Pearl's Generic Talk

On technical trails, you move you body in all kinds of weird ways compared to riding at 6 mile. You probably just zigged when your bike zagged and tagged your ankle a bit.
 
Ah, I was reading your blue write up and it read like you were racing the SS in the age group class. You have fun in the SS class with the rest of the crazies. . haha.
 
743power said:
Ah, I was reading your blue write up and it read like you were racing the SS in the age group class. You have fun in the SS class with the rest of the crazies. . haha.
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haha, I was about to say, I know Luke has a 29er, You could have been talked into it with him 😉
 
Sherwood Bike to Sherwood Bastard CX Bike
So if you have read this before, You know the history of this. I won't go into it again, but I came across this post earlier last week and got my brain tinkering. Would make a fun little winter project (yes, it is early to be thinking about winter) and keep this bike around. I need to add brakes onto it anyway. The real question I have is if anyone knows ANYONE who welds/builds frames, etc. The major operation for this is to add the canti bosses and guides across the top of the frame.

My ellios pizza buzzer just popped, brb.
 
pearl said:
Sherwood Bike to Sherwood Bastard CX Bike
So if you have read this before, You know the history of this. I won't go into it again, but I came across this post earlier last week and got my brain tinkering. Would make a fun little winter project (yes, it is early to be thinking about winter) and keep this bike around. I need to add brakes onto it anyway. The real question I have is if anyone knows ANYONE who welds/builds frames, etc. The major operation for this is to add the canti bosses and guides across the top of the frame.

My ellios pizza buzzer just popped, brb.
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I blogged something similar few weeks ago because I have some old steel frames that could work. For real ghetto-ness you don't need Canti's. You can go with Centerpulls. Or if you get a 1" CX fork, you can go with Canti's up front and Centerpulls in the back. Here's a link I found:

http://plusonelap.blogspot.com/2005/09/cyclocross-frequently-asked-questions.html
 
The way I would do it would be to grab the Nashbar Carbon Cross Fork for 100. That way I won't have any issues for the front. I just threw out a set of centerpulls too. Damnit.
 
pearl said:
The way I would do it would be to grab the Nashbar Carbon Cross Fork for 100. That way I won't have any issues for the front. I just threw out a set of centerpulls too. Damnit.
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I have like 10 of them. Grab one.

Edit: I think I remember some post about some people only running front brakes, although it may not be in spec with the rules.
 
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Does the garbage man have to shake the dumpster, every dumpster, when he dumps it into the back of the truck? 7:30am, like a freaking clock.

I hate you Mr. Garbage Man.
 
be thankful to those hard working guys n gals otherwise your place would stink quite bad!


on a related note, 5am 6mr again?
 
pearl said:
Sherwood Bike to Sherwood Bastard CX Bike
So if you have read this before, You know the history of this. I won't go into it again, but I came across this post earlier last week and got my brain tinkering. Would make a fun little winter project (yes, it is early to be thinking about winter) and keep this bike around. I need to add brakes onto it anyway. The real question I have is if anyone knows ANYONE who welds/builds frames, etc. The major operation for this is to add the canti bosses and guides across the top of the frame.

My ellios pizza buzzer just popped, brb.
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you can just borrow my shogun, fits cross tires just fine.
 
Peezy Jungle Recap

I think I was the seventh car in the lot. Pre rode with Dustin and Tyler. I don't normally warm up that much but I felt good. We finish our warm up and are tooling around the upper lot. Dustin cracks a joke about my chain being loose. Didn't notice it until now. It can't be that bad.

Before I know it I am in the front of the starting line. Not sure how I ended up at the front, but whatever. It looks cool. I only recognized a couple of people this time around, which I didn't know would be a good thing or a bad thing. I try to focus with 15 seconds to go. Dudeman blows the horn and were off. I somehow miss my cleat and feel like an idiot, but it doesn't cost me anything.

My goal was to stick with Dustin as long as I could. I get in front of him and I would say we are the front of the second group. I'm cool with this. Follow Henry from Campmoor into this section and the beginning of the course is just up my alley. Smooth and flowy. I'm relaxed and feeling good. Dustin chats with me and says I'm keeping it steady and flowing good. Thats encouraging. I keep this for maybe 2 miles. All the sudden I have no pressure on my cranks. WTF. My chain is off.

Matty ends up passing me and asking if I was okay. This happened at Blue once (Which I thought was a fluke and didn't check it like an idiot) so I figured this was the one time. Cool. I catch back up to Matty and he lets me pass him as I try to hawk down Dustin up otter slide. I see him at the top of the hill but I never catch him, or see him again.

I come around for the end of the first lap and all I can think of is that took forever. I can't keep this crap up. I grab another fresh bottle from Mandi and head back in. Knowing it was a little smoother in the beginning gave my bones some time to rest.

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I can't remember all the details at this point, but here are some key points:
-Chain falls off another five times for a total of six.
- Me and Joaquin (I only know his name because someone yelled it) Battled for much of the race. He's a cool dude. Eventually I couldn't keep my damn chain on the bike so I fell way back.
- Some geared guy gets pissed that I got in his way on this tight single track. He doesn't give me any notice or tell me he wants to pass. I told him that he should have told me which way he wants to pass me. 45 seconds later he has a flat. Karma.
- My rear tire rubbed the WHOLE RACE. WTF? It's never rubbed before. I have to throw something smaller than a 2.2 on it and see what happens.
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Not much else happens here, I get smoked by ChrisS and Kirt at one point who were on fire the whole way. Tyler eventually blows by me too. He is getting freaking fast.

Towards the last fire road towards AC, I come up on a SSer in a Team Town Cycle jersey. YES.

I fall in behind him and ride his wheel up the fire road. He asks if I want to pass and I say no. I'm totally spent at this point and knowing that Animal Chute isn't making it any better. As soon as I said No he tries to lay down the juice. This lasts for about 10 seconds and he peels off. I pass him right after the entrance to AC and give it all I got. It isn't much, but it was more than he had. I end up getting too tripped up and hike some of these sections. I hear geared bikes munching behind me and at this point I know that guy is toast. I climb to the top and see the Campmor ladies hanging out. I know I'm close and try my best to keep myself composed. I don't see the TTC guy and that means I made it stick. That never happens to me. I pass under the tunnel and pop some bottles. I spray Chris in the face with my water bottle. Boy was I happy that was over.

Me passing the guy kept me from DFL. Not much else I could have done better this time around, besides learn how to tighten up my EBB incase shit happens again.
 
Good job grinding it out. Like I said to someone else a few minutes ago, try to learn something from every race.

Keep at it, you'll keep getting faster. And next time you're going to camp across from my water bottles, pick one up and give it to me so I don't almost crash doing it myself.
 
I set my mary up so I had the BB in the 8-7 o'clock position. (if your looking at the left side) Get big bolts so you can use a 8mm instead of 4mm. It will NEVER come loose.
 
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