Yeah, so this is starting to become a food blog now… Sorry for the crap quality pictures. The iPhone works fine outside and chokes quite a bit indoors (without flash). Still, you get the idea.

Last Saturday I took the fixed gear out on SIR’s Winter Training Series around the Dash Point area. I wasn’t the only one dumb enough to ride it single, but I was the only one dumb enough to ride it fixed. I did better than I thought I might. Still, I had to walk a couple of times up some hills that were too steep.

I was pretty convinced that I need a much smaller gear ratio up until this last weekend. I still think I need to step it down, but I don’t think it needs to be that much. I am rather liking the ability to ride down hills without having to blow out my knees or ride my breaks all the way down. If I dropped down a couple of gear inches, I think I could get up just about anything and still be able to spin it out on the descents. At this point though, it might take too much money to fix that situation. That still isn’t growing on the trees around here.