Since the Random Pic Thread hit 101 post, I thought I'd start a new one! for 2010.
So, got out on a solo run Sunday am. Winter time in Nor Cal when it's not raining means fog... and for Sunday, LOTS of it..
From the Freeway start(pic1), to the trail head(pic 2) to the beach shots(Pic 3), fog, fog, fog, fog everywhere! This what the million dollar homes of "Los Lagos" get to see! (Pic 4)
Only the Granite seemed to be at home. (Pic 5) and it made it look like a trail to nowhere! (pic 6).
I took some of the trail home with me..(Pic 7) ....Pic 8 is just to get some Ventana content.
I will take cold, damp and foggy any day over mid 70's. It keeps all the fair weather trails users sipping their latte's at Starbucks :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I will take cold, damp and foggy any day over mid 70's. It keeps all the fair weather trails users sipping their latte's at Starbucks :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Here's how my Sunday ride looked like..... I had not ridden in weeks and to top it off I decided to take the Terremoto out...as you can imagine I was dead tired after almost 3 hours in the snow
My buddy Adrian had to do lots of waiting
For some Ventana content, I am trying wide flat bars on the Vs now
My El Ciclon in the first set of shots and my buddy's Maverick is in the second, but really, who cares about the bikes?
Snow riding in Durango can be a beautiful thing.
Here are a few racey pics of my Ventana El Commandante in action.
Raced this weekend in the Folsom Rodeo Cross event and entered Open Single Speed division. This is not your average cyclocross type course and while there are barriers and stair run ups and long flat grass sections, there is also a lot of singletrack and as a result, the field is roughly split 60% cross bikes and 40% on mountain bikes (or something close to that maybe).
I had a rough start to my race as I dropped a chain on the first lap causing me to lose over a minute getting it back on, but luckily, an hour long race gave me plenty of time to catch back up and take 1st out of 8 in my class
Peectures:
Dropped chain first lap, cursing loudly:
chain back on and rolling:
giving it 110% to catch back up:
Pictures courtesy of Jeff Namba and Mike Upchurch from Mad Cat Bikes (www.madcatbikes.com) in Sacto (btw, if anyone ever needs a 15% friends & family discount card/code from Mad Cat, send me a PM. Good for in store or web site orders)
haha...no worries. A single speeder that drops his chain deserves to get his balls busted
I think what happened is that the EBB slipped a little. Just that morning before the race, I took my 34T sprocket off and threw on a 36T and I was kinda hasty in tightening everything back up (I think). I rode over to the race from my house in the morning and things were fine. In my warmup laps, everything was fine. And for the first lap, when we were all bunched up together and I wasn't really racing and accelerating at 100% yet, it was fine.
But at the very end of the first lap, I stomped on the gas to make a pass and get moving, and POP!!!!. I thought I blew up my chain when I heard it, it was such a loud noise, but then I looked down and the chain was off both the sprocket and the rear cog. And when I got it back on the chain was way more loose than when I set it up in the morning. So I'm guessing EBB slipped a little when I torqued on it super hard. Luckily whatever position it ended up in was good enough to hold for the rest of the race and allow me to finish and come back.
Just got this bad boy roll'n. Semi custom front end (tall height, medium length)
Full XX Groupo
Hope II hubs laced to Stans Archs
26.0lbs with pedals
Most importantly it makes me smile when I ride it.
Some recent post-fire shots, out with the Chamuco.
BTW, I'd struggled with the Chamuco build for a while--even tried to sell it with a 150mm Z1 and Romic coil. The bike never really felt agile with a bigger, heavier fork. So, no one bought it (luckily), and the frame ended up sitting around for a year. Then I took a look at my Salty, which had grown overforked anyway with a 140mm Vanilla (guess I'd been trying to turn it into a CiclĂłn) and had a moment of inspiration: why not swap out the parts from the Salty to the Chamuco? Turns out, built up AM with the Vanilla and a Float shock, the Chamuco sprang to life. Still plenty slack, low bb, stiff (installed thru-axle main pivot and 10mm thru-bolt hub), great suspension, and light. This setup just smokes.
Last weekend we were able to get one good ride in, the Backbone trail into Will Rodgers State Park. After rain early in the week, things dried out on Saturday giving us a chance to get in the 20 mile loop on Sunday. I'm not often the one in my photographs, as I'm usually the one taking them. Anyway, my goofy mug aboard the Terremoto, happy to be out on the trail. (a little artistic license with the image too.).
Just got this bad boy roll'n. Semi custom front end (tall height, medium length)
Full XX Groupo
Hope II hubs laced to Stans Archs
26.0lbs with pedals
Most importantly it makes me smile when I ride it.
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