50 miles today, still on the Brooklyn. A few hills out of Syracuse today made for an interesting ride. It was wet too which made doing siqqqq skyddz (inneffecive stopping) easy. The graffiti in Syracuse was super sick and there’s a ton of abandoned shot everywhere.

The canal surface was all stone dust with a real choppy surface since they allow horses on it. It kinda sucked since you top out at 10.

Nothing notable other than a fucking dog loose chasing me up the hill. Scary shit. Good thing I’ve got my Cavendish legs on today.

63 tomorrow, hilly, woohoo.

Day 4, halfway there. Short day today, 40 miles. Trail was super choppy an was fun technical pothole dodging on the Erie canal path. Weather has been literally PERFECT.

I’m currently eating at dinosaur BBQ. One thing on the menu here for vegeterians. Whatev it was deec and I got an order of cornbread.

60 miles tomorrow. Maybe rain, hopefully not.

Day 3 was a big ride. 63 miles. It was a good ride with a few small hills and a good tailwind and an annoying headwind.

I ended up pulling a 10 man group for 10 miles. I wish I had a picture of me doing that because it was badass.

Fun shit.

Got up at 6, got shit ready and left.
There was a lot if on trail riding which is boring but fun at the same time. A lot of super good graffiti today and took a lot of pictures of the cool shit.

The food here at nazareth college is super good. I’d be insane to go to a nutso rich school.

Day zero has come to a non eventful close. Buffalo is weird, and I didn’t really get to actually see any of it. We’ve got our tent city setup in the yard of this insanely expensive private high school.

The best part however is the freight trains passing by with tons and tons of fucking killer graffiti. All my gear is awesome (thanks everyone) and I’m not over or underpacked. Also there are some fucking killlllller bikes here. Rivendell, JP Weigel, and all sorts of tandems and recumbents and recumbent tandems, etc. I’ll have pictures for sure.

Bed time.

In Buffalo, nothing is cool other than wifi in the lobby. We got a couch for the back of the van and I slept on it the entire way here so I don’t know how long it actually took. Word, going to showe and wake up early for day 0, registration, etc.

Everything packed up. A long ass car ride ahead but it’ll be worth it for the free hotel room! I’ll be blogging via iPod and posting it wherever there’s wireless. See you guys in 400 miles!

and this as a bonus:

Seriously.

Check out Sheldon Brown’s Lock Strategy for info on how to actually lock your bicycle.

Just stumbled across this website, and I have to say this is a good all in one resource for those who want to learn about bicycle maintenance. The book is free to download, and you can donate if you wish!

Click the image on the left or download it off my server, or grab it from the link above. (PDF, 9.8 MB) [via freebikebook]