29′er Build Update III
A real Nail Biter this one. Go Bruins. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } All the bits cleaned up after filing. Not... Read More
What could a guy who spent the daylight hours in a mortuary recommissioned as a bike shop who emerges after dark to enter the forest under the waxing moon possibly dress up as for Halloween (or) "I'm really digging how these grips dial my stance"
With a completely blank social calendar I celebrated the day of the dead in a fashion more proper for the kind of ghouls I’d seen others dressed up as then I’m entirely comfortable with. A busy week of work at the moving company forced me to shun the beautiful day outside to get cracking cutting tubes and forming up chain-stays for BBW #25 and relegated the riding... Read More
Monday Mayham (or) Maybe I'm not Racing Hard Enough Sunday
The 45 minutes I’ve been spending doing my best to hustle on cross courses on Sundays from NH-VT-and Back to MA seem to me to be an end to a means of motivating Monday rides that are much more a test of the bike and rider than anything the UCI or USAC would sanction. I’ve been dipping into fast trails that dance off to the sides of some of the popular road routes... Read More
The Pain of Success
The debilitating leg cramp that just coursed up my left hamstring and threatened to turn into the dreaded double by cramping the quadricepts or calf as well as I stretched it are as sure evidence as any that BBW #23 does indeed do its job as a fun woods riding bike. (And that I’d better start getting some more miles in before cyclocross season really heats up) I didn’t... Read More
Labor of Love
getting caffinated and carbohydrated to take a test ride on the personal off road frame that I just finally finished after over a month in the jig and the drawing board. I can’t wait to get some pics that actually show any of the features that I’ve been working so hard on like. Eccentric BB for riding geared, single or fixed without finagling with the disc brakes or... Read More
Ben, Jerry, and I scream rides (or) Imagine if the scene on the landspeeders in the redwood forest in the return of the jedi were filmed at night
And the scene continued for the entire running length of the film or a little short at 90 minutes. oh yeah and you are on the old model landspeeder following two dudes with the 6″ suspension model and you have what I experienced this evening, and no EWoks or overwrought political drama passed off as SCi Fi. LEDs & Batteries are good enough to allow riding trails at the... Read More
Risky Behavior no Longer an Invitation to Financial Ruin
I just signed & delivered the paperwork to grant me some Health Insurance for the first time in a year so I no longer have any excuses for not attempting the truly difficult sections when I am trail riding. It is pretty sad that until today an accident on the road would have put me into serious financial trouble or force me to live with an injury as I did coping with a blown... Read More
The Face of Illegal Trail Riding in the Fells
I attended the Red Bones Bike Benefit whatever thing on Monday and picked up a flyer from the good folks at NEMBA urging participation in a new campaign to gain some more MTB access to all the fun, currently illegal singletrack that the “Friends of the Fells” would prefer to reserve for unleashed dogs and Casual Encounters. Scrutinizing the flier I couldn’t help... Read More
