33 Mile Ride: Trek Update

If you know my hommie Eric, you'd know that for the longest he was mashing his bike on clipless pedals with well, no cleats or shoes! Probably the most uncomfortable and inefficient use of power ever. Before our ride we decided to finally swap out his pedals. Funny thing was that I wasn't able to do it with my tools and we had to go to a bike shop to use their repair stand to do it. 

Even after a little scare of possibly cross threaded cranks. We were able to finally get some decent pedals on this bike! My old pedals look great on this classic bike!

 We gotta be on the look out for a new fork though. A tiny hairline crack! :/ No fun at all.

Beasting on this gear! 

~Luggedsteal

33 Mile Ride: Sunset Beach

After we left Belmont Shores, we actually grabbed lunch at In and Out mainly to refuel on water. Pretty much took PCH after with some pretty long inclines. Well deserved rest break here.

The ride back home was pretty brutal due to cross winds and straight up dehydration. But hey, we made it and one step closer to the century ride!

~Luggedsteal

33 Mile Ride: Belmont Shores Pier

Me and Eric went on a bike ride on 8.30.2011 that looped from Long Beach, to DTLB, to Belmont Shores and Sunset Beach. Very beast ride especially for Eric since it was his first long ride. First rest stop:

 That view never gets old to me.

~Luggedsteal

Profile Design Aquarack

So in preparation for the LB to SD ride, I decided to grab one of these bad boys. For really long distances, you need some form of accessible hydration and granted I could have just put a bunch of bottles in my bag, but a lafixed deal came up which I couldn't pass up. This thing can hold 2 bottles and it attaches to your seatpost. Those little metal things that come out can hold CO2 cartridges. When I was test riding this for the first time, I felt the reach was too low for me even though I hiked it up as far as I could. So I ended up removing the spacer and the CO2 holders and it has a better feel to it.

I'll prolly do a full review when I log 250 miles on my odometer. So far I'm really enjoying this. Next post will be my bottles.

~Luggedsteal