Lets ride some trails

It was warm here this weekend. Like in the 70's. Helped air up tires at the grizzly triatholn on saturday and found some good dirt on Sunday. The mountains to the right are in the rattlesnake wilderness and way off to the left are the mission mountains. Um I am ready to ride how about everyone else?

new shop is open!

Well, after many trials and tribulations, I finally opened up Redstone Cyclery V2 on Saturday. We've been in the building for a couple of months doing renovations. I'm glad it's finally time - I'm tired.

My first employee started today, too.

Karate on the 101

Pacific Coast Hwy scenery.

Fruita Fotos

I'm finally recovered enough to stay up after 8:00pm and get my photos uploaded. Great weekend! I'd probably do it again. Photos are here. Enjoy!

Eating = good.

The Fruita crew doing some eating. Lots of eating this weekend, lots of riding. I'm still picking up the pieces after getting back.

Here are a few ride photos

NOS

Just picked up this 1996 beauty from Frank. I have always been fond of the tiger stripe paint job. Wayne and Brian are still sporting the tangerine version. This baby is the big daddy XL version with a 23.5" top tube. Look at that short head tube (ugh, my back hurts already). What are suggestions for the build? Is it total retro ala 1996, or the new fangled stuff with outboard crank bearings and linear pull (no disc options).

Full.....

...suspension
...gears
...stoke!

My favorite yucca

Great day to go visit my favorite yucca. 50ish, with clouds building to the north with promises of big snow tonight. I tried to convince Butch to come ono over to see it, but he wanted to sit in traffic instead.

Whats cookin' in the kitchen

Before



After

70 degrees in March?

March 1, shorts, shortsleaves, a ride in the forest.

Yes.

Pics from the NAHBS

It was about a nine hour drive from Missoula. We had loaded up 6 beater bikes for the four of us. It seemed like every time we were about to start pedaling we were trying to recruit two riders for the other two bicycles. I think we only left the spares behind one time. The show was really cool again this year. It was a little crowded. One thing at this show that makes it a little more difficult to get in and check out all of the details of each bicycles is almost everyone has a camera. It's cool though thats how the builders get their name out there to everyone over the inturdnet. There was a lot of cool shit but the highlight for me was the all the riding around Portland that we got in while we were there. It would not have been as fun without BIKES! Here are some pics please help me with the details in the comments. This was Ricks 50th birthday weekend! Happy 50th Rick!

Good bye Sheldon

I'm sure a lot of you guys had already seen this, but I figured I'd put it up anyway. The man, the legend, the icon, Sheldon Brown has passed away.

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/sheldon-brown-1944-2008-14433

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechanic)

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/

Winter Park Singletrack

Headed up to the Fraser this weekend for a little get away time. Didn't want to mess with the resort and all the big bucks, so I packed the xc skis. I wanted to hit the Creekside/Flume loop, but that whole area is closed for pine beetle removal. What I got instead was climbing up the backside of Tippery. I've never played on the xc trails there in the winter, and now I can't wait to go back. I will, however, wait for this fresh blister to heal.

Back From China

I was in China for 2 weeks on a business trip. We visited a lot of manufacturing facilities and traveled to a few different cities (Shanghai, Souzhou, Qingdao, and Anshan). Things are definitely different over there.

View from hotel in Anshan. The high for the day was about -14.

This is a view from the Bunn in Shanghai. I heard someone say that every 23 days another building is finished that has more than 20 stories, and it has been that way for 10 years. Looking around Shanghai, I believe it. There is nothing but tall buildings in every direction. It was too foggy to see the top of the Jin Mao building (slightly shorter than the Sear's Tower) and the World Financial Center (under construction but will be the 3rd tallest building later this year).

These lovely ladies were playing in the lobby of our Shanghai hotel.

B.K., I found a new truck for you. This thing looked like it was being pulled by a garden tiller. There were a few of them driving around.

Qingdao is the home ofTsing Tao beer. We had fresh beer less than 2 hours old during dinner 2 blocks away from the brewery. Beer definitely closes the communication gap.

Stranahan's

I headed to Denver to meet up with Dave Nice at Stranahan's to pick up a few bottles of Colorado's finest whiskey, and got the nickle tour. Damn, this place was cool. Smelled freaking delicious, impressive stills, a huge room filled with barrels of whiskey aging quietly. If you haven't had a sip, find some. Oh, and if you don't know Dave, read the fine print, he's in he know. Nice-est guy you'll meet!

progress

making some progress. guardrails are up. i'll add the intermediate verticals and a handrail later.

Night Ride

I finally hit up the Redstone Tuesday Night Ride again. Helps that they came down my direction for some Marshall Mesa action.

I havn’t ridden much at all during the week in the last 4-5 months, and havn’t ridden at night in something like a year. It really hit the spot. It was cold, windy, icy in spots, and a ton of fun.

'round here...

lots of this...

night ride

with shrekie himself over at Lost Trail ski area. It was a bitch and a half to make it to the top following a beginner run, but after a couple of lengthy pushes we made it up only to look over the edge of abyss for some puckering downhilling on the fat tired bikes. Followed up the ride with a beer, some crown royal and a nice fire offered to us by some folks camping out to ski the next day.