Training Log Archive: veinbuster

Flood warning today with heavy rain and an 8 foot tide

Beach with Mrs

Rehoboth Beach with Mrs. that’s about the whole town: 1km Boardwalk, 1km of shops, residential along the sides.

Extremely uncomfortable bed at our stop over so I had to be creative getting the kinks out with the little bit of floor space we have. The things I do for a Hershey Pantry breakfast - one of Mrs favourites.

Day 3 soloflex

Testing mountain trikes at Bicycle Man. Great store owned by a really knowledgeable guy.

All test were about 15 minutes and 2.5-3km (Garmin wasn’t always on). A bit of raggedy concrete slabs with big seams. Running from the concrete to grass and back. Rutted grass field. Broken edge of and old road, potholed hard pack gravel parking lot. A tiny bit of smooth pavement. A couple of bikes didn’t have a long enough chain to use the full gear range.


ICE Adventure RS 26 - 20
I liked this much more than I expected to. The new ICE seat is incredibly comfortable. I envisioned myself doing the Banff-Jasper Ride in it. This would be great on gravel trails and I think would handle Albion double track nicely. Grip was a bit dodgy on grass, but wider, knobblier rubber would help with that. The owner also suggested a 20” rear would put more weight on the rear and give better grip. Great workmanship and might actually serve me better than a Full Fat, except in winter.

AZUB Tri Fly 26 - 20
I tried this because I’ve been interested in the Tri-Fly X, which on paper strikes me as the ideal mountain trike. I was worried about the space taken up by the front suspension. This trike was almost like a dream ride. The titanium front suspension smoothed out everything, well except dropping off concrete much further than the grass made it appear. I felt that bump, but the trike didn’t really care. Super smooth, nice shifting, good power delivery. Steering was good, but the turning circle was huge - I needed about a meter on each side of a two lane road to make a U turn. Nothing like the Greenspeed which turns in a lane. There wasn’t enough ground clearance on thus trike for my needs - just the width of my hand. I’ll have to check how much more clearance the X has.

Terra Trike Rambler fat 24
This was nicer than I expected, but after riding the ICE it just felt clumsy. There was no steering limit, so you could turn the wheel right into your foot. It wouldn’t be bad as a moderately priced all trails/winter trike, but I’ve been spoiled. The seat was too short for my comfort, perhaps less of an issue for someone not wearing compression up to the edge of the seat.

Avenue 3x20
The owner had these built and asked me to try one out and tell him what I thought of them. $1,500 is pretty cheap for a trike. It was surprisingly good. Not as crisp handling as what I am used to, but plenty good for someone who wanted to give trikes a try. He is adding leaf front suspension to his next run and still expecting them to come in below $2,000.

Ran out of time so didn’t get to 2 wheel recumbents. He probably had 20 different ones in stock.

C • Fun day 6

GPS for recorded parts of trike testing

Day 2 soloflex and free weights

Check out rides of Wilier Cross and FatBoy. I had little issues with both to sort out after cleaning all the salt off of them.

The cross bike was reluctant to shift to the big ring - I have to fuss it once most years to compensate for a cable stay having detached from the carbon frame during a tune up at a bike shop (I almost always do my own work).

I removed the pogies from the fat bike incorrectly and ended up with half of the bar end plugs stuck in the bars. The seat dropper is uncooperative again, but I left that for another time. It worked well for a year and has been chronically unreliable since. I might try a newer alternative - they might work better 5 years newer.