It's a convection oven out there

Thorry.  The wheels came off the bus last week.  That don't mean I'm not getting any riding in...

But it does mean that I'm waaaaaay off the back on the launch of HandUp's new kit... like tight roadie/gravel kit(s).

Yup.  From the folks that are mostly associated with making casual cycle sport performance wardrobe comes some truly sweet kit that I've been riding around in for a couple weeks.

Obviously, if you order one of their jerseys, it will come with the optional sleeves still attached.

I'm mega-stoked on the reasonably priced cargo bibs.  Let me remind you that I wanted cargo bibs to exist a long, long time ago, showed some stoke when SWAT bibs came out in 2013, but still lamented for many more years that all the cargo bibs being made were intended for use with baggies.  Now I don't even know how I lived without them or pulled off packless PMBAR way back in 2013 without the extra five pockets.

And if I'm mega-stoked on the bibs, imagine how I feel about HandUp finally making tiny hats!

I'd been begging for these ever since they stopped being just a glove company.  Although, when they sent me an email to alert me of their coming, I was worried that they had made the fatal tiny hat error of using stretchy jersey-like material.  That's my last choice in tiny hat selection.  Fortunately, the material is thin like my Specialized Deflect tiny hats, but with a ventilated center panel and a bill that's long enough to be useful.  

Okay, outside of all that...

I'm busy thinking about everything I wanna do between now and September 5th when I leave for Spain with Bill Nye, Dr Mike, and Burke Burkenson.  I decided to join them in doing something that I thought would be saved for my "later years," so I'll be sticking my gravel bike in a travel bag and going on a specific "Gravel-cation."  I'm truly so smitten with my Vassago TKO that, dare I say, I'm excite?  I look forward to long days in the saddle, incredible scenery, and saying "buenos" way too much.

I swear to gob I'm not becoming a gravel dad lord.  I swear.

Oh, it's my 57th birthday today.  Seems crazy that it was just yesterday or seven years ago since my 50th party/ride.  Mebbe I am "Gravel-cation" years old?