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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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One of my favortite pictures from RAGBRAI

Friday, September 11, 2009

My Rivendell Sam Hillborne on a foggy morning. I’ve been sick and off the bikes for over a week. I’m having serious withdrawal problems. Hopefully I’ll be feeling good enough to get out of the house and do the St. Paul Classic this weekend.

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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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Big dummy on a trunk rack

Monday, July 27, 2009

I had been wondering for awhile if we could fit Dave’s Big Dummy on a trunk rack. For RAGBRAI we were going to have to figure something out. We were able to make it work without too much trouble. The rack we used was a Saris Bones Trunk Rackon a 2007 Nissan Altima. Dave and [...]

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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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How to build a bike wheel (Part 2, tensioning the wheel)

Sunday, March 1, 2009

This post is a continuation of my last post on how to build a bike wheel. In this post we will cover bringing the spokes up to tension and truing the wheel. To complete the instructions in this post you will need a truing stand and a spoke wrench, a flat head screw driver may [...]

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Last of the parts ordered

Monday, February 23, 2009

An update because I’m excited. Yesterday I spent about an hour on the phone with Jay at Rivendell. I got all of the remaining parts ordered for my bike and the Surly Big Dummy I’m putting together for my friend Dave. The Big Dummy stuff should arrive  sometime this week and my bike should get [...]

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