The Man Cave

The Salsa, Whitey, Greeny and even Liz’s bike. They’re all there. Click it and it’ll get bigger.

by Jarod | 3 comments | December 14, 2009 at 7:20 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

What’s all this about then?

A brand spanking new Shimano Deore XT Crankset weaselled it’s way onto Whitey a few weeks back. Nothing especially new with that. But I got home from work find three chainrings on it. Blasphemy!

by Jarod | one comment | November 17, 2009 at 8:20 pm

The Tale of the Giant Iguana Single Speed and the Salsa Casseroll Single Speed Commuter

Okay. Not so much a tale as a photo of each bike in it’s respective state. That’s pretty much how Whitey will stay for the Highland Fling this weekend. Kinda not really especially looking forward to it. Which is to say that I’m nervous and wish it was over with already. As for the Casseroll,(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 2 comments | November 4, 2009 at 7:57 am

Whitey’s New Boots

I recently treated whitey to a new set of boots… and in the process saved almost a kilo of weight. Crazy! These were replaced: With these: Hubs are these: Rims are these: And they’re laced together with super light DT Swiss Revolution spokes and held in with super sexy red DT Swiss Alloy Nipples. On(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 4 comments | October 26, 2009 at 6:05 pm

Broken Spoke

After 20 years of riding my bike, I’ve finally broken a spoke.

by Jarod | 3 comments | September 19, 2009 at 11:06 am

Manly Dam again

Yesterday I rode Manly Dam for the first time since January. Man it’s easy to forget how technical that trail is! The first lap we did was the normal one. That is to say, it has heartbreak hill in it. Despite having easier gearing than last time (32:18) I didn’t ride the whole way up(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | no comments | August 30, 2009 at 8:08 am

Giant Iguana Single Speed (Whitey!)

Yep, more buildingness has taken place. And the new frame has a name… Whitey! Going to keep rebuilding it as it was for Dirtworks. But wheelset, crankset, brakes, seatpost & saddle are all on the table for upgrades during Winter.