SIDELINED YETI ARC BACK ON THE TRAIL

Remember when you were a kid and lost one of your toys under the bed.  Then the bed was moved and you found it?  It was like a new toy!  That's kinda the way it was when I finally got the 2003 Yeti ARC off the basement rafters and back on the trail.  I got a new bike!

The ride died when I somehow got talked into selling the Fox fork and rebuilding the original World Cup SID to get her back to fighting weight.  I still have 2 World Cups sitting on the bench waiting for the rebuild.  But, they are rim brakes only.   In the meantime, I got this smok'n deal on Craig's list for a disc wheelset and sold the Mavic Crossmax rim brake wheels to a riding buddy.  Don't have a fork to use on the new disc wheelset.  Life is complicated. 

One of the COMo Bro's had an abandon Manitou Skareb AC/DC fork laying around and I begged long enough until he let me have it for loose change.  It's one of the first forks the Manitou engineers (or marketing) geniuses shocked the world by placing the reinforcing bridge behind the axle instead of the front where God had intended.  Works great and reduces the number of handicapped frames littering the basement.

Took the bike on the Dry Creek run today and it felt great.  Minor adjustments needed here and there but helped my hardtail buttocks get ready for the Big Top being delivery next month.  Reminded me too, how good burning quads can feel.

Estes Park Weekend

We just spent a weekend away from physical therapy pain, work and life with long time hunting buddies Gary Littlepage and Paul Springer. Thankfully, their counter-balances Meg and Rhonda were there to help keep our sanity.

Every couple of years we head off  to an excellent hide-a-way cabin above Estes Park. 
The goal,,,,,NOTHING.

Rhonda prepares a salad to-die-for on evening one.

Friday was a slow day getting ready for a 7:30am workout with my ASTYM http://www.astym.com/ therapist, Shane of Cornerstone Physical Therapy.  Lot's of fun on the journey to a quick recover for the plantar faciitis I whined about in the earlier post.  No pain -no gain.



Major "Nook" time for Teresa



The only focal point of the weekend was a gut-filling appointment with the Dunraven Restaurant specializing in Italian cuisine on Saturday night.  Mission accomplished

Everyone there is in the medical business besides me so there is the usual talk of current age related issues, Obama-care and the fact that we are all thankfully welcoming Gary into his 7th year of beating prostrate cancer.  Pays to be a stubborn Yankee. 

 Not a lot to do with cycling this week but that may be the point.  Winter time will be spent off the bike preparing for the upcoming race season through PT, spin classes and re-building the old body.





Meg and Gary are retired and busier than ever.  The couple squeezed in a trip down the Danube River in Germany between an Arkansas relative visit and son's wedding in 2010.

Life, animals and people are good in Colorado.....



Crap! that rowdy old bunch from Denver is here again!!