Well after many years...

I move to the area of mountain biking in GR. Now I am minutes away from 3 trails. Well here we go.

Iceman 2008

Did my first Single Speed Iceman Cometh. It was fun and my family was with me..

I'm back

Well, sorry for the long respit. Just busy with life in general. I am buying a new Road Bike. It's going to be a Trek Madone 6.9 Pro.

Preparation for the BIG NM Bike Trip

Well as you can read from the header, I am going on bike trip in Taos, New Mexico with work. It is a 3 day event with the first day being a 84 miler and 2nd being a century. The 3rd day is most likely a century as well.

April 21, I went on my first long ride of the season, 80 miles. I felt great the first 55 miles until I noticed the dreaded bonk. I ate 2 bowls of cereal in the morning and ate maybe 2 packs of 2 granola bars. Hidration was water only. I hope to say that might have contributed to the bonk. I rode with members of the Team V group who are going with us on the trip. They tried to push me forward to keep me in line of the draft. I ended up being draft pulled by Jon Miner, great guy and co-worker for the remainder of the ride. I didn't feel dizzy or anything, just out of power. My system has not adjusted to the longer rides yet. Hopefully I can make all of the rides next week May 4-6.

I bought some Cytomax in grape and some cool gel stuff in a cool bottle that looks like I will taking a swig of whiskey while riding. I will try this and see.

Wishin the best for a great trip and kick starting my biking season.

The IF Single Speed if Finally Done!

We'll, it only took 5 months and now it is snowing. Anyway, here she is.

tried the singlespeed thing on a geared bike

At the game area, I tried setting the my geared Seven Sola for one gear ratio. 32 front and 17 rear. I actually did the trail in about the same time or faster. I am converting my IF steel deluxe into a single speeder. I had the frame powdercoated a while back and I am in the process of finishing off the addition of the most important part of the bike, the application of the IF stickers:). The frame looks good! I just have to place the last decal and the frame goes to Alger for Headset pressing and the assembly of the Single speed is a go. Can not wait! Oh! I enjoyed my first attempt at Single Speeding. Here is a picture of a IF steel deluxe in single speed format.

Trying out Single Speeding

Well I amtrying out singlespeeding. My friend, Joe, lent me some SS parts and I am converting the IF(Independent Fabrication) into a Single Speed. From what I have heard it is hard to pedal in one gear, but I will try it out for the sake of working harder or even liking it. Well we see and I hope that I won't kill myself.