Demons and Wiggles

Road at the Ridge again tonight. Met Jeff in the parking lot and rolled into the woods strait up the ridge and over the saddle. I don’t know why but I had a bug up my chamois tonight to go hit the Screamer. Those unfamiliar, the Screamer is kind of like a 40’ tall skateboard ramp, near vertical at the roll-in with a big smooth transition at the bottom. I had a pretty bad wreck their last year which broke my bike into 3 pieces and broke my collarbone into two pieces. Tonight was the first time I’d dropped that hill since the accident and I did it twice just to prove a point to myself. Its always a good thing to face ones demons and that one has been haunting me too long.

It was an hour and a half ride followed by Sweetwater 420 and bullshiting in the parking lot afterwards.


I got home and started working on one of my main cycling goals for the year, learning to build wheels. With some help from Sheldon Brown and a few tips from John and Shawn from Harpers Bike Shop I laced up my first wheel ever this evening. The wheel is an Eno hub laced to a WTB Laserdisc Trail 29. I thought the dish less wheel would be an easy one to start on plus I’m excited to get the Eno thing going for the Wily.


It went real smooth, you can read the hub logo through the valve hole and everything.


If I’m not at the hospital I will start tensioning it up tomorrow down at the shop under Johns supervision. I love how the spokes look all wiggly with no tension in them.


Tara is still holding strong, she went to the doctor today and everything looks good. We feel like it could be any minute now. Our heirloom piano is being delivered Friday, hopefully she can hold Noah in until after that. We have been joking for a month that she would go into labor right before the piano arrived and they would leave it in the front yard.