September 2020

Brother-in-law, youngest nephew, and I went to Cuyuna over labor day weekend.  It was awesome.  I managed to fall because I went into a turn to fast and in a panic, I locked up the front wheel.  Just some scrapes, bruises, damaged pride, a bent rear brake rotor, and rear pads full of the red dirt up there.  I’ve already replaced the pads & rotor because they were trashed due to the dirt.  I have yet to wash off my bike, but I will one of these days.  I think the skills part was my favorite part of the ride, even though I did mage to go down one of the landing ramps on the jump line on my front tire due to a bad bounce.  Oh well, can’t wait to do it again.  Maybe next year I’ll even remember my cheap action cam.  I am also happy to say that my derailleur adjustment held up so I am more confident doing it in the future.

Well,

Last night I bit the bullet and adjust the derailleur on my bike so I could shift to all 11 gears without issues.  Took me a while to do, but I’m happy I did it.  One issue I ran into is that I pulled my wheel off to put some electrical tap on the chainstay since the factory protector was chewed up.  When I put the wheel back on I had to re-adjust it.  Kinda pissed me off to have to do it, but it wasn’t as bad as the first time.