Since recently falling in love with my new road bike, and the position on it is just perfect, I made the call to switch out my old ginormous salsa cross bars, to a nice Ritchey Bar. Slick Rik has been trying to talk me into switching to a more traditional bar for a couple of years now, and C3-Sollay teammates E-town and Morgan busted on my monster bars all last season. Truth is, I finally got comfortable on a more traditional bar, the position is correct, I'm gonna rock with it.
While installing new bars, I took the opportunity to add some new pimpy white tape, which looks damn fine if I don't say so myself. It's "gel tape" which I have to admit might be a bit more padding than I like, but it was a quick pick up and this is what they had. I have this weird manual dexterity thing, went back to even when I was skating, I could never pull off my biggest moves if I was wearing gloves. I hate wearing gloves now, and avoid it unless it's cold. I'm a little worried the "gel tape" will take away too much of that feed back. We'll see.
In other boring equipment news, I will be able to rock another cross max frame this year. Last 
cross season, I figured out pretty quickly that I liked the all aluminum cross max frame far more than the top of the line max carbon. However, riding for the Fort Factory team I felt it was my responsibility to ride what the team was riding, and represent the product the director wanted to show. The max carbon treated me well, and I had some great races on that bike. But the truth is I just always liked the feel of the cross max better, and after brokering a trade, now I'll be able to rock two aluminum frames this fall. Yeah, exciting for me, probably nobody else. Anyway, that box of parts represents my second bike now. I better get cracking and get that thing together soon.
Monkey and I are meeting up with Jan, Rotten, and E-town for a little work at the fatcave this morning. Should hurt a lot, but be fun. You know how that goes. More grass track with (i)Paul sunday. He may be on to something. Have you registered yet?
respect.
faticus
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Second bike a cross max too? Blue and gray?
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thanks for the invite Marc, let me know eher the grass track training is. sounds fun.
White looks great on that bike, especially the saddle.. what size is that frame? 54?
As if the similarity in sideburns and names weren't creepy enough, we also have strikingly similar bike set ups.
I finally let go of the Salsa cross bars too (for Ritchey bars). Life is so much better now!
Dude, I just looked at bikereg and didn't see Granogue, is it not happening? Is the Wayne Scott racing occuring instead? Thanks dude,
-BC
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