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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:58:35 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Kaaterskill FallsJanuary 30, 2025

It’s hard to take decent photos while doing a climb so it’s kinda nice to wait in line sometimes! Photos are of Greg Love and Ryan Dwyer on Gottlieb P1 connecting Big Kaat P2. Boe Marion led the first pitch of Gottlieb’s after Greg and Ryan climbed it and, by the time I topped out on the second pitch of Kaaterskill Falls, Greg had just sent the roof of Gottlieb’s. Ryan couldn’t finish the pillar section and so they readjusted plans to top out on Kaaterskill instead, just in time for me to take photos at the viewing platform.

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		<title>Bird Is The Word</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/Bird-Is-The-Word</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:39:58 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

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		<description>Bird Is The WordNovember 16, 2024


It’s a picture-perfect autumn Saturday in the Northeast, with the occasional breeze sending rich red leaves down to carpet the dirt. The temps are dreamy — t-shirt and a light puffy weather. Hardly what makes you think of ice. 
Nonetheless, I’m at Birdsboro Quarry in Pennsylvania, lacing up my comp boots for a day of drytooling. 

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The folks here have organized their second annual Birdsboro Drytool Enclave, mainly to welcome the uninitiated into the nichest of niche forms of climbing. These community days are an opportunity to practice, learn from more experienced climbers, and meet future partners. 

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Just like me, a year ago, it was my introduction to drilled-and-bolted drytooling. I seem to be drawn to esoteric sports — it’s like the bikepacking of the climbing world — and I haven’t put my tools down since.
So today finds me giving back: coaching, rigging topropes, and documenting the day through photos and videos. Let’s climb.It wouldn’t be a fall day without coffee and donuts, and after intros we scatter throughout the crag, which sports more than 30 bolted drytooling routes. I help set up three top ropes, and then spend most of my time hanging off a fixed line, filming and cheering as climbers cautiously scratch, hook, and torque their way vertically. With trembling breaths and darting eyes, they search for natural features or drilled pockets marked by green paint.&#38;nbsp;
“I’m a little bit psyched out today. I don’t know why,” my friend Claudia says, taking a break mid-route. 

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She’s dangling in space about 30 feet off the deck, her tools hanging on her shoulders as she shakes out. Claudia searches the seemingly blank face in front of her until she sees a hidden feature. She reaches up, hooks it securely with her pick, and readjusts her feet.
“Okay, I’m back in the headspace!”
I put my eye back behind the lens, and find myself in my own focused headspace.
Filmmaking is still new to me, but I’m drawn to it because of the honesty present when a person is engaged in sport — the camera ceases to exist in their mind’s eye as they focus on figuring out the sequence. There’s a certain intimacy that develops with a climb too, when I revisit the route afterwards to capture its aesthetic qualities.
When a climber locks in on their technique, it almost feels like poetry on the wall.

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When climbing, I feel my mind reduced to the objective at hand, the sense of spatial awareness heightened. Every turn of the hip and every rotation of the wrist is magnified, all while my front-points are perched precipitously on the few millimeters of nearly impossible ledges.
I’m perhaps drawn to the dichotomy of finding graceful, delicate movements while wielding sharp points on every limb. &#38;nbsp;It’s this seeming contradiction that I try to capture through my camera. 

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We take a lunch break for homemade chili and I use the downtime to connect with new folks and exchange contact info with the people I photographed. There are more than 30, many from out-of-state, and I’m certain that I’ll bump into them soon enough. Drytooling is a small world after all, and there are only a few places that funnel us all together — which is good because the challenge of finding someone to climb with, safely, on an ongoing basis often seems more difficult than sending a difficult route.

Community days like these are vital; they bring people together as they share a rope, their aspirations, and I like to think, something true, too.

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As the oft-recited truism goes: “A rising tide lifts all ships.” Thank you to Ted Coffelt and Lynda Tonge Pedersen for organizing this day, thanks to Furnace Industries and Ice Ice Beta for sponsoring the event, and thank you to Bob Perna for spending the past few years developing the drytooling routes. Check the Birdsboro Facebook group for dates on future community days and consider donating to their bolt fund!


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		<title>2024 Nutmeg Noreaster</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/2024-Nutmeg-Noreaster</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://conanthai.com/2024-Nutmeg-Noreaster</guid>

		<description>2024 Nutmeg Nor’EasterOctober 25-27, 2024


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		<title>Beast Of The East</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/Beast-Of-The-East</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:43:46 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

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		<description>2024 USA Ice Climbing Team TryoutsSept 21-22, 2024
The USA Ice Climbing team tryouts, held for the second year at The Edge Halfmoon. Nearly 50 competitors traveled to this small town north of Albany to vie for a spot on the team, chasing after the potential to compete on the world stage.
Indoor drytooling is one of the most ridiculous sports to get into, before even considering the high barrier of access (cost, time, mentorship, training, etc). Every climber not based out of a city with a dedicated drytooling gym is a satellite, training on their homemade climbing wall or traveling long distances to obscure crags. It's a near impossible sport to get into without a dedicated gym to provide an immediately built in community..
..but I do love chasing impossible projects. NYC folks, I've found a space. Let's dive into the dark arts.


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		<title>Minnewaska Double Rainbow</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/Minnewaska-Double-Rainbow</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:39:11 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://conanthai.com/Minnewaska-Double-Rainbow</guid>

		<description>Minnewaska Double RainbowOctober 15, 2023
Finally got a chance to ride the carriage roads of Minnewaska last month. I know, I know.. all my years riding bikes out here and yet I haven't experienced this classic slice of the Hudson Valley. Couldn't have asked for a better crew 🥰

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Route from the day.

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		<title>Sunrise Over Nutmeg Kingdom</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/Sunrise-Over-Nutmeg-Kingdom</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:21:36 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://conanthai.com/Sunrise-Over-Nutmeg-Kingdom</guid>

		<description>Sunrise Over Nutmeg Kingdom
2023 Nutmeg Nor’Easter, 10/21-23&#60;img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dfcbbb6a5edc8dd3e9a2c02470131970d9862d8a886aafc0510fe0cf5d0b2a4/E98_NUTMEG23-194.jpg" data-mid="200688603" border="0" alt="David pushes his bike through deep puddles on the 55mi route" data-caption="David pushes his bike through deep puddles on the 55mi route" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dfcbbb6a5edc8dd3e9a2c02470131970d9862d8a886aafc0510fe0cf5d0b2a4/E98_NUTMEG23-194.jpg" /&#62;
For more than seven years now, once the sugar maple leaves turn a fiery red and the white oaks a rich gold, the residents of eastern Connecticut have become accustomed to the sound of buzzing freehubs as large groups of people ride through on bikes on their quaint country roads. It started off with a smattering of folks who met up under a wooden pavilion by the shoreline, not too far away from a lobster shack—everyone initially connected by someone who knew someone (who knew someone).
 
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After a ferry crossing, a castle, many covered wooden bridges, and innumerable red barns, that ravenous bunch would devour pizza slung from the back of a pickup truck with a wood-burning oven affixed to it on a trailer. The sometimes fierce Long Island Sound wind would do little to dampen spirits, which remained high even when the group later snuck into the local woods to find a place to stealthily pitch their tents and hammocks under the cover of night. Humble beginnings.
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Fast forward to 2023, and this yearly gathering has bloomed into a marquee event in the Northeast. Organizers Arya Namdol and Ronnie Romance have settled into the logistically daunting challenge of offering accommodation options, potable water, food for purchase, and restroom facilities for an ever-increasing number of attendees. This is done entirely through grassroots organization without any corporate dollars. There may have been a few moments when the coffee urns ran dry, or the food lines were long, but this year’s event held at the storied Deer Lake Camp was the most organized yet.

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Many years ago (but not too many), a young Ronnie rode through the woods of Killingworth’s Deer Lake, explored its trail system, learned how to navigate rock gardens, and developed their techniques for off-road cycling, all the while maybe dreaming of when and how to get friends to join in on the fun.

The land served as a scout camp then, but after the property went up for sale last year, it became a local conservation success story. The community came together and purchased the property under a non-profit to protect the 255-acre woodland from development. Its position as part of the Hammonasset River watershed and the largest forested swaths in the region helps form one of the few remaining major greenway zones in Connecticut.

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It was the perfect way of coming full circle to Ronnie’s childhood experience by serving as the venue for this year’s Nutmeg Nor’Easter. The structures on the property were kept and maintained, making the weekend more inclusive for fair-weather-minded campers. Plenty of accommodation options were available: cabins with showers for those seeking summer camp vibes, lean-tos and ground camping for those wanting wilder experiences, and car camping for those driving in already laden with creature comforts.
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I’ve always stood by my assertion that rain is a feature, not a bug—an adventure never exists without a little discomfort or challenging weather. Heavy rain was in the forecast this year, but I couldn’t resist taking the train from NYC to New Haven to start the long weekend off with lunch at arguably one of the best pizzerias in America.

Despite the deluge, nearly 500 undeterred cyclists arrived. Those with soggy bottoms took turns drying themselves off by the fireplace in Clifton Hall, a timber frame dining hall that served as the main meeting point. I’m a natural introvert, yet this gathering always has me bubbling with energy. I felt as if I was in constant conversation all three days, perhaps my most social time every year.

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After a Tibetan blessing from Arya and her mom on Saturday morning, riders rolled out in staggered groups, some choosing to wait out as much of the rain as possible while others committed to a longer day pressed on. With more than a handful of routes ranging from 10 to 79 miles, people could choose from relatively smooth country roads to unmaintained singletrack. There were occasional deep puddles or hike-a-bikes over disused, boulder-strewn paths on some of the adventurous routes.

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Most ride photos and videos likely show the roughest sections, but the bulk of the routes were spent in idylls of contemplation and amiable company. I mostly rode the 55-miler and did my best leapfrogging onto other routes to check in on friends, sprinting ahead to hide in the trees and take photos of the muddy creatures astride their bikes.
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Saturday morning’s deluge was over before noon, and many riders returned in time to catch sunshine and fresh pizzas slung by Fire In The Kitchen, a dream of a vendor and regular fixture of the Nutmeg Nor’Easter. Remember that pickup truck with the pizza oven mentioned earlier? Its operation also grew! A total of 440 pizzas were made that evening.

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In the spirit of grassroots organization, attendees were invited to host workshops themselves for Saturday night’s sessions; these included a clinic on medicinal plants, the art of spoon carving, and mutual aid mental health. Afterward, Eugene Pak presented Riding Han, a short film he recently directed on processing anti-Asian sentiment and connecting with his brother and childhood best friend on the Tour Divide route. It was a filled cup’s day of warmth, capped off by a dance party, a “borrowed” one-oar rowboat out on the lake, after-hour bonfires with newfound friends, and who knows what other hijinks. We had an unobstructed view of the night sky but were instead treated to a meteor shower of dynamo lights floating through the woods as people rode to or from camp.&#60;img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/774df1e5214b4c82aa25f93cc5342aeb951668ef317fa62fb83b54cd56a191f1/E98_NUTMEG23-232.jpg" data-mid="200688750" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/774df1e5214b4c82aa25f93cc5342aeb951668ef317fa62fb83b54cd56a191f1/E98_NUTMEG23-232.jpg" /&#62;

After days of rain, sunshine always seems brighter than usual. Unfortunately, I barely have any photos from Sunday due to a defective lens that drained all my camera batteries. There was a speed dating session (I heard there were some sparks!) and the now-classic “scorcher” race, a fixed-gear race around Deer Lake where cheering crowds properly closed out a weekend of community building.
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Thank you, Arya and Ron, for helping build such a supportive and vast community. To Pak, for sharing such a personal and vulnerable short film. To MJ, Sal, Molly, Ballz, Jess from Cold Spring Farm, Fire In The Kitchen, and all the other dreamboats who get this dream afloat. The smiles all weekend were testament to the joy felt by all. Another year at Camp Nutmeg can’t come soon enough!

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		<title>Hellas Indomitable</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/Hellas-Indomitable</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 02:10:42 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

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Hellas Indomitable2023 May, 13-20
With visions of islands and azure waters, friends all year have been asking if I was eager to travel to Greece for the inaugural Hellenic Mountain Race (HMR). I’d laugh and respond that a low-level state of anxiety was the more fitting response for any event helmed by race director Nelson Trees. That said, HMR was billed as a faster-rolling, more paved route compared to Trees’s more established races, the infamous Silk Road Mountain Race (SMR) and Atlas Mountain Race (AMR). Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas.


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The Pindus Mountains span from the bottom of Albania to the northern tip of the Peloponnese and are locally considered to be the spine of Greece. The result of tectonic collision and the alpine orogeny, these ranges are heavily eroded, sliced by transverse valleys, carved up by innumerable drainage systems, and strewn with sidewall-slicing metamorphic stone. As a result, the roads and trails built into the mountains may be paved but are still precipitous and feature few flat sections. Although the route mostly wends its way through lowland, canopied forests, a few sections would take us through snowy passes. It would be challenging but manageable under normal springtime conditions, but this was no normal spring.


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“IT’S GOING TO BE A WET ONE,” came Nelson’s all-caps warning via Sportify, the communications app used for the race, just a few days prior to the grand depart. Around that same time, expected frontrunner Sofiane Sehili was on a warm-up ride when he was taken out of contention by a wild pack of dogs, resulting in an emergency room visit to address a 10-centimeter-wide laceration.

It was under these two ominous signs that 124 riders from 21 countries gathered in Meteora, Greece, this past May. The ability to ignore ominous signs is basically table stakes for participation in these kinds of events, as is a willingness to adapt to changing circumstances.


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In the days before the race start, discussions about dogs grew intense after Selhili’s encounter. One person suggested treating the dogs with tenderness, but Greek rider Georgios Lentzas refuted the approach, “I do not know this love-love.” Strategies for coping with the weather were similarly fraught. Many racers would forgo ultralight ambitions by scouring local hardware stores in search of heavy ponchos, dishwashing gloves, and rubber boots, while others just accepted being soaked for days.

Racers are bonded by the shared hardships that are often difficult to fully convey to friends and family back home. These stories, grand in nature and even grander with every retelling, are alive again whenever riders are able to meet back up. It’s a testament to the draw of these events when more than a third of the HMR field have attempted SRMR or AMR before, ready to once again ride through the spectrum of emotional and physical states.

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I’ve lately been finding peace in not listening to any music, audiobooks, or podcasts on long trips, listening instead to my body and allowing my mind the room to wander when spending time outside. This backfired after resupplying on the second occasion in Metsovo when a folk-pop cover of Smashmouth’s “All-Star” playing over the grocery store’s speakers gave me an earworm for the remainder of the race, a minor nuisance I could not get rid of. However, when there’s so much to do, so much to see, perhaps there’s nothing wrong with using a song as an anchor.

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At some point, one of the riders from Switzerland, Kostas Arvanitopoulos, talked about being born in Greece but never taking the chance to see the varied landscapes the HMR took us through. It’s all too easy to overlook something that feels so convenient to access. I grew up just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, but my swimming form is atrocious. The description in the race manual that “there are no river crossings worth noting” was off the mark but, mid-race (and many stream crossings later), Sportity updated us with a note to reroute at kilometer 483 to avoid what some racers described as “waist-high conditions.” My swimming abilities were thankfully not tested. Not long after, we’d all receive another update that all cut-off times were extended 12 hours in light of the weather conditions.

It’s a given that things fail over time. When all that time is concentrated, the failure rate one can experience in a day is that much higher. Anything on the bike that moves is susceptible to damage, and that includes bodies. Beyond the cornucopia of maladies one can expect, maybe the most uncomfortable condition we widely experienced was tingling, numb feet, symptoms indicative of trench foot, unsurprising when footwear has stayed wet for days (I will refrain from sharing foot pics).


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We bikepackers spend an inordinate amount of time in our heads. Where do those thoughts go, and how do we talk to ourselves? The mind can fixate, and injuries can bloom in intensity. In equal measure, I can find myself in a mild state of ego death, my sense of self expansive when the landscape opens up as well. The profundity of personal revelations is always contradicted by the banality of our physical movements and needs. The wheels spin another rotation, our legs in a natural rhythm, the motion repetitious and familiar. Food, water, shelter. In a form of penance, the trail dictates the cadence at which our inner monologue speaks. Mel Webb brought up the idea of goldfish memory, which feels like the most fitting and desirable trait possessed by anyone wishing to participate in these events. It’s never solely about outright power or unyielding grit but, perhaps, it’s more so the acceptance that “this too shall pass.”

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Knowing I was not alone provided little solace. The checkpoints and larger towns draw us in with their comforts but can also present doubt as racers congregate, commiserate, and attempt to recover. There were multiple points on the route that allowed racers to cross paths with someone a few hours behind or ahead. In the town of Papigo at CP1, where riders pass through twice, it’s one state of mind to have completed the slippery out-and-back hike up to Mount Tymfi in the daytime and another state of mind waiting in town knowing that it awaits the following morning. Scratching is often a decision that doesn’t happen alone, and day four saw 20 riders make that choice.

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The mountain pass climb out of Melissourgi and CP2 was, true to the race manual, a callback to the landscapes often found in Kyrgyzstan. Leaving the thickly forested sections, riders were presented with proper alpine territory, and this was where my mind began to wander. A scene from Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 film Black Narcissus always rushes to the forefront, as a dazed Sister Phillipa confides to Sister Clodagh, “I think you can see too far. I look out there, and then I can’t see the potato I’m planting. And after a bit, it doesn’t seem to matter whether I plant it or not.” When asleep for only a couple of hours a night, maybe dreams start making their way into the daylight hours. I struggled to stay focused, taking breaks to record silly videos on my phone or marvel at the clouds rushing up through the valley. Efficiency with time is certainly not a strong point of mine in race settings.


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A slow leak in my inflatable sleeping pad had initially been my alarm clock for years, my body knowing it was time to move after contacting the ground following five hours of the pad staying inflated. Abrasive, mud-strewn grit hurried me along by turning my pad into merely a groundsheet and reducing my sleep to naps. I’d eventually scratch after reaching CP3 and sleeping in a bed for the first time in over a week. In the morning, I detoured onto a more direct, paved option to reach the port city of Nafpaktos, the finishing line of HMR. I just didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to see everyone again at the afterparty.

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Time is perhaps the greatest contributor to storytelling, and maybe all trip reports should be written weeks after the event when memories become rosy-colored and the low points diminish in intensity. Wounds scab over, awkward tans fade away, and sensation returns to the hands. Around this time is when one finally starts recalibrating in their normal life. As a part of this journey, one might expect to answer any number of questions all asking some version of the same inquiry: “Why subject yourself to all this?”

Well, as a wise person once sang: You’ll never know if you don’t go. You’ll never shine if you don’t glow.

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		<title>HMR Rig - Bridgestone MB1</title>
				
		<link>https://conanthai.com/HMR-Rig-Bridgestone-MB1</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:50:04 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Conan Thai Photography</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://conanthai.com/HMR-Rig-Bridgestone-MB1</guid>

		<description>1989 Bridgestone MB-12023 HMR Rider Rig
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BIKE: 2023 update on my MB1 bikepacking setup (2019 can be found here). Regarding major changes, I‘ve removed my front rack, mounted my light directly to the fork crown, and switched to Paul levers and Motolites. For those following me, I had briefly retired this bike in autumn 2021 when I discovered the headtube had gotten enlarged(?!) and the headset cups were able to slide on and off easily. I suspect it was already like that to begin with when I purchased it but, 8000 miles later, all the rough stuff had most likely increased its size. Strangely enough, it all seems uniform instead of the typical ovalization that occurs. In February ‘23, I decided on a whim to shim the headset cups with clippings from an aluminum can, thanks to suggestions from the internet. Feeling quite secure, it was only a matter of hours that the bike was hastily rebuilt with spare parts (many things had since migrated to other bikes). It started in singlespeed mode and I’ve frankly been satisfied enough with it to keep it as is. It’s set up as 36x22t, with the Surly cog held in place by GearClamps. The rear derailleur is used as a chain tensioner - I could probably remove more links in the chain but the bike will eventually get gears back.. I think. Still no complaints about the ceramic Mavic 517 rims.&#38;nbsp;
BAGS: Revelate Design for everything, except for an Outer Shell drawcord handlebar bag in the front for food. The frame bag is meant for a Straggler but it fits well enough - I just have the occasional leg/shoe/crank arm rub. Well, actually, it bulges enough to always be rubbing on something. I’ll get a custom bag eventually. I cut off the mesh on the stem bags because the elastic had worn out and the pockets no longer held things.The stem bags will dry a little faster now whenever they get wet. Sleeping pad is strapped directly to the saddle rails.&#38;nbsp;
GEAR HIGHLIGHTS: Fujifilm X100F camera stashed in the right stem bag. SP PV-8 (or Kasai Dynacoil RB) 32h dynamo hub. King Cage Manythings strapped to the downtube via King Cage USB clamps. Hydrapak 3L reservoir with a hose. Sinewave Beacon. SON light in the back. Ergon GA3 grips with SQLabs 411 innerbarends. Wahoo Bolt V2
Hanging off the saddle rails, there’s an omamori charm given to me by my friend Alan which he picked up at Kiyomizu Kannon-do, the oldest temple in Tokyo. The charm is for “wish fulfillment”.


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