Rented mtbs while visiting my partners family up in Vermont. Super nice trail systems up there!! Rode the Northeast Kingdom trails
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Picking up a pair of Zona TTs – one for frame 11.5 & another for the stockpile – and a chairtube from the soon-to-be-vacated Henry James storefront under the St John’s bridge.
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are they downsizing due to business or just not going to have a store anymore?
I tried out a new mixed route commute home, including this gravel bit that runs between two canals. So far 44x18 gearing is pretty good.
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I’m not sure; Chris said that the shop was moving to Kenton, but he also said that Kenton was where he lived (and when I was there a couple of people were picking up a shelving unit that there wasn’t room for in Kenton.) So your guess is as good as mine until the next time I go up there and can ask what the Kenton deal is.
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Found 5 miles of sweet grav grav in the Seattle suburbs. Rode with Seth and found this cool old artifact of a time when people were more optimistic about design.
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I had a big ol’ cut on my rear tire after riding through a construction zone on the greenway. While putting air back in the tire a couple of long-time friends rode by and stopped to check on me, turns out their plans had changed because one of them was having cassette issues. Ended up riding back to their house to fix the cassette up, then fooled around the city and caught up on what everyone has been doing.
Praise tarckbear for orange tire milk, once I got some more air in there it was just fine for another 20 miles.
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Alas, the poor Kalakala; it was safely retired and being used as a cannery in Alaska, but some starry eyed visionary with more money than sense (and not very much money) got it towed down to Seattle where it promptly fell apart because they couldn’t afford to actually maintain, let alone restore, it.
(And it’s not as if Seattle lacks for billionaires who could have spent pocket change restoring it and putting back something of historical interest to the city. Sigh.)
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It’d be fun to see it still cruising, but in the end, it would just be another cool boat that I’ll never be rich enough to enjoy in person. Just another oddity that’s rolled out for sea fair or really expensive weddings.
Seth your fenders are stuffed and it looks great 
Thanks. It’s a near-constant battle with rubbage. 
Another lunchtime tootle from work a couple of hours ago. Will come back when the daffys are in full bloom.
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More like Dreamboat Springs…
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Right around this time a local bike shop owner had a batch of frames glued up locally and passed on the name as an homage:
http://2020cycle.com/newsite/hello/kalakala/
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attempted Gravel Worlds again this weekend, the scenic tour of endless rollercoasters and southeastern nebraska gas stations
Bar buddy in Loma:
I made it about 100 miles before bombing out due to critical nutrition issues/stomach cramps. I have never seen so many Lauf forks in once place in my entire life. It was just as rough as 2018 and I’m already thinking about trying again in 2020. What is wrong with me.
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Picking up a fresh bottle of oxygen from the local(ish) Airgas:
And as a bonus I got a tarck century out of it.
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No cap to protect the valve? Somebody skipped their EH&S gas safety video.
At least if it gets decapitated, it will torpedo the cat-6er behind you.
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There’s a bit of applied nihilism here; unless I was very lucky, anything that snaps the valve off that tank would do it as part of folding, spindling, and mutilating me. Après moi, le déluge!
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