It has been a quite winter and instead of telling my opinions, how about we try talking about things I am doing. I bought a geared All City Nature Ace (Boy). For those of you who have history with All City line up, it is the progressively renamed Macho Man platform. My intent was was to take a Macho Man frame and make it a Nature Boy. This is the gist of the build concept. I wanted the rear-derailleur hanger option for future use. I handed over the ownership of my 54cm Santa Cruz to my girl friend. Then, I got the green light to acquire another gravel bike for myself. I debated on frames an availability. Then one day I placed a All-City Nature Ace SS frameset on order. The Local Bike Shop called me up in December and updated me on delivery and even said to cut my losses now as delivery pushed back to a unknown delivery date. With the unknown delivery I cut my losses and began searching for a frame....
Musings and ride announcements for Cedar Valley area.