3 years! - part one of two

Hydrate or Dry... Or Die!

Hurray, Jorgex's MTB points of view reached the 3rd year!

Today I did not pedal. I went to the local cinema house and watched 127 Hours with a couple of friends. They laugh about it because the main character uses a camelbak or a camel bladder just like me! Yes, Jorgex goes to work with The Don 2010 from camelbak.

The Don is far from perfect, however it does carry lots of useless stuff like:

• 3L of H2O
• Nokian N78 cellphone
• Wallet
• Smart Wallet (Lezine tire levers, Topeak Mini 18+ and a Leatherman)
• MacBook Pro 13.4"
• WB external something 3.5" 2TB (on week end) or a 16GB pen drive (during week days)
• Interweb from Vodafone
• Deoderant
• ZON paper work
• ZON neck leash - wasabi color
• 2 notebooks
• 3 pens (2 blue and 1 black)
• 4 chains (Wippermann and a Rohloff S-L-T 99)
• Buff, cap and a black mountain bike rain coat from AGU
• Wallkman 1060X, USB cable and AKG Q350
• ZON's Stress Ball (super useful before, during and after customer phone call)
• 1 or 2 Ramen to dinner at work, with 1 bowl and a fork
• 1 orange/mango juice
• Power bars
• Always carry one magazine like MBR, TopGear or portuguese mags like Exame Informática (to outsmart/retain ZON clients), Visão.
• Home keys

In the end, I carry to many things inside The Don. It's a well made frameless pack. By the way, The Don is very stable when the bladder is full (of water or air)... I forget what I was thinking.

Anyway, my friends and colleagues from work are starting to understand the way of Jorgex. (^_^")

P.S. - Unlike the main caracter from 127 Hours, I hear crappier music. Recently I start hearing Rhapsody, Death and Blood Stain Child. I'm a sucker for metal.

The Don 2010 is super!

Last week a friend of mine (Fukendie) needed a proper crankset. So we went to another friend (Freddy) to pick up a borrowed RaceFace Evolve XC or something like that.

Smart Wallet is great!

It sounds easy but it wasn't.  For some reason, the RF crankset had a small slack between the crank and bearing. So, we removed an Shimano LX from another bike that Freedy had and installed the RF Evolve again. Same problem!

Suddenly the solution crossed my mind: interweb! Fukendie and Freddy said how am I going to do it in the mindle of nowhere and I showed my brand new CamelbaK - The Don 2010 -  for a mere 65€.

1. I placed the camel on the floor and and zipped it
2. I removed the MacBook Pro 13" and a interweb thingy from Vodafone in one of many internal pockets of The Don
3. Connected the hole thing and establish communication with RF website
4. Download the respective pdf et voilá

For some reason Freddy wanted to know the meaning of RF 10mm nut but he didn't had a proper tool. Again, The Don 2010 did magic!

1. From another major internal pocket at the bottom I removed the mythical Lezyne's Smart Wallet
2. Inside the Smart Wallet there was a Topeak Mini 18+ with a 10mm alan key just to remove the crank nut that Freddy wanted

After the big camel display, Fukendie and I went home with Freddy's RF Evolve XC crankset. This crankset was the last missing part to complete Fukendie's bike: an Spec. Epic S-Works 2009.

The point was that The Don 2010 save two men lives in half an hour and it did with saffron stix pattern style! :)

P.S. - Is it slack or play between mechanical parts? I don't have much verbal skills.

New bag for work!

How could I refuse a camel for 65€?

It's The Don 2010 with everything inside from CamelbaK Scudo '09 SE, plus Scudo itself!