What does Adam do on (some) weekends?

Most of you know I work on bikes all week. But when I'm not racing on the weekends, I work on bikes on my one day off/week too! My Cannondale CAAD 9 was in need on attention. I use this bike primarily as a "rain" bike, so it gets subjected to bad weather a lot and is usually covered in crap. It needed a new chain, new cables and totally overhauled (it could use a new cassette too, but $$...). Now it looks so good I don't' want to ride it all, let alone in bad conditions.
the home workshop in full battle mode.


since it gets ridden in bad weather, I put put on these sweet Kool Stop extreme condition brake pads. These are the road version of the pads I've used for years on my cyclocross bike. They're awesome.

I mentioned last post I was doing a 40k TT this weekend with the goal of going under 55minutes. Goal: achieved! It feels good to set a goal and achieve it, though I can't say I did much specific work toward this goal outside of my normal training. My previous best at 40k was 55.55. Today I went 54.48. 1) that's over a minute off and 2) that's over 27mph for those 54minutes (that's me being brash [sorry]). It was hard day with a nasty cross wind to fight, but the tail wind sections were f-a-s-t fast. But those headwind sections were h-a-r-d hard. This was the last 40k of the year, so we'll see what we can throttle for next year.
This is X-Games weekend, so I definitely have watched a fair share of TV. Of course I was watching no less than 1hr/day during the Tour de France, but it wasn't sponsored by Mt Dew, Taco Bell and Axe body spray, so it didn't feel as though Le Tour made me dumber. Though, in Axe's defense, the "double pits to chesty" is a pretty sweet move; I might work on throwing that into barrier hops in CX season.
Anywho, I plan to do the IN stage race this weekend. That's a park crit and TT on Saturday then a "road race" (circuit) on Sunday. I've done this the past few year and have enjoyed the racing. Plus I feel like I'm going pretty good right now. Hopefully it doesn't all come crumbling down too soon!