Caffeine....its not spicy enough.

Check it out, My Lefty came in!!! woot, so we mounted her up with the Project321 adapator and my buddy Thorstein cut the Steerer tube down to size on the Lathe in our machine shop. The lefty came with two Salsa Delgado wheels, I decided to put on the Hutchinson Pythons (i am stoked to find these in 29er sizse) and Convert them to Tubeless utilizing the Ghetto Stans tubless mehtod, it worked out very well, but they are a bit heavier then then Stans wheelset I was running previously, but they were destined to get mounted back on my single speed. I think a new wheelset will be a project down the road. I have heard a lot of horror stories with converting these wheels but i have had a lot of experience with the Ghetto method so we will see. If this works out well i may even try experimenting with valve stems and the stans yellow rim tape.





Going to break it in this weekend at the8 Hours of Cool

Sea Otter

You probably think there will be some awesome race story.

But I just went for the energy drinks.



There was also this really awesome band crankin out the rocky theme....



Ohh and the bamboo bike was really cool and stuff.

I was like....mr local today.

Yeah so i roll up to the local trail parking lot (Skeggs) and the lot is full with tents from Rocky Mountain, Specialized and Cannondale as well as Mikes Bikes from Palo Alto, turns out there is some demo day going on. Joe and I were on a mission to ride so we blew off the the demos and set off on a tempo for the next 2 and a half hours that was just below race pace.

Towards the end of the ride i see this kid in distress, hes on a brand new specialized bling bling XTR you name it demo bike but manged to break the chain, its a good thing I ran into him cause it would of been a long ride out. He was amazed that i had him up and running in 30 seconds. I had a power link in my saddle bag and it turns out when i looked at the chain that he must of broke the his power link because i didn't need a chain tool to remove an old link. Before he could even comprehend that his bike was fixed, joe and I were on our way.

We got a good 20 miles of single track in before we headed back to the car, where E was waiting in the toaster for our ride. She's getting better every week and we rolled out for another two hours of riding.

As we were about to head back to the lot, I saw the Cannondale crew looking at the Map trying to figure out where to ride, I tried to explain where to go to get to the good stuff, but after a few looks of huh...I told E to hang out while i gave these guys a quick guide to the beginning of the trail with some follow on directions.

When we got there, they were totally stoked and really excited that some stranger gave them a quick tour. I felt pretty good about it, Its hot and cold out here on the trails with the locals and i felt like a mountain embassador. When I left I thought, i should have thrown the car Keys to E and given these guys the grand tour.... oh well, Ill remember to do that next time.

Boggs 3

Saturday the folks at Bike Monkey Put on the third annual 8 hour race at the Boggs Demonstration Forest. About 400 people showed up in teams and Solo categories. The Course was a really sweet 9.2 Mile loop with about 1200 feet of climbing per lap. A mix of soft pine needle buff single track and rocky technical stuff with plenty of tight twisty descents.

Carlos Perez, is the man running the show and he he outdid himself just as he has at all of the lake sonoma races. Lots of really cool people, great food and beer afterwards and an awesome system for posting real time results in between laps.



E did a great job leting me know where I was at in between laps, I finished 5th in expert, with 8 Laps.

It was a rough race day, i had some knee trouble and after lap 6 I had to stand on all of the climbs, which wasn't a big deal since I am used to doing these races on my single speed. I finished lap 8 with 52 minutes remaining. The rules stated that you had to finsh the lap at this time, not just go out. My knee was toast and my previous lap was about an hour long so I figured it would be good to call it a day and save the knee.

I lost my Garmin Edge 305 during the race, it flew off my bars. I knew where it happend but I wasn't turning back. Bike people are so cool and it turns out it ended up back in Carlo s's hands.

This was also my first race drinking Gu20 instead of HEED, i was digging it, or at least i wasn't completely sick after getting bounced around all day.

I got lots of complements on the Mamasita, everyone dug the Paint job, one woman was sitting on the side of the trail during my last lap and Yelled "Is that a 29er?" she was pumped....Salsa has that effect on woman.