Happy New Year

Well, how about that 2008?  It certainly was... eventful.  Now here we are, a few days into 2009, and I know you haven't broken your resolutions yet, right?  And like all good Wheely Cool boys and girls, one of those resolutions must include "Ride bikes more this year".  That should be a given!

One of my resolutions is to help keep the Wheely Cool blog going strong.  I have to hand it to Willis.  Keeping a blog and website going for so long is not so easy!  Even though my writing skills are not much better than an 8th grader, I do ride bikes, and I do try and take pictures on my rides.  And thanks to Willis, I now have the ability to blog.

Now, back to those pesky resolutions.  Oh, yes, "Ride bikes more this year".  One of my tricks to keeping this resolution and starting the new year off strong is to pick up a winter bike project.  It could be anything from overhauling your drivetrain to repacking and/or replacing all the bearings to upgrading all your steel bolts to titanium bolts.  This year, I decided to go with a bigger project.  What do you do when you have a perfectly good 100mm travel suspension fork sitting around?  You build a bike around it!

I found an oldie but goodie...  an excellent condition 2002 Turner XCE frameset that was specifically designed to handle best with a 100mm suspension fork.  I'll post build details soon.  With the bike completed, I couldn't think of a better way to spend New Year's Day than with a ride on a new bike.