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Hateful Rock
After I slammed pretty hard last week, I figured I’d take a couple weeks off from trail riding to heal. Of course, I got bored with that idea about 4 days later, and headed back to Rock Bridge for a...
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Planning My 2nd Century
I started biking in ’98, then waited some 12 years to ride my first century. This time, though, I think I’m going to keep it to around 4 months. Last time, I kept to the road, mashing my pedals all...
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Prepping for a Century
As far as I’m concerned, my Katy Tail Century is a go. But, being a bike weight-obsessed dipshit, my first thought was, how do I get my bike to its lightest before the ride? Fortunately, I have years...
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Impromptu Century
In planning for my Katy Trail century across Missouri, I thought it’d be a good idea to do a 60-mile ride on Sunday. I left for my ride equipped how I plan to be for my Jefferson City-to-St. Charles...
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Katy Trail Century
As I mentioned a few weeks back, I wanted to ride the Katy Trail in Missouri, from Jefferson City to St. Charles in a day. At the time, it was supposed to be my second century ride, but ended up being...
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After spending a lot of time getting my bike (and myself) tuned properly for the Show-Me State Games MTB race last July, rain hit, and the race was canceled. I was pretty bummed about it, especially...
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Winter Update
Man, I can’t believe it’s been 5 months since I’ve updated this thing. So far, 2012 has been my highest mileage year yet, with over 6,600mi ridden so far, and a goal of 7,000mi by the end of the year....
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Dropbar MTB
I promised pics, so here you go: One thing I’ve never understood is why road and mountain bikes have different cable pull ratios for brakes. I suppose it’s so you have to keep buying more shit. Well,...
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Guess who’s stuck inside?
The mid-West got hit with 11" of snow late last week, and another 10" this week. Since I’m not ballsy (or crazy) enough to try to ride my bike in those conditions, I’ve been making up for it by...
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Gold Alligators
I sold off my Avid BB7 (mtn) brakeset, so I can replace it with a more appropriate CX set-up. Since the Shimano CX-75 calipers I have on order don’t come with discs, I got the prettiest ones I could...
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