Monday, August 18, 2008

The Cable Guy and a return to dirt...

Latest bling for the Roubaix: Nokon cables. Lighter, smoother, sexier. And you can do this funky shifter cable routing. * OH yeah, thanks to Josh for planting the idea, ordering them and installing them... he's a habitual idea-planter that one. Next up: chrome bar tape.

Yesterday the rain finally cleared and the mountain bikes were set free. The trails are in surprisingly good shape considering the amount of precipitation we've endured. Myself, Karl (Rata's), Josh and Michael "Hammerin" Naylor set out up the S-Bends, over to Deliverance and then reconoitered the course at Makara for the first PNP race in a couple of weeks. Lots of climbing and cool singletrack. It's going to be a tough one. About three hours later we were done, well and truly toasted but loving the MTB's again. There's no way I could be a full-time roadie, the dirt is just too much fun...
even if it's mud.... Not too bad for 40km of trails, mainly little patches and bogs, otherwise the trails were amazing, just check out these happy campers...

2 comments:

Flametop59 said...

What do you mean chrome tape? I thought the rule was black and black only!! My white tape is turning to black.

brettok said...

I know I know! Was expecting some backlash....