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Because of the cold I haven't been riding except on the local bike trails. So far this month I have 307 miles and will add If I push it I might made another 100 by the end of the month.
I had so many phony offers on my aluminum bikes I decided to keep them. I will sell the disk brake DeRosa Idol and the BMC and probably the Frondriest (steel). I lifted the Ridley Helium Di2 in the process of moving the bikes around and was shocked at how light it was. I have to reinstall the Di2 wiring and the bar end charging station which will add about 2 ounces. But a sub 18 lb 60 cm bike is pretty rare. When it is finished that will also go.
The Schwinn 564 cannot be extended past 8 speeds so I will finish it as an 8 speed triple and sell it off as well. Someone emailed me that they really wanted the Specialized with Campy and carbon 50mm deep wheels. And then never responded to my answer. This will leave me with the Moser, the DeRosa Merack, the Basso Loto, the Marin San Antonio and the Time.
If I were to receive a decent offer on the Moser I could be talked out of it. But nobody knows what a Moser is in the US so I doubt that I could sell it for anything like what it is worth. So I would keep it rather than give it away.
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From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.tech

I went for a 27 mile ride and was rather shocked at how low my heart rate was.Not onlt that but my average speed was more than 1 mph from what it was yesterday. And my maximum heart rate was 10 counts below yesterday. I put this pretty definitely on the ride I did on last Thursday where I got in some real if not remarkably steep climbing. This does give me the idea that I should go back to riding Cull Canyon soas to get in more climbing to varify if it is helping to bring down my stress levels.
Usually we have rain through early March. We had high rain qaverages than normla for February and it appears that we aren't going to have a rainy March for a change. So Cull Canyon should be a decent ride if I take it easy on the climbs.
The Tectro V-brakes are crap. So I bought a aet of Shimano XT V-brakes. Everything else is on the gravel bike is finished so I will only have to bolt on the brakes and lead the wires.
In totzl I have about 100 miles of gravel paths around here. And all but about 20 miles are real gravel and not dirt that will turn into mud.This allows me top ride off road even through winter. And there is always the additional loop of about 20 miles around Lake Chabot. Getting too and back from that loop is perhaps another 5 miles or so. This trail is uneque in tht the parts of the trail that aren't gravel are sand so you don't have to push through mud except in one spot which is uphill and so good drainage so there's no real mud.
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