The archives here at
rockychrysler.com never lie. A quick glance at them and you'll see: I haven't written a
Just about a bike blog post about any of my bikes since July 2016. That's kind of a shame. Honestly, it is. Because I still have a few fun
bikes that I haven't told you about yet.
I'll admit, there was a period of time there, beginning around fall of 2016, where I had very little to say about anything here on the old blog-space. For lots of reasons. So I mostly didn't. I put up a scant 20 posts from 2016 through 2020. Truth is, it has been quite a while since I really felt inspired to sit down and write... So I am quite pleased to report that the mood to write has resurfaced somewhat, and that a few ideas have popped into my head of late.
We'll start with something simple: my "new" bike, a first-generation 2017 Specialized Fuse Expert 6Fattie hardtail.
Really, it's called a 6Fattie? Yep. An unfortunate marketing misstep, calling a bike, even a mid-fat (or anything other than an ample blunt), a 6Fattie, isn't it? I think so (and I'm pretty sure Specialized came to think so eventually, too. They dropped the word "fattie" for the second generation bikes). I've always assumed it's intended as a riff, a kind of
portmanteau in fact, on the bike's stock wheel/tire size: 6
50b hoops, 40mm rims, and 3.0" tubeless mid-
fat tires, which is, for sure, a bit on the portly side of things... right where I always like my wheels and tires to be! And it's really for the best not to hold its somewhat unfortunate moniker against it, 'cause, in a nutshell, I'm here to tell ya, the Specialized Fuse 6Fattie rocks!
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