Acorn handlebar bag<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Forest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
So how does this new bicycle work as a whole? Does it live up to the mystical qualities championed by the BQ faithful? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In short, this bicycle has exceeded my expectations for how a bike should feel and handle. Cornering and descending are on a different level compared to any other road bike I’ve ridden. The bike is stable, comfortable, practical, and ready for a good time no matter the surface under its shoes. As someone who will probably never ride a randonneuring event, I now believe that the qualities that make this bike great for long distance riding also make it great for shorter day rides, for commuting, for a quick trip to get some groceries, for a lightweight tour, and for anything else you’d ever ask a road bike to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heine has done an excellent job at redefining how a road bike should ride. I consider myself fully converted to the faith. Now the only thing left to do is choose a paint color. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Under the heavy spell of Jan Heine and his magazine Bicycle Quarterly, I decided to build myself a randonneuring bicycle with help from Dave Bohm in Arizona. The previous several posts described the framebuilding process with Dave. But I’ve yet to include any glamor shots of the bike built up, and more importantly because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}