Small Items of Note

• They’ve gone and done it — Shimano has joined the 11-speed ranks with the leaked information about the new Dura-Ace 9000 group. It’s mechanical, it’s 11-speed, it’s got a press-fit bottom bracket, and that’s about all the details I’ve got. It’s really not surprising, given that Campy had already gone that direction, and had followed Shimano into electronic shifting, as well.
   
• I shipped out the Trek 720 frameset yesterday and was sad to see it go. I bought it from Mike Williams while I was working at Penn Cycle years and years ago. It’s a great frameset, from the last year that Trek made lugged frames, and it rides like a dream. It’s been sitting in a box for some time now, unbuilt, and I decided that someone else out there would probably love it and use it a lot more than I do, so I sold it. I regret it only a tiny bit — I can build something comparable in fit/comfort/performance fairly easily now. And the money I made from the sale is going toward some new equipment.
   
• It being Friday, I’m pretty stoked that the weekend is about to start. Hope you all have awesome plans. I know mine are.