Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
An "adventure" bike is something like a Swiss Army Knife. That knife will cut things, open a bottle, even pull out a splinter. Not as well as a good knife, bottle opener, and tweezers, though. So it goes with your Marin. It can go a lot of places, and do a lot of things, but it's never gonna go up and down a staircase or bunny-hop logs like an FS mountain bike.
Not like a full suspension, but it should be able to do it to some extent once I learn how.
Originally Posted by
GrainBrain
I was practicing wheelies. I got a few good ones, got one for 4 pedal strokes. Then I was feeling overly confident and fell backwards on the next attempt. I haven't gotten the hang of grabbing my rear brake to save it yet.