Fresh Ground

What's brewing? Fresh Fox and Marzocchi. Smooth.

Highs and Lows

Highs: There are "lunch loop" trails within minutes of my shop! I had visions of fun Crits, group rides with kids from the shop, and pre and post work spins.

Lows: The local unsavories run the place at night. Based on my detective work, their dinner of choice is Mickey's and for dessert, they like to break the empty Mickey's bottles. Entertainment consists of watching geeks like me blow Stan's all over the place and walk back to the park entrance.

People Change, Bikes Change

My buddy and I converted his old hardtail to a singlespeed last weekend and he sent me this awesome pic from Sedona.

It got me thinking, bikes are like people.  They change.  Bikes can grow in the sense that things get added to them.  Dropper posts, upgraded wheels, forks, GPS, stickers, carbon stuff.  Bikes can go minimalist anti-stuff, like when they get converted to singlespeeds and get rigid forks.  They can become mini-vans with panniers and trailers to haul work stuff to work, kids to the park, or beer to parties.  One bike can go through all of these phases, be all of these things and still basically be the same bike.

Riding Vicariously

My time on dirt these days has been quite limited.  So instead of sharing my own, generally lame, trail stories, I'll share what my friends, who do mountain bike, send me for a while.

My buddies in Sedona. Rad.

Sucks Being a Soccer Fan...

I can relate to soccer fans now.  I naively thought that NBC or ESPN or someone might air the Cyclocross World Championships today.  That was a stupid thought.  I did, however find some soccer games being broadcasted.  Maybe in another decade or so cycling will make it to the big leagues on American TV.

Clarification

Are "Weekend Warriors" people who exclusively ride on the weekend or can it be people who commute during the week and ride trails on the weekend?  What about people who only mountain bike twice a week, but one day is during the weekend and the other is a week day?  What if a person only rides (dirt or road) twice a week, but one of those rides is always over four hours?