90 Days… Well ninety days on the bike and the bike was on dirt every one of those days. I haven’t yet bothered to count how many days I have had in the saddle since the knee incident and the sudden lack of employment I would find myself in for the next year. 90 days is a pretty good number but I often think about where I could have gotten the extra 10 to make it to 100 before being shuttled off to lands far away and somewhat inhospitable to mankind let alone riding.
The imposed rest over the next two weeks will be the longest I have been off the saddle all season. Five days being the current standard bearer and the primary reason for that was the monster saddle sore that decided makes it’s presence felt a little too much. Monster ass growth aside this little hiatus couldn’t have come at a better time, the bike doth protest. The links and pivots are moving in ways they shouldn’t and making a little too much noise about it and my cranks have axial play that just isn’t quite normal. Alas these annoyances can only be addressed buy throwing hard currency them, which of late have been of dwindling, supply.
In the meantime I get back to the old roots of Arctic field camp maintenance. Pumping fuel and water, burning garbage and sorting out what the hell is wrong with the generator this time. All the while reminiscing the past 6 months of riding, plotting the next adventure and accumulating the much required hard currency for all of these elements to come together.
The tick list thus far:
Joint health, always a good thing
Moab, I can’t believe it took 15 years to get there
Cambodia, not the Southeast Asian nation
Highway 102 with unintended call to search and rescue
Highway 102 without aid of search and rescue.
Discovery of so many unused old and new trails in the backyard
Amazingly good Birthday Epics
The Chilcotins
The Hit List:
The 100th ride of ‘09
Northshore Triple-Crown
Seven Summits
Trail X
The Damage:
Dirvetrain replaced
Rearwheel finally gave up, wheel round and true but spoke-beds cracking
Rear Shock oil emulsified
Cranks worn chain rings still fine
Upper link pivot bolt worn.
Maybe I am going to need more than two weeks to $ort all of this out…
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