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weird shit: saw a guy on the side of the road taking pictures of his bike. the camera: a big 'ol SLR with a lens that was bigger around than my forearm and nearly as long. the bike: some sort of flatbar 700C x 32mm upright hybrid with a commuter-dork rear rack. ???
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Added a berm to this tree pit thing I’ve been working on. Berms on berms!
Added some big rocks/paving stone woods detritus to the back of it and braced a nice long stick inside it by hammering some wood straight down into the ground to hold it in place. Now it just needs to rain before people destroy it by riding it. The line inside the line is definitely noticeable now that there is a huge berm on it.
You just go down that and into the pit and hit the berm, then continue down the trail that was already there.
Residual pot power from popping edibles all day yesterday had me flowing enough to start hitting this one tabletop jump on my Jeff Jones. Sure feels good despite the Jeff Jones Dutch bike body position, hahaha.
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I just shot out in my lunch break. Sunny. Wellington South Coast. Last week when I was 500 metres vertical up, but probably less than 2kms away, tarckagramming my yellow bike, this coast was being hammered with 5.5 metre swells, not that you could tell. A few people’s garages got rearranged, in fact, one guy got swept out of his.
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Sunday shred, took the cx bike on all the mini directional loops. Very fun, would ride aggressive drop bar bike on flowy singletrack with some road miles in between again.
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It was going to rain today so I went over in the morning to whip my berm into a bit more shape. Here’s a photo of my stonework on the outside. Looks like people have been riding it!
I think I need to adjust the lay of the land in the pit so you really get railed into the berm after coming down. There’s really nice clay-like dirt in the tree pit so it should be easy. I also need to shape it better. It is not very rounded right now. Needs to be more concave to allow for various lean angles.
Also swapped rotors (from a flimsy Avid to a nice fat Shimano) between my two Jones bike front wheels and put in new pads because my brakes were squealing. Of course I got caught in the downpour on the way home and now I feel like the odds are good that the city water fouled the new pads.
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The clay-like dirt is definitely feces
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poo-berm
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schralping shitting berms
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Prospect park is a mountain of literal shit
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Any time you move dirt you encounter a fascinating array of objects. Condom wrappers are our Fall leaves. I remember years ago posting a photo of @featherduster peeing in the middle of a bridle path which greatly upset rando. “You have to walk 100-300 feet off the path!!” he said. I was trying to clean up the landing of this thing after my schralpfing revealed a bunch of baggies and condom wrappers and the more I swept with my foot the more weird stuff came out.
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Out for lunchtime ride today on Tawatawa Reserve, Brooklyn. Thats the infamous Tip Track climb in the distance. One of those climbs that when you walk down, you think, how the feck do we ride up this.
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I know this spot.
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Oh yeah? Right behing my apartment.
Man how many trackers have an open?
Also does that hippo really need balls?
? Balls are steel. The best kind.
Did a tarck century out to Albany bulb which is completely open and renovated now and people are chilling on the beach.
It was nice riding a road bike again. It has been a few years I guess. Much more balanced. Before I was always leaning on my wrists and I would raise the bars up and you guys told me to stretch more. But it wasnt that because I have always been flexible. Now I have so much more muscle in my hamstrings and glutes. You guys should have told me to do deadlifts and eat more protein and calories. Really different riding experience now.
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