Monday, April 10, 2006
Okay, so all that about a Hope Mono Hub laced to an Open Pro was trashed the other night when I snagged a pair of Mavic Ksyrium SSCs (circa 2004) on ebay for 370 bucks. Yes, a pair. Yes, the ones with the fancy as shit black aero spokes. Considering the Hope alone would have cost me around 200 bucks, I am very very pleased with this purchase...furthermore it's not like all 125 pounds of me will be working the SSCs too hard anyway. Fuck yesssssss. Pictures as soon as they get here and mounted. They're even coming with Mavic Open Pro 2s in YELLOW(!)
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Cycle racing is probably themost painful sport known to mankind. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm NOT in riding shape (I'm in hockey shape and running shape but not cycling shape) but given that I staved off some fierce competition and did alright, it's probably just that cycle racing by its very nature is ugly, painful and brutal.
our team finished 6 riders heading into the men's A crit and crashed four. Some guy came over to our tent and asked if there were any riders left who could finish a race...Wasserman even crashed the new Guru and rolled the tubular 404...It was Bremer who actually took the biggest crash of the day, bringing Chas with him. Bremer flatted, took Wasserman's 404 (which had already been rolled but no one knew), cornered at full speed, lost the tire, slid 15 feet on his ass and legs (serious road rash), took Chas out who proceeded to fly all 165 pounds of himself at 29miles an hour at....the no parking sign. He took the signpost out with his shoulder. We brought it back as a trophy. Chas took it home and put it in his living room.
Racing is also super hard on your equipment...I have to haul class ring in for a full gear recabling, some new housing and look into getting him a new back wheel...this one is flexing some kind of not so wonderful and consistently coming out of true. The next wheel, I swear, is going to be a Hope mono hub 32 or 28 hole laced to an Open Pro, handbuilt and that's the end of that. Meanwhile, however, it's the piece of shit Shimano wheel (god i wish I'd gone with Campy instead) and a lot of lonely hours
our team finished 6 riders heading into the men's A crit and crashed four. Some guy came over to our tent and asked if there were any riders left who could finish a race...Wasserman even crashed the new Guru and rolled the tubular 404...It was Bremer who actually took the biggest crash of the day, bringing Chas with him. Bremer flatted, took Wasserman's 404 (which had already been rolled but no one knew), cornered at full speed, lost the tire, slid 15 feet on his ass and legs (serious road rash), took Chas out who proceeded to fly all 165 pounds of himself at 29miles an hour at....the no parking sign. He took the signpost out with his shoulder. We brought it back as a trophy. Chas took it home and put it in his living room.
Racing is also super hard on your equipment...I have to haul class ring in for a full gear recabling, some new housing and look into getting him a new back wheel...this one is flexing some kind of not so wonderful and consistently coming out of true. The next wheel, I swear, is going to be a Hope mono hub 32 or 28 hole laced to an Open Pro, handbuilt and that's the end of that. Meanwhile, however, it's the piece of shit Shimano wheel (god i wish I'd gone with Campy instead) and a lot of lonely hours
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