9 Jul 2009 :: Raw Climbing Power
Summer has been split between awesome and terrible. The job/internship search isn't great, but I've interviewed around a bit and I have found a ton of jobs that I feel like I would be able to land if I were done with school, especially if I had some experience- which has made me be very picky about the sort of job I might pick up now. No point in swinging low if it doesn't help my next step.
It means I spend so much time at home that I hate the apartment almost as much as I hate myself. Thank goodness I have mountain biking. From last Thursday to Monday I think I did eight thousand feet of climbing over about sixty miles and it was fantastic.
Through trial and error, I'm getting close to declaring that my Rockhopper with 650b front is money. I've enjoyed the agility and its handling. However, I can't run a 650b on the rear, nor a 2.35 in the front. I figured I would just save until I could build a whole bike around the wheelsize. Recently, however, I stumbled upon a cyclocross fork that has the uncommon (now, when the Rockhopper was made, everything had a one inch headtube) one inch headtube. It has a similar axle to crown length and might have enough clearance to run my tires with a big fatty disc brake.
There would be some cost; the fork is sixty bucks, and I'd need a headset, a mound of spacers and a riser stem. Total, I'd probably be out around a hundred dollars. I'd probably pull my BB7 off my Surly, reroute the BB5 to it's front and call it even. All of this discussion is mute, however, until I land a position that increases the cash flow. |
