Early Laps

By Baby Boy on 5/19/2007 on Baby Boy's blog
Groups: 24 Hours of Conyers (GA)

He is right, it doesn't have a rim strip.

So after driving for 4.5 hours, we pulled in with 4 minutes to spare. Matt Man did the run. His first time doing the first lap. He did a great job and pulled a lap time of 1 hour 4 minutes.

Next contestant was the Don Mon. He went off hard and was doing great. About a half hour later, we see him running to the campsite. "Dude - I got two flats at the same time." We grab his bike and assist in the repair. As I pop off the tire, I notice a nice shiny rim. "Don - you don't have any rim strips." "OH." Apparently these are not his normal rims but his girlfriends. Nice time to experiment.

He was also complaining that his stem kept slipping. To cure it, we see him pouring sand into the headset. What are you doing? "It will keep it from slipping." Upon further examination, we notice that his headset is not installed correctly. He had just purchased a new fork after his $30 ebay special died before it was ever installed on his bike. Again, nice time to experiment.

Instead of wasting time trying to rebuild his bike, he went off on the Scoot Man's Specialized. Brave Scooter.

We have promised that in the future we will completely disassemble his bike and properly build it up before he is allowed to do a lap.

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Yetimon says:

Wait a minute the girlfriends wheelset excuse doesn't hold water. He built up her bike. In fact last year he was flatting like mad and what did we find...no rim strips. Evidently Don likes to shave that extra few ounces of rolling weight.

by Yetimon on May 22, 2007 - 2:34pm reply Email this comment report misconduct

Donaldh813 says:

WRONG!!! OK, not totally wrong...I was flatting like mad but I did have Rim Strip tape -- it was the factory rip strip but it didn't completely cover the spoke holes -- Scooter put electrical tape in as a replacement....he's the man!

by Donaldh813 on May 22, 2007 - 3:49pm reply Email this comment report misconduct

Hey, I use whatever excuse I can to get a lap in on Scooters bike...PS, Gabe let her in on the little secret of me setting up her brakes on the wrong sides...oops. Here is the funny thing about Denise's wheelset; she weighs only 110 pounds but has been riding her little Klein at Belleview and Alafai without any flats.

by Donaldh813 on May 22, 2007 - 3:44pm reply Email this comment report misconduct

Baby Boy says:

So you put the girlfriend on an inherently dangerous Klein. Then you add in a measure of catastrophic mutiple tire blowouts. All the while the brakes are reversed! What a boyfriend.

by Baby Boy on May 22, 2007 - 4:24pm reply Email this comment report misconduct

Her lawyer would have a field day with this:)
I really like her bike...its lighter than mine and she now has a sweet wheelset...all she needs to do now is actually RIDE it.

by Donaldh813 on May 23, 2007 - 5:52pm reply Email this comment report misconduct

Please have a bikeshop look it over before you allow her to throw a leg over it.

by Baby Boy on May 23, 2007 - 6:49pm reply Email this comment report misconduct

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