It has been a while since I posted and I apologize for that. My favorite race season of the year is just around the corner and man am I stoked this year. Cyclocross!!!! Check out the www.kansascitycross.com if you are not familiar with cyclocross. I really don’t know what to expect out of my body this year. Taking close to a year off the bike was not the best idea I ever had and it has been and still is a hard road back. Training has been going well, but I really don’t expect any podium finishes this year. I am sure everybody I used to race against has moved up a category or 2 and I will be fending for myself this year. I have heard tale that the fields are a lot bigger than they used to be, so that should make it more interesting. I guess my goal for this season is to get my skill set honed and hopefully Cat up to a 3 by the end of the season.
I should have my new cross rig built up by next weekend. The folks at Lynskey have been nothing but the best to work with. They have done everything in their power to make sure my buying experience was perfect. If you are not familiar with Lynskey, they are the people that started Litespeed. They sold Litespeed a few years back and decided to get back into the Titanium frame building business again. Anyhow, they are building me a cross frame to replace the used Seven Muse I bought off eBay a few years back. The Seven just never fit me quite right, as it was really 1 size too big. I am building the Lynskey up with Campagnolo Record 10 speed. I swapped out every bolt I could with a Titanium one and spec'd it with all the lightest and stongest parts I could. As the old saying goes, "Light, Strong, Cheap - Pick Two." I want this to be THE cyclocross bike!
I guess the big news is that I have made a commitment to ride cross tubulars this year, so I had to get a couple of sets of tubular wheels to mount them to. I sold some wheels and other spare parts to pay for them, but ended up making enough to get a set of Zipp 404 Cyclocross wheels and a set of Williams 58 Carbon tubulars. No question who Zipp is and they make quality stuff, but Williams is a fairly new brand that uses non-dimpled Zipp 404 rims and Ceramic Hybrid bearings in their hubs. I mounted 700 x 34 Tufo Flexus Primus tubulars to the Zipps, as they are going to be my main race wheels. The Williams are going to be mounted up with 700 x 32 Tufo Cubus tires and will be my mud/snow/ice/rough/crap course wheels. I am a little nervous about running carbon wheels only during the season, but there are a lot of people who are running them on their cross bikes now-a-days, so I am going to give it a shot.
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