The title of this article is somewhat of a misnomer, as I haven\u2019t been on a bike in about a week and a half, and I probably won\u2019t be on one for another three weeks or so.\u00a0 I just started the second week of a month long theater training program at Skidmore College with the SITI Company, a truly incredible group of artists who produce consistently beautiful and intelligent work.\u00a0 I\u2019m living a somewhat monastic existence; all I do is eat, sleep, and do crazy Japanese acting training.\u00a0 Hopefully by the end of the month I will be a samurai.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m making up for my lack of access to a bike by watching a truly immense amount of cycling videos of YouTube.\u00a0 You may have noticed a couple videos I posted to the Facebook page\u2014this is just the beginning of a continuous stream of YouTube spam I plan on sharing with y\u2019all in the next month.\u00a0 Thus far in my research I have come to two conclusions: 1) cyclocross looks like a stupid amount of fun, and 2) Jens Voigt is awesome.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m also deep in the throes of bike GAS (gear acquisition syndrome).\u00a0 I plan on bringing a bike with me to Oxford next year, and I\u2019ve been thinking for a while about perhaps doing some light touring in the UK\/Europe.\u00a0 I love my LeMond, but I want something a bit more versatile and comfortable for off the beaten path (or more accurately, off the nicely paved road) adventures.\u00a0 Also, I kind of just want a cross bike.\u00a0 Thus, I\u2019ve been building up a new bike in my head, and checking prices and whatnot on the internet.\u00a0 While I have gone back and forth on some things, right now I\u2019m pretty much set on a Surly Crosscheck with a full SRAM Apex group, Paul Comp brakes, and a set of (relatively inexpensive) hand built wheels (probably Velocity rims on Ultegra hubs or something similar).\u00a0 All I need now is a job to finance this endeavor.<\/p>\n
Speaking of endeavors, the team\u2019s Ragmaster General a.k.a. JJ and his compadres are now two weeks or so into their cross-country trek.\u00a0 Everyone is still alive, and they still seem to be on track, which is amazing given the navigation skills JJ displayed this spring while driving (or at least attempting to drive) to New Jersey.\u00a0 In addition to the incredible scenery, it seems that they (and by they I mean the esteemed Mr. Fox) have discovered the joys of the false flat (http:\/\/ephdetour.com\/?p=615<\/a>).\u00a0 In all seriousness, I wish them the best of luck and hope that they have a wonderful experience.\u00a0 It sounds like an amazing way to spend a summer and I am supremely jealous.<\/p>\n In other team news it sounds like people are keeping busy, doing outdoorsy things, and generally summering it up.\u00a0 Amy and Todd got older recently, and I think I saw that Henry rode a crit or something.\u00a0 Remember, whatever you do, to follow Rule 5 a.k.a. THE V, and everything will work out for the best<\/p>\n In other other news I will be on campus in Billsville the weekend of 16th<\/sup>-17th<\/sup>, hit me up if you\u2019ll be around and we will chill.<\/p>\n That\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The title of this article is somewhat of a misnomer, as I haven\u2019t been on a bike in about a week and a half, and I probably won\u2019t be on one for another three weeks or so.\u00a0 I just started the second week of a month long theater training program at Skidmore College with the Read more about Summer Cycling Update<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riding","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}