{"id":1534,"date":"2009-11-30T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2009-11-30T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:57:15","slug":"winter-training-mule-aka-mountain-road-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Winter Training Mule- AKA Mountain Road Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be spending a large portion of my Winter Break from work in Mountain View, AR for a solo &#8220;training camp&#8221; of sorts, and I have been debating what bikes I want to take with me for the adventure. Of course, I&#8217;ll bring the MTB along for some Epic-worthy Syllamo Trails rides, but some training on the road will be integral. Problem is, a lot of the non-highway roads in the Stone County area are gravel (I&#8217;d wager that MOST of the non-highway roads in the area are gravel!)<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a job for the cyclocross bike! (Yes, I have been known to take the road bike on occasional gravel road adventures, but I am thinking long distance comfort here).<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that I really like having my SRM computer. Also, the current gearing on the CX bike is a 40t single ring and 11-26 in the back. Not quite what I want for steep (gravel) mountain roads!<\/p>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move the SRM from my road bike to the cross bike<\/li>\n<li>Install a bar-end shifter for the front derailleur (I&#8217;ve got an extra SRAM Red one that was supposed to go on the Air9, but that didn&#8217;t work out because of chainstay clearance issues)<\/li>\n<li>Put a 38t small ring on the SRM (it&#8217;s the smallest available for the 130bcd). Yeah, I know it&#8217;s just 1 tooth smaller than what I&#8217;ve got now, but I figure that every bit helps.<\/li>\n<li>Swap the 11-26 for an 11-28<\/li>\n<li>Throw in some Schwalbe Marathon Supreme tires (size 700&#215;32) for comfort on both pavement and gravel<\/li>\n<li>Tie it all together with sealed cable housing, and you&#8217;ve got a machine ready for just about anything the Ozark Roads bring to the ride.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be spending a large portion of my Winter Break from work in Mountain View, AR for a solo &#8220;training camp&#8221; of sorts, and I have been debating what bikes I want to take with me for the adventure. Of course, I&#8217;ll bring the MTB along for some Epic-worthy Syllamo Trails rides, but some training&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-oK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}