Adventure pushies

[NordieBoy]

Coppermine race is on the 14th, after the Urban XC at Nelson Boys on the evening of the 11th.

I'm going to give the Epic a go. I'll probably get last, but I'll beat everyone that doesn't do it
Don't like the front steps at the Urban XC. Done it once on the CX bike and one on the full suspension Blur. Rigid single speed this time...

[NordieBoy]

Yeah, I was having to throttle back a little yesterday on the downhill so I wouldn't get as much watery, muddy, crap in my eyes.
I wrap my phone in a micro fiber cloth and then in a zip lock bag.

The descent from 3rd House back to the Brook is a good one.

On the way up, you're passing young things on cheap bikes laughing and smiling on their way back down and you just want to push them off and laugh manically as you watch them tumble down the hillside.
But you don't, because you're made of sterner stuff, and it would take to much effort anyway.

Then on the way back down, you laugh and smile at the grumpy old people riding up

[NordieBoy]

The Old Ghost Road is starting to look verra interesting...

[Brainflex]

That does look good. Gonna have to work out how to get away from home to ride that.

[Padmei]

The collateral damage from my ride in the rain the other week continues... Brake pads jammed onto the disc - had to be levered back. Bottom bracket really stiff & hard to turn. Worst of all my old wind up watch has stopped with water droplets visible on the glass

[NordieBoy]

Do they have any watchmakery people left in Nelson?

[Scubbo]

probably been posted elsewhere - but someone has pretty much motorized a mountainbike

http://www.fxbikes.com/

[Dave h]

Yeh Boi!!

Hopefully he's doing his course previews this year as well

[Padmei]

in a couple of weeks

[NordieBoy]

in a couple of weeks

Just no ghost riding the bike on the ghost road...

Ghost chips anyone?

That's one of my must do rides...

[NordieBoy]

Saw a track on Google Earth and though it link up nicely with my Pigeon Valley South loops.
An hour and a half of bush bashing through old gorse, blackberry, steep climbs, steep descents, I got back on the track and back out...

It might have linked up. In the past. The dim distant past. When dinosaurs roamed Gondwanaland. Not now though...

I am no longer to be known as "Gorse Boy".
"Blackberry Boy" has a certain ring to it...

Note to self, if the blackberry is covering the entire track and is around 2m tall, maybe that's a hint you shouldn't try going through it...

[Padmei]

Ouchies! You can't seem to go past the old overgrown tracks can you?

Well after I rode my bike the other week in the rain storm I have noticed a few things wrong. Front wheel bearings are binding, bottom bracket stiff, a few creaks & groans (from the bike). Took it to the doctor & he said I was prob up to about $500 for maintenance (Specialized pivot bearings are expensive & time consuming apparently) Bum. I think I'll just have to ride it till they flog out & it becomes a hardtail.
I did have a look at his electric MTbs tho - quite cool. The one with the Yamaha motor is about a grand cheaper than the Bosch motored one. I asked why the Bosch one was more expensive & he looked at me with one of those 'your dumb' looks & said "it's made in Germany"
I had to have a lil chuckle about that.

[NordieBoy]

Tom Sharland really likes his Haibike electric fully. Says it's more stable than his Lapierre Zesty.

Or just get a fat bike...

[Willdat?]

I did have a look at his electric MTbs tho - quite cool. The one with the Yamaha motor is about a grand cheaper than the Bosch motored one. I asked why the Bosch one was more expensive & he looked at me with one of those 'your dumb' looks & said "it's made in Germany"
I had to have a lil chuckle about that.

I've had a reasonable play on a Bosch powered Scott E-Aspect 920 (my parents have a pair of them) and they are incredibly good fun. The way that it responds to the effort you put in makes the throttle control quite intuitive. In NZ they only give you a boost to 25 km/h which is pretty sensible. I climbed Collingwood St at 25km/h on XC tyres...

[NordieBoy]

Been playing some more with my new Park Tools TM1 spoke tension thingy.
7th wheel (26er front) tuned up with good tension and good lateral and reasonable radial runout.
The 29er wheels all tuned up really well.
I'm doing them all to 110kgf on the tight side with a tyre mounted and pumped up.

Tonight's Mavic 717 XC rim was about 120kgf so I've dropped that to 110.

Measured my Roval race 26er wheels and they're all over the place and really low. Catch with them is some of the nipples are already damaged on the flats.