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Tomhannock Reservoir ride

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Sunday Kyle, Brian and I headed from Brian’s apartment out east to the Tomhannock Reservoir for an easy 35 or so miles. Apparently we were headed to a Star Trek security guard convention afterwards, what with our red shirts and all.

My Trek 5000 was in the shop getting a tune up, so I had to [...]

Thoughts on RAAM

Monday, June 4th, 2007

My good friend, Anthony, queried me with the following:
OK now Mr. Brevet-man, here is the next question, one that is now 20% serious and 80% joke (as opposed to 5% serious last year)–When are you going to train for RAAM?
RAAM, huh? (for my non-cycling friends… click here for an explanation) Funny thing. When [...]

EMS mountain bike demo day

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Jenn dragged me to the EMS Ironhorse demo day up at Thacher Park. I tested an MK-3 and an Azure. The MK3 had a super-plush ride, almost too soft. I felt like I was losing lots of power in the suspension while pedaling. The Azure had some braking issues and shifting issues, but shorter suspension [...]

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