Stuck Again!

So I went to move my seat post up on my Transition TransAm 29, and DANG! It's stuck! Still reeling from the last time this happened to my Redline, I was about to start kicking and hammering.... 

But I came to my senses and made a tape dam at the top if the seat tube, and dripped some marvel mystery oil on the post.....5 minutes of patience paid off. Fortunately it was only maybe 2 months..., so corrosion really hadn't set in like it had with the D460. 

See what became of the last seat post in the below pic...

Note in my ride log: DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!!

WHY?

Why do we call them Fatbikes? It used to be a fat bike was a non-.skinny bike. Mountain or road? That was it. So now my fat bike is no longer a fat bike. Now what do I call it? It's my FUN machine!
Transition Trans Am 29er! All FUN, all the time!

You may have noticed

That there are some older posts, or newer posts with old news,---
I found that I had a lot of drafts that I hadn't finished or published, so I put them up there. I could have manually changed the dates but that would've taken more time away from riding...
So, from now on, I will try to keep up with publishing as I write. Sorry for any confusion!

Easter Sunday reflections

It's Easter Sunday and it was 75F today. Some Easters it snows three feet, some are just cold and wet. Today was a picture-perfect shorts and tshirt-wearin kindof day. But it was nice. Not much riding but had the usual mid-day feast--why mid-day? That's stupid.

Conditions are about the same, today.....abit cooler yet

just got in from 10 miles of sloppy marsh/squantum ride. Everything is 'slick as snot' in the profound words of Bob Roll . Even just rolling along, the trail has that squishy squirmy effect that loads up the knobbies
That wooden bridge out at the Hummock took me down quick, no damage done though.
Looks to be wet for awhile now....
50F feels more like 39F,

KT NEMBAFest ( still cleaning out my draft folder )

Whatta weekend! Last weekend, June 22-24, was historical. It marked the FIRST EVER Mountain Bike Festival at Kingdom Trails, in East Burke, Vermont. The Northeast Kingdom, as Vermonters have long and affectionately called this corner of their state, is exceptional. Not only for the fantastic mountain farm views of Peacham, or the cheese of Cabot, or the famous Lake Willoughby, but now for the mountain bike scene in East Burke. Many refer to the area as a mountain bike 'mecca', a place that every rider worth his or her knobbies needs to experience at least once, if not many more times..... I got there in good time, about 3.5 hours from Quincy.No speeding,no traffic jams... Just in time to start my volunteer shift, I found my way up to the Mid-Burke Lodge, where I was assigned to work registration, which was opening at 12:00. 41 mph downhill into East Burke Darling Hill Trolls's Stroll Tap 'n Die Sidewinder, River Run Chapel East Branch Cafe in the Pines below the webs Kitchel Burnham Down Dead Moose Alley Beer at the condo sunset Will. Gap windfarm 30 miles Falls on Saturday Dip in the river burger at Lilli's (I think)

Bike Lust ( New Old Draft ) Not sure why it was still a draft but here were my thoughts 2 years ago...

Once again it's that time of year when I start lusting over new bikes. This year it started with the search for a slacker 29er steel hardtail--I came up with the Transition TransAm29, which is a sweet 'looking' bike. I say that because I haven't yet the chance to ride one, as noone within 200mi has a demo...but the skyblue paintjob on a steel frame with a ride that has been described as 'damp' by those who have had chance to ride one, and with the slackness and capability of a longer-travel fork, just has me by the balls.
Worth mentioning is that  Transition is based in the Seattle area, one of my favorite geographical areas....Lived there for a halfa year once, biked all over the area but wasn't yet but on the cusp of my mountain biking lifestyle.
And the dealer is at Chuck's Bikes, in Vermont , of course my all-time favorite place to be. The frame goes for 650, which wouldn't be too outta line if I stripped my Redline for it. Full bike with Fox 120, 2400....plus Thudbuster...

Moving on to more local offerings, Canton Velo let medemo a Niner Sir9 with gears. Truly a rigid 853 singlespeed, this one was built up with a Reba and SRAM drivetrain. Weighing a  pound or two less than my current steed, and sporting lighter, less knobby Conti Race Kings run on tubeless Stans Crest rims, it did feel nicer. I used my Thudbuster as a control point. It was fast but not that much faster, and I was more over the bars than I like. The ECC BB would come in handy if I really wanted to go SS, but even if I did, I don't really like an ECC , as opposed to sliding drops. Not at all an engineer, but I 'think'  the larger shell stiffens and weights up the frame too much.

Next I took out the Jet9 demo, also with a Reba, Stans more standard rim and SRAM X7 build including hubs, same tires as the Sir9. Wow, whatta difference! All my energy moved the bike forward. Very efficient design, and about the same weight or maybe even less than the Sir9! I had fun on it and brought it back, reluctantly, but the weather turning to rain and snow just wasn't conducive to riding for a few days.
Both Niners were for sale around the same price(2400-2500)....

So, when I got thinking about it and sliding the idea by the wife and kids, all that speed and efficiency didn't mean a thing, since I don't have any money to spend on a new bike. And all it would do would be to create more bike envy  from my son, who apparently wears the same jeans(genes..), and that will only result in more 13 yo angst than I can handle right now.....

But, next chance I get, I'm doing a midnight run up to Morrisville to see about that Transition demo....