I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago that seemingly every piece of equipment I used took a beating during the 2,700-mile Tour Divide mountain bike race. This is true particularly for the components on my mountain bike. Here is one example. Continue reading »

“Hi, this is Felix Wong calling on the 4th of July. Its Friday, 10:20. I’m couple of miles from the New Mexico border. Every holiday it seems like I have some sort of vehicular problem and this is no exception. I had my second crisis. Last night my cyclometer died. I think it has something to do with the sensor. I’m not sure if it is the sensor itself or the sensor battery. It doesn’t really matter because the sensor battery is a very rare 12-volt double-A-size battery. One that I’m not going to be able to find anywhere. Right now I’m heading off to Chama. I’m going to look for a cyclometer…”

One month after that call-in from Day 22 of the Tour Divide, I finally inspected the aforementioned cyclometer sensor. I now know for certain why the cyclometer no longer was working after the first 2,000 miles of the mountain bike race. Continue reading »

Here’s a spreadsheet summarizing my progress during the 2008 Tour Divide mountain bike race, including miles and hours ridden per day, along with where I started and stopped. Continue reading »

Here’s an article about the hike my friend Tori and I did at Coyote Ridge a few months back. It came out in Fort Collins Now on Friday, August 1, 2008 and is entitled, “A Doggone Good Hike.” You can download it here (PDF, 597 kB) or view it online.

It may take me a while to write daily writeups (which I’d try to limit to 300-400 words each in any case), but in the meantime, all the transcripts from my race call-ins are here. Continue reading »