Woke up at 5 am with my alarm and even though my neck/ shoulder were sore I got up, did my weigh-in (Up to 106.5 kgs this morning) showered and then got dressed and did some work then walked into the office to grab the backup USB drive then walked back again. When I got home I put the recycling out then started work again. By the time I sat down I was on 7424 steps so more steps than I manged all day yesterday already and its not 7 am!
I am heading up to the track at lunch time and I think I will take the BlackMarket to try it out and probably ride the StayStrong as well and get it back from the container. I am just getting the BlackMarket down off of the rack to sort out the handlebar alignment as it was well off when I rode it to work the other day and almost crashed a couple of times because of it! To be honest it may be the bars are bent as I think that they are the bars that I crashed really badly on a couple of years ago!
I will align the stem properly and I guess we will find out if it is the bars at lunch time! I have another set of bars that came with the frame when I bought it so I have put them in the car just in case the bars on the bike are bent! I’m also putting bigger grips on it to try and pad out my wrist a bit too. It has 24 x 2.10 tyres on it so it should add a bit more suspension too and I am running the tyres with 1/2 as much air as normal too so it should be better. It will also be better for learning to jump a bit better too 🙂 The other option is to just put BMX forks on it and run it with BMX Cruiser bars on it too to see if it feels better as well 🙂
I have just bought a set of 4″ ride BMX style 2 piece bars by Fairdale from Source BMX so I can make the bike feel like a BMX while running Jump bike forks so it should be the best of both worlds!
The bars also give it more of a retro look too which I kind of like 🙂
I will ride the bike this lunch time and start working on jumping now to try and get comfortable for when the bars arrive then I can ride the jump bike all the time and I can leave it in the container at the track to get it out of the flat 🙂
I have put the blue bars on the bike already as they are at least straight so they will do until the new bars arrive then I will stick them on an leave them on from now on.
I am going to get all body armoured up this lunch time with hip pads, knee and shin pads and full body armour and see if I can sack up to jump some stuff dressed as the Michelin man 🙂