The Hightower Update - Chesters in Blue!

So if you are following along in the Covid Blog Rot catchup, we have a renovated bike cave, less stuff in the cave, and one less bike in the fleet, but alas not as much cash as hoped for in the exchange. Watch out Old Blue (CX bike), I am looking at you next!

My "only" remaining MTB that is actually mine, is now the Santa Cruz Hightower, affectionately if not infamously known as "Santa Creme". We last left Santa at the 12 speed conversion, which has worked out well - the 30x50 option has made climbing a breeze as long as I avoid the KT gang, and Covid is doing that well. I ran clipless with the Sidis, but given the 3 month long 30 day wheelie challenge and constant joy I get out of Z's Scout 29er HT, so I found a set of Raceface Chester Flat Pedals (in Blue this time) in exchange for some of my REI credits.

The big Diety alloy pedals, though cool, just did not provide joy - read other entries to find out their destiny! I assumed the Chesters were smaller, but no side by side they were very similar - the Dieties just felt larger. Maybe the metal? I don't know. 

I wanted to include an Amazon Affiliate link to the Chesters, but found/recalled I was removed. Hmmf, another blog entry coming on that.

Okay, so the Chesters. Put them on, tried them on a glorious am ride, so glorious I took pictures in a last attempt to get into the GMBN Bike Vault (look it up ;) ). Santa will not get any prettier.

I've been watching GMBN Tuesdays looking for my entry above, let me know if I missed it somewhere.

Oh, and Scott was a back biter, Chester has teeth too - I just touched my calf to the pedal, whilst standing and got this:

Back to the calf guards?! Moo!