Hey everyone, Evergreen Bicycle Outfitters is helping me raise money to go to the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. We are raffling a sweet Cruiser. Tickets are 10 dollars and you can sign up on the internet with a credit card or you Paypal by clicking on the donate button to the right. To be entered into the raffle you must donate 10 dollars or more and leave me your email and phone number. If you want to donate more, like over 100 $ I will try to get you a US National Team jersey like the one I am wearing in the picture below at the 2010 Offenburg World Cup
Also plan on coming out the Evergreen Bicycle Outfitters on a undetermined time this weekend for some libations and frame toss contests.
Me on the Drift 3 that could be Yours
Offenburg World Cup and a US National Team Jersey that could be Yours
Thanks and look for more updates from the Windham World Cup on August 28th and the 2010 U23 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships on September 4th from Monte Sainte Anne in Quebec Canada.
Amazing place to live. Picture of me with some endangered harry pigs that they eat here Kirchzarten in the Fog form the tower Me and the tower and some really cool windmills. They are real big. Yurtle the Turtle and the tower above the clouds Windmill on a non foggy day Same windmill on a foggy day Same Windmills at sunset Same sunset
Amazing riding. We are racing a Bundusleige U23 race this weekend, fast. Lots of Nutella required. They have really good cereal here. Witnessed two birds fighting the other day, that was cool.
So we did a Swiss Racer Bike Cup. It was crazy. The Racer started under this super low arch thing on cobbled roads. Sounds sketchy right. Then it comes back in the finish area, 180 degree turn and up this wooden ramp wide enough for 2 riders. I made it up and then was the first guy to put a foot down and thus started the massive pile up seen above. The guy on the left maneuvered a couple of summersaults down the hill and over the fence of the course. Seems like bolds strategy but i couldn't tell if it payed off for him.
Long story short i road pretty well until it started raining at which point i hit the deck on sweeping right hand road turn and got some DMB worthy road rash. I got cot by the rest of the US train and held on for 34th.
That night i slept for like 4 hours because of post rest restlessness and continued jettlagg. The next day we headed out to a local circuit race. 10 2 k laps with the steepest hill ever. The US boys held it down taking the top to two spots on the podium with Tad and Rob. I suffered a lot from the previous night. But they apparently pay a lot of money hear. I got 15th and got 15 euros.
My favor part about being here is the language barrier. We went out for pizza. Trevor orders pepperoni pizza. IT comes out with banana peppers. The waiter told us how he likes to speak with his hands and feet and pepperoni apparently doesn't translate well. Then he put on an instrumental version of Surfing USA and proceeded to play his tambourine and dance around for most of the song. When i came time to pay he brought us napkin with some numbers on it that didn't even remotely resemble the final amount we payed for.
The Epic Group Ride can start many ways. Keep in mind that you must keep your options open and be able to jump on the band wagon when ever the opportunity presents its self. While the Acacia crushing fest isn't where you might expect to find an invite for a mountain epic, this weekend it presented Care Bear and I with the a chance to ride a Colorado Classic, The Monarch Crest.
The Epic Group Ride has some serious requirements:
1. You must have a mix of people, ie, racers, old guys, the token junior, bike industry folk and a foreigner.
2. An early start complete with a mix of 7-11 and Donut Mill fuel
3. Classic Variable weather in Colorado
4. Mechanical Problems, preferably early in the ride.
5. Post Ride meal plan that includes Pizza, Burgers or Burritos
Our ride included all of these. Which elevated into epic fun status. Some of the highlights include a German SRM employee, Magura Disc brakes dying at the very top of ride(that means 5000 feet of elevation drop with little to no stopping power for that token junior), solid down poor on the Rainbow Trail section making the trails amazingly tacky and pizza in a little Salida Brewery
Please go out and find your own epic group ride and don't watch to much of the Olympics
I don't know about you, but I hit mid-summer and the motivation to strap on the heart rate monitor and crank up the hill in carefully selected heart rate zone to achieve a good metabolic rate for my training ride. It's not that I'm not psyched for a little raging and elevated pulse, it just takes something more. So I decided that those 27 gears offer to much opportunity for slacking off and went for the single speed. The single speed and I have been friends for a long time but were forced apart for "more serious training". But were back now.
So if your feeling a little tired trade those 27 gears and protein shake in for the single speed and a post ride PBR.
Two cyclists were killed this week in Colorado Springs because of a careless motorist. Please drive and ride safe.
Traveling eventually takes its toll. While i will miss the east coast, muggy weather and stuck gas pedals, im shore glad to be back in CO. No driving or flying need here. Just the single speed I to keep things simple. Speeking of simple check this out and make your life a little more simple.
NY was a good time. The racing course was excellent and the accommodations were comfortable. Care Bear had a good ride and the Rudy Bear was winning the ST only to suffer from broken pedal. Vermont is full of Oreo Cows and hopefully Todd will be bringing the the normal Oreo's. Amelia isn't coming sadly. Its dry and lets hope is stays that way for two more days.
This was the Bikeman Attack or the Precourt Retort, I can't remember which. Harry just has to many tricks up his sleeve.
The Ramras Roost is not only a shelter for aspiring racer types. It is also a new way of riding bikes. Zac demonstrates below
The Tall Bike provides an excellent platform to get your roost on. Sometimes when duty calls you need to strap on the old number plate to roost correctly Other times you just need friends and some quality turns He even helped me learn how to roost
When racing doesn't goes as plan because of bad planning and preperation its good to have a nice venue to relax in. The Teva games is perfect. There are lots of dogs and outdoors people. Lots of free Lara Bars. After the race you can relish in the fact that you finished and Filip Meirhaeghe. But in like the Care Bears discription of a Norba you can't be psyched about beeting Trebon, because he pretty much dominated the hole time.
I found Harry Precourts Doppleganger So i preriding when i rolled up on like 20 people trying to take pictures of stuffed animal trying to hunt another stuffed animal. The Teva Games also has an event that you just run threw alot of mudd.
John Barker took some sweet pictures but won't give them to me
Last year the mountain bike community lost a a great freind. Mike Janelle was as fast as he was kind. Mike leaves behind a wife and child. The good fokes at Tokyo Joe's have put together a great way to remember Mike and help his family out. The 40 dollars goes to a trust set up for the family and you get a shirt, live like mike dogtag, stickers and free meal at Tokyo Joe's. You can even pay with your Paypal account because you are an ebayaholic
If you ever met Mike Janelle you know this deserves your support. Please visit www.livelikemike.org.
DPC, John Bark and I went down to the big oval looking thing and raced some fixede gear bikes around circles last night. I know what your thinking. Lame Right. I will never talk to Mitchell Hoke again. Well its kinda fun. I would never trade in a mountain bike race for it but its better then doing intervals. Here is list of why you should go too.
1. You can show up not knowing anything about how to race on the track and not have enough money and thy will let you race with seasoned vetrans.
2. There are more spectators then at a Norba.
3. Track guys hav no endurance and you can break away with fat old guy and john Barker.
4. There is the cuitest mid twenties USAC official i havw ever seen.
5. Since you don't have a tack bike they give you this sick old school ones for free.
John Drops the Ball in the Sprint Final This bike could be under your tushie
While some US pros were ripping in it up at World Cups(and others were just lounging around in swiss villas) I have been moving from one place to another around the springs. How ever now that the moving process is complete i can return to the favored routine of riding and eating.
Last night while helping Taylor break in her new house i had a third run in with a bear in C Springs. I mean they are everywhere now. I think them and the hipsters have some plot to take over. But this little guy just seemed hungary
With dinner in the belly we set off for the nights adventure. Women's Roller Dirby. I would recommend that you go some time. Im totally shore of the rules yet but there is a hole lot of carnage They have there own myspace page
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