Archive for August, 2008

CX training begins in earnest…

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

No more dilly-dalling around anymore:

A month away from first race. SLC-SL is getting a new fork to sit on the rack for the winter!
-g

Here’s a little motivation…

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The guys doing back 70 years ago on a 3 speed freewheel…

-g

CX bike built for ‘08

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

I keep tweaking it and making it better every year.
This years tweaks are pretty big…First, moved to 10s.  Found out that a simple cassette body swap and my old wheels are new.  $60/wheel and all is good.
Second was a trick from Zank:
So here she is:

-g

A place for open discussions…

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I used to frequent several others sites that had web boards for discussion.
Some of them have become places of censorship. Others have a poor signal to noise ratio.
I thought I could host my own.
I won’t censor the topics. I won’t prevent you or block you from posting. I won’t pay for it with ads.
Just a [...]

Catching up…

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Well, I have been spending the week catching up from our WI trip.
I look the winter/travel bike with me and got some good rides in WI. I took my edge as well and for the first time got to see how hilly or not WI was. In many ways, it is like TX. Lots of [...]

@home

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Glad to be back…
Ride report(so), maps and data to follow.
Gotta get caught up @ home first.
-gds