Thursday, December 5, 2013

Dreams about rain

Here in Santiago I am definitely back in the capitalist world there at least a lot of things can be bought for money, still I didn't manage to get hold of a bike.

The thing I never really liked about biking is how much about the equipment it is. So now it's time to prove it!

There are all these things you need to do to really become a biker. I never rode a race and I never built a bike. Bike shops are closed and won't open again until I'm already on my way to the race. So won't be able to buy a frame and components to put a new bike together for the race. Thanks to Fernanda, an absolutely incredible personality, I will (or might...) be riding this weekends enduro race on her old cross country bike.

I'm still not really able to adjust the gears properly. It will cost me a lot of time and effort, but I will build my own bike and become my own bike mechanic.

What more is different here is that it seams that the rain definitely stopped following me. Here the terrain and the trails are dry and dusty with very little grip. It will definitely take some getting used to.

No comments:

Post a Comment