Looking into ways to get my bike out to Utah for my trip next week and came across this …
Not sure that I’m all too excited about this method but it is interesting at least. I’d mostly be concerned about my wheels getting damaged with the duffel bag method but it might be possible.
Could also just get a cardboard box from the bike shop and pay the $50 each way.
Thoughts?
Update: Consensus on mtbr was to go with a soft case like this one from Dakine, so I ordered it. Hopefully it makes it here before my trip! …
This is simply bad ass … don’t mess with the Cruz cause Cam McCaul himself may show up and make you look like an ass:
Bike thieves are scum.
Speaking of Cam, I read his column in this month’s Decline the other day. Sounds like he broke his collarbone again … 2nd time in 6 months. This time he was trying a double back flip. Unreal … healing vibes Cam!
Stone and I had a real epic ride today–all of 2 miles. We were actually trying to ride our big bikes on Diablo. … after the 1 mile spin to the trailhead it became clear that Stone’s shifter or derailleur on the Free needed work. We tried but didn’t have an extra cable or the patience to fix it.
Nothing left to do but turn around and drink beer at that point … probably for the best. It was 100 degrees and those Diablo climbs are awful even on XC bikes when it isn’t scorching. Stone is lucky that he’s able to sort out the issues with the Free before making a longer trip with it–would have been brutal to get to Demo or Downieville and have a mechanical like that.
Straightened the RFX’s front mech and re-installed it yesterday. Seemed to work ok for the two miles we rode … we’ll see.
Not much else going on. Here’s a cool video to keep the stoke going … loops on the pocket bike–pretty sweet.
Ja and I rode Demo on Sunday afternoon … good ride, one leisurely loop of Bacon->Sawpit, no major mishaps until … About half way down after the climb on sawpit I derailed and had a bit of a hard time getting the chain back on … finished the downhill without incident … or so I thought.
Oh, snap–about 1/4 mile up the climb on Hihns Mill my chain blows up. No problem, I have an extra power link … re-thread the chain and try to turn the crank, but it won’t budge. After a few puzzled moments we notice the chain wedged between the bash guard and the front mech. Outer parallelogram has a 30 degrees bend in it–oops.
Pull off the mech and Ja notices that on the back there is a sticker which says: “HA CK”. Yeah, well, to that I say: “Fsck you, Shimano!” Somewhere there is a Shimano engineer sipping green tea and chuckling at me … this is like a fortune cookie message mocking you about a disaster which has already struck. Or something. Okay, bad analogy. Whatever … I may get the last laugh though … tonight the mech met the pliers it and it may be back in action, we’ll see.
All in all a good day. No major carnage other than the derailleur. Seeming to hit more of the stunts every time there, but that may be all in my head … still, those new skinnies are sweet.
And I’m finally kinda getting in tune with the RFX–the setup mods I made to the DHXc seem to have helped. May have actually felt worse climbing out of there yesterday than two weeks ago when we did two laps. Ah well, that crash took its toll …. good times!
Well, it was a pretty good weekend for the Stone boys. Carter got his first bike for his 2nd birthday, and his old man picked up a Santa Cruz VP-Free. Now we just need to get these rigs up to Downieville and Northstar.
