Fatbiking and Other Junk

Equipment Woes.

Bought a new wheelset from Industry Nine this winter - full carbon rims and colorful anodized spokes for my Fatback Skookum - and got them set up tubeless this spring.  I am running tires from 45North with a FloBiest up front and a Dunderbiest in the rear.  I used them last summer with tubes and they were great.  As soon as I set them up tubeless, problems abounded.  The rear wouldn't hold air for more than 12 hours.  After some fiddling with it at the local bike shop I thought it was fixed then disaster:  a two-inch long tear at the bead.  Less than 500 miles on this tire and it shits the bed.  Damn.

Trails Mostly Drying Out.

A lot of the lower trails in the Cache Creek area are dry enough to ride on which is very surprising given the amount of snow we had this winter.  I was expecting no trail riding until mid-June at the earliest.  Yay!