Yesterday night. Pedal Kick up to 65cm. Yeah!

Went out with my wife and kids to the playground. Unfortunately, my son wouldn't want to let go of me so that real training wasn't possible. My wife managed to take two pictures though.

Pretty windy today! I would've done more but my son decided to only sleep for 30mins. Well... better than nothing.

After what felt like eternity I went out biking today and even though I only had around 1h of daylight, I managed to do some new things. I don't know whether I've mentioned it but I think a Sidehop is easier to do than a Pedal Up. Only thing that hindered me to do it better or even higher was that I couldn't stand still on the rear wheel. The last time I tried the new stem setup it wasn't like this and I wondered why.

Well, half an hour into practice I had the pleasure to ride some other guys bikes and after that I thought that my brake levers were too far up. I put them down a little only to realize at home that it wasn't my levers being too low, but my handlebar slipping. I put it back where I had it earlier but not until having put some dynamics carbon paste onto them. I hope it'll hold this way.

In the video (quality sucks!) you can see me doing a Sidehop onto a bench that is probably around 40cm high. Pedaling up onto it isn't very easy for me as it is too narrow. The other downside to it is, that I don't know how to get back down. :D Happened earlier as well. Pedaling up onto a wall only to realize that I'm afraid of dropping down from such height.

Still don't have any time for riding as an exam is coming up. I managed to change the setup of my bike though. I laced an Echo TR rear wheel and put an Echo TR front free wheel on the cranks. Since the Echo Urban bash wouldn't work here, I got a Try All A-Symmetric which I still had to file down 1mm to make it fit. One would think that parts of the same manufacturer would fit together w/o "customizing" it. I also got another stem. This one is 150x30° and feels even better than the 5° higher one.

The self made saint work super well with the Tr!ckstuff pads I got. The resin wouldn't provide enough hold for my liking.

The black residue you can see on the rear rim is still some color since it takes a very harsh first grind to take it all off it the first time. I just put a light grind on that bad boy.

Since I haven't had time to practice anything (even though I went out with my bike 2 times 1/2 hours since the last time), I send my old bike to someone from a forum. He's doing pretty well and I thought I might share it here. He is now where I was in September '13 and he's got some shin guards right from the start, which is a good thing as you might remember from my "Bloody Sunday" post. (Klick here)