Need to write up yesterday

 The annual MLFN memorial ride.

Short is it was awesome, I gave a speech at the start of the ride and made it through without cracking...  but i cracked and almost lost it when Justin thanked me for saying what i did.

My legs were absolute garbage, I was dehydrated, poorly fueled, tired, and had just spend 90 minutes in the car driving back from Waltham wondering if I'd get to the ride.

I did get there. Hung out till the hill up Austin, got pretty much completely dropped. Rode by myself but not alone. Wrote some words on instagram (click over there somewhere on the sidebar to read it).

But once again it was Mike's post that got me here (and a few extra minutes before leaving)
https://nsmb.com/articles/bell-curves-and-middlemen/

Stache is pretty much the perfect bike. Saddly I think the position on the Top Fuel is not quite right again. I rode it Sunday and i had the seat in the wrong height issue and a knee pain. I wish I could nail it just right because I really do love riding it and it is a much more relaxed and gentler bike to ride with the shifting and squishing. Sure I haven't actually tried to race it, but maybe i will and i should and yeah...  whatever and now I'm going to maybe add a road bike to the pile and have to dial that fucker in too...

but goddamnit MIKE yes the Stache is kind of the ultimate awesome bike. The new Roscoe is pretty close but not quite the same, better for some, most? but the Stache with the 3" tires is just the right amount of float over the loose w/o being fatbike slow.

anyway, i'm tired, stressed, looking for ways to carve some time off, keep screwing up and scheduling stuff... gonna ride home soon, without a rear brake spring in the BB7 (it got mangled and destroyed) lets see how long they work w/o it (i mean if they will get home), maybe i'll do a full write up tonight, but i'm tired, might not be able to...too much screen time already today...

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