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Well it's been a great summer for me and cycling! Got a new to me Felt full carbon/dura ace
Roadbike and it's faster than hell. I'm in my best riding condition ever. I just bought new pants in size 32 waist. I'm 38, I wore 32's in high school. My good buddy and I have a tour planned in September to fly to san fransisco and ride our bikes home to orange county. A 640 mile trip. So if I dont crash one of my motorcycles or bicycles I'll be on target condition wise to make it. There is always the "train of shame" if for some reason I can't complete the ride. For you guys who don't cycle and actually read this far, 100 miles a day not breathing hard is no big deal, fat old women do it all the time. True ultra distance guys can cross the country in 8 days! Anyone else getting sone riding in?

Ummmm.......interesting thought. I drove a big wheel part way down Wheelie hill several times one night. That was a serious hoot !

I talked to some cyclist early one morning at the Gap. They had just come through the Dragon. Said it was a blast, especially when passing Harleys......

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Busy doing more riding than wrenching.......

I've got a vintage Medici with all Campagnolo Record parts.... It is perfectly preserved and will be dusted off some time in the next month or two-

If you are down Hwy 1 for your tour and need any support on the central coast give a holler..

tim

Saw, funny you should bring this topic up here now. I am in the process of building a flyer and paper ad for a new bicycle shop I am starting in my town. For the last year or so, I've been doing bike work and restoration for a lot of those in town, and have restored two Specialized bikes, one a full suspension 26 inch mountain bike, the other an older 26 inch fixer rear, suspension front bike. I also have a Next Power X to restore as a full mountain bike, full suspension, very inexpensive bike.

The fixed rear bike pulls a trailer, one of those that had the canvas enclosure. The canvas was DOA, so, I built a wood box for it, and ride it all over town picking up parts and other things.

Not a lot of high tech later model bikes here as of yet, though. Mostly non-suspension and older type mountain bikes, Wal-Mart specials.

The bike shop will be called "Bicycle Project Yerington". It'll end up ikn town, regular business, with a couple of twists. I will do the mechanical work, and also have two customer stalls with bike holders. A customer that wants to work on his/her bike can come in, pay a small all day fee for chemicals, and work on their own bike there, with me overseeing/assisting their processes if they wish. I will offer used and new parts for all bikes.

I am setting up no cost evening information workshops for riders, kids and ladies, to teach them maintenance, service, repair. I am also putting together a series of rides and events that will work with the events in town and close by, for all to attend, plus a bar-be-que, and other events relating to bicycles.

One part will be a program to use parts and bikes donated to the shop, to build a series of "free" bikes for those that would not normally be able to afford a bike. Recipients of the no cost bikes will be required to spend a pre-determined amount of time volunteering, either in the shop, or, doing other volunteer work around town, like watering the plants at the fair grounds, lawns, food programs for the needy, trash pickup, helping seniors, whatever they can to help, gets them a free bike.

I just got done doing a bunch of bikes for one of my food program volunteers, we all work all of the food programs here in Yerington. She has a bike, as does her two daughters, and three grand daughters. We all rode down to town and to the main park there this July 4th, and watched the fire works program, rode home.

I hadn't remembered how much fun and enjoyment I have had over the last 40 years riding bicycles. I did ride the fixed rear bike and trailer last year, before I restored them, and it was always fun. On this July 4th, I saw a bunch of bikes all over town, and many asked me if I knew who worked on them, so, shop is in order. Our town is only 1-1/2 miles square, but it is easy and safe to ride anywhere in and around it. Plus, there arer trails and mountains all around us, we are in Mason Valley, Nevada.

I stopped by a bike shop near a lady friend's place in Carson City two weeks ago, big place. hadn't realized that bikes now have technology that includes electronic shifters and active front forks, premium rear shocks. Nice stuff.

Anyway, I have about 20 bikes lined up to work on starting in a week, so, it just might work out for the shop here.

Enjoy the ride.

Thanks Tim, I appreciate that!

H2rTuner that is a very ambitious and admirable project. Until you try to set up a multi geared bike yourself most have no appreciation for someone who knows how to adjust one properly! I am lucky to have a friend who can help me. I have a vintage BMX frame forks seatpost/handlebars ( technically post vintage Bmx) that I would donate to your project. Let me know if you are interested. It was a gift to me so I can't sell it but if I gave it to you, you could in good conscience sell it or complete it and make a kid ( 30-35 yr old kid collector) happy.

saw, that is very generous of you, sir. I wish I still lived in Whittier, now, 80 miles south east of Reno. If there is a way to get it here easily, I'd love to have it, but, it has to end up not costing either one of us to send it. Now, if my neighbor was still driving for the milk processing plant here, we'd be golden, he went to Costco and Wal-Mart warehouses in L.A. often, and there was always room for "stuff" to go either way. He moved to Eurerka,. Nevada, far away, so, no transport any more.

If it is OK with you, I will try to figure out picking it up, and getting it here. Will speak again later, and possibly, get a phone number for you, so we can direct talk, if you so desire.

Yes, it is somewhat of a lost art in getting things like deraileur's right any more, and setting bearing tensions, cable lengths. That is mostly what stops a bike here, other people that rry to work on them just have no clue in setting the things that make a "tune up" work right. Most tear tubes up from using screw drivers to remove and replace tires and flat tubes. I've never had to use a tool to get a bicycle tire off a rim, nor put it back on, never, always by hand only.

If I can get this shop going in 2013, it should be good to go, but un til then, I am setting a part of my large motorcycle shop up to work on the bikes.

I just spoke with another pal here after getting off the computer last evening, and he suggested bicycle motocross and mountain races, of which, we have billions of barren acres to use here for that kind of event.

Thank you again, sir.

I was talking with a guy not to long ago, he'd just test ridden a new bike. It was $14,000. Fourteen thousand dollars! And you still had to pedal the thing...