WELL ALRIGHT.....

So, I got some decent miles in yesterday morning in the rain, but it turned out to be such a nice day that Erik and I headed out after work yesterday afternoon for some more time in the saddle.  He's riding a pair of the 60 mm FP's so logging as many miles as we can has been sort of a fun take home work assignment.  Just keep in mind that Erik is about 6 foot 4 and I'm a subtle 5 foot 9 ish, so catching a draft on him is like, well, we'll just say it's a bit of a biscuit as I almost sit under his saddle height! 
 
I figured that with the deeper wheels and relatively flat terrain that we were headed to that he would be pulling away from me like a bad habit, but I did manage to hang on to his wheel for the most part.  We had a couple of little rollers yesterday evening, but the wheels spun up to speed quite quickly and I didn't have any trouble climbing either in the saddle or out of it for that matter trying to keep up with "Big E". The rear wheel is a little out of true now, but going from pot hole to pot hole will do that to anything.  I'll get it on the stand this afternoon and get it trued up for the rest of the week's riding and this weekend (which barring any really bad weather will be a good chance to log some decent miles).  I am glad that we went with the standard exposed nipples on this wheel.  Internal nipples just make for added nuisance, maintenence wise.  As most of us out there aren't too keen on spending precious riding time at the bike shop or in our own workshop fixing problems, this will be a nice feature of this wheel set.  Even if you don't true your own wheels, your mechanic will thank you eventually. 
As we got some good miles in yesterday, I neglected to go on the 0530 hammer fest / Time trial that leave the north side of Indy.  I'm just not sure that  bunch of guys showing up on TT bikes with full aero kits is quite my style or the best way that I can think of to start my day.  Maybe next week I'll go for the suffer fest, but not today. 
I'm off....  take care and happy riding.