Weather
is great these days, dry and pretty warm. So when I found some time
this evening I decide to take out the Moots to try out its new
Continental Mountain King tyres and join the KBC MTB club on their
weekly outing. I have been going through a rough patch with my desktop
PC these last few days. The thing doesn't want to work for more than 5
to 10 minutes before crashing with the Blue Screen of Death. I need to
process the pictures I made at Houffalize (410 pictures / 4.5Gb) and
this is taking me forever now. Furthermore I needed to use an old PC to
set up an internet connection to keep in contact with the world. Email
and blog, uploading GPS and Polar files , uploading pictures.. try it
on a Pentium II with a clock speed of 266Mhz and 64Mb of RAM memory.
Its a drag I can tell you. So I'm considering getting me a new PC - a
notebook for its portability - but I need to make sure it can handle
graphical work and heavy picture processing. So when I rode out it felt good to free my mind and leave all those modern-man troubles behind for a while.
The
KBC guys were plentiful and after an initial ride into Meerdael forest
I was asked to guide the ride into the finer parts of the big forest. I
asked them if they wanted to do some climbing and they didn't mind. So
climb we did. The Moots felt smooth and the tyres gave me enormous grip
and security both uphill, in turns and on the downhills. I chose some
of the finer sections in the Sint Joris Weert and Nethen side of the
forest and the heightmeters accumulated fast. I am sure all had a very
good workout. Near the end I guided them back on the road towards the
starting point in Heverlee and turned in. Looks like my front tyre is
losing air slowly - need to keep an eye on that before going to the
Ardennes this weekend. The Mountain Kings are of the Pro-tection kind
so I didn't think they would flatten on the first outing. But whatever
the cause, the loss of air is slow. Perhaps I will just put in a new
inner tyre to be sure. Need to see if the loss of air continues over
the next few days.
Ride Stats : 38K and 385 heightmeters in 2h02mins
3257/30195
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