New to this forum from Iceland

teitur

Hi, My name is Teitur and Im new to this forum.
Im getting 28yo in september.
I live in Iceland.

This is my 2009 model Trek 6000 Disc:



This is a picture of it when it was new (september 2009)

I have cateye velo 8 speedometer on it
shimano m520 clips
some LED light and some other stuff.

Im having problems with my rear wheel...the spokes get broken alot and I´ve had to get like 7 or 8 new ones since middle of june...I dont know the reason why this happends.

Any ideas for new rims? Halo? Nuke Proof?

Cheers,

Anonymous

Pretty nice bike. Might be worth finding a good wheelbuilder locally, and getting him to rebuild your wheel, sounds like something went wrong with spoke tension during building it.

so, what kind of riding is there in Iceland? Do you ever venture onto the glaciers?

teitur

I called the store where I bought my bike and they offered to rebuild my wheel for free.

I have never been on the glaciar on my bike but I know two guys who did when the volcano bullshit was going on.

We have all kinds of biking here in Iceland.

Here is a video from the last race I was in almost 2 weeks ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haiBYmpve2U

I came in second in my age group which was 19-29 year old males. (24km/15miles)

and here is another video from another race I was in in middle of june.
Called "The blue lagoon challenge" (60km/37miles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Vjuqw5VTM

This is how I ride mostly.

Anonymous

pretty good stuff. Iceland looks like a crazy and fun place. I'd love to head up there sometime.

hoochylala

Welcome!

This is why I want to go riding in Iceland!





http://icebikeadventures.com/index.html

popstar

Iceland is awesome! A bit expensive though even after credit crisis ... but it is exotic location, nevertheless.