Monday, February 27, 2012

90 Silver Comet miles on the Surly Saturday. Pretty good pace for that boat anchor. 5:15 rolling, 5:45 elapsed.





Thursday, February 23, 2012

Dawn ride at Ft Jax. A fine way to start the day. 19 miles/1:06 ride time. 336 total on the fix.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

~31 miles on the Allez today -- first ride of the year on that bike. No issues with the new crank, but the saddle seems to have tilted backwards for some weird reason although I haven't touched it. Huh.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Spent the weekend at Shrimper and Noelle's in NC. Skied Cataloochee Saturday with Tom (warm, crowded, expensive) and hiked the back 40 on Sunday before heading home. Nice.







Friday, February 17, 2012

First ride in 10 days. Ugh. Wonder how long since that's happened? 19.22 miles on the Fix. Pressed for time. Short beer ride in 1:04 rolling, 1:09 elapsed.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

~25 miles tonight. Started out having my path crossed by a black cat, but it got canceled out later by having my path crossed by a fox. Good thing because right after that I pulled a foot out of the pedal on a power stroke. Good fun on a fixie.



296 miles ytd on the fix.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

A lovely paddle with Holle yesterday at Lake Murray. From the Rocky Point landing towards Dreher Island SP, stopping at a small island in between for a picnic. Many loons on the lake. A pleasant surprise.




http://lakemurrayfun.com/ramps.shtml

Friday, February 3, 2012

31 miles tonight on the Trek in lower Lexington. Also, lots of bike maintenance things went on this week. Swapped the bar and stem from the Allez to the Trek since the deep drop Cinelli I was running before never made me happy and the stem, though lovely (also Cinelli), made me nervous. So I bought a new bar and stem for the Allez, which will make it very similar in set up to the Trek, but maybe with longer drops for my hands (which I don't like on the Trek bars). Also got an Ultegra compact crank for the Allez from Tim at Summit. $400. Ouch. External bearings and the works. A brave new world, and probably worth every penny. Finally, put an Avid mech on the back of the Voodoo to match the one on the front, and swapped my old Speed V for the Bontrager saddle I won at Baker's Dozen. We'll see how my butt feels on it.

Oh, and a new chain for the 48t chainring on the Trek. I put the 48 on a couple of weeks ago, replacing the 45t (and chain) that has been on there for a couple of years now. Current gear is a 48x18, which feels pretty good.

Another Oh. Ordered a new seatpost for the Trek from Cycle Center. The 30+ year old Nuevo Record has been making my sphincter pucker every time I get spinny and bouncy.



Wednesday, February 1, 2012

35 mile jaunt last night. Lovely.

Out before it got dark.



A pretty nice sunset.



And an old friend.



Fricking blogger sucks for lining things up. Have to work on that.

240 on the Trek
19 on the Voodoo
50 on the Surly