{"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=\"\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/condo_office\/IMG_8962.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><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=\"\/gallery\/d\/110033-2\/IMG_8962.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\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_el_mariachi_ti\/complete_bike\/IMG_8757.jpg.html\">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\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/condo_office\/IMG_8961.jpg.html\">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&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/goodbye-2013-el-mariachi-ti\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye, 2013 El Mariachi Ti<\/span><\/a><\/div>\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","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_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}]}}