Fest

Lyons Fat Tire Five is coming. Memorial Day '05. Get ready. Remember last year?

First impressions!

This is a whole new world! First time on Full suspension, disk brakes, and nine speeds! The bike feels real comfortable. By the end of the weekend and nearly 100 miles in the dirt i felt like i was pedalling this bicycle uphill a little better. Pointing it downhill just left a big smile on my face. So many more lines are available now! Cornering at fast and slow speeds seemed good. Oh and i won't be building many more rim braked bicycles! I love having the big ass tires mounted up can't wait to let them roll down the trail at the fat tire fest! Dave are we hitting krosier again? Please! This bike makes me want to drive down to WP and hit the Mountain Goat trail like back in the day!

Sick of winter? ready for Spring? I am! Click here, there's more! 

Paging Bdiddy: Post a ride report already!!!

And some more pics! Hurry up damnit!

Finally there!! The barn was a welcome sight! 

This the sunset in WY, just before Wolfman drove through the snow.  

Trip Details

I'll try and give a little more trip details since we have been posting pics and videos in no real order. Friday was spent building bikes and drinking beer :) We took one break when a customer stopped in he rode his Nishiki alien out to the barn and we all had to check it out. I always wanted one of those weird things. hmmmm not sure why just really liked them maybe i liked the alpinestar better. Later we went down to the local brewery and tied one on! Carried home a 5 gallon keg and had a bonfire under a full moon! Seemed like Chaybo ordered up perfect weather for the lincoln peeps snow the weekend before and snow the day after we left but just down right perfect the entire time we were there!

Rest of the story is in the comments......................................

btw, this beer kicks ass. If it was 75 and sunny outside instead of 50 and raining, it'd be perfect. But if the weather was that good I wouldn't have bagged on the ride today.  

You know when how you can fill out those forms at stores to win something and you never win? And if you do win its something lame like a Heinakin golf bag? Not this time!! So.. 

Video from second ride.

If you plan on watching this more than once please Right click on the link and choose save target as and download it to your hard drive. I have a monthly limit for downloads and would like to share more videos! I guess i'll see how this goes and if it's something that everyone digs maybe i'll pass around the old donation hat!

Here is another vid of magic rockin the Hard Tail !

Relaxing on vacation!

Well we got back from vacation yesterday and i'm still one tired mofo. MISSION ACCOMPLISED! Day one magic cruising down McCarthy loop. I was building up my bike while the rest of these yahoo's were riding all over the neighborhood. I'll post some pics from day two soon. You can bet your sweet ass there are a few trail pics!

Spent Friday afternoon in the barn bike building.

Superdust!

Good ride today

Today was a great day for a ride. I was able to get out early to beat the weather. I went out of town, too :). It was a beautiful morning.


Fat Tire Fest V is coming up. We may get some time to hit the stash:

The elves have been at work.

The critters have been at work, too.

View from the trail: 14'ers ringing the valley, you can see 'S' mountain in the lower right, sitting above Salida.. 

Three years ago this was all dry. Good to see some snow up there, sad that we had to posthole a mile or so to get to the goods! I'll take that and the rain all day today, we need it. 

Some super goodness down in the Salida regions: The glorious Rainbow trail.  

hey kids, friends, and family......i'm usually not ever one to tote on my own pole, but i figured you all might enjoy....



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Redstone ride tonight - 9 people, Hall Ranch, Super fun.  

Anyone remember staying here? I did a pretty good road ride today, more here. 

Don't believe that Redstone isn't making it out for some rides here and there: Caught in the act! 

with anticipation of the Montana trip....can't wait to see you fellas !!

coyote trail...the smooth section

we'll ride here

you never know what you'll see around the next corner......... someone's own private sawmill via driveshaft off da ol' ponty. VERY NICE !!

WWBD?

What would (you) bloggers do?

Portal Trail?

Is this the archway that we were suppose to find? Somewhere between Goldbar rim trail and Poison Spider? Click on the Title it will take you to the pics!

More pictures of Fruita.

Courtesy of Mitch Kline. Good stuff!

http://www.mitchkline.com/fruita.asp?page=116

Big Wheels?

I caught this on MTBR. Click the title to take you to the post that has more pics! What does everyone think about this thing?

Oh La La!

A pic of the front hub on JRA's new lemond! I have a road bike and like to pull it out of the garage every now and again. i usally don't get all giddy and lust after new road stuff but this bike has me thinking up new get rich quick schemes!

Third Place!

Third place sport open! Way to go wolfman!

Tara snapped a few pics during the expert and sport race. Here is her best shot it captures jp on one of the twelve creek crossing in the expert race! Jim C. Jennifer and your little timmy too y'all did a good job coming up with a real tuff course. Jennifer had almost all of her volunteers split once everything was picked up and the race was shut down. They left her hanging in one department! Post race beer and burgers! Thanks Jen! Right place at the right time i guess. Overall a great race even though i sucked i was still having a blast! It sure is sure is nice to have the option to do a race that has a hometown feel to it like this one did! Thanks again for a new flavor of kool aid!

I think Tara's time was mid pack in the beginners! Ya that means that she beat half of the guys! Way to go Tara!

snowy day

Traffic in the shop today was piss poor. This was to be the first weekend of my extended hours (open til 5 instead of 4). I woke up today to rain changing to snow but the precip ended around 1pm. Skies were still cloudy and grey but the pavement had dried out. I figured to heck with it, I'm shutting 'er down at 4 so I can squeak out a ride, assuming I'd head out on the cross bike. Well, our dirt road wasn't too muddy and I hadn't yet cleaned the Flux from Wednesdays snow recon ride so I decided to check out Hall Ranch to see how it was. Mmmm, good, 100% rideable. couple parts were a little soft but not muddy. It was a good day. The skies parted for me to enjoy my ride. Just as I rolled back into the driveway, flurries were starting again.

This particular section was about as perfect and traction filled as it ever gets:

Yesterday: shorts, shortsleeves. Blue skies in the morning.  

One way to clean it off... 

droppin onto the rim

This is one of my favorites from my batch. This is right before we headed off onto the Western Rim.

saw a ghost in the shop

This beauty went out the door this week. The Grey Ghost is definitely a notch above the Pea Picker. This thing has a 5sp internal Sturmy Archer along with front and rear drum brakes. The shipping bill from Schwinn said it was 64 pounds.


I'm not sure if the dad or the son was more excited.

 

A parting of sea of people in the desert. For a celebrity, of sorts, no less. Anyone care to elaborate?