Dustbowl

After work went to play in the Don. Did a little dirt jumping to mix it up a little. Tomorrow I get to play a little downhill style.

With the weather we are having it's been really dusty.

Another easy day. Man, this heat wave really saps one. Almost like when I was in Sydney Australia a few years ago.

Oh, well. Have to work tomorrow, get up really early. Once I'm done go ride the Don for a couple of hours.

In the cooker

Did some errands around town. One of the first was to stop by and see the crew at Cycle Solutions Beaches location. These guys had a bunch of teams at the Albion Hills event.

http://www.cycle-solutions.com/

All the guys where complimenting me on my efforts as Crew Chief at the race. Some of the guys weren't even there. Now they are trying to recruit me for the August event. Guess I may have a calling.

Well, while there picked up a new bite valve plus found out I'll be getting one of their cool race jersey's.

The Day After

Went for an easy ride to loosen up after the weekend.

So it was Albion Hills that the 24 Hours of Summer Solstice occured. I was called by Matt Klymson to be his crew chief for his solo effort. It was fun to do it and would do it again.

Now I myself would never want to ride for 24 hours like Matt, but I wouldn't mind trying a 6 hour Enduro in the future. Plus it gave me some ideas for a future project in the works. But more on that later.

Matt was incredible, he was consistent the whole race. By the end he had matched Marc Hendershott for for total laps completed. An astonishing 23 laps.

The Pit area for Matt


Matt post race

More here at Mtbr.com,

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=305672

Discombobulating Day

Well today was a bit of an up and downer.

But spent 3 hours riding the Don trails today. Am riding them better then ever it seems. It seems that riding the trails elsewhere as well works great. Even better was how it felt after I had angled the bar a bit to a more aggresive position.

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Now, it's off to albion Hills to act as Crew Chief for a buddy who is racing solo.

First Day of Summer

Today was the first day of summer and was a perfect day for some hill work at what I call Ben Trash.



Did 3 climbs up with the added challenge of dust clouds from the trucks on the access road. Oh well, If it doesn't kill me it can only make me stronger. After words went and played on the trails and even found a new section that once cleaned up will make a good technical section.

On the ride home was thinking of some upgrades for the Mistress,

I was thinking of a seat, like the brooks one I saw on Team Bad Idea Racing's site today,

http://teamdicky.blog.com/

Maybe a new bar and stem will be in the future.

Road Trip

So after yesterdays rainout decided to put the rental to good use. Headed out to the Durham Forest.

http://www.canadatrails.ca/mtb/on/durhamforest.html

After grabbing a Iced Capp, headed out to the trail head.

Spent 3 hours on the trails. Nice and fast. Good ride. Need to tweek my bar angle a bit though.