Almost got rid of this one. So glad I kept it.

I developed some nagging knee pain a few months ago after buying it. This bike wasn’t the cause of the issues but I considered selling it after several knee injection treatments didn’t help resolve the pain. I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and thought might riding days might be over and especially so for the kind of trail and gravel riding I was planning with this. Spent a year and a quarter off the bike before resolving the issues with physical therapy.

Last spring, I regained my ability to ride this and my other bikes and enjoyed plenty of great rides over the past 7 months.

My only regret of the year is not getting in a weekend of bikepacking on it. Thought I’d share some photos of it in a few different setups.