After much tweaking my set up is ready to go for Dixie Lite . Most recent changes were switching out to a 75mm (shorter) stem and moving a little weight from the seat bag to the front end. When I was descending fast the seat bag was wagging and making my whole bike shimmy – exciting!! It doesn’t do this now with less weight on the rear and more up front.
Specialized Captain up front
I put on my mountain feed bag for a water bottle placement. I have water only in my bladders and wanted a place to put sports drink mixes. When I want to lighten up my front end for hike-a-bikes and deadfall huckin’ it’s easy to transfer the bottle to my pack.
I’ll have a gps and a light on my bars for the race.
Dave Nice unfortunately can’t make the race :-( BUT I have been given his Spot to use…so I’ll have to find a place, maybe on my bars for the Spot unit too. I’ve made it into the DotSpot club ;-) or is that the SpotDot club…
The race tracker is here http://trackleaders.com/dixie
Start time is 8am Saturday morning!
Lynda…
I ran my spot inside the helmet flap of my ergon backpack while doing the white rim and it worked flawlessly.
So FYI, you might not need to “find” a spot for it.
HTH
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Enjoy LW sorry I couldn’t have some ice cream with yah on this trip
I’ve been watching you guys since friday night. I thought Dave had forgotten his bike. His tracks looked like he was walking. The Hamburger must have helped. He seems to have taken off after a big meal. That’s about the time I’d have gone down for a nap!
Look forward to meeting you.