The weekly cross practice series is starting, I’m pretty pumped. Main goal is to hop barriers and find new depths of the pain cave.
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I measured from the front axle to the canter of the bars on both bikes. CX was about 3cm higher so I dropped it a little. I realized later that this isn’t really gonna tell me much. But the lower stem feels a little better. I may take it to some trails tomorrow and see if I can get a better idea of what feels good.
Hopped a pvc barrier. Going to find things to hop more on the cross bike. The seat being in the way is real annoying.
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Rode the CX bike on some green mtb trails. Feels good with the lower stem. Now it’s time to chop the steerer on a $400 fork.
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They’re back.
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Those would look real good with my new purple bike. I thought the jet was more of a low profile tread. Almost a file tread. The new version looks like a pretty nice all-around for the pnw.
I wonder if they finally fixed the tread to work on wide rims.
Considering they’re re-released and available in tubeless, I would guess yes?
What was the issue with the tread? Too narrow for a wider profile?
Yeah. The side knobs are not in an ideal place. Other than that I love them, so if they’ve fixed this issue I’m definitely on board.
Does anyone have insights on how Nats is going to be scheduled?
I see it’s Tues 10 - Sun 16. I want to get up there and can’t figure out if I’m going to just spectate, or jump in a race (or two?).
Last year on Tues was Men’s (23-39) non-championship race. Is that likely to be the only option for me? Beyond that, on Friday there was Masters Men 35-39 (1/2/3). I’m a 3, but would I still have to qualify for this race or is it open to any doofus who shows up?
I don’t know the answers to any of those questions, but I’ll be stoked to hang out with and/or cheer for you!
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Any doofus that signs up! Haha.
Took the sscx on some green and blue mtb trails and it feels solid! First race is next weekend and it’s a flat, super open roadie course that will maybe have some significant sand portions. I’m looking forward to going in feeling good but quickly realizing that whatever fitness I think I have is crap.
Gonna race 4s and single speed every weekend I think. In one series my race will be at like 930 and 130. In the other it’ll be 930 and 1130 (just one race in between). I kind of miss GACX where for a couple of years my races we’re back to back. I could just kill myself for an hour and a half and then drink beer for the rest of the day.
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Our race schedule lines up so that my wife and I get to race back to back in the middle of the day, so we don’t have to get up too early or stay too late. I still like hanging out, but nice to have the option to drop in and then bolt.
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That’s awesome. But now there has to be tacos there. People will riot if there aren’t tacos.
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At our last race we had tamale hand-ups, which are a little easier to handle on the go.
That’s not a tamale hopping barriers though.
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