Great Day for a Ride!

Today was a beautiful day and we did some organizing in the garage and moved the last of our wood into the garage. I vacuumed out the van and then went down stairs to prep one of the bikes for a ride. Our road looked pretty sloppy so I decided to use one of the single speeds. Earlier this morning I had started to work on the Zion. I had bought some Problem Solvers cable guides so that I could run the rear hydraulic brake hose on the underside of the top tube.

Bike before the ride. You can see the cable run in this photo.

This frame had odd cable guides on the top tube that would have required the brake lines to be removed and threaded through the guides. Did not want to do that and don't really care for top tube routed cabling.

Drive side of the Zion.

Bike Spec:

Zion Single Speed frame with EBB

White Brothers Carbon Rigid Fork

Truvativ Sylo Seatpost

Fuji Seat with Ti rails

Specialized 90mm Stem

Easton EA30 low rise bar 680mm

Hayes Stroker Trail Hydraulic Disc Brakes

Avid 160mm rotors

Specialized Wheels

Kenda Karma 29x1.9 front/2.2 rear tires

The bike rode great and I also tested the Garmin Edge 205 today. I was about 3 to 3.5 miles into the ride when I realized the unit was not tracking distance. I stopped andrealized that I had to take the unit off of pause. It then started working. The Garmin is really cool. I downloaded the information when I got home. My total ride was close to 16 miles. The Garmin tracked 12.52 miles. When downloaded you see how much climbing and descending you did, average speed, time, distance and many other thing.

Ready to ride.

If you look closely you can see that I have a camera mounted to my helmet. It is an Epic Action Cam. I got this from Michelle a year ago on my birthday. I was having some issues with it at the last few races. I but batteries in it and loaded a SD card. Checked the settings over and used it on the ride. It recorded the entire ride. Hopefully it will continue to work.

It was nice to get out in the sun and enjoy a great ride.

Back home from a great ride.

Tomorrow is supposed to be another beautiful day with temperature around 40 degrees again. It is also Super Bowl Sunday. I will try to get another ride in after church and before the game.

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