Distance on a 24"?

Eroick said:

I have a 24" Torker DX. The Ottawa Tour Nortel is comming up. The
shortest distance is a 12km bike/rollerblade. Think that 12km is doable
on a 24" muni in a few hours? Anyone in Ottawa want to lend me a 29er
😉 ? I guess I would have to talk to the organisers to ask if it was
alright, but they will probably say yes. The terrain will mostly be
road, probably with a little bit of gravel.

What do you think?

That is definitely doable, go for it.

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I know I could easily to 12 km on my 24" in a few hours, almost
certainly in less than two. You shouldn't have any problems as far as I
can see.

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your talking a hr really, as i can do that easy less than 2 on a 20"

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Eroick said:

I have a 24" Torker DX. The Ottawa Tour Nortel is comming up. The
shortest distance is a 12km bike/rollerblade. Think that 12km is doable
on a 24" muni in a few hours? Anyone in Ottawa want to lend me a 29er
😉 ? I guess I would have to talk to the organisers to ask if it was
alright, but they will probably say yes. The terrain will mostly be
road, probably with a little bit of gravel.

What do you think?

its doable with great hydration i did 20 miles on that same kind of uni
and i was sore

but yes go for it its doable

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now dont quote me but i think ntappin has a 29er he may lend you if hes
not gonna do the race.

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Sounds easily doable to me. Have fun! 🙂

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forget_your_life said:

not really,there were many more suppers since Jesus didnt acually die
but was taken down off the cross and smuggled over to Europe.

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Actualy I was hoping to do the race on my 29er, if I could find some
people to do it with, and if I can afford it.

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dorfman said:

its doable with great hydration i did 20 miles on that same kind of uni
and i was sore

but yes go for it its doable

hey dorfman, did u go to moab? if so did u go on the longest ride? if
thats u in ur avater then it looks like someone i saw at moab. He(maybe
u) had a torker dx also

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I did 8k last fall nonstop, didn't take that long... go for it!

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That sort of distance is easy on a 24. Might be a little harder if you
have great big long MUni cranks and a big fat squidgy Muni tyre, but it
should be easily doable in an hour or slightly more.

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musketman said:

hey dorfman, did u go to moab? if so did u go on the longest ride? if
thats u in ur avater then it looks like someone i saw at moab. He(maybe
u) had a torker dx also

nope i was hoping 2 but i couldnt.....i wonder who this guy is...i
always knew i was the evil twin

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For the benefit of American and British readers 12km is nearly 7.5
miles. I rode half a mile short of that distance today; I was so "not
tired" at the end of my 3.5 mile park ride that when I got to the
finish, I rode straight past my car and took a second lap.

I did about seven miles (or 11.2km) in 1 hour 20 minutes, twice the
distance of anything I've done previously. Amazingly I was still "not
tired" when I saw my car again, but due to other commitments I had no
time to take a third lap. Maybe next time...

Mikefule said:

Might be a little harder if you have great big long MUni cranks and a
big fat squidgy Muni tyre, but it should be easily doable in an hour or
slightly more.

On my Muni, the cranks are only 150mm and the tyre is only a 2.6" Kenda
Kinetics, so there are tiny optimisations to favour distance as opposed
to super technical terrain.

The only issue I had was on the finishing straight of the second lap, a
certain part of my body that a saddle is made for began to feel red
hot. I had to stand up for a bit...

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go for it, train though for sure

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Got some short cranks for it and you will be fine. I got a pair of 90mm
on my 24" Nimbus. For me that don´t have a coker, it feels really fast.

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Bah, I run a 24" muni with 165mm cranks, and it's not that bad. Of
course, Quebec rodes make it like muni anyways... 😉

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