The 8:10 Ned bus is nice if I can get out of bed that early
I had a wedding to shoot saturday afternoon. I really wanted to get a ride in beforehand to test out the new 1 x 9 drivetrain on the On-one. So this meant using the evil alarm clock on the weekend to rally to the 8:10 bus. I usually am pretty whiny about getting up early on the weekends. It seems wrong in principle to get up earlier on the weekend than during the week. But the bank thermometer in Ned read 79 degrees at quarter to nine, so we were pretty happy to get up there before it was scorching hot. We rode Hobbit 3 then up the road to Super Circle then down School Bus for more Hobbits then the blue dots and down the road. I celebrated my first post-ride Boulder Creek swim of the year by jumping in with a front flip.
Oh yeah, the 1×9 thing. I couldn’t keep the chain on the Inbred as a singlespeed. Even with tight chain tension I could pop the chain off just with leg torque. I have a new Surly SS cog, a SRAM SS chain, and a new Salsa front ring. I don’t really understand why it kept derailing. You would think a 5 and a half pound steel frame would be able to handle my leg torque. Yeah, I’m a powerhouse and all, but seriously … anyway, I have to say that gears are pretty cool. My body was thinking me for not making it want to puke in the heat on the climb up towards Tennessee!
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