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Surprise! Another Cycling-related Journal Entry!
14 years ago
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I know, shocking. Please contain your excitement.
Well I ended up getting the bike finished faster than I'd expected and with much less hassle as well. The brakes still need some fine-tuning and I need to put on new grips but other than that it's done. Maybe pictures soon.
In other bike-related news, I'm going to start working out with an XC mountain bike team at a nearby high school. Depending on how my spring schedule is I might even end up racing! My bike is a bit... burly.... for XC racing but I'd probably not be a front-runner anyways, so having a more fun bike than everyone else while still going hella fast ain't that bad I guess. I do, however, need to order some parts for it. Larger brake rotors, new, wider handlebars and a quick-release seatpost clamp. Not 100% necessary but, it'll be money well spent in terms of improving my bike's performance and also not having to take out a multi-tool to adjust the darn seat whenever I go down a technical single track section. Which is a lot.
In the silly, boring land of non-cyling-related news, I shall be submitting something new this week. Maybe more than one new fractal depending on spare time, but there will be at least one new update.
Well I ended up getting the bike finished faster than I'd expected and with much less hassle as well. The brakes still need some fine-tuning and I need to put on new grips but other than that it's done. Maybe pictures soon.
In other bike-related news, I'm going to start working out with an XC mountain bike team at a nearby high school. Depending on how my spring schedule is I might even end up racing! My bike is a bit... burly.... for XC racing but I'd probably not be a front-runner anyways, so having a more fun bike than everyone else while still going hella fast ain't that bad I guess. I do, however, need to order some parts for it. Larger brake rotors, new, wider handlebars and a quick-release seatpost clamp. Not 100% necessary but, it'll be money well spent in terms of improving my bike's performance and also not having to take out a multi-tool to adjust the darn seat whenever I go down a technical single track section. Which is a lot.
In the silly, boring land of non-cyling-related news, I shall be submitting something new this week. Maybe more than one new fractal depending on spare time, but there will be at least one new update.
XC is the abbreviation for "Cross-Country". It's a type of mountain biking (or running) that involves going long distances over dirt trails up and down hills and whatnot in a race format.
Handlebars... pretty straightforwards
Brake rotors are the spinny metal thingies that are the disc part of disc brakes
The quick-release clamp: the lever thingy that keeps the seatpost (thingy that the seat goes on) from moving around
And there ya go!