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14.8.08

Honey Bear

The bear just gave the last of the 24oz to the flask. Time to ride!

The honey bear giveth, and the hills taketh away...

Went to the movie "Road to Roubaix" at the Boulder Theater tonight. Good show, bad picture of the theater, but I would still rather watch 'A Sunday in Hell' any day of the week. Something about the history and the fact that it just is, but is not trying to be. And the Chant of Roubaix in that soundtrack, church music about hell...

Anyway, the movie made me think of spring, and the classics. And eventually it all comes back to Belgian stew and cobbles. Oh, and ale.

Fuck Yeah!

12.8.08

67 Surly Set ups!

I said it, Mr Brown wants some proof. Well here goes.

The White Surly 1x1 entered the stable a while ago, I won it up in Duluth when they had a ss race the day before the MNSCS race. Hwood won some Phil hubs for second that are still on a trophy shelf in his shop. The white 1x1 sat in the box for a while, waiting, waiting to be abused.

One of my Bianchi Martini Bob Brown SS conversion frames broke. Enter the White 1x1. Took all the Bianchi parts and built the 1x1. In its first life it was set up as a ss race bike with a suspension fork on it. I might have been the nicest 1x1 in the world at that point in time, King Hubs and HS and some other bling parts.

Bob fixed the Bianchi, the 1x1 turned into a fully rigid ss beater. I don't have any photos to prove it, but it happened. I think I rode it to a lot of bars like that!

I got an xtra cycle set up as a gift. What frame to use?? The White 1x1 got the nod. Gene-O even took it for a hot lap at Boom in that first xtra cycle set up.

Winter! Surly makes the Pugsley. Big fat rims are rad. Take the 1x1, add a Q order, Psmurf with a dremel and a rattle can and next thing you know the 1x1 is sort of a Puglsey sort of thing. First disc brake set up for me ever, well up front. The rear wheel is a nexus 8spd commuter hub with an internal brake that sort of slows you down if you are going up hill. The tires are Hook Worms and are perfect until the snow gets deep.

This is part one of a many part story...

So far the 1x1 has proven to be a pretty useful bike, a big thanks to the Surly dudes for making them. And an even bigger thanks for donating it as a race prize!

If anyone has picutures from Duluth ss race, send them my way. I think I have some in an old box of pictures that is who knows where.

Head West

After a few miles of blacktop the gravel does not end, sometimes the rocks get bigger and the 'road' narrower.

A couple years back, word on the street was that EZ was riding ditches in the north woods to get ready for the 40. The gravel roads out here would do the trick just fine, peg it for a couple hours going up and up and more up. Not that I am doing the 40...