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 [1]-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 [2] 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 [3]…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 [4] as well…now gotta figure out what crank to stick on there…
-g