Most Accidents Happen within a 1/4 Mile of your House

Isn't that what they say? Is it true?

Well, I was out today for most of the day. I was in the woods at 7AM with my buddy Mark building a new trail. Then I took a 7 mile ride with the kids on hard packed dirt rail-trail. A fun ride for me on the C-dale singlespeed. Then when we got home I took the bikes off the car rack. I decided to ride Zoe's new Spec Hardrock into the garage. I jumped off a curb to feel the fork compress a bit and my foot slipped off the pedal. Bruised the heck out of my leg. It swelled up bad right away. She has these nasty metal spiked pedals. They are definitely coming off right away.

Congrats to Mike for finishing the Tri sprint at Longleaf

Dear MICHAEL,
Congratulations on your participation in today's 6th Annual Longleaf Tiathlon presented by the Rotary Club of Seven Springs. We hope you had a great race experience!
Here are your official times:
SWIM:10:34
SWIM TO BIKE TRANSITION: 3:36
BIKE:26:02
BIKE TO RUN TRANSITION:1:51
RUN:28:24
FINISH1:10:26

If I am not mistaken Mike finished 72 out of 228 overall. He finished 17th for the bike!!!!!!!!

My Bikes are Back from the Shop

I had a tune up done on the road bike and while there I had them change the bar tape to blue. I heard I will be much faster with this tape.

They did a great job cleaning the cassette. It was nasty with gunked up old black grease. I waited too long to get this done. Now its clean and new looking. Shifts like buttah!

And now the ghetto rigid singlespeed conversion.

I call it "ghetto" because I did it for fairly cheap. I got the steel fork off a local bikers' website and the singlespeed conversion was done with a $45 kit. Its not technically true singlespeed because the drops are not horizontal. Therefore it needed a tensioner which you can see here.

Guys in the shop said they loved how this bike came out and had a lot of fun trying it once finished. I agree its a blast and only 23.1 lbs.

Good Luck to Mike on his Triathalon Tomorrow

RUN FOREST RUN!!!!

Don and his Tri

I don't know where he's going and I don't where he's been, but here he is posting his tri again.

Nice Rack

Mike's fine looking stable. At least he's color consistent.

Mike and the new Bike

more pics to follow

Columbus Day Morning Ride

Pre-Ride. Gear all set to go.

Stats for the ride. About half road and half trail. Felt pretty good today.

Post Ride dirt. Had to forge a creek that is running high right now.

Tri Twins

Don's new Tri bike

Mike's new Tri bike

First tri brother team to win Florida state champions 2012 :-)