triple d

discouraged, disappointed, and disrespected...

Winding Down. Ramping Up

April of Senior year. im graduating in a month. all of my friends are in the slide, cruzing out with out a worry in their minds. im the bussiest i have ever been. between school and work im putting in about 90hr weeks trying to get things finished. found a few hours to my self yesterday, and finally got the Kona out on a ride. i died hard. it was really discourging, ive been commuting all winter and trying to stay as physically active as my hectic schedule will allow. id love to be able to blame my performance on the wind, but honestly its always windy in mankato. i write this feeling reallly discouraged about my race season. i havent had a weekend/ evening off in months to get a long ride in. im suppose to be doing BALLS on the 30th. didnt get work off, im going to try too. but its not looking good.

the bike was great and im realizable happy with it, need to figure out a better cockpit combination. with my stem flipped down it just felt too high. im use to a really low handle bar position though and my hold Bianchi had a lot shorter axle to crown length fork, so things are higher up. its pretty light though. any way time to head back to class. im preparing to do my final diesel emissions test for my senior project his afternoon. check out this video from the other week. its a three wheeled diesel electric vehicle. we are building a body for it, integrating a electric hybrid motor to power the rear wheel and doing emissions and economy testing on the diesel motor. currently averaging about 99mpg mixed city highway.