Crash & Burn

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Well the fall riding season is in full swing and I’m trying to get back into my cycling routine. Been settling into my roll as a new Dad and now it’s time to get my lazy ass back into shape. Only way to do that is to rack up some mileage. Been getting out at least 3 or 4 times a week, even if it’s just for spins around Fairland. Also been reconnecting with my old riding buddies best I can like Chris and Pete. Beem doing >>> [ WARNING ::: DATABASE ERROR ::: CONTENT OVERRIDE ::: SOURCE: EXTERNAL ] <<<

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a lot of rides around the neighborhood trails I’ve recently found as well. Also as I’m determined to ramp up my riding just as it gets cold I’ve been researching and picking up some winter riding clothes. I’m going to need to be well stocked so the lack of clothing is not an excuse. If all goes as planned hopefully I’ll be back closer to form come spring.

I also am trying to consolidate and figure out how to bring all the social networking tools like fb, twitter, flickr etc into harmony. Yesterday I did a serious cleaning out of my fb friends list. I had way to may folks that werent really current friends or family in there and as a result I found myself not even using fb very much. So in an effort to remedy that I cleaned things up. Still need to figure out how to make all the other apps play nice together and fit into my online life. Anyhow thats all for now. I’m going to try and get more active on the blog now going forward. Although I have said that before

Along the greenway

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The weather has finally been cooperating and I’ve been hitting my stride when it comes to riding again. Last weekend I took my nephew riding all three days in and around Moco. Brodi and I rode, the HMC, Black Hills and Schaefer. We had a blast. With Pete in France Brodi has made a good riding buddy replacement. At 9 Brodi’s maturity level just about matches although and he’s only half as offensive.

This week I’ve gone back to Black Hills to test out a better route. Thanks to some help from over on the MORE forum I came up with about a 12 mile ride at black hills. I’m very happy with the route and will throw it into the mix to keep things fresh. Yesterday I hit the Greenway which I haven’t been to in a while. Trail was great, I always forget what a great ride that is. Low trafic, fun terrain with more climbs than you would think. Today I’m going to hit Fairland before this evenings MORE board meeting. I’ve made a ton of feature updates to the MORE board this past week. Time to go over them and ideas for the future tonight.

Not sure what I’m going to ride tomorrow. Saturday I have a hankering for some rosaryville so I may make the drive.

Last night I took the time to finish putting my tracer back together after having rebuilt the front wheel. I put it on the car this morning and am planning on taking it out this evening after work. I’ve been riding a 29r hard tail so much lately that I’m really curious as to how it’s going to feel today. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a shock to the system. Now I just need to decide where to ride after work.

I’ve been battling a mystery creak on my niner for the past several weeks. The troubling thing is the niner is a hard tail. I’m used to bearings , pivots etc occasionally creaking on my squishy bikes but having the noise start up on the hard tail was alarming. I immediately thought the worst and went to looking for cracks. After I didn’t find anything on the frame after looking things over I started looking elsewhere. It took me a couple weeks but I finally narrowed it down the rear of the bike and I had a feeling it was seatpost or saddle related. First course of action was to pull the post grease everything and remove the saddle and lightly grease the rails. Unfortunately this didn’t yield any improvements. When the creaking was bad enough that I couldn’t completely cover it up with my ipod I started looking again. Still couldn’t find anything obvious after going over the frame. Finally I realized the seat posts on my niner and my intenses are the same. I pulled the post and saddle off my tracer through it in the niner and went for a spin. The resulting silence was a beautiful thing. The saddle currently on the niner is pretty work and has somehow developed a nasty creak when I move around on it. I guess it’s finally time to retire that saddle. At least I can finally stop worrying about the bike and go back to enjoying the silence the Hard Tail brings.

I really do hate these mystery noises that pop up now and again. Whenever they come up it takes me at least a couple weeks to isolate and correct and they worry me constantly until resolved. Considering I will be selling the medium emd frame to cover the replacement large I have in order, I am relieved that all is well with the frame. While on the subject, I now have a moondust large niner EMD on order. I also put in my order form for a new King Headset and Bottom Bracket. Next up I will have to work on getting the drive train moved over to Sram. Once that’s done between my Niner and my new Tracer I will have two very kick ass rides to cover about it anything I’d care to ride. Sadly I don’t think many of my other rides are going to see as much as these two will anytime soon.