Oh man..... the weight

After all the Thanks Giving grubbing, I just totally gain much weight. It's been really hard trying to get back onto my bike and even though now the weather is perfect, we're trying to get our land purchased so we can get our home built onto it. All these permits take some time. I cannot wait to be living in Deer (animals) Country and walking distance to Lake Travis :)

What's up all!

Damn, I can't believe it's been this long since I posted.

Anyways, a lot gone on, but for a quick update, we just sold our home 3 months ago and now looking @ another home builder to build our house. All in all townhome living sucks b/c there is not enough room there :). I really miss the access to a garage from my front door :). Also stairs suck.

Anyways hope all is well for everyone else.

Laters 4 now.

Added to Anthony

~ I am going to believe whoever was talking to him here and took his picture, they asked where Anthony planned to go in the future. Then he pointed in the direction! God has taken him and he still is in great hands.



God Bless A and live happily towards your future journeys.

GodSpeed!

Rip Anthony Sloan

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Anythony Sloan www.anthonysloan.com

Digging up old stuff

Looking through my old pictures, I remember my old GF Marlin. I actually miss this little HT.

See there is a Rocky Mountain in TeXaS

Son and I took off the Brushy Creek when he got out of school. We rode about 22 miles.
The RMB was pretty nice, slow as heck w/ the 2.3's and sucks to have 170mm crank arms.

I bet I can shave some weight by getting little bit smaller tires, maybe 2.1.
I'll be happy w/ that around here. :)

This past Sunday. Flat Rock Ranch

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Headed out w/ a group of friends from Bike Mojo. We went to Comfort, TX and rode out at Flat Rock Ranch. (more info http://www.flatrockranch.net/news.html ).
I have to say this is one heck of a trail and gave me a pretty good challenge. I loved the 10+ switch backs and it had plenty of drops and steep downhill. I was thankfull that it was cooler weather then expected then the help of the rain which made it much harder to roll over limestone rock. Also as you know, I have yet to see a trail smooth like Colorado, so IMHO this was another techinical trail.

I have to admit that I started cramping very bad @ about the 18 mile marker. Legs just didn't have it. I did complete the whole 26 miles, but it was not fun towards the end. I didn't have my GPS since it did take took a pooh on me last week, so off that went to Delorme. I did ask one of the fellow Mojo's and they comment that one of the climbs was over 7000'.

I meet the owner their; Jimmy. Talk about a cool guy! I highly recommned if you ever want to ride a pretty challenging trail, check out FRR!

Sorry about some of the bad pics, some was taking w/ a digital camera and some w/ the iPhone :)

I had to, just had to

~ Last year when I visited my Sail-N-Ski store they had this Rocky Mountain Slayer 50that was looking for a home. At the time the bike cost much more then what I expected to spend. Even though I liked riding it, I just could not justify affording it. So that was when I chose my Ibex.

Anyways, I went out yesterday to see what other RM's they had, POOF, the same Slayer 50 still sitting there! WOW!! What the heck, still sitting there and also $1K lower then last years price. Guess what I did?

Oh nevermind.... i'll let the picture tell ya. :)

My bad

Been a while since I posted. We finally listed our home on the market and moved out. So all these past couple of weeks the family and I been busy boxing stuff up and hauling it away to our new place. It is sad to move out of our home, but then again in the long run we're getting money back in our savings account. Yahoo!!

All cleaned up, a new rear tire and.....

Bike is all cleaned up, I have a new rear tire and I have no idea where I want to go ride this weekend. Maybe Muleshoe, I always have a blast out there. It is about a 35 minute drive (one-way).

Sunday - Rocky Hill Ranch

This trail reminded me a lot like the trails I been to in Colorado, but without the mountains of course.

The terrain was very smooth and pine cones / needles all over the single track. It has about 16 miles of trails, but you can easily clock over 25 miles.
Also this trail was my first time being on it along with my built up 29'er / Vassago.
As for this 29'er it is amazing! It was actually really nice to be back on a hard tail and even better when it noticed it was much faster then any 26'er I been on; including my FS. Right now, IMHO 29'er is the way to go!

I can't wait to get back on the bike sometime this week again. Take care all.

Little man finally going SPD

Robert could not wait to put on his new SPD's (these pictures were taken about 5 days ago). He's been practicing around the neighborhood and he seems to be doing really well. So a buddy and I took him out to our local trail and he fell down twice, but that was because he was climbing and refuse to pop out of the spd when he didn't have anymore legs to go. So he just tipped to his side. Pretty funny, but I done way worse. :)

Some pictures to share him wrenching away:

Gotta love REI

REI had a national sale today and still going (I think till the 19th) and basically you get 50% off item that end's in .83 (cents).

I need to stop spending money and save up for my summer trip to COLORADO!!

29'er almost done!

Finally got most of her completed. I need to order a new front derailleur because to one X7 I got is not made for the bottom cable pull :(

Some of the spec's:
Manitou Minute 100mm fork
Protaper Carbon bars
Ergon grips
Easton EA50 stem
WTB saddle
POS seat-post
Juicy 5- brakesFront 185mm disc
Rear 160mm disc
Salsa Delgado rims
Hope hub
9-spd sram


Can't comment on the ride since I have yet to rip some trails, but I need to work on the brakes a little more.

Happy Be-lated New Years

One of my 2009 goals is not to spend anything on bikes. HAHAHA, yea right!!

~ But I want to wish everyone a Happy New Years, even if its a couple days late :)