old bike

A lot of people are posting up some pretty sweet pics of new bikes on their blogs lately. In a fit of jealousy I am posting this diamond in the ruff. When I moved out here I was without a bike at all. Somehow this bike set up as a single speed found it's way inside the U-Haul from my good friend Adam's garage. I rode it as a SS for several months before I started riding regularly again and got another road bike. This bike is perfect for the snow races in Leadville so I built it up with some extra stuff I had laying around and some other goods I sourced from TK. I ordered some 2.4 tires for it and last race I aired them down to 15 psi. I wish I could find a wider tire but there's only 3 more races left. That fork has been blown for years now. I air that bad boy up to maximum pressure and it's darn near rigid. I'd love to find a true rigid fork for it but I need 9" of steer tube and so far I've come up trumps on ebay. I suppose I could buy one but I got nothin in this thing so I hate to. It does pretty well.

Tomorrow's race is at North America's highest golf course. I believe the course is just under 10,000'. It's supposed to be pretty quick. Temps are supposed to be a high of 35 so I'm sure it'll be brisk in the morning. I'm hoping the snow sets up hard. It's supposed to be fast and that sounds good to me after riding in deep snow for much of the last 2 races. Tomorrow is a realy so my friend Scott is coming down tonight from Denver and he's gonna be my partner. He's never done a mtb race on even dirt before so this should be fun.