Out of Context

Day’s Verse:
He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.”
Acts 1:7 (context)

Back when I converted my Specialized Hard Rock into an Xtracycle, I posted a picture on Flickr of my solution to the super-long-chain sagging issue. This is the picture:

TerraCycle Idler for an Xtracycle

At the time, I received a number of questions from other Xtracycle riders asking what that thing was and where to get one (it’s an idler, by the way, custom made by TerraCycle in Portland, and it’s the single most expensive part on my Specialized). One of the people who asked about this was a guy named Matthew, who lived in Tacoma, wrote a blog called Tacoma Bike Ranch, and rode his Xtracycle on the 3-day, 3-mountain-pass-surmounting Courage Classic. Pretty unique guy. Continue Reading >>