Fonts, Crossish Loops, Utilitarian Bike Porn & M.I.A. Straps
Took the day off the bike today, and that was fine by me. I was mentally zapped after yesterday's wind blown road ride, AND I needed to get some work done on the mag. I would have got more done but I've been having some font compatibility issues. Not sure if it's a OSX 10.5.6 issue or what. Font loads, font works, go to make an EPS/PDF... and the program shuts down. But that's a whole other issue.
So in between some work, house stuff and B-Man activities I've been obsessing about some potential mountain rides. I am real close to a pretty sweet 50 to 65+ mile route that has some real potential as a kick ass mountain bike epic. F*ck, I remember a day when I thought a 20 mile ride was an "epic". WTF?
For some reason, right now I'm more interested in routes that fall in between a mountain ride and a road ride. I guess because I KNOW the mountain trails, I want to give myself MORE options for fun on the mountain. The only real name I can come up with is a "Monster Cross" course. Very similar to the ride I did the past Saturday to avoid the rain soaked trails. Right now my first attempt was a bit under 30 miles with well over 4,000' of elevation gains.
Some of the inspiration for gravel/dirt/pavement loops are:
The Three Peaks
Iron Cross
The Rouge Roubaix
The Dirty Kanza
Trans Iowa
Barry Roubaix
Even though my time in the mountain is pretty much limited to only on weekends (for the most part), I need to give myself as many excuses as I can to NOT ride my road bike. And as many excuses as I can to buy one of these, these, these or THESE! ;)
I also spent much of the day trying to find a replacement waist strap for my CamelBak Blow Fish. I like my Deuter M2 for shorter (longer) rides and for racing, but for those rides that are just short of all day epics, I need a few more items and end up cramming stuff in the M2. Then it gets all cattywompass on my back. The Blow Fish works well, but can slide around without a waist strap to help the sternum belt out a bit. At some point I removed the belt and now can only find one side. FRIG! I have a lead on one from a fellow rider, so I might be cool. You would think C/Bak would after market sale an item like that. But... they don't.
Time for bed. Need to rest up. Back on the bike tomorrow, and the "necessary evil", the ROAD! ;)
Later.
posted by Jason @ 10:30 PM
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2 Comments:
You should make a weekend trip down to VAdge for Metro's F*cking Epic ride of death. It's some of VAdges best singletrack dolloped on your plate in lung busting proportions of epicness. I just got a little wood and some sore legs thinking about it. It’s going down in June post Big Bear which would be cool to see you at again. Throw a 24 in for the fun of it.
Peace,
Metro
Sounds cool. I'm out on Big Bear, right after Mohican and right before the L-Jack. If I do a 24 it will be Seven Springs.
The F*cking Epic Ride of Death sounds cool as hell though. I'm hoping to put one of those together myself.
j
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