Shake That Baby

The wife is coming home tonight. We hopefully will be going shopping tonight. First to EMS for wicking tshirts for riding with a hydropack & then to find a bookcase for our expanding book collection.

Getting in another ride at Catawba this afternoon before the wife pulls in to Charlotte. I’m trying out a new Deuter bag & I’ll try to remember to throw my camera in it. I’ll be back to riding the Karate Monkey (fully rigid) & was a bit spoiled with the Maverick SC32. Slowly I am believing in having two bikes – one rigid & ss – one with that fork and a Rohloff hub in the back. I’m getting the shaken baby syndrome.

Light It Up

Rode Catawba again. Great fun. Hope to get rides in tonight and a good long one tomorrow. Saw MTBCHK working!! Looking good though.. all tan from working outdoors. Or walking between place to place. Either way it would be great to get a tan at work.

Dirt Divas ride tonight up at N. Meck if anyone is interested. I hope to leave the shop a little before 5 so I can pass the traffic. Maybe Mel will go out for dinner after? Maybe it won’t rain for once. Anytime I’ve gone for a Diva ride at N. Meck it’s POURED. All two times but still.

Ride It!

Rode the 29er today at Catawba. Rode the ML8 up near UNCC. Platform pedals were needed. Bought new shoes to compliment them. Enjoyed riding the berms greatly. Big thanks to Mr & Mrs Err for helping me out. Heading back out to Catawba tomorrow night after work to test out a certain project bike of the shop & then hopefully hit up the DS on the ML8.

Dealing with the lonely life decently. The pup and I have been bonding in our time away from the girlfriend. She should return mid week which will make life go back to some type of normal schedule. Especially since she starts her new job later in the week. Also the cactus’ get in later this week. Hopefully I’ll get to ride something with them this next weekend. Hmph. Kinda sucks when it’s only Sunday night and you are already looking at the next weekend for sanity sakes.

Day Off

Woohoo – tomorrow’s a day off! Also it so happens that Catawba is opening back up for all. If you didn’t know one of the best local trails in Charlotte has been closed for 2 years due to the construction of a certain US National White Water park thingy. I’m taking the 29er & hopefully borrowing the shops Maverick ML8 and heading out to Catawba to try and keep up with a bunch of boys on their toys.

The other things that are happening include two movies in 24 hours. (Invincible & Miss Little Sunshine.) Some sweet threads coming in the mail from TwinSix. Other presents in the mail from my mom. There are others but I can’t think of them right now… Did I mention the cross bike? Oh yes I did.

Tomorrow the shops Sunday morning ride is riding up to the hospital to visit Warren. All info is here. I also will be visiting Warren tomorrow by car & can fill ya’ll in on how he is doing.

S&S

First off – thanks to everyones kind words about Warren. He’s stable & if I hear any new news I’ll post.

Hopefully you check out the shops blog as I try to post bike/work related goodness over there. I try not to bore the loyal readers like my mom and girlfriend with daily bike geekness. BUT I do have one bike related thing to talk about.

I’m ordering a custom cross bike. DeSalvo Custom Cycles is the creator. I’ve personally worked on many of Mike’s frames & each of them have been gorgeous. (Ride amazing & seem to hold up well.) He gives a pretty good deal to employee’s of the bike industry. He also has been patient with me in the last 6 months to figure out what I truely want. I’m finally biting the bullet for a custom goodness. I plan on building up 2 sets of wheels, or maybe one set and a spare rear. Either way the run down is as follows.

Steel. S&S couplers. Single Speed. Goodness. The 5 S’s of a SWEET ride.

That’s the word for now. Goodluck to everyone riding the E100 – I hope Dicky got there with two wheels.

Prayers please

Warren’s the goofball on the left.

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Tally-ho

Haven’t been riding or doing much of anything lately. Trying to fight off a cold for the past week or so. This has led me to be off the bike for a week as well. Ask my girlfriend about it. I’m cranky. I hope to get on some type of bike tonight to start fixing my fix.

Work has been a bit crazy. As of yesterday we are open 7 days a week. This means my schedule has changed up a bit, but for the good I think. Tomorrow is a day off & I have a long list of things to get done. The girlfriend is leaving for a week vacation away from me. She did infact get a position in a local public radio station. I’ll leave her to explain that to ya’ll.

I have some work todo.

Benji

Reasonably how far can you ride your 29er rigid knobby bike on the road? Trying to figure out how to RIDE to the trail..just a question.

Lunch out with the girlfriend at Rock Bottom again. Chicken Fried Chicken. I was craving it. It’s cheap, right uptown, & there is free parking.

It seems like the cougar has retreated, or maybe it is being quieted down via a monkey dancing. Who knows. I never could understand wild cats. I hope that it doesn’t find me alone in the woods one day. Speaking of Monkey dancing… monkeyphile has been a bit slack this week. It’s Wednesday my boy.

Melanie finally got new to her shifters on the road bike, Jacob is blowing up wheels, Taryn is running into more garages & Ben is pimping the single speed. I think that covers my core circle and their damage of bikes eh?

Not a whole happening – ate it on a dismount last night on the new cross bike. Don’t put the cheap set of pedals on your cross bike when you are practicing mounting/dismounting. I realized this soon after sliding butt cheek first down the bike path’s gravel of love.

Justin

Restless sleep leads me to an early rise. Woken by a strange number calling the cell. Woken by an even stranger knock at the door. Who knocks on doors these days? Alarm was going off at the shop. A couple phone calls later it is all better – a commuter set off the alarm by accident. Now what to do with my morning?

Ended up shopping at Old Navy over the weekend. Glorious. New pants, shirts, socks and bracelet. Super soft t’s & polo’s. I’m bringing Sexy Back just like Timberlake.

Got a bunch of loose ends to tie up at the shop today. Repairs, cleaning, and a little mini inventory. MINI – like 2%. Figuring out some details for Inter-Bike — ya know.

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Searching amazon for a good deal on shoes. I’m not much into fashion but I enjoy finding a good deal on shoes. Shoes & the sale section of Old Navy are my two downfalls. I tend to wear only 2-3 pairs of shoes until they wear out. Then I search for a new pair to replace the crapped out pair. Buy 3-10 pairs of shoes until I find something that fits perfect and has enough flavor but not too much. Then that pair is put in the rotation and I go back to having 2-3 pairs. That’s the life of shoes. Much like the life of jeans in my life as well. So I am left with many pairs of unloved shoes & pants that end up being donated or in the case of shoes – left at my moms house. Enough about shoes. I mean if you see something cool let me know, but I’ll shut up about them for now.

Had sushi with Jeannie & a friend tonight. The place was freaking freazing but it was part of their ploy to make us get warm tea. Could be it is 68 degrees out in August. Feels like October today. The Maki 101 from Sushi 101 is yummy. It came out in a pastry dish and everything.

The cougar is still on the loose in NC. There was a sighting this morning but nothing since.