Road season is upon me.
How can I tell? Tonight in an unplanned adventure, the CX bike, and three sets of wheels were stripped of cassettes (11-23, 11-25 and 11-25) and duly sent to the basement for the remainder of the season until September, that is.
Cassettes cleaned and one 11-25 found it’s way to the 202s. The 11-23 found it’s way to the 808s. And the other 11-25 made it’s way over to the training tubies.
Lori’s mtb (despite it’s perpetual hibernation) recieved my old xtr wheels that I decided not to sell. Maybe I can teach her to “ride light” but that would involve her getting ON the mtb again, and between you and me, I don’t see that happening.
The testing, adjustable SRM crankarms came off and the stock 172.5s are back on. Then that SRM got 53/38 rings and (after a bb swap and front der swap) found it’s way to the merlin. The merlin got a clean up and stripped of fenders, pciv mount etc and is now in true FLAHUTE-form.
The FSA SRM saw a deep clean and install on the SLC-SL after it got a clean. It was still covered in the snot, slop, sweat and blood from SanPete last year…
I tested all the zipp glue jobs and threw the 808s on the soloist and ran around the block on it…Wow. I forgot how that thing rolls. Effortless and fast. Maybe I WILL take it out for the first race next saturday. Unless it is raining…then it is Flahite bike all the way. It has 4 more weeks of duty until HOTN before it sees retirement for the season as well.
Stripped the ss of it’s wheels as well in anticipation of it’s new powermeter as well…now gotta figure out what crank to stick on there…
-g