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26 July 2010 - 20:52The Dark Horse Approacheth

And have I been training? No, not so much.

I have been riding, but I haven’t been spending quality time in the saddle. Meaning that I have not been getting those long base miles in on the bike I will be racing on. Instead, I have been frivolously goofing around on my RIP9 on short rides with friends. A ride is a ride, and always good for the soul, but I have a feeling that this upcoming 40 mile ride will hurt.

So, I will be changing some aspects of my equipment to gain whatever advantage I can. It isn’t like I’m going to loose 10 lbs and get ultra fit in the next 6 days.

rotor

One of the things I will be using is the new 34 tooth singlespeed specific Rotor ring. I snagged this one from Niner rep Mike Stanley during the VT Mountain Bike Festival.

I am in fact singed up for the Dark Horse 40 in the single speed category, further showing my lack of good judgement when it comes to these sort of things. I haven’t picked out my rear cog yet, but I think I will be bringing a couple of extra and some tools, and make a game time decision after checking out the course.

7 Comments » | Tags: Bike 29 Equipment, racing

Comments:

  1. Nate says;
    26 Jul 2010 - 21:40

    Good luck on the up coming event. Singlespeed is a beautiful thing. I hope you have fun racing and don’t sweat the lack of fitness, just enjoy the burn.

  2. Jason says;
    26 Jul 2010 - 23:33

    I can’t believe rotor is actually charging $135.00 for a single speed chainring and $93.00 for a (normal) ramped and pinned chainring. It seems to me that a ramped and pinned ring is more costly to make than a “flat” single speed ring. Am I wrong?

  3. Dicky says;
    27 Jul 2010 - 6:14

    Looks nice.
    No trente-trois?

  4. G says;
    27 Jul 2010 - 7:42

    I hope the price might come down after a few of these are sold. Because they are made in Spain, they are subject to all sorts of duties and tariffs etc that help increase the cost. In a previous life, I imported very expensive outerwear from Europe, which didn’t go that well for the US market because the price was too high once it landed on the retail floor.

  5. G says;
    27 Jul 2010 - 7:44

    The single speed ring is much beefier than the ramped and pinned 33t ring, they may have not been able to make it any smaller.

  6. Thom P. says;
    27 Jul 2010 - 9:57

    Go lower than you think,
    those punchy climbs add up.

    Have fun, so sad the DH40 lined up with the 101.

    -t

  7. G says;
    27 Jul 2010 - 10:00

    So 18 or 19 would be bad?

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