from the ride home...

From the ride home on friday...

I had a few things percolating... they've slipped off the HUD i guess...

Oh... Cruising back from the ride down to the remote facility, on the giant Cyclocross bike, I took the tourist river sidewalk kinda route back...

Got to thinking, this damn bike carves as well as the Haida do Totem poles. It's freaking cooooooool. (okay that link isn't specific to the Haida, and the Haida did the simplest of all Pac NW Totems, little paint and all that, but they were in ways more expressively carved instead of using color to be all flashy).

Now the Quantum Pro goes like greased lightning. But it ain't a cross bike. I'm used to that few ms of delay as the material deforms under load before springing back. The energy loss though is noticeable. Or at the least I perceive it to be noticeable. Sprinting with the cars gunning for the entry ramp up to 195 is way more fun now. The long flat drag after that under the interstate seems almost effortless to keep up and sometimes pass cars. It can't just be the bike can it? Could the P-mount and Croll be that slow? There is plenty of deflection going on on this bike. Unlike the Quantum Pro I can move the bars around and the top tube wiggles. But i ain't getting any chain ring rub... Granted this ain't a light bike. It is 21-22 pounds with these (so far) awesome Schwable Marathon tires on there.

Back to the Haida. Those were a hard ass bunch of folks. Kick ass place to live too. The raven and the thunderbird. Good stories. Cool graphics... As much as I would like to harness the power of the Thunderbird, I think maybe I'm more of a Dogfish. Total pain in the ass fish. Not good for much... man do I remember how much of a let down it was reeling one of those to the surface in the Dory out in Colvos Passage growing up. The only worse fish to haul in was a ratfish.

That and the dogfish was brought up by a team mate, a reformed fly-fisherman (turned cycling - two 'sports' focused on gear - how about that). He was talking about the dogfish have been spotted in the Narragansett Bay for the first time in a long time, he said they are an indicator species for how clean the water is, they are only found in clean unpolluted water. Very curious. An environmentalist pain in the ass.

Crazy.

Well.

How do ya follow that...

Ya don't

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