Arleigh Jenkins

Yesterday my bike build off was with a Trek 6000 that had come into my stable late Monday night.  The goal of this new bike was the need for a hardtail with gears, the fancy paint scheme and the fact it says TREK all over the bike.  Yesterday I took off about 80% of the parts, all that is left to swap out is cranks for lighter Truvativ and order a new fork once the RockShox that comes stock blows up or I blow up at it.

After building it up and fixing Kimberlee''s bike (I had stolen wheels off of her bike for my project) we loaded up all the bikes and headed to North Meck with the boys.  Everyone, including the new bike, did well on a modified loop at North Meck.  I left the boys and Kimberlee for 20 minutes or so to do another lap by myself that didn't include stop and go.  The bike felt good under me.  Due to a snafu in one of my shifters I was running SRAM trigger shifter on my front derailleur and SRAM grip shift on my right.  This also meant I couldn't run my Ergon grips so my hands/wrist weren't the happiest with me   The fork, though super cheap, was responding like it should.  We'll see how it fairs at more technical riding.   The other reason for going with Trek over Fisher was that they have an 18.5 size, a size that fits me perfectly! This morning I'm going for another walk, organizing all my crap so that I can ride the full length home tonight.  Not anything crazy <20 mile commute but I need to shake my legs out from yesterday and also get in a hour+ ride.  With the high of 70 again today I hope traffic flow at the shop is high and the day rolls by to get to my ride!