Tired dirt church

 I gotta stop riding with Matt B, last time my crank fell off, this time my chain fell off.

Fell off the singlespeed, yeah, one lead to a pretty dramatic uphill OTB (over the bars). 

Why? Well, if maybe you hadn't guessed, this chain went on for Hell's Half acre stage 2 with the 22 tooth. Did the full recondition and tension after that before 24 HOGG... and fuck all after that. 

Kind of figures that this chain would have stretched quite a bit over those 135 miles. And yeah, I looked at it in the stand last friday when I was servicing the fork and seatpost and thought, it should work.

Nope.

Damnit.

Also, first I think I set the seatpost too low after changing the saddle at 24HOGG. and actually wound up riding with it too low. Now, too low is fine for a while but too long and the lateral quad will get stronger than the medial quad and well... i've been there too. Patellar pain. 

Final bit of "Oh now it all makes sense"

except over the course of the ride, well, 5nm (limit on the seat clamp) and only a coating of fiber grip on the seat-tube (not the post) was not enough and I lost another 5-8mm of seat height through the ride. To the point where I kept standing up and hitting the dropper lever to make it higher. 

Was a good shortish ride with the gang tho. Hux was out on his new bike, two years almost to the day when I was out at Big River for the first ride of the Stache. Got to ride with Colin and Jay. Justin showed up and a couple other folks I haven't ridden with yet.

It rained earlier but Big River was big river and well drained except for a few puddles. 

Got home and cued up Redbull TV and watched the women's DH and then the men's DH...  that was a lot of 'TV' to watch but SOOOO cool to see Greg Minnar win. holy shit that was amazing.

That course was insane. 

Ride all planned for tomorrow, or mostly planned, would be nice to sleep in but even if I could I probably wouldn't be able to. Maybe I'll get to take a nap after the ride? Again, probably not but hey we'll see.

Gonna eat some pizza, then...  i'm too tired to clean up and organize shit or work on the bikes (have the hanger for L's and need to get the seat posts swapped and saddle replaced and maybe just hang up the Stache till the new rear wheel shows up. and unload the dishwasher and wash a few dishes but... i'm tired.

Not quite post 24HOGG tired but it has been a Looooong week.

I don't want another Hurricane to give me a much needed break but I'm going to have to do something about life choices and rest here soon.

Pizza time,

Amor Fati Motherfuckers
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