Triangle Adventure Racing Team

So I get home today from running…sit down to eat and read the paper before work…when I hear the faint familiar rumble and shifting of a Panel truck….it gets closer and closer…..Could it be?….then I hear the air brake….YES….then the double horn toot….OH JESUS…YES….with trepidation I pull the curtain a little bit aside and peer out…..UPS…God Bless UPS…the bike box comes out the back….I want to run out and grab it ….but I stand down….he drops it on the porch….GOD should I rush out and start tearing it open…..I wait…cant look to anxious..like I’m unemployed and waiting on a oriental blow up doll……ah but then he drives off….I run out with my knife and start cutting tape… HOLY MOSES…….there it is in all it’s glory the “On One Inbred 29′er”:http://www.on-one.co.uk it’s even more beautiful then the web picture….like meeting Cheryl Ladd in person as a 13 year old…..certainly alot better than the wrinkled up Sports Ilustrated 1983 swimsuit edition…..but I digress….some assembly required….but I feel like Dr Frankenstein….creating something but not sure what yet…..I finish…pump the tires and step back…..my knees were a little shaky….I have to admit…but WOW…this thing…Jeezus…When I rode those 29’s around the yard………I felt like a KING…like a PIMP daddy….like Ernie walking in the door after work…I was in one of those weird ass Burger King commercials with the big headed King and pimp cape he wears……. wow……I need to ride it ….NOW…..So anyways…Rides one and two I’m still gettting used to the feel of it…I love the all-around Steel frame through Umstead and the 29 wheels feel fast….it is tough riding SingleSpeed over some of those hills but I’m sure my riding will improve…my third ride….Whoops..the left crank arm comes of while in mid ride and it’s dangling from my foot via the eggbeater pedal….without a 8mm tool to fixit the ride ended abruptly….Okay so I tighten it down hard and keep the fingers crossed that it was loose from the factory…..5 solid rides since and it has held tight…no signs of loosening….I’m loving the bike even more….one drawback being no suspension….it beats the tar out of you on technical singletrack….so I will likely go with a front fork in the near future….so far so good for my first experience with a 29′er and fixed gear….I’m beggining to wonder about all these gears/shifters/deraillaurs etc being worth the hassle…….