Its that time of year when my bike starts to act funny and has become unreliable under load. Chain skips, gears are not working so well. I finally had some time to fix my bike and install some new toys on my bike.

Chris King Gold with Heavy Duty Axe on Mavic 721 with DT Swiss Alpine 3 spokes, SRAM DH 11-26 Cassette and SRAM X.O 20th anniversary Carbon Fiber Black Box Medium Derailleur with X.0 Shifters.

I hope to get a Rockshox Pike from a friend by trading some bike parts. Nothing beats the barter system.

Seams as thought almost every manufacture of bikes and bike components now realize that women like pink. And what better way to lour women into cycling?

Pink parts! Any why not make them some of the best parts money can buy? a Chris King wheel set can set you back over a grand, and the pink Hope brake set could set you back $500 or $600.

Speedgoat, an online bike shop last year held an raffle for a pink bike and the proceeds went to help breast cancer. Not to mention they build a sweet pink bike.

Other companies like Chris King continue to donate a portion of there Pink components to Cancer research.

You don’t have to be a Lady to enjoy some pink on your bike. Pink seams to be the new black for a lot of guys riding there burly Down Hill bikes.

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I shipped my rear wheel by UPS thought United Cycle to Chris King in Portland Oregon for Warranty work. I knew that by that at the time of year when i send in the wheel (June 2007) that they would be behind, so I waited about 2 months and then called them to ask if i could get a tracking number to follow it back to Canada.

I was surprised to hear that they had not received it.

My first instinct was there must be a mistake, so the tech i was talking with did some looking around the warehouse, shiping receiving, as well as the shop and called me back the next day to let me know that he was 90% sure that i had not arrived.

At the same time i gave United Cycle a call who shipped the wheel out on my behalf to got a tracking number. After looking up the tracking number i then learned it had made it from Edmonton to Spokane Idaho in about 2 days. It never left the depot. I phoned UPS and asked them if they knew what had happened. They issued a trace rout on it, basically to see were it ended up if it got scanned in the wrong depot and sent to some other location. After a few weeks of no contact I called back and they told me that Chris King had received it and that it was signed for.

Great! Or so i thought.
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One of my favorite mountain bike movies was the Collective, not long after Roam came out. Well with the new riding season upon us its only fitting to call the next movie Seasons.

Check out a teaser on there site.

Links:
http://www.thecollectivefilm.com/
http://www.pinkbike.com/