Afterwork Cyclocross and delivery from chainreactioncycles.com

Posted on May 15, 2013 by ombrandt

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Yesterday I got some stuff I ordered about two weeks ago, a shirt and two pairs of gloves from Campagnolo and gilet (which is a fancy word for vest) from Royal, color theme is, as with the bike, light blue, white and some black

Campagnolo WHEEL gloves Campagnolo Retro gloves

Campagnolo shirt and gloves, Royal Gilet Comparison of the retro and wheel gloves

I used everything except the wheel gloves today (swapped the retro gloves for my normal nalini when doing the crossing on the way home.
– The gloves are ok, warm enough for the +7 at least, the stripes of grip-ish material on the inside didn’t really feel grippy on my brake levers.
– The Campagnolo shirt is comfy, small in size I feel, but really, really comfy!
– The Royal gilet was just what I expected, light weight, not to warm, well ventilated (and just the right color!)

All in all, some well spent money during Chain Reactions Giro D’Italia sale!

Now the CX stuff!
Me and two co-workers went around Norra Djurgården after work, fairly chill pace, some nice tracks, grassy fields and dirt roads, here is the map from the ride, includes my ride home again to, not the longest of rides, but next time that will change!

Sunday blogging, weather is sunny, first puncture.

Posted on May 12, 2013 by ombrandt

Was out biking and well, plan was to go for some thing like 20-40 km, but well, bad luck struck and I got a puncture!

Was fairly close to home as my round crosses back homewards, still sucked since I found out (silly me for not checking really) that my new bike, or more like the rims on my new bike will only fit a tube with presta valves.

Anyhow, that is fixed now, and I got a new saddlebag to!

My flat tire and me out and about

One awesome morning commute!

Posted on May 10, 2013 by ombrandt

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Just had to post this one, decided to take a long ride in the morning fog, +13° outside, short sleeve, short bibs, all alone on the roads (until I meet up with my coworker that is).
Started by going through Järvafältet, 10 km of gravel roads through the nature reserve, before heading up to barkarby and meet up with Leffe.

The bike posing by a fence in Järva, the fog lingering behind it in the fields!

From there it was the usual 12-ish km to Begshammra, before hitting the tracks that run next to Lilla Värtan, you can check the whole trip on the map below.

Saturday morning posting

Posted on May 4, 2013 by ombrandt

Sitting here with my breakfast, checking out my runkeeper profile, and noticing a lot of weekly records, so hey, why not just blog about them, right?

Distance 237.5 km Week of April 28, 2013	Duration 10:49:03 Week of April 28, 2013
Calories Burned 9,723 Week of April 28, 2013	Elevation Climb 2,599 m Week of April 28, 2013

So that’s it, been lots of sweet rides this week, I went alone through the Järva nature reserve, which was awesome, hit some nice speeds on the gravel roads, I had different company home, and Fridays commute with another coworker on a racer was enjoyable to, nice to get some speed up!

Here’s the GPX from that ride, the last km’s from Silverdalen and home again is a bit off, mostly since I forgot to un-pause my runkeeper, so the average pace is a bit off to (to slow).

http://runkeeper.com/user/ombirons/activity/175380266

Now it’s back to my breakfast, and resting my legs some more!

A mixed post

Posted on May 2, 2013 by ombrandt

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I’m starting with the weather, and the resulting commute home today!
I mean come on, sunshine, warm weather and all, had to get a long trip home

Went past Veddesta, Barkarby Handelsplats and in to the Järva nature reserve, felt good hitting 40km/h on some of those gravel roads!

Now back to the good stuff!

The big kid got his new ride today to, a 2010 Dawes Espoir 3000 24

Date for “Tour dE Finlandia” set

Posted on May 2, 2013 by ombrandt

Awhile back I posted about a trip I was planning for the summer, the one from Turku, via Tammisaari to Helsinki.
Well today the date is set, boat from Stockholm the 18th of July, and the bike ride starts Friday the 19th of July from Turku to Tammisaari.

So far it’s me and my co-worker Leif that have confirmed but two more from Finland will hopefully join to!

Nothing much to post about

Posted on April 30, 2013 by ombrandt

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So I’ll post about the weather, god I hate the wind we got these days, it’s insane, the commute home today was something like 12 min slower, pure hell fighting the wind.

In other news, I’m going to pick up the new bike for the kid today, a 24″ race/cyclocross bike with sti shifters and stuff, it’s going to be his 10 year birthday presents, there shall be pictures in the next post!

Cyclocross in järva

Posted on April 28, 2013 by ombrandt

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There was a thread on the happymtb forum about a cx round today at 0930, so I joined in.
It was fun, it was tough it was worth it!

Here you can see where I met up with the others and were we went, fun times, not 100% exact map due to gps issues..

Afterwards I went over to Leffe to wash bikes, clean off all the mud and grime from this ride, awesome day so far!

Saturday trip and the resulting shopping

Posted on April 27, 2013 by ombrandt

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Went out for a trip to XXL for some browsing (was looking for kiddo shoes and a bell for his bike), but I found something else to.

My first real cycle jersey, matches my summer bib’s and the color of my bike fairly good to, also added a BBB chain cleaner, since I’m keeping the bike indoors..

Well I guess I posted to quick..

Posted on April 26, 2013 by ombrandt

…. Since today after some encouragement from the wife and lots of fiddling I finally got the fenders on to my poison.

I gotta say though, it’s not as straightforward as it looked when I ordered them, the frame has some fiddly parts, like the area around the disc brake, which is where the fenders should sit, anyway. they are on, they look pretty OK, just some minor adjustments to the rubber straps left!

Front wheel closeup and the full bike, not to shabby, but not 100% either, the back fender needs a whee bit of adjustment to look less „egg” shaped..

Back attachment, with almost matching colored zip-ties and the front attachment with just the rubber bands, front fender fits snugly!

Still need to get a ride with them, but the coverage looks great and they should keep me as dry as any fenders will!

Adventures of a Norwegian in Stockholm

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