarmac down the mountain a bit more to the west again. pure pleasure 😍