Stumbling around, kind of.
Fortunately my internal homing pigeon brain is not the worst at keeping going even when the direction is uncertain.
Wahoo is much better for following a serpentine new england GPS track in the woods, even good at dealing with GPS location drift.
But lately it has just been kind of auto-pilot for the rest. In that I'm just going furiously and then hoping that the habits of getting it down mean it'll get done.
Had a good week of riding over the last 7 days. Took Saturday off the bike, but three bigger rides (hours wise). Tuesday did for sure suck. Thursday I punched a tree hard (drop bars in the hoods and ouch) and realized that the tires on there are probably really messing up the handling. Could be tread patter, could be that they are so tall. Changing wheel size enough that it means the trail has change and the handling has gone to shit. the balance/flop point is different. And yeah I know, the 45s shouldn't have made that much difference but on a bike designed for 33c tires and putting REALLY round and tall 45s (vs the wide 45s like the riddler) up front makes the bike un-natural.
Anyway, I haven't changed the tires. Not sure if I go back to the light but thin black mambas or the old worn WTB tires... trying to resist getting some Maxxis tires.
Also - 44x26 is pretty tall for Dirt Smack trails, might as well be on the singlespeed. I mean it is still way lighter than the 38x15 that was on there before. But it is just a few gear inches lighter than the standard MTB SS gear inch magic number and that's supposed to be a balance.
And yeah while I'm loving riding the full suspension right now I'm gonna need to make sure I get back on the SSMTB because of the whole 24 HOGG coming up. Solo Singlespeed. WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING!!!!!
Have been eating pretty well alone. Making some good and fun and tasty meals no one else would eat. Lots of mushrooms and stuff.
Last night though, super tired so I just made a salad. the me size bowl was already dirty (made salad friday night and bowl is in the dishwasher) so I thought maybe I'll be civilized and make the salad in a salad bowl and then I'll serve it on my own plate. Well I made too much salad, but since I put dressing on it all I ate it all, it was way too much salad but whatever. It was good.
Finishing the Stew i made on Friday (ate half for lunch on Saturday - the other half now) yeah that's why i made salad, realized that starting a stew at 5:30 meant it wouldn't be really ready for dinner till well after dinner time, hence the salad.
Debating tomorrow's smackdown options, thinking I might do the OG unmodified course, start at Faunce, let all the hot heads do their east smack. Not keen on doing it alone but maybe that's better, starting of doing it alone and not having expectations. Although not sure I can leave work early enough to get home to let the dogs out and then get back out again. And then there's the weather.
Of course you've probably heard the news about Harris Cycle closing. The repository of the Sheldon Brown archives.
I, like an idiot, missed out on riding with Sheldon way back, picked riding with the younger group, he passed soon after that. I had just moved out here or at least w/in the year or two and well - i regret that.
back to back in the open tabs pages:
https://maddogmedia.com/2021/06/13/r-i-p-harris-cyclery/
http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2021/6/14/sheldon-brown-and-the-givers-and-takers.html
okay - well now i take this big belly full of stew (who the fuck makes stew in JUNE? - me) and go teach microscope stuff.
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