by Rick Glos
9. January 2009 08:37
I finally got around to having my cyclocross bike switched over to a compact chainring. The hills around here just kill me. Of course, there were addons...
The chain needed replacing, the brake pads, the rear wheel was built incorrectly so I needed it rebuilt, the hubs overhauled, and $450 bucks later I walk out with a shiny bike.
The highlight though was getting to meet Erik Tonkin in person.
I'd read about him on the local cycling blogs. He'd won a WORS race a couple years ago when I first heard of him. Then he seemed to pop up everywhere, local pro cycling road crits, cyclocross racing in Europe; he even has a bike named after him.
That's how I heard about his shop, Sellwood Cycle Repair. Only 10 minutes from my house its a damn shame I didn't go there sooner.
I got to lament with him over the lack of local mountain bike trails. He knows of some secret ones and invited me to check them out in the spring. I guess there's quite a few XC riders that congregate out of his shop.
He personally did all the work on my bike and is also refitting my grocery getter, so more bike porn photos soon. He even added some custom touches like cable adjusters for the brakes.
That left me no choice but to take it out for a ride the next day... in the rain.
They need to clean up these streets and I need some easy on/off fenders for that bike.
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Tags: bicycling
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