Hoogerheide with Magnus Darvell and others

Christian Heule filmed at the world cup in Hoogherheide last weekend. With a little bit of Tim Johnson, Thijs Al and Magnus Darvell

Challenge tubulars

Handmade is always interesting. Check this video from Challenge how they make their nice tubulars:

new Sram mtb derailleur

Usually it seems like Sram is leading mtbshifting over Shimano but not always. Shimano has their new XTR Trailderailleur to stop the chain from jumping of in ruff terrain. Sram is now coming with a new X.0 derailleur to match:

closer look:

Buy a nice bike!

As I can’t afford it I can tip you about it. Eliflap is selling his stiff 29er. With the coolest fork and a good spec:

7860 g

complete bike for sale

LTK 023 29er frame , size M

tubulars carbon wheelset EVENT with Dugast 45mm

rigid carbon LUCY fork from BCBB , Lefty style

EDGE seatpost , stem and handlebar

Saevid saddle

Sram X.0 BB30 crankset , integrated 37-23 rings

11-36 T XX cassette

X.0 2011 rear der , front der

Sram X.0 gripshift tuned for 10 speeds

CarbonTi seat post collar

R1 disc brake set , 160mm rotors

no bottlecage

Price is 2800€

Behind the Barriers Episode 15

A new episode with JPow, but without winning:

Shortrace video

Allebike has this training races a.k.a Shortraces in Alingsås now 3 saturdays. Here’s a video from the first one:

Record training

-2°, sunshine and Linea and Petter as guide it was set up to be a perfect training session today. And it was, started with going to Åsane and pick up two more cyclists that rode with us for an hour and a half. Rode to Skjelanger and looked at the cold sea:

On the way back with met two other cyclist that had been a bit too late too the meeting place. Rode with us back to Frekhaug where we stopped at the gas station for some coffee and energy. A ice coffee and the new thing, Lefser later and I had some energy in my body. Enough to get home Petter said and he had right. At home we had to take a lap around Sandviken so I could get a nice record. As my longest training before is 4h40min something I hit that today with 21min. 5h1min 148 in average heart rate. As a winter ride should be. More pictures on petterbel.blogspot.com later I hope.

Training again! :D

Trained two times in november, the last time a to short ride as I punctured my tubular tire and Vittoria Pit Stop didn’t work. And then have had some problems with my butt but today I was back on the bike.

Met up with Petter, Linea, John and Anna Lisa and then rolled a long lap around Ulriken. Some degree + but not many and was rainy as always. But good mood and good company (and perfect fenders) made it good. Not so much rain and just boring weather in Arna:

And then we got sun at the end. Rode too early so the water was very cold and in the end it was pretty cold for my hands and feets. But why care when we came closer to Bergen and the weather looked like this:

Home again after 2h46min effective time and a average heart rate at 144. Not so high but my legs aren’t that good either, felt really slow. Impressive by Anna Lisa today too, rode with a road bike in this shitty weather. Pictures from Petter’s blog, read it if you understand swedish.

red fender and motivated

As I haven’t ridden a bike properly since the beginning of december I’m really motivated to ride now. 4 degrees and rain but I prepared. Rode my bike to work today and have made the rear fender a bit longer (the front one can’t be longer).

First mounting without stripes too. Drilled a pair of holes and screwed the red part. And hanged the bike in our Park Tool scale. Included the yesterday change to my lovely Selle SMP Strike Composit seat, these long fenders and lights the bike is 10,09kg. Will be 10,12 tomorrow with bottle cage. Pretty light for a winter bike with fenders, lights and bell

Recon 11-25 cassette

Now I got my road cassette too. Too amateur with 11-28 and a compact crankset. Now it will be 11-25 instead. Recon in aluminum at 102g, should have been 95g.

And then a new chain (never use an used chain on a alucassette), of course KMC X10SL. It is 228g cut in right length. Pretty nice look mounted too. And now the bike is 5833g, will be under 5,8kg but not under 5,7kg as I first hoped.

Parts missing now is a new saddle that is ordered, new quick releases that will come at the same time as the saddle. And then I have to get some proper tires, but still haven’t decided. The saddle will be a white Tune Komm-Vor+