26 days until Barry Roubaix 

 Gender is a scam made up by washroom companies to sell more washrooms

 If you're handsome and quiet, it's mysterious. If you're ugly and quiet, it's weird.

Sister Henrietta

 Good Quiet and calm blessed Sunday morning.

Looks like another beautiful day in the land of plenty.

Make this final Sunday of February 2022 the best it can be...keep the negative vibes at a minimum. 

Open a door for someone, compliment the normally un complimentable...

And never stop doing Rad Shit...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Brian Jones

 

 

 

1. Go past the Zillwaukee bridge on the Fourth of July...everyone south of M-14 is up there
2. Eat at Five Guys..colon blow twice in the last two visits
3. Own Sram Mountain bike brakes, 3 pairs and out
4. Get Remarried.....didnt work the first time aint gonna go through the hassle again
5. Buy a House..The great American dream? Great American scam.
6. Bungee Jump, too much risk of spinal injury, or even worse death!
7. Buy anything in its first run...always hic-ups
8. Argue with people...
9. Own Tubular wheels again..no reason
10. Use inner tubes
11. Have sex with my clothes on...why would you?
12. Own a vintage road bike, The smooth feel of a gas pipe double triangled is not on my romance list any longer.
13. Collect anything...acquire something yes..collect no..........
14. Pet someones dog without asking...hey there like kids right?
15. Walk a dog off a lease..animals are animals
16. Make an important decision between December first and February 1st... 
17. Give unsolicited advice...you dont ask i wont comment ..

life rules

 Although the battle between disc brakes and rim brakes is all but over, 

there are still plenty of sound arguments in favor of the latter. The bikes and wheels are substantially lighter. They’re easier to work on. They’re often less expensive. Modern technology makes it possible for them to work quite well. And, of course, some just prefer how they look.

When it comes to gravel, the tables have been skewed even more in favor of disc over rim. Looking for a rim-brake gravel bike? Good luck with that.

Oregon-based bike builder Rob English is used to swimming upstream, however, and he recently debuted a custom gravel/all-road bike that features his trademark steel frame, a custom steel fork, clearance for 700×45 mm tires, and — for real — a prototype set of oversized direct-mount 

Cane Creek eeBrakes that easily wrap around those high-volume tires.

“[eeBrakes inventor] Craig Edwards is a little bit of a hero of mine because of the original Sweet Parts cranks back in the 90s,” English told me. “I got to speak with him a little when he was selling the eeBrake directly, before partnering with Cane Creek. At some point a few years ago, we got talking about the brake and bigger tires. Craig thought he could maintain the same power and feel, but by using a wider direct mount fitment (68 mm instead of the normal 49 mm), could create a lot more tire clearance. Talk eventually turned into a 3D-printed proof-of-concept, and then some actual machined parts. And some hand-formed custom springs! 

Then I needed to build a frame and fork to install the brakes on. It’s shown here with 35 mm tires, but there is room for up to 45 mm (depending on rim/tire combo, as always). I agree with Caley and y’all that rim brakes are much easier to travel with. So this enables nice and easy travel-gravel.  I will be building a version of my folding frame travel bike with a set of these shortly.”

To be perfectly clear, these aren’t just standard eeBrakes with every dimension set to 180% scale; that just wouldn’t work with current mechanical brake levers, which still pull essentially the same amount of cable as they did when rim brakes were the norm. The brake arms are custom-made to accommodate that wider direct-mount hole spacing and to provide the necessary clearances, but the overall leverage ratio is very similar to standard road-only eeBrakes. In fact, many of the linkage parts are the same.

The finished product may be a prototype, but you’d hardly know it by looking at it. By all accounts, it’s just as polished as the production road-going eeBrakes in terms of design, aesthetics, and engineering, and with the same benefits, including an ultra-low weight, a uniquely flex-resistant design that boosts power and control, and a distinctly snappy lever feel. As for the bike itself, it’s as feathery as you’d expect at just 7.57 kg (16.70 lb) without pedals.

That all said, don’t hold your breath for being able to buy a set of these brakes on their own any time soon. Although it’s possible English and Cane Creek might make a few more of these available for custom customers, it’s highly unlikely any mainstream brand would be willing to bring rim brakes back, never mind in such a niche application and with a non-standard brake mount interface to boot.

Moreover, Cane Creek has no plans to put these into mass production.

“We have no plans for the near future to build and sell gravel eeBrakes,”

 said Cane Creek marketing leader Jenna Toney. 

“However, this was a special request received through Rob and we thought it would be cool to entertain prototype gravel eeBrakes.”

 

 

 

 

2022 GRAVEL WORLD SERIES WILL REPORTEDLY START IN APRIL IN THE PHILIPPINES

 

According to reports, the series will feature events running through September.

The 2022 UCI Gravel World Series is expected to start in Bongabon in the Philippines on April 3 with a race that will be the first of a number of qualifying events ahead of the Gravel World Championships, Gran Fondo Daily News reports.

According to WhenInManila.com, the series and the world championships appear to be sponsored by Trek, although no official details are known at this point.

According to reports, the series will feature events running through September.

Gran Fondo Daily News published an unofficial calendar for the series that features 14 races, starting with the Gravel Filippine Bongabon.

The leaked calendar continues with the Wish One Gravel Race in France, the Gravel Adventure in Poland, the Blue Mountains Gravel Fondo in Canada, the Highlands Gravel Classic in the United States, the Gravel Ensenada in Mexico, the Gravel Grit n Grind in Sweden, the Houffa Gravel in Belgium, La Monsterrato in Italy, the Gravelista in Australia, the Kettle Mettle in Canada, the Gravel One Fifty in the Netherlands, the Ranxo in Spain, and the Jingle GX Gravel Race in the United States.

According to reports, the series will feature events running through September.

Racers can reportedly qualify for the world championships by finishing in the top 20% of their age group at a series race, although nothing official on that front has been announced either.

The date of the first ever UCI Gravel World Championships also remains unannounced as of February 22.

U knew it was coming, dont seem so aghast! 

will it ruin this lovely thing?

 yeah probably, but not in your hood

so stay calm keep doin what you all do...

 

 

 

 

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