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.

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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.

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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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