Finished Fork

Here are some photos of the finished fork on the RB-1





A dramatic improvement if I do say so myself.

Meat Wagon Update

A an email from GSC showed up in my inbox this evening with the subject line "Dummy Huck".

The Big Dumm caribou hunt was a success, and there were rave reviews of the Big Dummy. Enough that Allman, who had his BikesAtWork trailer along on the hunt said he had been shopping online for a Big Dummy and had one in his shopping cart at the moment.

I'm glad the Dummy worked well for GSC, you never know if someone else will appreciate something to the same way you do.


Oh yeah, and the Dummy came back to town a little better endowed than when it left, sporting a Surly Nice Rack on the front. Its a good look, and why wouldn't you want increased carrying capacity.

-11.699 seconds

A -9sec split on the top half is unheard of, and Danny Hart only got faster on the bottom half.

Amazing run in horrible conditions. Worth 3 minutes of your time to see what world champion downhill racing looks like.



If the embedded video doesn't work you can try this link.

Resort Riding

Made it down to the local ski resort with JDogg for some lift serviced riding this weekend.

The resort has only seriously been pursuing trailbuilding for a year or two. There were some sweet sections with excellent flow, there was a lot of sections that need some attention and there was a lot of mud.




This is the only photo I got from the day. I think JDogg snapped one or two from the lift, but that was it.

I'm excited about the potential of local lift serviced riding, hopefully a few more years of growth and attention and we'll have some sweet riding just down the highway.

All in all a good weekend, and it was nice to get out on the squishy bike again

Flatbed

Spent a couple nights at a public use cabin with the fam recently. It was only a 3mile ride to the cabin on a pretty flat trail so I decided fast and light wasn't the way to go.



In other news, my chain was embarrassingly loud on today's 30mile ride.

Klunk

Now for something less depressing:
some classic Northern California footage from the late 1970's



Gary Fisher with a little prophecy around 3:40, " . . . it's going to go a long ways."

Bicycling Is Not A Crime . . . or is it?

I definitely find this story a little disturbing. Check that, I find it A LOT disturbing.

I'm also not surprised by it.

Now a 10 year old girl has to worry about being picked up by the cops when she goes out and rides her bike.

When bicycles are outlawed only outlaws will ride bikes.

Ride on.