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I have several things in the works.  I have this GREAT idea for a wonderful project that will keep me going for a while.  I would write about it but someone is likely to catch on… All I can say is I am scouring ebay looking for parts.

I have been solicited to find the best possible road bike for under $1200 dollars.  When you commission me for such a task you don’t get the typical Trek, Specialized, Cannondale line-up.  There is always ebay where you may find a good deal on something used…. I happen to like taking more control…. with a Surly Pacer but the new Redline Conquest Classic caught my eye as well.

All the looking at bikes for a colleague got me looking at bikes in my category.  It is amazing how prices for high end road bikes keep climbing. I have a 1992 Masi Team 3V.  In 1992 I paid $1500 for it as a complete bike with a Campy Chorus and a spare set of tubular wheels.  I will grant you 1992 Record gruppo would have run another $500 bucks but today you are looking at $3K just for a Campy Chorus build kit bicycle frame not included. Here is another example… ten years ago an XT derailleur was about $50, today about $110.  My salary is not keeping pace.

I love Single Speeds.

Other items… my right-hand man, Roelof, is headed for greener pastures.  He is headed to Sky Research in Hanover, New Hampshire.  The thought of Roelof leaving for New England has me considering returning to New England as well…. the problem is I don’t want to pack my crap and move across the country, I don’t want to ski on ice, and I don’t want to give up access to the intermountain West or the Utah desert.  So I sit and dream about New England until things get so intolerable I start packing.

Next weekend I am headed to Moab to celebrate Owen’s 10th birthday.  Wendy and I remember just like yesterday when Wiley McDonough turned 10…  look at him now…. he graduates from the Univ of Montana this Spring. (Hats off the Carson McDonough for making the video).