Deconstructing Lambert: I got movement!

I have tried, liquid wrench, rubbing alcohol and WD-40 and I got nothing, so I went to something a little more potent - Blast Off! I put the seatpost in the vice this afternoon and twisted and it moved! I was able to move the seatpost two inches. Sprayed more into the tube and I am letting it sit over night and I will try it some more tomorrow.

Three miles are better than none!

I was kind of hoping that Brown Santa would be dropping off my Edge705 in time for this ride but it didn't happen. I headed over to George C Waldo SP to ride the Where's Waldo Trail for a number of reasons: I am burnt out riding my Upper Gussy Trail and my guess was that the conditions were going to be abysmal. I figured Waldo would be in fine shape because it usually can take a deluge of rain and be rideable the next day. I was about 90% accurate. There was, unfortunately one section that was too soft to be riding on. Looks like I might have to go back and help the trail boss armor that one section. I did, however, find a nice skinny to ride, though.

Looking west over a frozen Lake Lillilohnah

towards Upper Paugussett State Forest

I only had enough time and light for one run down the Waldo and then back up on the fire road. The fire road was horrible, very soft, and muddy at times to which I actually got off the bike and walked a few times, in the flats, too. I like to try and work in a quasi figure 8 that incorporates taking the Hunters Trail each way and hitting each section (bisected by the Hunter's Trail) to get the up and down effect and thus more miles. Today it was only three but riding for an hour is better than not riding at all.

I did try lowering the seatpost so that I could get back behind the seat when descending steep slopes or rollers but I found I went too far and had to stop to raise it a little bit. Otherwise, riding the 'Horse keeps getting better and better. The Waldo trail goes through quite a few stone walls and has some nice technical areas and the full suspension just floats through it all! This trail is purley XC with a few up-and-overs, one in which I built two years ago on one of the trail work days and few others but there are no rollers or hucks.

Brown Santa bringeth this day!

The loss of my 305 last summer and not being truly happy with the downgraded version of the 205 I decided to treat myself to a little present after busting my fourth point of contact at work last year with some upgraded riding electronics, hence a Garmin Edge 705! Now, I will no longer need to bring along a second GPS with maps loaded because this has it all.

I also ordered the 24K North East edition maps but they are back ordered so I guess I will have to continuing using the detail-less 100K maps. The back ordering actually was cool because the company gave me a $10 off coupon off my next purchase and since I needed a micro SD card, I got it from this company in the City called Ecomelectric for $10.36 with free ship!

Oh the pain

Never thought I would feel this was after snowboarding and mountain biking in the same weekend. My calves hurt from snow boarding and my shoulder hurts from having the bike slip out from under me while riding through one sketchy section of trail. Fell right on it.

A nice mountain laurel must have gotten weighted down with the snow and broke, thus blocking the white trail at Pequonnock River Valley. I didn't have my saw on me so I couldn't take care of it.

Serenity