Category Archives: Training

A few weeks back I posted a this QA scatter plot.  I’d been riding the SS about 2-3 weeks at this point. Here’s the latest.  Both rides were on the 2:1.  The “Blakes” data is from a ~ 2500′ climb with sustained grades well over 10% while the other ride was just rippin around faster […]

This SS thing is darn fun and it’s tough to contain my excitement for it.  Not that I’m trying ;)  I promised I’d share my thoughts on actually training to be a better SS rider and that’s the meat of this post…but some other interesting & related things are worthy of mention first. It’s taken about […]

Pure single speeders are a passionate bunch.  After doing a bit of  lurking on the mtbr SS forum and observing the SS related comments here it’s obvious the top reasons SSers do what they do come from the heart.  As it should be. Perhaps I will find that happy SS nirvana in time, but right now […]

My four day single speed binge is over and it was splendid fun. Ride times were 4:44, 4:24, 4:37 and err 1:35. I got distracted the last day with an invite to go goof around on Gooseberry Mesa. We spent half the day up there but ride time only tallied up to 1:35… Not so […]

Pure single speeders are a passionate bunch.  After doing a bit of  lurking on the mtbr SS forum and observing the SS related comments here it’s obvious the top reasons SSers do what they do come from the heart.  As it should be. Perhaps I will find that happy SS nirvana in time, but right now […]

Well it seems now I have an SS training partner and he tends to like to take things to extremes when an idea takes hold of him. Look out. So far I have just whipped around on wee fast rides on my SS but yesterday manic enveloped me in his new found SS enthusiasm and we went […]