It’s the most tiresome yet amusing of formulas, that for bike possession:

h=n+1

Where h is eternal happiness, and n is the number of bikes currently owned. So, it’s no coincidence that just as the Lenz is dialed and set, I start thinking about future use of $$$$$. M and I are well off, but she’s starting a business and I decided to not go to law school, so we’re not rolling just yet. More troublesome is the drive, to improve!! rather than be content. Working on that.

Project number 1 is finishing M’s mountain bike. We need to buy a hub and have a front wheel built out of the rim we already have, get a set of roads discs, and build it up. Not too expensive or difficult.

Project number 2 is my rear wheel. It took a good bit of truing to get it back in line after the CO/UT week, so it will need attention within the next few months. The question is to be fancy (Stans), or get another A719 to match the front, which has been stout beyond belief.

I also want to resurrect the Monkey into a more respectable, performance singlespeed. Right now it has risers and v-brakes, because we had them sitting around. Flat bars SUCK! V-brakes (at least for the front) suck! The two in combination with a rigid bike and rocks are horrible!!!! So much less control. I don’t know how Ed does it:

So in the future is: another drop bar (probably the Gary), a front disc wheel, and a front disc brake. Seemingly simple, but those details add up. Returning the Monk to a more classic itteration, like before suspenions entered my life.

This is from the KMC scouting trip in late April. This is the KTR rig! Ouch!!

In the more distant future, tempted by snow biking and Jill’s effusions, is a Pug.

And how could one not!? A necessity for CO and proper snow, methinks.

The future……