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Todays Ride on the new Bike

Woke up to a beautiful sunny day here at Thunderbay Resort.  After a couple cups of coffe and some fruit and yogurt I headed out on the bike for a short ride.  This was only my third time on the new mountain bike.  I went on the snowmobile trail here at the resort and did some exploring of the local dirt roads.  I discovered a little park and found where the elk are here on the property.  Seen a large bull elk and a cow.  Unfortunately I only had my iPhone for photos and they don't zoom in.  So no photos.

This was more of a test for the bike.  Back in April I purchased an Access Stealth 4.0 carbon MTB from Performance Bike.  On my second ride which was the Sweat Shaker race at Mid Michigan Community College in Harrison, Michigan I broke off the rear derailleur and put a hole in the frame on the right side seatstay near the dropout.  I was crushed.  I called Performance and they said they would send me a shipping label.  From the time of my call till receiving my new frame was 3 weeks.  Thank you Performance for your outstanding customer service.  To top it off they replaced the frame with the Stealth 1.0.

Brendan Holding the new frame.  His comment, "this is light!"


So I built the bike up in two days and it was tested out at the Shiawassee Wildlife Refuge in Saginaw.  We rode out there twice and now todays ride makes three.  The bike is very stiff yet compliant.  It weighs in around 26 lbs with what I would call a budget build.

Complete bike.


A few changes have been made to the bike since this photo was taken.  I decided to go with a triple chain ring combo on the front.  Still making minor adjustments to get it dialed in for the Shore Rock race at the Ore to Shore in Marquette.

Need to get ready for our afternoon and will post up the rest of the days activities this evening.



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