Ski Bum Poet

Single speed dirt jumper. Horizontal drop out. Bike is being sold as is for $450 plus buyer pays shipping. Here are the details:

Could use a little work for the park, but this is a good buy. Currently it’s built up with:

• Fork: Psylo Race 80-125mm (Rock Shox)
• Brakes: Avid mechanicals
• Wheels: Front: Singletrack, Rear: Rhyno Lite
• Stem: Thompson
• Cranks: Truvativ 
• Pedals: Wellgo

This bike is built from a kit that was on an old Bullit I owned..minus the Junior T I had on the Bullit. As I mentioned it could use a little work to be fully dirt jump park compatible. Namely, the rear hub needs a bolt axle so it can be cranked down tight on that horizontal drop out.

MTBR description on the 07:

“Built for the aggressive urban assault freerider. Features full 4130 Chromoly tubing throughout, new IS chain guide mount, extra beefy head tube wall and 1/4 inch thick drop outs and adjustable brake mount to get accurate brake setup, 24″-26″ and IS disc brake mount. Replaceable derailleur hanger.”

Read the MTBR Reviews for a full report..

For more info on this bike and how you can reach the seller Visit the AltaCam Gear Swap Category..

I have brand spanking new (2005 model but never used once) SixSixOne Body Armour For Sale. Size is Adult Medium.

Details can be found at the AltaCam Forum Gear Swap category. This suit has never once been used while riding. It’s literally brand new. MSRP is $190 but I am selling for $125. For information on how to contact me and score this killer deal CLICK HERE.

Over and Out, Gary M

One of the great things about living in central Utah is having the choice in the spring of either pedaling your bike, or skiing powder. Well some of the times it’s powder…

As you may or may not know during the spring in Utah if you aren’t getting the Pow while it’s snowing then you’re outta luck. As soon as the sun hits the snow this time of year it’s finished. With that said, though, one cannot discount the killer corn snow cycles that we enjoy. There’s nothing like hiking to the top of a nice ski shot early in the morning and then waiting for the perfect time for the snow to soften enough to dig into and carve all the way home. Corn is good, but we all know Powder is much MUCH better SO, I’ll see what I can do about getting one last powder storm ride this season. Note: 12-18 expected in Little Cottonwood Canyon by tomorrow mornin’. Lifts are closed at Alta, but that don’t matter no how. That just means no crowds and plenty of powder for everyone everywhere. I like what daddyneedspow has to say at the AltaCam forum about lifts closing:

lifs? we don need no steenkin lifs.

some buddies and I hiked greeley for corn this morning and loved every second of it. tomorrow, we hike for pow!

Alta Post-Season: no screaming children, only screaming quads…

Full thread…

Now for early 2007 pedaling news: I’ve already got about 10 days on the AS-X namely pedaling the Glenwild area near Kimball Junction/Park City. It’s been a good start to my conditioning for the bike season. Been chasing around Kris Gray on his 29-inch single speed. My bike is around 38 lbs and I have been stubborn about staying in one, mid range gear on the climbs just for fun. Ha. Real fun. I have been pretty successful during the first 2/3 of the climb to the freeride trails but man it hurts. One thing that helps is that Gray pumps Bob Marley from external speakers on his hydration pack.

Map courtesy of UtahMountainBiking.com

Once we get to the freerides (this trail system has 3 sanctioned DH/freeride trails) we’ve been partial to ‘Ant Farm’. It’s the most recently built of the 3 DH/freeride trails. Not bad. One thing that is nice about these trails is that it takes around 4 miles of uphill and traverse pedaling to get there.. so this keeps all the strict DHers on 50lb. bikes from flooding the zone. Not that I have anything at all against DHers.. but I like the idea of working a little to get to these progressive trails. Seems they are getting better each year. I hope Mountain Trails keeps it up in that regard. Build more freerides! And make each new one more and more challenging. The next thing you know we’ll have something like A Line at Whistler at our fingertips!

Over and Out, Gary M

A lot has happened in the two plus weeks since I last posted on March 19th. Yikes! That’s pretty bad. Not that anyone except Google really gives a dang, anyways.

We’ve had a pretty intensive stretch at work of late, so I’ve otherwise been laying low online. I tend to go on off-hour creative web binges whereby I bust out two months worth of production in a matter of five days (off hour means work besides my bread and butter job at AvantLink). I was telling Danette recently that I may just be on the brink of one of those binges now. Get ready world wide web, I’m about to rant and create some otherwise funky content ventures and that’s that…what with a baby and all on the way I need more money making content flowing around the web.

Let’s see if I can catch up on what’s been happening over the last 15 days (note these are estimates on what I did and when, give or take a day or two):

• The weather was pretty amazing at the end of March in Utah so yes it was time to pull the AS-X out of the crawl space and get ready for dirt and dust. We rode sometime during the week of March 19th…don’t ask me what day it was. Jesse got a new bike (Kona Coiler Dee-Lux - reviews) and after KC from The Pedal Wrench helped him build ‘er up we hit the Glenwild Trail North of Kimball Junction near Park City. The Mountain Trails Federation has been asking people not to ride yet but we checked it out and it was good to go. There were muck sections still closed so of course we stayed clear of those but otherwise it was a good spin. KC rode Kris Gray’s 29 inch single speed holding a madman’s early season pace!
• On the weekend I skied a day at Alta. Pretty good day. No powder of course but I enjoyed the turns none-the-less. I made it a point to get some exercise by side-stepping to the top of East Castle, an Eddies and, of course, you gottta pay the price a couple of times on High Boy no matter what the conditions are.
• On Wednesday during the week of 3/26 we had a pretty decent storm roll through. I took the first day of the storm cycle off to ski which was a mistake. The skiing wasn’t bad at all, but I hit it in LCC when there were 12 inches of new snow and by late Thursday Alta was reporting over two feet. No complaints though. I spent the day skiin’ it up with K.C. Gaudet and Matt Collins (and a girl named Julie he was with I just met that day) and also took a few laps with Jesse Weeks which is always entertaining!
• Saturday, March 31st, I was bored at home and needed some sun and air. I spend the week working from a home office isolated in the Dog and Pony show of Timberlakes so I jumped in the Subi and drove over to Alta for a few hours. It was a good call. I worked the legs by taking three straight laps on the high shoulder. The route was the side step all the way out to the rope line above Bad News Cliffs and then I added a booter up to the highest gate into Alta from Snowbird. Wasn’t deep powder but it was a shady North aspect with carvy foam that held my tracks. The work out was really all I was after anyways.

OK so there is a quick rant on what’s gone down in my recreational world recently. There are several content features that have been added to AltaCam in the last two weeks as well, but I want to hash those out in separate posts here at SBP.

I’ve definitely learned a lesson! If I have any chance of keeping this ranting platform up to date with all the activity and web junk I am doing there’s no way I should let it go so long. Sorry hippies! Til next time…Gary M