The Ride Studio Cafe’s Cyclocross Bingo challenge was a fun time. Lots of ‘cross fans came out for the viewing — there was standing room only!
Nearly everyone at the Studio participated in bingo. I was surprised that we had a winner — Bradford Smith — so early on. I call that success.
Julie Wright — our local favorite — had a great race, coming in 24th in her first nationals! This is just the beginning. Until next year.
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One of the more complex ride projects that Ride Studio Cafe puts together is the Fall Five. It’s a seven day series of solo ride challenges. This year we also held road and offroad versions. We’ve run the Fall Five a couple times and people really seem to enjoy it. We had more than forty participants during this year’s series. That’s a big commitment from riders, but yielding good rewards; one of which is the Fall Five customized jersey.
The winners’ jerseys just arrived and they look beautiful. Silver, gray, and orange on a black Velocio long-sleeved jersey.
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Cyclocross Nationals has been happening all week. The elite races happen on Sunday. Ride Studio Cafe is having a real-time party formally beginning with the Women’s Elite race that starts at 2:30 pm. In celebration of Julie Wright — local phenom representing us all — being in the race, we’re playing bingo during her race. Visit the Studio on Sunday to join in and maybe even win a book by Molly Hurford.
The Studio is also providing everyone Julie’s favorite drink — the cortado — free during her race. Hope to see you there!
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Sometimes it’s good to remember who we were, who we are, and who we will be.
I got to watch one in a series of studies from Robina Courtin.
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Ooops. Someone told me that we started Seven Cycles nineteen years ago. Chimpanzee masks and all.
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Overland Base Camp just posted a useful journal entry about navigating with a GPS units versus a phone.
“Someday mobile phones will work perfectly as cycling GPS devices. However, the current state of phone-to-bar mounting systems, battery life, weather resistance, and tracking apps all mean that a dedicated GPS unit — specifically a Garmin 800 or above — is, by far, the right way to go.
As always, we’re specifically talking about long hours of mixed-terrain riding in all weather conditions.”
Check it out. Do you use your phone for navigation?
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I’m putting together a ride project that combines the best of everything. Lots of testing and research combined with riding a bike! This project combines:
Stay tuned for details about each aspect of this project. First, the frameset — above, then the ride — below.
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It wasn’t too long ago that Seven would design a new fork about once every year-and-a-half or so. We have five road style forks — available in a dozen rakes each — and we’ve have designed numerous ‘cross, mixed-terrain, and mountain bike style forks over the years.
Now it seems like we’re working on fork designs non-stop. Brake mount options, axle types, accessory mounting setups, tire and wheel sizes, trail preferences, are all proliferating to the point that we don’t even call them ‘standards’ anymore; they’re simply options now.
Our most recent introduction was the Max45 mixed-terrain fork last year. We’ve had so much success with it that we’re currently working on three more versions of it. One of them is a 12mm thru axle option. And once those are complete, we have three more slated on the R&D calendar.
We’ve got the 12mm thru axle prototypes completed so we’re about to start ride testing and second round of fatigue and static testing, too. These prototypes are of a flat mount brake caliper design. It’s still too early for that type of brake — there’s barely anything available right now — but we try to get a jump on the future sometimes. This fork may or may not make the light of day. Ride and performance testing will soon make the decision.
And, it’s always good to have an excuse to ride! Feedback will arrive shortly.
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Why do I ride so much more in the winter than the summer? Not that I ride all that much in the winter, either.
Something about riding on snow and ice and the feeling of not being in control. Riding in the winter really does imitate life. The Ride Studio Cafe Sunday morning Mixed Terrain Ride is life.
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Overland Base Camp’s 2016 Ride Calendar is printed and available. The calendar is online, too. Too many rides already on the calendar for the 2016 season. And there will be more to come.
Get ready!
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