Thu 10 Apr 2008
I decided to sign up to do Tour de Cure this year (in June) to help raise funds and awareness for diabetes research. The event I will be in is the 100km ride in Reston, VA along the W&OD trail. If anyone would like to offer sponsorship (in any value), I would gladly accept. The link to make a donation is at the bottom of the page and the donation is tax-deductible (in the USA at least). Please post any comments or questions you may have and wish me luck. Conversely, if you will be in the Washington D.C. area and are interested in doing this, you can join my friends any I and make it a team effort.
( Donation page for N. Chernyy )
P.S. For extra kicks, the bike above is the one that I will be doing the 100km on. It is not a road bike, but it is really well tuned and rides smoothly.
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April 11th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Wow I didn’t know you were a rider… I like you blog even more now
I can’t see myself doing 100km on a MTB though and I wish you best of luck. I’m planning on doing ~120Km myself in the end of may and have to start training (even though I’ve been biking year round, most of my commute are < 20km).
April 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Thanks for the compliment. I have been riding bikes since I was a child, so this will come naturally. The drive-train is really nice so I don’t think there will be many problems, however, I may change to smoother tires for the final ride. I plan to pressurize the front fork to the maximum limit to reduce the energy loss there also.
As yourself, I am also riding with LEDs. I replaced the incandescent bulb in my niterider kit with 12 LEDs and am much happier now.
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