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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No more Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, or Twinkies!

Posted by joel on September 24, 2009

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Labor Day Weekend

Posted by joel on September 8, 2009

Over Labor Day weekend I spent a good amount of time in Madison. Seth and I had some brother bonding: Saturday morning we rode 57 miles including most of the Madison Iron-man  loop followed by going to Regent St. for some afternoon Badger festivities. Initially, we (Seth, Travis and I) had tickets but decided that we were having too much fun and sold the tickets. At which point we had more beer money which ended up providing good times at The Big 10, Red Shed, and pizza at Ians (MM!!).

We followed up the Badger festivities with a trip over to Milwaukee on Sunday morning to watch the Crew play the Giants of San Fransisco. After watching through the 8th we both decided it was best to boogie and listen to the remainder of the game in the car so we could get a second ride in. We got back to Madison right around 5pm which gave us enough time to get in a 37 miler which included the Observatory climb – good hangover medicine btw. Coincidentally, about the time we got back we heard on the radio that Prince hit a walk-off home run for the Crew to avoid the sweep with a 3-2 victory!

I ended up driving home after Seth and I grabbed supper at Noodles & Co. and rolled in to Wausau about 11:30. I slept in until roughly 6:30 when Gavin and Abby decided to get up – got both changed and fed. Once that was out of the way I proceeded to clean out the entire lower level of the house as we’re getting the hard-wood floors refinished Wednesday and Thursday this week. Thanks to Luke and Chad for helping clear out the big stuff!

I got work taken care of today for both myself and MIV – now I’m planning to get some R&R in Door County with Beth, Seth, and Brittney. Should be a peaceful and relaxing time. Thanks to Kenny and Darlene for watching the three kids in our absence!

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Race The Lake

Posted by joel on August 15, 2009

Race The Lake is tomorrow. For those that don’t know, it is essentially a 90 mile road race around Lake Winnebago. There are a few items of mention:

• The first person to the top of the hill at High Cliff State Park – you will win the “King of the Hill” and $500.
• Overall winner $2000 – this will be doubled to $4,000 if you win and have an average speed that is greater than 24.8 mph!!  2nd gets $1500, 3rd 1000, 4th 700, 5th $600, 6th $500, 7th $400, 8th $300, 9th $200 and 10th $100.

This is pretty good motivation for getting a high average speed as you can see.

I have to say thanks to Punk and Mike (Beth’s aunt and uncle) for letting me stay at their place Saturday night in Neenah. Even with a proximity to the Fond Du Lac, I still need to get up at 3:30am to get to the start by 5:50am. I also need to thank Matt Block for letting me use a wheel as my Mavic R-Sys is on the fritz – “undetermined creaking”. Most likely the issue is the bearings in the rear hub.

It also appears we have a good number of riders from our team so that should help keep the average speed up. Whether we’ll come close to the record average is undetermined.

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Updated Site

Posted by joel on August 13, 2009

In an ongoing effort to keep my family and friends current on what goes on within the Hynes family house hold, I thought it would be a great idea to update http://www.joelhynes.com with a more current interface. Most of the old posts are now in an archive stored away on a server at 424 and I will work on getting those published. For now, have a look at the updated version of the site.

As it pertains to the family, a few events have, are, and will take place:

1. Gramma Bernies Bday – Aug 13, 2009
2. Gavin’s 3rd Bday – Aug 14, 2009
3. Logans return to Wausau – Aug 13, 2009
4. Race the Lake (road race in Fon du Lac) Aug 16, 2009
5. Most importantly, we are expecting our fourth child!

You can also find the original site at http://www2.joelhynes.com

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