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As promised… Very nice ride today. It was very hot/humid but beautiful skies. No gators (or crocs) encountered 
The pictures below are typical of what you can expect on these trails. It was a 70 mile drive for me to get to the Maytown trailhead but well worth it.
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Very cool Viper! Thanks for sharing the photos!
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my All-City macho man disc. Just learned All-City is going to cease to be after next year. Bummer. They were a great bike company.
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Very cool. Its hard to compete with mass producers.
that looks like a blast. thanks for sharing.
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If you would like a new challenging gravel tour, this was just announced for Arkansas. I have never ridden gravel and am too old and out of shape to tackle six days but this looks fun.
https://www.arkansasgraveler.com
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It looks nice—except the camping. A four star hotel with spa services every evening would be more my speed at this stage of life.
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Just finished remodeling my cycling workshop. I built a wall between the two car side by side garage and two car tandem garage. In Arizona, we need the golf range to be air conditioned and HOA does not like a 25,000 btu window AC sticking out the garage window facing the street. Therefore I built a wall to air condition the tandem garage. In building the driving range I flipped my cycling shop from back of two car tandem garage to the front. All the cabinets had to be moved and everything reorganized. After a few months in action, it is a better use of this space
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Meticulously done, as always.
Nice to hear from you. It’s been a minute.
Cheers.
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Nice Cardri! Big Trek fan here as well.
Never knew how much would love a good garage. Makes working on bikes fun!
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Agree on Trek. My first racing bike was a 1985 Trek 660. I did about a dozen triathlons with it as well. It was a great bike. Reynolds 531, Ofmega Mistral crank, Cateye solar computer, all back in 1985.
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I also had one! Around 1989. Loved that bike for the three weeks I had it before I crashed it. Grrrrrr.
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Just traded the 2024 Vette in for 2025 Explorer ST Line and coin back. Also sold the MB SL43. Getting close to retiring and racing bikes this year and next in AZ and CA and need to get the bike and gear in the ride and adequate long distance trips.
Reconfiguring Tandem Garage
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Upgraded my cycling studio - added Tru Trainer smart rollers with a schedule 40 pipe cage and dual 40in FS for Rouvy amp and pro race watching. These are not your Dad’s rollers. They have a built in ac generator on the load roller that creates a self contained, application controlled load. I use Rouvy to control the wattage load of that roller and base the wattage truth on my Trek SRM wattmeter. So, the roller and SRM power meter are communicating with the iPhone Rouvy ap that sets the commanded load roller power and the SRM lets Rouvy know what is the real power and the Rouvy ap controls the load roller by increasing or decreasing the command load till the Rouvy power is met. The dual 65in FSs are for Rouvy and pro racing while on PO Trek on the MP1 Wahoo stationary trainer. Also added my favorite pros for inspiration.
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Been an avid bicycle rider for years. Did Ride the Rockies back in 87 from Durango to Denver on a Trek aluminum frame. Not many years after that i decided no more road riding for me, to many distracted drivers on the road, so I started MTB riding instead, which I find a lot more fun and challenging. Just upgraded from an aluminum Specialized Stumpjumper pro to a carbonfiber Ari MTB with more travel and 29" wheels.
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I have a Cannondale Synapse myself. Bought one for my wife that switched out the drop bars for flat bars. 15 pounds. Fun.
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Impressive bikes and studio. I’m down from 1500 to a couple hundred miles a year on an all carbon Kestrel. Still fun but significantly less motivated.
Kudos to you for leading the old(er) man peloton.
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@straightwire - this is my last year working so I’m focused on racing. I got the Explorer to support century racing in AZ and CA this and next year. In 2022 I road 12K miles and 2023 & 2024 I road 5K miles. This year I am racing Tour Tucson in NOV so I will be packing on the miles. 2026 is 8 centuries so far planned so I will be riding a lot
I have (3) bikes right now:
Project One Trek Emonda - SLR7 Ultegra DI2 w/ SRM PM9
Project One Domane - SLR7 Ultegra DI2 on MP1 platform w/ Wahoo Kickr V6 and Elite Rizr
Cervelo P3C Tri Bike
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