South East Cyclist

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this is a fun race to do as a team of 4. you cant let the racing get too much in the way of your beer drinking!
Fennell sold me out though, says he wants to be on a “real” team. WTF is a real team anyways.
i still want to do the race, semi-seriously with some dudes. preference of single speeder types. any one interested should e-mail me and it should also be known that i HATE riding at night but i will pull my weight.

Yesterday afternoon, i got out for a road ride on beautiful Oak Island. it was a point in the day where i had the opportunity so i geared up and got out. i had been riding for about 45 minutes when i crossed by where a school bus was letting out some youngern’s.
damn kids are mean. i got laughed at…
i assume it was because i was wearing my neon orange with blue tribal print Pactimo / Kane kit WHAT?! that shit looks dope with my neon orange Euskaltel-Euskadi Catlike helmet.
dumb highschoolers. if i had a team inferno kit they probobly wouldnt have laughed ’cause all the kids like urban snow camo, especially when it has an abercrombie and fitch logo on it.

tomorrow’s start of the East BLVD Bar and Grill short track series is being post poned due to bad weather that is on the way.
BE GLAD! because i was going to stomp the mother fucking yard dudes. i have some major shit up my sleves. i helped a pal build up a rad new world cup capable single speed, and this pal is going to be my cat 1 roadie domestique

but since the weather is bad and i am off work untill next saturday because i thought i’d be moving to asheville this week but i’mnot moving there for another month, i am going to Oak Island to hang out with my girlfriend for a week. while there i’m going to TRAIN on my road bike so i can STOMP THE MOTHERFUCKING YARD EVEN HARDER!!!!!!!!

muahahahaha

this is all a dream… go back to sleep

… this post is more or less to make sound less like a hater. i am not going to take the easy route and dismiss 29er’s as trendy because its here to stay for sure and lets face it, i can be a trendy guy ( i love fixed gear bikes and ridgid single speed mountain bikes, tight britches and teeshirts from american apparel)

reason #1: i’m 5′5″ and although i claim 5′6″ just because you wont challenge me there is no feasable way for me to fit on one of these bikes.
maybe thats really all there is to it, but i like to be over the front.

reason #2: bottom bracket drop. i am kind of a bike geometry nerd… so some of you might know of this measurement as BB higth rather than drop. although the higth is relative to that of a 26er the drop is the important measurement being the distance between the plane of your axles and the bb spindle.
the more that distance increases the farther your feet get away from the center of the turning point as the bike leans gives you *less* traction in turns counter that by using a higher BB and you loose standover, and wind up witha bike that handles nervous.
*this is theoretical and can also be countered by the fact that a 29″ tire has more contact with the ground

reason #3: weight.
29ers are more heavy. so are their longer forks and longer rear triangles. oh and the rotational weight of the massive wheels

reason #4: rear end length.
think 1×9 is just a cool thing to do? most 29ers that are geared are 1×9 because front deraileur cages want to fight with tire knobs when typical geometry is used. otherwise they are lengthy wich means *less* traction and makes it harder to weight the rear tire on decents wich results in *less* controll

reason #5: head tube higth.
i have seen even normal sized riders put ugly inverted stems on their 29ers to get those bars lower!

reason #6: asthetics.
i know its petty, i just dont like the way they look.

i think most people who give it a try experiance a new feeling, and associate new with good… but i know several people from racers to weekend warriors who for waht ever reason got back on their 26er decided that they had been suckered into the 29 hype.
now talk amongst your selves and leave me comments telling me about how i am wrong.

i used to kind of be fast. fast in the way that i could stay out till 3 am drinking and smoking gritts and still place uppermid pack.
i dont stay out late like i used to, and it takes me weeks to finnish a p[ack of smokes these days BUT i ride WAAAAY less. theoretically i should be fast.
damn work.

i am spaming up my own blog to let it be known that i have an ungodly amount of DIADORA and LAKE cycling shoes, most vintage on ebay.
tell your neighbors tell your friends!
my seller ID# on ebay is “Spokewrenches”
or just search for diadora or lake brand shoes and you’ll find me.

spread the word!