Road ID Wristband
Roadies, and MTBs alike, we’ve all taken a spill and hopefully walked, or better yet, rode away from it. Flipping through BIKE magazine for November, I noticed an add for Road ID. It struck me as odd. The caption in the ad read, “…sometimes the road owns you,” and has a photos of a dude laid out beside his bike with a taco’d wheel. It’s a bit morbid to think about needing an ID wristband incase of the worst, but there you go… The way Ken rides through the winter on his daily commutes to work, I might get’em one.
Road ID is good, especially while training. We just had a friend get hit by a truck. Special instructions…road ID…always a good idea.
Speaking of damage…remember to budget for the things that will happen on the trail. There are a few hardware rules of the TRC:
1) The TRC puts a year on your bike
2) The TRC turns a new bike into an old bike
3) Budget $150/day for repairs (recabling, chains, cassettes, brakes, rims, etc). Even if you don’t spend that much per day on the TRC, you’ll spend that much fixing your bike AFTER the TRC
4) Bring whatever specialized parts your bike may have (ie: Canondales use Canondale (not standard) deraileur hangers…bring a spare)
Thanks for the guidelines Andreas! Really, it makes complete sense. Though with the way Smart rides, we’ll probably want to bump our budget up a bit ;-)
They don’t call me “Crash” for nothin’…
$150/per day is pretty massive. Over 7 days, $1,050.00. Andreas, what’s the most common repair, that’s most expensive? For example, if it’s rims, it might be a good idea to source some spare rims in advance. Might be able to save some $$$. Do you know, does TRC offer pricing breaks on parts?