Excitement Building

Only one week away from the first race of the Florida State Series. I'm pretty excited. I rode yesterday on the road and today at Alafia with the MTB Team. We had a good ride. It was moderate paced and we were basically "shaking out" the equipment. Of course, now several of us need last minute repairs or replacement of broken or damaged parts that we have been "living with" but can't deal with anymore.  I guess it's better now than friday afternoon. 

The following week we travel to Dauset. Again, very excited! The family loves the camping and we get to spend time with Lori and Grog. We never do enough of either. We have also made some pretty good mountain biking friends in Georgia and we look forward to seeing them as well.

The bike is finally in what I think will be it's final race configuration. I have a full XTR build including crank. Chris king hubs with a Stan's front and DT Swiss rear rim. Carbon bar with Thomson stem and seatpost. WTB silverado saddle. And I decided to run a Tioga red phoenix front tire and a Continental twister on the rear. Final weight, 22.6 lbs. I'm very happy with it.