Upgrades and Good Times.

I built my fat bike with a Salsa steel fork and it worked great, but I had a 907 aluminum fork that I picked up for a project that is not going to happen for a while and I thought that I should put the fork to good use.  So swapped out the Salsa for the 907.  Not a huge ride difference between the two but it is a bit lighter and it looks great on the bike.

While I was in the mood to do some upgrades I mounted my Hydroflask and Topeak Java Cage on the bike.  The 907 has a smaller triangle so I had to make a bracket to offset the bottle cage holes by 3.5"  I think that it turned out pretty well and it seems to work great.

We have gotten outside for some fun rides even with the colder temps.  Troy, Todd, Mike and myself took a ride around the Bald Eagle and Otter lakes on some great hidden single track.  I turned out to be a great day for a ride.

I received a pair of Bar Mitts for Christmas, they are awesome, nice and warm in really cold temps.

While we were on the ride a local reporter stopped Todd and I and snapped a picture for the paper, it ended up on the front page!  I think that this is the first time I have ever been in the paper!

Kyleen got some new pair of Volkl Kenjas  over Christmas and she was very excited to get out on them so, we joined up with Troy and Kerry and headed down to Welsh Village for a ski day.  It was a great day the weather was warm and the snow was great!  I have never skied at Welsh so this was a new experience for me. I only took a couple of pictures, we were having too much fun skiing!

Her new boards are so much wider than mine.

Troy and Kerry are ahead of us a couple of chairs.

We had so much fun at Welsh that the next weekend we headed up to Spirit Mountain.  I really like Spirit, the runs are a bit longer than some of the other local ski hills.  There are also some great views of Duluth Harbor.  We lucked out on another great day of skiing!