What a bummer! Shortly after posting my 1000 mile ride carbon bike update, it happened, The Big Spill of 2014. It was a leisurely Saturday ride on my road bike. I was about twenty miles in and decided to take a route I had never before taken. The route took me thru a high school… [Read More]
Carbon Bike Update
I now have approximately one thousand miles on my self-built Chinese carbon bike so I thought an update was in order. Firstly, I’ve seen some on the net refer to these bikes as a Chinarello, a play on the brand from which the design was obviously taken (Pinarello). Worth a chuckle, at least to me…. [Read More]
Road Ride – TORGV
The 2014 “Tour of the Rio Grande Valley” (TORGV) was recently held in Albuquerque and I decided to give it a whirl. I’m glad I did! Not knowing anyone makes these types of events very difficult for me to get involved with. In spite of that, I forced myself to give it a shot. After… [Read More]
VeloBuild – Buyer Beware
I had hoped to post my VeloBuild R-028 build and impressions on the VeloBuild forum. I attempted the post four different times and it never appeared in the forums. Very strange, I thought. I finally sent an email asking if they could look into the issue. TWO WEEKS after sending that email, I finally have… [Read More]
R-028 Derailleur Hanger
If you read this story, you know that I recently broke the rear derailleur hanger on my VeloBuild R-028 carbon fiber bike. I’m not sure how many of these frames are out there, probably not millions. However; for those that have one, I have a piece of information that you may find useful someday. The… [Read More]
Broken Carbon Bike
Ya, I did it. I broke my new carbon fiber road bike…. Let’s step back. I was out on my third ride with my new beauty (see here) having a glorious time with her. I started climbing one of the few local climbs (a cat 4, by Strava) and all was going well. I was… [Read More]
R-028 Impressions
Note: I built up this bike myself. For the details of that build, see this post. I suspect twenty miles is nowhere near enough with a bike to adequately review it. With that said, some initial impressions… I am not being fair. I had a very hard ride this past weekend – I am sore… [Read More]
Carbon Fiber Road Bike
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I am relatively new to the world of road cycling. If my memory serves, it was nearly two and a half years ago that I started riding an old mountain bike on the road. Several months later, I purchased a much… [Read More]
Carbon Fiber Handlebar
There aren’t too many bike parts that aren’t available in carbon fiber these days. I’ve generally looked at carbon fiber parts as being for racers and weight-weenies. I’ll probably never race and still have dozens of pounds to lose off my butt before I start nit-picking my bike for ounces. However; I was talking to… [Read More]
Bike Light
I’ve been riding on rural and small town roads for several years now with pretty good success. I haven’t been hit!! That is not to say that there are not some real bone-headed drivers – there most certainly are plenty of those. I bought a cheap red light a long time ago and only used… [Read More]
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