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At this point I think it is happening, but that depends on how we are after the MTB excursion I guess. Got to try out the lights tonight. Brighter than I had expected and after a short ride the lights are able to stay lit up for a good ten minutes which will be helpful at stop lights and signs. The install turned out nicely outside of brake cables getting in the way of some of the beam.

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Bacon Onion Rings. I need these. http://www.traegergrills.com/teamtraeger/post/2014/06/05/Bacon-Onion-Rings.aspx#.U5cQgyiGg7l

We are talking about doing an early Rock Creek Park road bike ride on Sunday as well.

Road should be easy but I think Colin is trying to decide between a full suspension or a carbon fiber HT from Big Wheel for the Saturday MTB ride.

Any of the local guys know the best place to rent a MTB for Colin? Big Wheel Bikes seems to be about the best I have found.

Makes sense, the extra weight is something the WFO definitely does not need. The new XC style droppers coming are supposedly about 100 grams lighter than the current crop of posts but still pretty damn heavy.

I was actually told to wait a bit as the new variants will be released soon from at least Rock Shox and Specialized.

Any from the HC Cycling Team using a dropper seat post yet? Thinking about adding one to the WFO.

This might even be a Brent qualified trail.

Schaeffer is not technical at all. A couple of creek crossings is about all I remember. On long steep climb that you can skip. Might be something technical on the other side of that hill but we never bothered trying to climb it.

Saturday I believe.

Juan, will you have a MTB by next weekend for the Scheaffer Farms ride? I think Colin is going to rent something from Big Wheel Bikes in Arlington.

I love tough internet dorks living in their mom's basements. You know most of us know Jerry, would you like us have him give you a call and tell you that he thinks your are a cunt?

Go kill yourself Greymarine, before I find out who you are and do it for you.

I actually reached out to my mechanic from Fresh Bikes who is over at the other shop. He is going to build the wheels for me for beer.

Geez, I have never had so much trouble getting a set of wheels built. Chris' shop wants to send my hub and Alfine rear to Velocity to build the wheels so I will be without the bike for three weeks to get a freakin Dynamo installed. I am getting tired of bikes again.

So it looks like MTB will be next weekend while Colin is in town. Trying to find him a MTB now, I should have kept me Air9 I guess.

Picked up the bike and gear, Freshbikes is done for me. I am thinking about just sending all the dynamo stuff back and not even bothering. I have no need for lights that last more than 10-20 minutes per ride anyway.

Well the dynamo wheelset has been delayed as the shop tried to slip in the 490gm Blunts in place of the 420gm Blunt SLs that I chose. Not a huge difference but I am not trying to make this bike any heavier than it already is. I might just go pick everything up tonight and take it all to Chris' shop and give up on Freshbikes altogether. Really thinking about doing some MTBing this weekend up at Schaeffer Farms to go easy my first time on the bike in a long while.

Sounds about like what I have found. Galaxy S5 has pretty weak sound quality. I typically leave it in the bag and use the iPhone for music, even with the HiRes music I have on the GS5 the iPhone is better in about every way.

I always picture Dusty living in a purple house with purple furniture drinking grape kool-aid when he posts all the purple stuff he is buying. Have not gotten a guitar in a while so I am having a paulownia wood telecaster built with a combo set of Kinman 50s and 60s noiseless pick-ups and a fishman VT power bridge. The original intent was to match my strat but I am leaning towards an excellent cherry burst at the moment.

I ended up going light as possible and went with and for the rack with brake lights based upon the dynamo detecting I have applied the brakes. Pretty slick and much cheaper than going with the big lights when it is never really all that dark where I am commuting. Now I need to decide if I will just have the Hub built into the existing Alex DA22 rims or go for a set of Velocity Blunt rims and needing to have the rear wheel rebuilt as well.

Thanks Ari, the shop thinks I just need the Eyc or IQ Premium Cyo so I might just save the cash as I do not really intend to do any "real" nighttime riding, just short trips home from the train or gym. Does your Brompton have a rack or do you just camp very efficiently?