Lusail Desert Trail: We Ate Dirt for Breakfast Ride

Finally, after few month of hibernation, I finally joined a trail ride and got the chance to use my Giant Escape Custom built Hybrid Single Speed Cyclocross Bike on the trails. (yep, it was already tested to endure the pains of trail riding and having to carry a 100kg biker.. it's me by the way.

18 mountain bikers braving the heat (luckily, no humidity was present at that time of the day)

Friday, August 23, 2013.

My trusted Customized Built Giant Escape Hybrid turned into Single Speed Cyclo Cross
On her maiden Long Trail ride in Qatar. (Single Speed 38T x 18T gearing; 700c x 35c Continental Cyclocross tires.)

Back to the Saddle Solo Ride - 25.9km loop

After a very long time, I am back to the saddle again.

Here is my ride last night

I started around 7:00 in the evening, with no route in mind, i had planned around 10 to 15 kms only, but finished with around 25.9~26.34 kms (some little conflict with my Cyclocomputer and GPS based tracker)

My Giant Escape 1 SS CX Commuter Hybrid bike with Qatar's Tallest tower (Khalifa "the Torch" Tower)

It registered 26.34 kms total on my Cateye Commuter.
Blurred photo showing time @ 8:30 pm with Temperature of 34 deg C

Oh crap.. I forgot to bring my Canon IXY Pocket Camera. I had used my Phone Camera instead.

Pardon me for my blurred pictures.

(tracking courtesy of sports tracker apps on my Nokia C7 smartphone)

Tracked data made by SPORTS TRACKER

Total Tracked distance for Cycling here in Qatar so far (from January 01, 2012 to Present) - 757.6 kms

New Brake Upgrade for my Giant Escape (from TEKTRO to AVID)

Finally, I have found my spare time to change and upgrade the current brake system of my customized Giant Escape 1 Hybrid Commuter Single Speed rig just in time the day before a Major Ride.

FROM: TEKTRO 857AL / CL 530 LINEAR PULL BRAKE SYSTEM

TO: AVID SINGLE DIGIT 7 / SPEED DIAL 5 LINEAR PULL BRAKE SYSTEM

Read on to see How I managed to do it...

My Very First Customized Mountain Bike Project (circa 2010)

My first very own customized build mountain bike.

My Very First Mountain Bike

read on.......

Giant Escape 1 SS Conversion Project v2.0

This is the 2nd Revision for my Giant Escape 1 Hybrid CX Single Speed Conversion Project

I have done it in a do-it-yourself way with basic tools on my own.

I started @ 5pm, finished by 7pm... 

Scroll down for more details on the Step by Step procedure.

Version 2.0 Finished (Corrected some problems in the 1st version)