Recovery Rides and New T-Shirts
I’ve been trying to limit my hard riding this last week in order to recover. I got in a couple good mountain rides, and a spin on the road bike per some suggestions from Dara, and I’m feeling pretty good. I still have some slight ass soreness, but I’m hoping that will go away in time for a good ride tomorrow.
I realized that I’m really bad at recovering, because it’s killing me to ride slow and ride less often. I tend to just go ride when I feel like it, and I ride hard until I’m tired. But, I feel like I’m in good shape now, and I want to do well in gunnison next weekend, so I’m forcing some recovery time. It’s a good exercise in discipline for me.
In my never ending quest to figure out a cool logo for handlebarsandwich, I have a new one for your consideration. I finally gave in to my engineering tendencies and abandoned all hope of utilizing some sort of graphic design skills for this endeavor. Instead I took a little time out of my work day earlier this week, and set about doing a little design work in Solidworks.
I give you the HS Chainring:
The beauty of this logo is that I actually built a solid model of it, and the picture is just an export of the solid model. I then decided to embrace my inner enginerd and make a CAD drawing of the ring. This ring is modeled after a White Industries ENO ring, but optimized to fit a nice wide 1/8” chain. I don’t think I quite get the spline exactly right in the middle, but if I got those measurements from White Industries this thing could potentially be machined from this drawing (maybe I’ll have to work on that. . . )
So, of course, the next logical step is to throw it on a t-shirt. So, embrace your inner engineer, and buy a t-shirt. I think the logo looks good on black or green, but you could try it on any ‘dark’ colored t-shirt as well. Here’s the zazzle link:
Finally, make sure you go outside for at least a few minutes on sunday night, it’s the Perseid Meteor Shower peak and it’s a new moon this year, so it should be pretty sweet.
So you and me gotta straighten some shit out:
1. Those shirts look rockin’, probably gonna have to get one or 5.
2. Good luck in Gunnison, kick lots of ass and if you have time take a name or two.
3. I’ve been flakier about races than a crackhead with dandruff but I’m trying to commit/make an earnest effort to make it to 24 hours in the OP in February.
- MJ
Link | August 15th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
1. I know, I’m gonna be rockin one in short order when they come in.
2. Thanks, that’s the plan
3. Excuse time is over.
I’m definitely going to be down at OP again this year, and there’s talk of Kelly, JB, and maybe even the elusive D2 getting together with whomever else wants in on it and doing a team thing. Now there definitely not an excuse. Even if you’re not trained up for solo, you can ride on a 4-person team, right? right
- Nathan
Link | August 16th, 2007 at 10:32 am
nate, cool new T design, when will they be available? I have the White SS cranks on the Matt Chester, good props on them, nice and light, stiff as snot and simple
as you were
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- elrancho66
Link | August 16th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I think I might look into actually doing a real run of t-shirts for this design, I kinda like it, and I’d rather do the local thing if I can from flag t company instead of zazzle (should be cheaper, too) so keep your eyes peeled, and I may have some shirts coming soon.
- Nathan
Link | August 16th, 2007 at 1:55 pm