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what bear? oh, that bear.

August 29, 2010 in riding by dom | No comments

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my legs felt trashed this morning but I still wanted to head out with justin for the double muir I planned the night before.  so we headed out, and the weather was ideal – not too windy and a little bit sunny.  we caught cars on all the descents but we still got a good ride in with ~2500ft of climbing.  I was tired yesterday, but now I’m really tired, HAHA.

oh, and justin was pointing at a stuffed animal bear at the side of the road.  he wanted to take it home for his wife, but I told him it could have rabies.  he ended up not taking it.  I’m such a good friend…

it’s looking nice outside, iconic san francisco summer weather.  get on my local level!

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my boy, frank chu.

June 22, 2010 in general by dom | No comments

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my brother snapped a picture of me with my boy, frank chu, the legend.  I was out with my brother and mom at the union park fair on sunday.  great weather, free music, and good times.

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rooftop, son!

June 14, 2010 in riding by dom | No comments

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view from the top.

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not yours.

May 9, 2010 in riding by dom | No comments

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spent the day at the old house today, cleaning up the top floor, prepping for paint next weekend.  opted for an embarcadero bmx cruise to end the day.

we’re all a little hypocritical.  end it right.

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rain? rain.

April 4, 2010 in riding by dom | No comments

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today, I wanted to get a short city spin recovery ride in before the rain hit.  decided to bring out the track bike for good measure.  haven’t touched it in a week and a half, and for the short amount of time I was on it today, it was awesome.  I only made it out to haight before the drizzle saturated the ground…and since tire traction is a much needed asset to the friction between the rear tire and the ground, I figured it’d be rather risky and not worth it.

there’s nothing like riding a track bike, that’s for sure – the spin, the torque, a very efficient drivetrain (no power-suck from derailleurs, or even derailleurs and gears to think about).  there’s a give and take, I appreciate the road and track bike in different ways.  one things for sure though, the track bike definitely has a taller bottom bracket.  by a lot.  sitting tall, you don’t even know.

I can’t wait to start riding it again.

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midweek hustle.

March 31, 2010 in riding by dom | No comments

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decided to climb up to coit tower via lombard.  it was quite the trek on a bmx bike, but well worth it.  the views of the golden gate bridge, north beach, and marina are sick.  chilled around the embarcadero a bit, decided to head towards SOMA.

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can’t wait to head out later today.  the weather’s been holding…downtown it’s all partly cloudy.  and the sun is warm.

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funday.

March 15, 2010 in general by dom | 1 comment

as mentioned in my previous post, I was planning on resting sunday because of the cough I developed on saturday.  I spend the morning catching up on x-files (THAT’S WHAT’S UP), and got a message from ben asking if I wanted to ride twin peaks with him and 2 other guys.  figured, what the heck, I could use the sunlight, and my cough was getting better.

alex (trang) and ben got a bit lost getting to SRSHOUSE, but eventually found their way.  we chilled for a second, and headed towards the academy of science in golden gate park to meet up with jeff (jeffsf on sffixed).  I led from 7th, up woodside, to portola, the beginning of the twin peaks climb.  it was beautiful outside, definitely glad I didn’t stay at home.

from left to right: alex, ben, (dom), jeff

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of course, we had to see an epic guy up here too.  check out the front-wheel drive his recumbent bike has.  he had campagnolo centaur carbon brifters, and claimed to descend twin peaks at a top speed of 40mph.  I believe him, you can really pick up speed on those things…

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and of course, the money shot of san francisco.

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bombed twin peaks blvd, wiggled from 17th to roosevelt, to 14th, my favorite descent (OF ALL TIME) in san francisco.  stopped at starbucks to get hooked up with drinks (thanks jeff!), then ben and I split to go to bother rai at chrome.  chilled until he was done with his shift, and bounced home.

big thanks to ben for picking up my kalavinka bag, I know it’ll go to a good home.  and an even bigger thanks for the rapha leg warmers; ben, you know they’ll get put to good use!  thanks man!

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sf, what are you doing.

March 12, 2010 in general by dom | No comments

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took another day off the bike and walked to work.  I think this weekend will be early morning alpine dam sessions, back to back.  both kits are fre$h, and ready to go.

forecast is clear all next week (thus far).  hopefully I hear back from freewheel hayes about my phil wood mag-ti bottom bracket.  would love to get that thing back into the cannondale track to start hitting up presidio loops again.

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phil woe.

March 7, 2010 in general by dom | 1 comment

yesterday, I dropped off the cannondale track at freewheel hayes to have it tuned up.  tension on the rear wheel was a bit slack, and there’s been a slight creaking sound coming from the drivetrain.  figured it was the chain, since it was the same one used on the initial samson build months ago.  and sram pc-7x chains are cheap enough to change semi-annually – better to be safe than sorry, wearing out drivetrain components on something as preventable as that seems easy.

after I dropped off the bike, I went for a walk down to the polo fields to watch the start of eugene’s race, king of the hill.  long story short, I was sucked into running a checkpoint with sean chan.  we held it down at stussy for the 8 racers.

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there weren’t too many guys that came by, and we ended up splitting after a brief 20 minutes.  at the top of twin peaks, the finish, it was fergus (messenger from sf), mark (guy from southbay-ish), and bennett (YOU ALREADY KNOW).  $100 cash prize for 1st, pushbike stash was 2nd place, and i minus d shirts/stickers for everyone else.  thought there’d be more racers, but I guess the 90mi mixed terrain alleycat took some riders away too.  oh well, glad there were no accidents and everyone, for the most part, had a decent time.  glad I came out.

went back to freewheel to check up on the caad, and long story short, dustin ended up swapping out every drivetrain component trying to isolate the creak – big whoop, it was the magnesium-titanium phil wood bottom bracket.  apparently, the titanium spindle needs some sort of maintenance, something only phil wood can do.  so, a standard phil bb, with regular spindle, sleeve, and bearings was quieter than my super epic, awesome bb.  go figure.  overall, I’m not impressed with the bottom bracket in terms of reliability…however on the flip side of that, the carbonite bearings and lightness of the spindle assembly with the mag-ti is unparalleled.  they’re sending the bb back.

I wonder when it’ll be back in my bike…

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chores.

February 27, 2010 in riding by dom | No comments

san francisco’s annual chinese new years parade brought absolutely everyone down to chinatown and downtown.  there was also a street fair on grant, starting at columbus:

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and without the rain, the roads were dry.  well, most of them.

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riding fast was a chore, everyone was out and about today.  and I saw mission cycles’ picture from this morning, the marin trail was flooded, once again.  I sure hope it’s clear in the morning.

ALPINE DAM IN THE AM.  that’s what’s up.

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