Biking Without Riding

This week was copious time on the trainer, reading the QBP catalog. Calculating. Spending.

 

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truing wheels!
Thank you Alex. These factory-built hummers are sturdy and will care for my girls. You get lots of donations of outdated stuff when you go 9mm QR, yo!
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throwing dirt all Sunday morning
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We built this in about 3 days.  Some pics ganked from Fish, Kenny and other GROAZers
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The girls were not invited to this workday, with all the machinery, which made me far more productive. The vast summation of our efforts at the last workday was a gecko that dropped its tail.

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This park is gonna be sick, and legal. Pinch me, this isn’t really happening. Some pics of the DH runs, also borrowed from the net.

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The dirt is actual soil,i feel naked without the threat of rocks. Like a prisoner drug to the Roman Coliseum, I did not know man could build such things.

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The skills area is at mid-hill, the green, blue and black lines coming down above it.

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A shop stop on the way home. v-brake boss plugs removed, new used seatpost, good advice. Thanks Morgan and Rage!

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maybe just a little riding
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This made me happy

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