Friday, April 27, 2007

Slowly coming along...

The Supercaliber is almost ready to rock, she's about 90% finished right now.Snipping cables and getting the ergomo up and running and swapping the saddle out are pretty much all thats left.Hopefully get that done this afternoon and have her ready for tomorrows ride.A little bitty weekend in store for her, a few back to back dirt road centuries should have her broken in pretty well. I think that will do the trick?



Pretty much running her stock, except swapped the wheels for some race x lites, the ergomo and a sweet set of polished chrome race face cranks. Those things are rocking and so pretty. Stay tuned for a full set of pics and the addition of her to my rides page...



Will be down in P-burgh to put all the miles in this weekend and will try to get everything up and posted bu Sunday night.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

MPH and the arrival of the Supercaliber

Gotta love MPH.; Mark, Suzanne, Casey and hell even the Fry guy himself made an appearance for the first time in a while. We hit the trails for a nice little night ride. Conditions were pretty much perfect, a little slick in muddy in a few spots from the thunderstorm the other night, but all in all it was great. We hammered it out for about 2 hours or so. The legs were actually feeling really good after Sunday's effort. I was ripping the paragon around the trails while Casey was riding it's twin brother the Rig. I think we mighta converted someone to 29ers ;)



Looking  forward to ripping it up down in Naples this afternoon.



On an awesome note the Supercaliber has finally arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope to get her built up Friday or Saturday and bust her cherry this weekend.Not sure If I'll be able to run the ergomo on her just yet as I need a good ISIS crank so might run the crank of the paragon so I can ebay the stock. But damn, I can't wait to ride that bad boy.



Well, I gotta get some work done so I can head out early and ride. Look for a nice long post after todays ride with some pics and recap

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Paris Ancaster

Well, the first effort of the season is down and out of the way.  Thank god, it was only a little over 2 hours.  That was painful for sure.  I was pretty happy with my performance in the first half of the race, but I cracked about 50-55 minutes in.  Just haven't been training for that type of power output.  My back started aching really bad and I began to not even be able to hold a single wheel at any point.  I under-estimated the water I would need and suffered pretty bad on that point also.  It was quite a bit warmer than I thought it was going to be so that didn't help.



All in all it was good to get out there and lay it down, even if it wasnt the result I was looking for.  There are always plenty of other events out there and second chances so we will see at the next one........

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Time to check the form

You know, I just had this whole post typed up and then lost it, wtf!?!

Paris Ancaster is coming up this weekend. A nice 60k with a mix of road and off-road. I'll get to test the form out in the first real race of the season. We'll see how that goes, as the first one usually hurts the most. Plus it will give me a good gauge on where I sit so far in my training. I'm still a long ways from top form, but in reality Hardcore 24 is only 8 weeks away. That seems alot sooner than I thought when I type it out.

The paragon will be handling the duties for this race. Set her up with a nice pair of skinnies and let her rip. Handled the course quite nicely last year, and besides have yet to receive the supercaliber.

Brandon, Casey and I will be embarking for this adventure so I'm sure we will have a good road trip and some funny stories.I'll be sure to bring the new camera along to capture everything the best that I can...

At least the weather is looking fairly decent for this coming weekend....

Friday, April 13, 2007

Michaux Video



Here you go world premier of my home movie!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Lessons learned

Sometimes life just hits you hard. Sometimes you have to take it, sometimes you get to fight back. After a pretty crappy week full of mishaps, grams in the hospital and other crap; I'm not gonna go down without a fight!



I was away for the week and got to hit up the trails at Michaux State Forest as I was down in Gettysburg for work. Weather was great, trails were super dry. The shop in Gettysburg hooked me up with a trail map.



Headed up the mountain and into the trail. Man was I having a blast, rolling around and hitting the dirt. Then the rocks came, damn it was super tech. Loads of fun and I was on my game. Never dabbed and cleaned every section. Hell yeah. I got a new digital camera so here are some pics!



If I can figure it out I took some cool video clips and might piece em together

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Weather is freaky, but that's not all

So, I had to bail on last night ride at MPH, somebody grabbed the wrong shifter without looking (me) and it was 7 speed, doh! I was pressing for time and the bike was in pieces, and didn't feel like recabling the paragon to go back to the old shifters.



Oh well, looks like I'll have to put some time in the wind and rain today.



Was down at the Geneva Bicycle Center the other day and I ordered myself up an ergomo pro for the Supercaliber, hopefully that will arrive pretty soon.  Gonna also attach a sweet set of the Bontrager Race XXX Lite Carbon cranks to her. Probably going to go with the Rock Shox Reba, but the possibility of a Fox fork is exciting. Because I'm dropping the dough on the ergomo, I'm going to run my older dual control xtr set-up and hopefully upgrade to the new stuff as the season goes on. I can't wait to rock that bad boy.



Weather looks to be dropping off for the next few days, acting all freaky. But for some reason today, there are some really freakish stories in the news

Ok, my pc is asking me to reboot...



Tuesday, April 03, 2007

I am still here :)

Yah, I know.Holler at me all you can. I can't hear you. I've been swamped with lots of stuff going on in my personal life.



On a positive note, Epic Peaks Coaching is doing well!



Also spent alot of time on the mountain bike lately. Hit Dryer Rd up wednesday afternoon, then the hollow on saturday and sunday.



I'm riding the dirt again tonight at the MPH and I swear I will get some pics up and a decent writeup!!