Going Long and Hard.

[Steve Vai]

Good thing you didn’t have any moose run ins!

Iditarod musher kills moose after run-in with dog

A veteran musher killed and gutted a moose after it injured one of his dogs shortly after the start of this year's Iditarod, race officials said Monday.

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Yeah, I’m glad I haven’t seen any moose around this year. The dogs come up on them a lot faster than we do so they’re more likely to see them.

 

[Steve Vai]

Packed and ready to head back East. Not actually ready to go back East but I kinda have to go back at some point…

We’re gonna go see DUNE2 and then hang out with Benji. He’s finished and back in Anchorage!! So from here on out, Benji is your NJ Fat Bike Hero, I’m retired. At least until I try for Nome in ‘26 😂

 

[Piston Honda]

Dune 2 in Dolby Cinema. Your butt will still be vibrating on your flight home.

 

[Steve Vai]

Dune 2 in Dolby Cinema. Your butt will still be vibrating on your flight home.

It was a lot better than the 1st one, which I only saw yesterday.

 

[Steve Vai]

Sitting in the Airport waiting to come home, wanted to post a picture of the many many miles of isolated bike lanes I’ll be leaving behind…

 

[Steve Vai]

Here’s my trail souvenirs from the ITI. I bought this hat from Skwentna to at least have something covering my head, and then I found this BT Speaker on the Happy Steps. Which was pretty cool because me and Art had some tunes at Rainy Pass 😂

And here’s some damage that occurred somewhere, more than likely in shipping but it could’ve happened while I was out riding too and I didn’t notice. Cracked rear rim. Not bad enough to stop riding it but I’ll have to pay attention.

Need to swap the gearing around to my NJ setup, 32x18, and swap the Van Helgas back on, but I’m kinda not in the mood to work on this bike right now so it’ll wait.

Brevet Season is almost upon us.

 

[w_b]

Sitting in the Airport waiting to come home, wanted to post a picture of the many many miles of isolated bike lanes I’ll be leaving behind…

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Do you think AK might be DT- friendly when he figures out where he wants to work?

 

[Steve Vai]

Do you think AK might be DT- friendly when he figures out where he wants to work?

I’m not sure anywhere in the US is DT friendly.

 

[Steve Vai]

I could move there in a heartbeat though. There’s like 6 bike shops and 100+ miles of singletrack right in town. Bike paths to go literally anywhere you want, even along the entire highway out to Denali. It’s nuts.

 

[Steve Vai]

Anchorage from across the Sea Ice. I reckon there are times you can ride straight over to it.

 

[ChrisG]

I could move there in a heartbeat though. There’s like 6 bike shops and 100+ miles of singletrack right in town. Bike paths to go literally anywhere you want, even along the entire highway out to Denali. It’s nuts.

Which “town” are you referring to here?

 

[Steve Vai]

Which “town” are you referring to here?

Anchorage.

 

[xc62701]

Which “town” are you referring to here?

That must be like saying we're going to the city here....

 

[Steve Vai]

That must be like saying we're going to the city here....

Except their City is smaller than Morristown.

 

[Steve Vai]

Not Alaska…This actually didn’t feel terrible after 80ish hours in 9 days, but it’s gonna take some work to swap my engine over to a sub-minute effort.

 

[jShort]

Not Alaska…This actually didn’t feel terrible after 80ish hours in 9 days, but it’s gonna take some work to swap my engine over to a sub-minute effort.

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Well, you got the base established.

 

[Steve Vai]

Well, you got the base established.

I think I can sit at 275 watts indefinitely at this point, but will actually die at 300 😂

 

[Steve Vai]

I’ve slept 12 hours each night I’ve been back, my body is seriously trying to recover. I feel like it’ll be a few weeks to function properly but at least this time I didn’t do any damage to my hands or neck. That’s where all the time in the gym really paid off.

 

[Steve Vai]

Set the ERG to 200 watts and turned the pedals. I got a cool EF Kit for my guy so I can pretend to be Lachlan…

 

[jShort]

You should skip the Track phase and go back to XC. And then get a large Epic 8, which I’ll buy from you at a later date.