Welcome to Louis (Lou) Dawson's backcountry skiing information & opinion website. Lou's passion for the past 50 years has been alpinism, climbing, mountaineering and skiing -- along with all manner of outdoor recreation. He has authored numerous books and articles about
ski touring and is well known as the first person to ski down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, otherwise known as the
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Now what are you on?
duh…I figured it out when I clicked on “read more”.
Yeah, I was trying to keep from forcing the other posts down too fast. Need to go to a two column format under the lead post. That’ll happen someday (grin).
So we’ll be seeing you with Lance at Leadville next year, I presume?
that bike looks familiar- did I sell you that in Crested Butte in another lifetime?
btw- really enjoy your blog- keep up the good work!
You should keep the Klein and turn it into a singlespeed for ripping around town–great workout too. Just need a Singleator ($40) and maybe some fenders. That way you get to take parts off to save weight…and we all know how much you like that!
Steve, come to think of it, I think you did! It might have been just the frameset…
How much do you think frame 90 is worth in the collector market?
Don’t forget to take those reflectors off the Trek before they fall off on a trail, and before the wilderness people blame mountain bikers for trashing the land!
Tuck, Lance was coaching me but couldn’t figure out how to deal with my mutant V02 max. He had to refer me to a scientist who specialized in extraterrestrial life forms that exist in low oxygen environments. (I might as well dream). :angel:
Gumby move, leaving the reflectors on! But, I was thinking they were good for tooling around Moab in the dark.
nice klein, too bad it doesn’t still have the yellow mountain klein stickers!
It has a sticker. That was the first year, and it was just a funky sticker you can see in the photo on the front of the seat tube.
Nice bikes. Bet that Klein is a collectible. Now, go build a jump for the Trek.
Lou, are you running clipless pedals? As with Dynafits, once you use ’em, it’s really hard to use anything else.
I’ve been doing shorter rides, trying to pick stuff that’s more technical but not too rough… so using athletic shoes and regular pedals without clips seems to be a nice way to go. I used toe clips for years on both mountain bikes and road bikes, so I miss ’em sometimes. But I love the mellow aspect of just having a regular shoe on.
Lou you can have it both waysif you go SPD they have a pedal that is platform on one side/clippless on the other. It’s a road pedal but I don’t think that would matter.
Thanks for the advice Ken. If I start doing bigger rides I’ll get some bike shoes and go clipless. For now I like the versatility and low-tech approach of just using my running shoes.
Upss, nice history 🙂 I have Schwinn PDG-50 equipped with Deore XT from 1993. Still working with exchanged “consumables” as chain, etc. By the way, after 16 years of using this Schwinn I bought this September new MTB with carbon frame and Deore XT. It is incomparable…