Not As Dumb As I Look

I’m not sure what exactly happened to me, but I’ve got a case of SS fever lately.

About 3 months ago, I finally got my Vassago Jabber Wocky frame and built it up.  I parked my squisy geared bike, and figured I’d give my new bike some quality time….and I havent’ swung my leg over the FS bike since.

Then recently, I built up an old Redline cross frame I got in a part swap with a team mate.  I wanted to build up something for local riding around town and for training.  I have a Giant TCR road bike, but I’m not 100% comfortable on it, especially locally, as I don’t always have a nice paved surface, and I don’t completely trust myself on a racy bike with lil 23mm tires.   Something that rolls a lil better then a MTB with fat knobby tires, but not as high-strung as my road bike, and something I could still take on a dirt road comfortably.  A CX bike seemed to fit that bill.  To make the project a bit cheaper, I decided to go SS on the bike.

So, I’ve found myself riding nothing but SS bikes for the past 2 months or so.  My Ti FS bike sits in the living room, without even having pedals installed (I stole them to build up the CX bike temporarily.)  I figured that this would be for a week or so till I got additional pedals, but I really haven’t had the desire to pull the bike out for a ride yet.  I’ve been having just TOO much fun riding the SS’s.

I’ve always loved my SS’s, but I sort of fell out of riding them over the last year.  My old GF Rig had an eccentric bottom bracket, and it was a constant source of irratation.   When Marty wanted to build up her Redline Monocog frame she picked up used, I figured that I’d be building up my new SS in the near future.  But, it ended up being months.  When I finally did get the frame, I didn’t want to ride anything else, because I had been waiting for it for so long.  But, as the newness finally wore off, I just didn’t have any desire to go back to FS geared yet.

I don’t know if this is just a stage I’m going through, or if I’ve sipped the kool-aid one to many times, and now I got the sickness.  But, the FS bike continues to sit unused, and with fall/winter starting to peak it’s head up, I don’t know if I’ll be riding the the gears till next spring.