Commuting, New Stuff and The Fight Club

Power Cranks, Power Baby!

Garmin and Cateye Strada Wireless Pickups

Fight Club Hanging out.

Reflective Stuff does work!

Decorated my bench for the Holidays.

Specialized Trasition.

Crud Fenders installed on a Project One Madone. Perfect!

Crud fenders

Crud fenders on front wheel

Crud Fenders

Giggles and I commuting.

Lots going on here at Syracuse Bicycle. Giggles and I have been consistently riding into work. Weather has been cooperative and we are truly thankful for that. Yesterday we started Fight Club rides and it was a blast. The Erie Canal is awesome, surface was a bit slick and it was just great. Giggles, D.B and meself showed up for the first ride. In other news we have received the incredible fenders from Crud. They fit on the Madone Project One and make for a cool ride when the roads are wet. The fenders are light, easy to install and easy to remove. They retail for 50 bucks and we got them.
We also received two Quarq Cranks to be installed on Cervelos. That is the news for now.
best,
Ari

Retroshift to the rescue

Tired of not having money for shifting? Check out Retroshift.

quick shift demo from Retroshift on Vimeo.

Fight Club Tuesdays Announced.

We will be starting night rides at the Erie Canal on Tuesday nights in an effort to stay away from indoor exercising as long as possible. Bring your Mountain Bike, Cross Bike, County Bike or whatever you have and join in on the fun. We will ride for as long as we want and the pace will be slow to medium slow. As the ride develops we will go further and make more frequent stops.Bring something to eat and drink and dress warm and dry. Call SB with any questions. It is not a race and You are responsible for yourself. Our departure time will be after we get done with work. Around 730 or so. We can meet at the Butternut Trailhead (Intersection of Butternut and Kinne roads.



Ari and D.B.

Trans Iowa V8 update

Cookie's postcard entry was chosen on the "best of " list on Guitar Ted's Website.
The Slender Fungus continues to linger under people's toes.

Cookie, Dr. Giggles and Meself have made the roster to the Trans Iowa V8. The event will take place on April 28-29th, 2012. Gumby and T.J. have showed interest in coming with us. There will be long months of training through the winter to maintain and gain fitness. More to come about all the usual craziness. For the time being I am putting in about 150 miles a week. I have been riding every day of the week in my new program of Slow Daily Riding.

Couple more shots from the Mountains

Service Department At Syracuse Bicycle (SB)

Nice view when I take the south route to work. This gives me an 11 mile commute one way with 600' of climbing.

Hello everyone. Things starting to settle here. Yesterday I sent out my postcard with UPS and today it arrived in Iowa. I hope to see my name on the roster tomorrow and to make the trek out to Iowa in April. The shop has been going awesome and I truly love my co-workers. They are helping us out a ton with getting to know the area, where to go food shopping, where to find firewood, and a bunch of other stuff. The wife is having some luck with getting some callbacks from job searches. The younger kids are getting used to school and liking their peers. I have been commuting to work every day and getting in about 150 miles a week solid. We look foward to riding all winter with Dr. Giggles, getting some snow shoeing in, riding the Pugsley, maybe try some cross country skiing.
So far, so good,

best,

Ari

I just remembered Jan Raas

Jan Raas, Team Raleigh

Here is a cycling hero from the eigthies that just won a ton of races and had the coolest glasses ever. Oakley Jawbones have nothing on the RAAS special specs.

Up in the mountains.

the garage still needs work

Rollers and an eliptical in the downstairs

Commuting on the brown crosscheck with new SKS longboards in beige

Living room with our books out.

Living room sans carpet , with fireplace.

Turkey ride on Apulia rd. Just fantastic.

Took a few moments to take in the scenery

Mancave coming together.

So almost 4 weeks without a post. Have been busy settling into work and getting the household straight. It was quite the adventure to get here. The wife drove the 26' truck all the way here and at some point we got separated. They took the wrong turn, ended up coming in about 4 hours later. We unpacked and worked hard for about a week to get the beds built and to situate all the bike crap that we brought over. Almost 4 weeks later and the house is almost there, the kids are in school, I am working and the wife is waiting on an interview soon. The shop I work at is amazing. This area has pristine roads which are glass free since they have a 5 cent deposit on cans and beer bottles. Despite almost 300" of snow a year there are no potholes and the road come complete with respectable shoulders. My round trip commute to work and back is 22 miles. It includes 1200' of climbing. To say the least my body has been in shock since I moved here. I rountinely use the cannondale in a 34 x26 gearing. That allows me to climb some of the bigger hills at 4mph. I also use the triple on the BMC. I have lost 10 lbs since I moved here. Our house is situated in the woods and the little ones school is less than 2 blocks away. So far, so good. We are awaiting the long promised big snows. Turbo Tuesdays, east coast edition will begin soon.
best,
Ari