Steel is real...

For the time in two years I got a new bike. Sorta. Ok, actually just a new frame. A Jamis Dragon Team steel hardtail courtesy of the folks at South Mountain Cycles. Nothing fancy just a good ol' skinny tubed, steel hardtail. I swapped out all the parts on my Fuel and put them on the new frame. So far I've gotten three rides on it and I'm lovin it. It's quick stiff and feels pretty fast. It's not a superlight, actually its about the same weight as the old Fuel(but without the massive amount of play in the main pivot). Friday was also my first ride over 3 hours in almost a month. I left from Collegeville and took the Perk down to Wissahickon. I brisk tailwind put me in the city in under 90 minutes. I spent a little more than 2 hours cruising around the park and then fought a headwind the whole way back. All said and done, I logged 5.5 hours including some hard efforts on the way back to drop a roadie who had passed me while I was making a phone call on the fly. To this day no one's ever passed me and made it stick on the Perk trail. That shit don't fly.(Probably a childish remark but, hey, we all gotta hang on to something...)

I'm still waiting on the real new bike to come in. Again thanks to SMC I got short listed on the wait list for the next run of bikes. Until then I'll be putting lots of time in on the new Dragon.