206/365 – Newtown, Waterfall, Cronulla, Kurnell, Newtown.

Today I rode from Newtown to Waterfall, then came home via Cronulla and Kurnell. The morning started much like this… Don’t you ever complain about the noise in your dSLR til you’ve used an Nokia e71 in low light. Anyway, I was on the bike by 5:30am, which meant I’d be riding the first hour(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 6 comments | July 25, 2010 at 7:26 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

Salsa Casseroll Single with Gears

Well, it’s all done (for now). My Salsa Casseroll Single has gears. Since it’s been built up I’ve done almost 150kms and the set up is proving to be good. The 48T chain ring will likely get swapped out for something a little smaller as I’m finding myself mostly in the high gears on the(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 9 comments | May 12, 2010 at 8:23 am

I’ve been thinking about putting gears on the Casseroll.

Excuse the Photoshop disaster. It’s up there to illustrate a point, not to win a prize. It’s something I’ve considered for a while now, but yesterday’s ride certainly brought it back to the front of my brain. It is in short, it’s a hair brained idea to run a 1×9/1×10 geared setup on my Salsa(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 8 comments | April 11, 2010 at 6:52 pm

Whitey Gets His Gears Back

Sick of sore knees and having to set up the gearing for each trail I visited, I splurged and bought Whitey some new running gear. The vertical drop outs meant the single speed thing never did work quite right. Oh well, I might try single speeding again at some point in the future**. Took him(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 2 comments | November 22, 2009 at 6:52 am

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