brief run-down:
PC Friar's Hockey game (free tickets) friday night
made waffles sat AM
went for a great ride after that
got back and played with the girls and watched the Red Wings play some GOOD hockey (smokin the Avs)
Saw my bro and his wife for a minute
great evening drinkin PBR and Spicy Tuna Rolls (sushi) mmmmmm
and then there was sunday...
super bowl - started great with my bro's - great afternoon and the steelers capped off the weekend with a win... hard to beat that ya know!?
The ride... now the ride is definitely of more than a sentence... what a ride
Supposedly its a weekly thing - a standing ride - so... i head out down there - get there a bit early... about 10 minutes or so... and no one... i tool around on the bike, no one... still no one... 10:05 or so after a damn while of tooling around waiting for no one to show i head out... figure i'll get out and see where the roads take me... and test FL's theory on single/solo riders and car etiquette... i get about a 1/2 mile down and there's someone looking like they are waiting... Sure enough, Ron (hadn't ridden with him before) asks "are you all there is of the Faunce ride?"
"yup, just me."
I'm relieved to have someone to ride with, and a change from riding with the kids too. Ron's got a great CT1 colnago... and anyway it really was an awesome ride... i kinda wound up in front the whole time, but felt great - however i may have pushed the pace a bit too much for his comfort/expectations, but i didn't have the computer, or the HR on... I did the ride on the Paramount, with the 50 tooth in front (only one ring) and the goofy chopped bars, the funky bottle cage i use for the battery that is almost impossible to get the waterbottle out of while riding... heavy wire bead tires... and one down tube shifter...
It was maybe only two hours or so but it was glorious... Satisfying the way a Mt Bike ride can be... the roads we were on (a lot of them at least) were like paved Mt Bike trails... Trees towering overhead, streams, flooded areas, vernal ponds, elevation changes, turns, rough potholed chip-and-seal... all the elements... kinda makes me itch to get the Mt Bikes out and ta give the commuting machine a break...
ah but a ride is a ride... and in the dry summer months there'll be plenty of time to tear up the trails... no need to destroy them now...
Riding in this morning was a treat... i got to carry my bike, loaded with laptop, and 4 large science/reference books... and a bunch of other crap... it was heavy enough that i took the perverse opportunity and hopped on the scale with the messenger bag... 245 pounds... and I'm hangin at about 189ish dripping wet out of the shower... I felt it on the way in... and my back is still feeling it right now...
Lately... all this riding has either been on the Cyclocross or the Commuter... both are steel, both are the only two steel frames i have... and i am not afraid to say... i LOVE they way they ride... I do like the Quantum Pro, but its been since june that i've actually ridden it... one of these days... maybe if i hit the Bikeworks ride in Swansea, i'll air up those tires and give that bike a good work out... maybe i'll just keep riding the freak machine... the 12-25 with the 50 tooth gives me pretty much all the gears i need... not quite the total top end i need but enough of one to get me fast enough to try and contest a town line or two...
ah well - such is the dilemma, it doesn't help that i still am thinkin about what to do for a second Cross bike... I think there are enough bits kicking around that i can get a frame and put something together no problem...
anyway - till later - the weekend update is over... i think
-cheers
G
Later it may be... check this out... pretty damn cool
found over at http://www.gwadzilla.blogspot.com/
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