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Almanzo 100

Friday, May 21, 2010

This last weekend I rode in the Almanzo 100. The Almanzo is a 100 mile gravel race in southern MN. Usually it starts in Rochester, but due to some difficulties this year it started in Spring Valley. While unfortunate for the race organizer (sounds like he had quite a few problems with the Rochester powers that be [...]

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Sackville Saddlesack Large Review

Friday, October 23, 2009

I’ve been running around with a Large Sackille Saddlesack on my Hillborne for about six months now (serial number 41). I’ve got almost no complaints. The Good: Its fricken huge, like cavernous, this bag will eat other bags, and then more. I’ve been able to do our regular grocery run, a weeks worth of food [...]

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3 months with my Sam Hillborne

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

So I’ve had the bike for awhile now. I’ve put about 2000ish miles on it so far. The bulk of that has been around town to and from work or the grocery store. I also did RAGBRAI, which about 450 miles over a week. Over all I’m pretty happy. I’m still working out the kinks [...]

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It’s Here!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

I’ve had my Rivendell Sam Hillborne for a little over two weeks now.I built it all up in about two days. So far I’ve put a few hundred miles on it running around town, commuting to work and one camping trip. I’m quite pleased with the whole build so far. I’m starting to do more [...]

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Sam Hillborne Update

Sunday, May 10, 2009

I emailed back and forth with Jay at Rivendell last Friday about my new bike. Unfortunately I’m looking at at least another two weeks until I get it, probably more as my experience so far has been that Rivendell has trouble with estimating how long things are going to take (Note I doubt this is [...]

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Bike shipping sooner than expected

Thursday, March 26, 2009

I just got an email from Rivendell that my Sam Hillborne will be shipping between April 13th and 18th. I’m super excited, hopefully since I just ordered a frame it will get here sooner than later and I’ll have it for the MN Ironman ride.

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Bummer

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I just got the word that my bike is going to be a month late. Best of luck to the guys at Rivendell, I’m sure that cant do anything to make life less stressful / easier given the current economy and whatnot. Now I’ve got to come up with a new plan for spring riding… [...]

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