Rory

 Taste

Kool Stop

Surlys cleaned and greased and retired.  Thinking 15 years use.  Replacement Handsome Cycles wheel house NE MPLS are so nice I can put these away.  Thank you Surly New and Mavic Open Pro and mostly Quality Wheel House for getting me to this point and being the leader.  Bought a second set for winter wheels.  Remember wider fatter rims require wider fatter tubes  

Those are Handsome

 Handsome cycles NE MPLS great build quality single speed wheelsets.  Two sets now summer and winter.  Surlys honorably retired

Ten plus years of riding Cross Check city bike.  Surly New on Mavic Open Pro.  New wheels Handsome bicycles.  Factory hub on Alex Adventure 2 rim.  Nice build for cheap.  Didn't want to step down from Surly and I didn't. NE MPLS

 

DR 650 Thank You WR 250 Thank You

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 Full moon tonight back yard shot

Gigadead St Paul MN Metal Craigslist Classic

Next year I will have a GoPro and there will be riding pictures.  The WR250F is excellent.  GPS track following is easy with a few turn-arounds.  My trailer worked great.  Boulder Junction WI area has lots of GPS mapped adventures.  Thank you Cannon Shot

My first year of going the week AFTER the event.  Quiet campground.  Ridden trails. Cold beers.  Blazing fire.  Neil Peart on cell phone books.  WI cheese snacks.  Thoughts to myself.  

Relaxing van drive has other perks like a cooler full of MPLS beer and ice, as well as campground now with multiple gear and clothes staging areas with the lift-back and two sliding doors.  Rather than the things in my saddle bags laid out on the picnic table.  I don't want to understate the cooler... 

Welcome WR. In the previous 4 DR years,  I rode the bike there,  once straight from Minneapolis with Chris L,  twice after around Superior first, and once after Duluth-Copper Harbor. And then attended the event.  This time all physical and mental energy saved

 Picture from my campfire chair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 That's me on the right.  3 days is 27 miles.  4.5 each way

 This is the same bike frame I have.  Maeve's bike.  Didn't know what it was before I saw this.  Ross  Amazing over built early mid late 80s frame.  Gusseted joints.  Nothing but a serial stamp under the  BB. Full polished silver.  Lugged fork.  Thank you Full Cycle 

Acerbis Cross-Eyed Frog

 WR250F replacement gas tank 50% larger at 3 gallons but...  Bolt holes don't line up damn it replacement return time delay.  Now fully street legal with plate.  Should be 150+ miles.  DR for long trips maybe

 

 

 Well,  this isn't much of a blog,  just an occasional picture.  This one being from a few years ago repeated picture when I was much closer to fit.  The last two years have sucked the life out of my body and mind.  Time for a change

 Testing remote camera trigger focused on the light subjects

 Puerto Rico

 

 

 

Ibanez Destroyer was the first guitar I ever had

 

Records sound better with a better needle