a bit of a blog by a James Bucky

Thursday, March 31, 2011

march, bloody hell

just heard on the news. March 29 out of 31days raining. 23 consecutive rain days. 6.6" rain for the month total. bloody hell.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A recent obsession with mountain bikes

I got bored, mid season cyclocross racing last year I was bored, same scene not too motivating yeah. I decided to change things up. Its been a while, in fact Kentucky since I have done some real mountain biking, I declare :-

2011 is year of the mountain bike.

I got my shit together and decided what I wanted. Something fun, something to take a few small jumps and large bumps, yet something I could race on. A sort of of do all. Yep in most cases that means big compromise, but I think I chose a generally fun bike setup at the expense of pure speed, but FUN which is what mountain biking should be about. Ordered some stuff up and about mid Jan,

Lets build a bike
Joy, Joy, happy joy... here she is. A new MTB frame, soon to be lovely and dirty.

Add some components, wheels and a little elbow grease:-

Add a sweet fork from Fox 150mm of travel

Built up she looks like this. not yet ridden- super fun Trail bike , full suspension 5" of travel front and rear and weighs about 28lbs. Not superlight, not superheavy:-

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A nice mountain trip with bikes
A trip up Syncline with some pals. Lots of climbing and some great descent (of which I dont have photos)

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And a little snow:

I was also fortunate that last week we had a little snow in town. Just about 3" on my regular commute. Why not ride your mountain bike to work, I hear you say, well I did.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

In the Frisco, the san fran sisco

Spent a few days last week in the Ehh? Seef (SF). Cassie had a baby shower to go to on Sat (a friend of hers in the suburbs), I wanted to take a day off work. We headed out for a jolly mini holiday, arrived Friday PM, stayed Sat, Sun, Monday. Did some tourist stuff , stayed in a nice hotel off of Union Square (read swanky shopping district) ate some good food, walked a lot oh I also I got a deep tissue massage on my legs which almost crippled me! and met lots of Cassies friends, as she has quite a few who live in town.