Originally Posted by
thehammerdog
"I love the bike"... "It is fun and easy to ride"... "Am I alone in the 26 inch world of graveling"
If you are having fun riding the bike, enjoy the uniqueness of your rig! You may be a little slower than you would be on bigger wheels, but you there are probably people on most rides that you can hang with. There's plenty of new and used 26" wheels and tires out there if you look around. Same for canti brakes and pads.
There is at least one guy in south Georgia regularly riding gravel on an old 26er. I rode with him at the Sasquatch Ride in Flovilla, GA in November and will be attending the Wild Chicken 100 in Fitzgerald, GA that he is organizing.
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Benny Watson, on Flickr