the road bike. 

i do love bikes and can get easily caught up with the desire for a new one. the curtlo is, of course, a CX bike. a one day while noodling around on ebay i saw this. no, wait, that's not right. i saw this bike on craigs list, temascal area i think. it was sweet; a 2010 salsa podio, midnight blue, scandium, a red chris king headset and an alpha q fork. they wanted $1300. i'm out. but that put this frame on my radar and sure enough, a week or so later i see this frame, 54cm. with fork. i still had all the parts from the dean in a box, so...

frame was built up with the 6600 "ice gray" ultegra stuff i had "lying around"; triple crank, brakes, 10 speed STI shifters, cassette, easton ec90, yes 90, carbon bars, used the same gray jagwire i pulled from the dean as well. had a fsa headset, but some critical parts were missing so...yup, red chris king headset. found a sweet dark blue selle italia gel flow saddle, added a salsa stem and dug those blue vittoria rubino's out of the tire pile and viola! effing love this bike. the geometry is a bit cramped, compared to the curtlo. but i can ride this thing for many hours in complete comfort.

as i can chronicling backwards here i will try to be brief. as salsa promotes "adventure by bike" i put some 28's on the podio and rode Grasshopper 2 and 4 on it. given how slow i am i had plenty of time to enjoy the ride and the sights.

Meyers Grade

Abandon all hope? Old Caz

Willow Creek