{"id":18423,"date":"2016-03-04T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:49:45","slug":"goodbye-2013-el-mariachi-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/goodbye-2013-el-mariachi-ti\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, 2013 El Mariachi Ti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8962-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Larger view of the broken 2013 Salsa El Mariachi Ti frame hanging over the futon in my office. I love how it looks hanging here.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8962-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today it was time to say goodbye to the <a href=\"http:\/\/salsacycles.com\/bikes\/archive\/2013_el_mariachi_ti\">2013 Salsa El Mariachi Ti<\/a>. After getting a warranty replacement for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8757-scaled.jpg\">broken frame<\/a> then buying and selling and shuffling parts to rebuild it into\u00a0the beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/salsa-el-mariachi-ti-rebuild-2013-to-2014\/\">blue 2014 bike<\/a>, the call tag to have the frame sent back to Salsa still hadn&#8217;t arrived&#8230; until\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to today\u00a0I&#8217;d been storing the frame at my house, hoping against a return, hung\u00a0on the wall of my office (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8961-scaled.jpg\">alternate view<\/a>) where I&#8217;d see it every day. Sure, this is just a bike frame, a mostly-static piece of metal that held together more complicated bits to form a bicycle, but it was also the focal point of a machine on which I\u00a0experienced an entire range of emotions and adventures.<\/p>\n<p>From finally completing <a href=\"http:\/\/lumberjack100.com\/\">Lumberjack 100<\/a>\u00a0to getting in over my head on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noquetrails.org\/\">NTN Singletrack in Marquette<\/a>, from the first trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/dnr\/parklake\/2988.htm\">Brown County State Park<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/12\/a-wish-fulfilled\/\">getting caught in straight-line winds at Stony Creek<\/a>, from\u00a0hard and <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/25\/full-day-at-poto\/\">long rides at\u00a0Poto<\/a>\u00a0to all-day adventures from home simply enjoying the local trails&#8230; This frame was a big part of what I&#8217;ve experienced\u00a0on a bike. Every time I looked down between my legs or up after a crash, there it was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">183 rides&#8230;<br \/>\n5200 miles&#8230;<br \/>\n459 hours of glorious\u00a0movement.<\/p>\n<p>No longer ridable the frame had become art to me. A piece of material embodying memories; a memento. Something to look at every day and remember past good times\u00a0and think about those coming in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I understand why Salsa doesn&#8217;t want broken frames out in the wild, so\u00a0tomorrow morning I&#8217;ll be dropping it off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterbikeshop.com\/\">Rochester Bike Shop<\/a>\u00a0where into a box and off to the scrap heap it&#8217;ll go. I&#8217;ll still have all the great memories, it&#8217;ll just be time to find new art for that\u00a0wall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and keep riding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it was time to say goodbye to the 2013 Salsa El Mariachi Ti. After getting a warranty replacement for the broken frame then buying and selling and shuffling parts to rebuild it into\u00a0the beautiful blue 2014 bike, the call tag to have the frame sent back to Salsa still hadn&#8217;t arrived&#8230; until\u00a0this week. Prior\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18426,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}