Cross Whip Preview

Almost Cyclocross season, so it is time to get my new machine finished and ready to tear it up. I will continue to run the Independent Fabrication machine, although it may end up being more of the "B" bike this year depending on the course. The "A" bike will be the sweet Baron Nightingale I picked up last year, which I have been slowly building up for the last few months.

Quick little preview of this new race machine. It should be a blast due to the lightweight steel frame, carbon fork, and I am pretty excited to race a full season on these Mad Fiber wheels to finish my in-depth review.
Full build report for both bikes will be coming up soon!

Long ride and long necks

I ended up going for a great training ride the other day, one of those days on the bike that start out simple enough and suddenly you are 4 hours in and still have at least an hour left to get home. Nothing but sunny sky and asphalt to deal with, long rides have always been a great way to clear my mind and find new routes. I planned to head out to a small loop that I used to ride and then connect it back to some of the newer routes that the team uses frequently.
While out in the roads around Duvall, I found a Alpaca farm and stopped to have a bite and check out these long-necked beasts.

About an hour later, while heading toward Sammamish and a nice climb, I ran into a separate Llama farm. Funny that these farms were on the same fun ride.

In the end, I got a great few hours on the bike, good base miles ahead of 'Cross season, which is just around the corner.