Cycling items for this year

Posted by joel on February 19, 2010

For 2010 I will be using a Niner Air 9 as the chassis of choice. I have been slowly gathering the parts over the past couple of months. I recently acquired the wheel set, seat-post, brakes and rotors, stem, seat post clamp, headset, and a few other key ingredients. Two out standing items remain: a bar and chain guide.

I also decided to replace my road R-Sys wheel set with hand built wheel set consisting of Power Tap hubs (SL+ rear), DT Swiss RR415 rims, and DT Swiss Revolution 2.0/1.5/2.0 spokes. I ended up ordering the spokes from an E Bay vendor and saved about $100. It is counter-intuitive that spoke vendors only sell in lots of 60 – that’s great for a bike shop, not so great for an individual wheel builder! I am still waiting for the hubs to come off back-order (somewhat impatiently). For a backup wheel set I picked up a set of Rolf Vector Comp’s for $130!!

I decided to ditch the roof racks and save on fuel economy by switching to a hitch mount system instead.

Most, if not all these items were purchased through my new sponsor for this year: [ Bikeman ]

Two known events on the calendar for this year include: The Horribly Hilly Hundred and the Dairyland Dare. As always the 24-9 will be added as well.


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Titletown Mashup – 2009

Posted by joel on January 11, 2010

Here is a mashup of riders from the 2009 season, pretty cool! This is courtesy of Gary Smits at [Extreme Photography]. I’m row two, five in from the left.


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New Frame / Fork Combo

Posted by joel on October 16, 2009

I am building up a 29er rigid for next year. Here’s what I have so far.

This is my Niner Air 9 with matching fork in Electric Blue

This is my Niner Air 9 with matching fork in Electric Blue


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Year End Ride – Nine Mile

Posted by joel on October 13, 2009

As you can see a good number of folks attended the year-end ride at Nine Mile. Technically, it closes the Oct 15th but we normally celebrate the close on the weekend prior.

2009 Year End Nine Mile Group Photo

2009 Year End Nine Mile Group Photo


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Ebay Items

Posted by joel on August 18, 2009

Just sold:

Kelly Deluxe frameset http://bit.ly/10K2BL and

Stans ZTR Olympic w/ AC hubs http://bit.ly/2lY31e


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