Welcome to TRI-CHOTOMY.



I'm just an averge age grouper blogging about Triathlon Training and this complex puzzle of juggling life, having fun and the Tri(als) and Tri(bulations) of "My Reality Show". With the Miami Ironman 70.3 race now in the books I've set a new goal, competing and completing Ironman Louisville 2011 in August. Twice the distance, twice the pain, twice the fun. As a warm up race and I never would have believed hearing myself say this, I'll be doing Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island in July. Once again I'll be sharing these experiences with my great friends Chris and Justin and look forward to the next several months of training and racing with them.

I'll share my training, race and gear experiences and hope you'll comment and even offer advice from your experiences.

Remember,

"Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever".

"Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cliff bar in one hand, Gatorade in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

"You can sleep when you're dead!"




Friday, September 17, 2010

Building the P3 up

It took 2 nights but the P3 is done, mostly. There's still a couple of issues to take care of but for all intent and purpose it's ready to ride. It was fun building it even if I did hit some snags. Routing both the shifter and brake cables was a challenge. All 4 are routed internally on the frame with only a small opening from which the cables can pop out and it took some creative use of tools to fish the cables out. It got done though and now the bike can shift gears and stop when I want it to. The Dura Ace bottom bracket that came with the frame didn't seem to be compatible with my FSA cranks so I ended up using the FSA bottom bracket from the Orbea. I tried installing the cranks but spindle wouldn't fit through and even though I'd read online that it was a snug fit and just needed some tapping to get the spindle through but I thought the better of it and just did the BB swap instead. The seat post may need some cutting for me to feel right on the bike but I'll have to get it out for a ride to see for sure. The seat post is bottomed out and just sitting on it, it feels a touch high and could probably use a 1/4" cutting. My biggest problem though is that the limit screw on my front derailleur that restricts how far out the derailleur cage swings when shifting to my big ring has seized and won't turn. If I can't free it up I'll likely need to get another one. Without being able to adjust that screw my chain will always fall off the cranks when I shift. So I'll take the bike out for some riding on the weekend and do some more fine tuning and try to figure out if there's something I can do about the screw before jumping on a new one.

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