Kona’s 2011 Unit and why I’m not upgrading.

I must say, I’m quite taken with Kona’s 2011 Unit. With it’s new black and white colour scheme, it looks like a chunky, big wheeled version of Whitey. They’ve messed with the geometry which I’m not overly keen on. For the 16″ that I ride, the head tube and seat tube are both more slack(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 5 comments | August 20, 2010 at 7:48 am

Casseroll Update

After doing almost 1000kms since the Casseroll got gears, I needed a change. First I was just going to head back to single speed land, but then I figured if I was going to change things up, I may as well do things right. Yes, that’s a stock photo from the last time the Salsa(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | one comment | August 11, 2010 at 8:43 am

The Updated Mancave

A week or so back Justin blogged about getting his photo taken in his mancave. This got me thinking that I should really take a photo of the current state of my mancave. So I did. And here it is. I’m down to two bikes now. All the others are in pieces. It’s for the(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 2 comments | August 7, 2010 at 8:32 pm

207/365 – Good Hair Day

Sometimes you have a good hair day, sometimes you don’t. Today was the best good hair day I’ve had for a while. Wait. Shouldn’t that photo be landscape?! Crazy!!

by Jarod | one comment | July 26, 2010 at 8:10 pm

201/365 – Gritty

That darn wife of mine got to sleep early tonight. Something to do with a hectic day at work, glass of wine and delicious home cooked pie for dinner. Sadly this means you get left with me for the 365…. and this is the best I could come up with. It’s noisey, blurry and the(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | no comments | July 20, 2010 at 10:00 pm

Salsa Casseroll with Bullhorns

As of yesterday, the Salsa is now sporting trendy bullhorns. They were bought second hand with the bar tape, brake levers, brake cables and stem attached; hooray for lazy upgrades! A quick bolt up of the stem and threading of cables and the transformation was complete. I headed out for a quick spin and it(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 9 comments | July 14, 2010 at 8:49 am

178/365 – Freelensing with a 30mm F1.4 lens

As the title suggests, this 365 was taken freelensing style. Which is where the lens is taken off the camera body and held by hand. What’s the point? Well it lets you angle the lens for tilt shift style focus as well as leaks a bunch of light in where it shouldn’t be. All that(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | no comments | June 27, 2010 at 8:19 pm

Greeny’s Got Upgrades

The following changes happened a fair while back, but somehow the blog update with them fell through the cracks. Oh well, better late than never! Greeny got new wheels! They’re Velocity Blunts laced to Whitey’s old DT Swiss 240s Hubs with DT Swiss Supercomps. They’re about 200 grams lighter than the stock wheelset, despite having(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 5 comments | June 27, 2010 at 8:46 am

A failing business model

Recently there have been some happenings which are out of my control, so while waiting for those things to eventuate I decided to rebuild whitey with spare and left over parts. Old forks, stem, handlebars all bolted up a-okay, as did the Salsa’s old rear wheel. However, I struck problematic gold when I moved my(click to read the full post)