Category: Cycling

  • Titanium & Blue Aluminum

    Titanium & Blue Aluminum

    I finished building my new Kent Eriksen titanium hardtail XC bike this week. I’ve been working on this bike for almost three months, and it was well worth the effort. The frame was made by Kent Eriksen in Steamboat Springs, CO. Kent did a great job (as expected), and was very helpful in the design…

  • Ride Log Update

    Ride Log Update

    I haven’t done one of these in a while, but here it is: April 2008: 152.6 miles 138.0 miles of the total was single track on the M2, 49.8 miles of which was on the M2 after a singlespeed conversion. The remaining 14.6 miles was on the Gunnar on the road, roughly 10 miles of…

  • SID Rebuild

    SID Rebuild

    It is after midnight on a Friday. Why am I up? Why am I writing this? …Because I just finised rebuilding my ’07 Rock Shox SID Race. A couple days ago the SID went from an 80 mm fork to somewhere around 35-40mm. Having previously killed a SID, I thought this one may be dead.…