Bike porn and bald eagles.

Today's ride was a repeat of Sunday's ride, only faster and less daudling.  I brought my phone so I could take some pictures of the sunny day, and the new ride.  It is sweet steel niner that is built up nice and light in hopes of a good result at this weekend's race at Catamount.  This has been my first race of the year for three years now, and I think I am in pretty good shape for this year.  It is also the VT state Single speed championship, so we will see how that will turn out.  

This is the new ride, which is cool, but not nearly as cool as my wife.

The shakedown rides have gone well, and the bike fits like a round peg in a circular hole.  It should be fun to ride all summer.  The ride was a quick road warm up, then 45 minutes of trail (almost all of the local trail network at Franklin falls) The cool part is riding below the dam.  I look almost celestial. 

The dam has been our salvation while at school.  A very compact area of trail that is a ten minute ride away.  It is where I run all winter with the dogs, and where I brought the mountain bike team for most of the fall.  We had a lot of fun.  The ride back across the dam is unlike any riding I have done in the East.  It is almost a moonscape with a big river right down the hill.  

On the ride back I got to scare some locals blowing the dope on a logging road that I take to get back to school.  Then I saw a bald eagle under the power line commute.  Not quite Epic wilderness, but it is cool to see any way.