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> I’m still chasing that feeling on the bike. I don’t get quite as zen on the bike. I hate to reduce your post to tech talk. But, what bike are your riding? I

• redelbee 6y ago
  The bike I ride depends on the day and why I’m riding. I’ve collected a few bikes over the years. I have an old steel cross bike transformed into a grocery getter that’s outfitted with wide slick tires, a rear rack, and pannier bags that I use when I need to haul stuff around. I have a gravel bike with disc brakes, wide knobby tires, and a slightly more relaxed geometry for riding/exploring on gravel/dirt or rougher paved roads. I have a carbon “race” bike with deep section wheels and a pretty aggressive geometry for going fast on paved roads. I sometimes get close to the “zen” feeling that I got when running ultra distances but it goes away pretty quickly when I’m doing anything but going in a straight line on flat roads with no traffic. As you can imagine this doesn’t happen often. Contrast that with trail running (most of what I did for ultras) where I was just rambling along in nature. It was much easier to look inward when running on the trails.
• vladvasiliu 6y ago
  Hm, I'd say the environment can matter quite a lot. My own bike is a carbon "race" bike with 21mm tyres and yet I'm sure I get in that "zen" zone practically every time I ride it. I ride it exclusively in the countryside, on mostly secondary roads. I sometimes ride a bike with fatter tyres in the city and I never get in that zen state. Probably because I have to stay very alert, even when riding on bike paths separate from the street.