Three posts in three days? Am I feeling alright?

I don’t know about the posts, but I do know that I’m feeling just fine. In fact, I’m feeling a bit giddy.

The new bike build started over a month ago, and for the last month, it has basically just been a frame. A lovely, titanium frame.

But a little box of goodies showed up at my house yesterday from John Bon Benson with the first parts in it. Seems as though the bike part fairy came with a delivery from Chris King and FSA.

And thus it begins. The theme is carbon fiber and red for the build. The red hubs will be mated to black spokes, which will be screwed into red nipples on a set of black Mavic 819X rims when all is said and done. Obviously, there are a lot of parts still coming in, but by this time next week, I’ll probably be headed to bed with a new bike sitting by my side.

Yes, I’m not even joking, my bike will probably be in the bedroom with me. And no, I’m not even going to try and justify that fact, because it really needs no justification.

I spent the evening starting to put together plans for a little bikepacking excursion this weekend. It’s kinda been on the DL, as this is the first year Scott from PNT is working on a little race he’s calling the CABRA. I think it stands for “Canyon And Back RAce”. It’s gonna be a group MTB ride out to the south rim of the canyon on saturday and then a race back on sunday.

According to Scott, if we take the route he has in mind, it should be upwards of 95 miles each day.

And according to the current count of who is actually planning on riding back out of the ~20 who are riding out, I’m gonna be lonely on the way home. All I can hope for is that they save me some beer at Pay N Take for when I arrive, haggard and sore-assed, on sunday evening.

It’s been nice trying to put together my gear for the race. I’m trying to go with my sleeping stuff (bag and pad) strapped under my seat, and the rest in my Ergon Pack. I may try and rig something up on the handlebars too, mostly for snackage since I can’t really use my jersey pockets with the Ergon on, but we’ll see how that goes. Gonna load up and commute on the gunnar to work tomorrow with everything strapped on, so I can use it as a bit of a shakedown and so I can load up on food on the way home from work.

Gonna be an epic weekend.

For some updates this weekend, check out tRoy’s site to watch his journey live on GPS tracking (he’s gonna try to do the trip as a turn and burn to make it back for fathers day, so he should beat us all back on sunday by a good bit). Also, I’ll have my cell phone, and will probably be keeping up on my twitter feed occasionally over the weekend (which you can also see on facebook or on the sidebar to the right of this post).

Hope you all have something just as painful fun planned for the weekend.

Peace out.