Ha, I finally ordered my Pug! I've wanted one for a while now. All it took was mangling my hand and getting possible prolonged nerve damage to get it. It all started last week when i went for a solo ride out at the Pinehill bike park in RutVegas. It all started out simple enough. Prior to this ride I had swapped out the tires on my now sold Specialized Enduro. I had several rather sketchy and semi disastrous tumbles with the stock tires and poor trail maintenance. The sad part is that now other than weather conditions leaving the rocks and roots slimy, Pinehill is in desperate need of proper trail maintenance; which led to my many spills this season. On a trail that was signed off on by the person that heads up the trail maintenance at PHP, I ate it hard when a dirt berm that was a start into a switchback with a newly built wood berm gave out on the high side which in turn spanked me off the ground hard. The issue is that in order to save my face from being smashed into a rock that was poorly placed in my honest opinion; I put out my hand and mashed 2/3 of my robust 245lbs down on a portion of palm that houses the nerves that control most motor function on the prone side of the palm surface, which almost a week later has yet to regain any sensation other than the half asleep, pins and needles and hot poker feelings when in a flat position. This is awesome by the way, I have dropped so much stuff as of late it has force my left hand to develop fat cat like counter measures. Overall general clumsiness.
On to the Pug, I sold my Enduro which will get shipped today or tomorrow out to Tuscon, wish i could ship myself, heaven't been out that way since I was a small boy. The kid I sold it to made it sound like it is just awesome riding out there. I guess it is just my want for drier terrain in my neck of the woods. New England - North America's new rain-forest! Man so much rain fall this season. Back to the Pug; I ordered it early this morning from Universal Cycles, I really have a disdain for the lack of availability at many of the shops here in VT. Buy Local, yeah right! Sell the stuff we want and we'll buy local! So hopefully next week it will arrive and in between family, work, and class I'll get into my zen like trance of bike building and get her done and out on her maiden voyage. I've wanted one ever since a dude dropped one off at my buddy's shop and took it for a spin around the parking lot after it was tuned. F@$&ing awesome, I was hooked since. Now 3 years later I'll have one of my own and I'm going to ride the crap out of it, loving every moment in the process.
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