I put up a Flickr Set Here.
So yeah, Highlights include:
- Train ride through many states I hadn't seen.
- A buck chasing the train.
- Finishing the book "One Gear, No Breaks" (Spoiler: she gets the Gold!)
- Riding the MONON rail trail green way.
- Staying at the Indy Hostel
- Meeting the Tall Tree Cycles / Steel Wool Cycles crew
- Hanging out with Sam and Andrea of Naked
- Getting valuable input on my hubs from Paul of Paul components
- Getting a super positive response from every builder who saw my hub
- Riding a fixed folder amongst lifted pickup trucks
- Seeing the Momentum crew again
- Watching 4 movies in 24 hours on the way home (The Wrestler, Nerdcore Rising, Australia, Frozen River)
- The Geekhouse city bike (20mm front axle, dual disks, short wheelbase)
- The blue fat tired Vanilla townie
- Black Sheep 36er and cargo bike
- Sam's over the top SS full suspension 29er (and riding it in the HYATT)
- Signal cycles wine rack
- Bilenky's craziness (they brought the whole shop)
- The Broakland crew, and their massive track disc fork
- Villin bikes
- LOTS of hot cross bikes. Many single speeded.
- Rody's hot paint on all his bikes at Groovy
- Renova strange Italian components
- Ahearnes breakaway/couplered bike
- Calfee super bamboo mixte citybike
- EVERY bike in the indoor bike parking
Phew. Now its back to NYC and back to work. First order of business was to build a new wheel.
I guess I wrecked my back wheel in the ice race. The side wall was folded in, in one spot. I hadn't noticed before because I had a tire on it. I must have trued right past it, compensating for the strange bulge. 500km on a deep V is a pretty short life span, even when riding like an idiot. I quickly de-laced another deep V I had laying around, applied some 3M reflective vinyl for fun and zazz, and did a quick and dirty clone lace job (taping the new rim to the old, and just changing nipples), so I could get out to Prolly's Peel sessions last night.
I got it done just in time, and made the trek out to Williamsburg. There I worked on my Sparks drinking, bunny hops and wheelies a bit. And only had one SPD related fall, surprisingly. Today I have a massive bruise on the inside of my thigh. That's 700cmx for you I guess.
In Hub news, I've got a new team rider. I'll be putting up Bios soon. For now though, its just testing and data collection.
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