Eff soccer

cross practice tonight turned into 1 & 1/2 hours of searching for a lit park.

here are our current options:

• change the night of the week, and find a night where they aren't playing soccer at crafton park. They play soccer there on wednesday nights.
  
• check out the situation on monday nights at texonia park. Every other night has soccer. i checked.
• see about access to the new redlands sport park, which is lit, and would be PERFECT, but is locked and looks as though it is reserved for (you guessed it) soccer.
• go outside redlands (gonna need a little help if thats the case, i put in my work chumps).
• continue at ford park.
  

Who the hell are all these soccer fanatics, and why do they use up so much lit grass?!?!


...lame.

cross racers do it on grass

yeah, when they cut the grass right before you get your ride in, it makes for slow going.

my bike is covered in grass.

pain

well, i did my first cross race of the season. funfunfun. I rolled with lisa crow who, is a filty filthy canadian, much like my wife. At least lisa doesn't speak french. Points for that (in related news: lisa rules and we had a good time going down there.)

Saw the shop's vitoria rep down there. That dude seems sweet. I think he reps AC and and twin 6 as well. Saw a few people from the clinic i went to. None of them seemed to remember me. I guess i sorta blend in with the whole beard and huge amount of tattoos.

when we toed the line, it became apparent i was going to get buried. I planned for that, so i quickly picked out people who i would shoot myself if i finished behind. Here's the list.

• Anybody who would qualify for clydesdale division were this a mtb race.
• Anybody with a beer jersey
• The dude with the black sabbath jersey ( although a good indication that he is probably the most solid dude in the group)

im happy to announce that not only did i finish in front of them, i finished in front of a national champion. Yes its true that he is the +65 national champion, but its also true that i made him my 65 year old bitch. (....winner ....winner ....winner.)

not to bad, did the amount of work i expected. now we go into phase II of my evil plan: Operation S.T.A.R.V. (starvation to achieve race vitories). There will be cause for concern when im done. If everything goes to plan i will have people approaching me to do an after-school special.

change of venue?!?

On the advice of super cyclist matt freeman, i may show up to crafton park on wednesday evening for cross practice, due to the fact that the lighting to fribee-chucking-lurk-nasties is currently at 1:0.

all in favor sound off and i will print up a long overdue flyer for the bike shop and local bike frequented areas.

Pro's- no disc toting bums, and its advertised as "lit" by the parks and rec department.
Con's- no run up, probably a lot less technical.

Say something now if you are at all interested in attending this and we'll make it happen.

please come to cyclocross practice...

i know its been lax for like a month. For a while we had a strong showing. Then i went to UBI and it all went to hell.

After last weeks report by matt, i decided to go anyway. Armed. With pepper spray. and a gun.

i also brought a makeshift barrier out of PVC.

i made a flyer wherein i stated that practice started at 6:30. its getting dark early, so i started at 6. I'm going to stay with that. Lord knows you dont want to be in the park after hours with.... those types.

if you have a cross bike. Show up. If i am captured by one of the frisbee-losers, its gonna be curtains. Strength in numbers people.

monday nights...

if you've got nothing to do, you should probably ride a bike with the hip crowd down at auggies on 5th.

Auggies is a cool little coffee shop that has a cool little ride that leaves at 10:30 on the aforementioned first night of the week. Good times were had by most, besides josh who felt he had to yell at everyone who wasnt following his ride protocol.

"establishment, establishment, you always know whats best..."

"you suck!"

"LEARN THE RULES"

maybe he should join health-net.

new whip

I want a track bike, but i dont live close enough to a track to justify it. getting into cross now, so mmmmmaaaaaayyyyyyybbbbbbbeeeeee a little single-speed action? could be good! Either way i can put some sweet hipster ass components on this one. Im thinking phil wood white hubs with black spokes and velocity deep v ti anodized rims? Tied and soldered? Why not!?!? Paul old-school canti's? Hell yes! Win lose or crash, i will have the sweetest looking bike out there.

this just in...

i dont hate bmx bikes. They actually seem like fun if you could hook up a track with sweet jumps and stuff. i just hate the little headset collar that enables you to do bar spins. The rotor. The gyro.



the bane of my existence.

you know its a pain in the ass when eddie goes "oh yeah, those things are a pain in the ass."

Im not building anymore BMX bikes. Ever if i can help it

first friday means

red asphalt!

it was a blast, but Im never leading the ride again.

"wow steve, were really hauling ass, i think we got into double digits a second ago. Wanna slow it down evel kneivel?"

2 seconds later

"uh steve, its getting like, kinda strung out, where are we going? are you going here? No wait, there? Where's mark going?"

2 seconds later

"we got a pretty good gap going man, you wanna freewheel a little slower?"

2 seconds later

"boy, i can see your fitness level is really ramped up dude, you've been doing threshold for like the entire ride, how can anybody keep up with you. You must annihilate people at races dude, were going like 4 mph and everybody is barely hanging on. Are you catching the sarcasm in my voice?"

but i have to say overall it was still fun. If you didnt make the scene you were probably either crying your eyes out, or paralyzed due to your lack of party-animalness.

peeps in my class

Zach from seattle. Sweet dude. Originally from the east coast, NY state i think. Took the train down, then rode his bike like 67 miles to get to the school with matt.



Matt from portland. Sweet dude. originally from someplace back east as well, but a really cool guy. Might ride down the west coast and hit me up when he gets here. Races cross and traded some racing tips with me. Had a total bromance with zach. Apparently they've been tight for a long while.



dennis from winter gardens florida. Nice enough guy, triathlete from florida. Didnt really get to know him all that well. He's opening a shop in florida. Good luck on that one man.



Mike, aka big tex. Dude is huge. Also is missing like half of his index finger from an ill fated fire-cracker incident. Nice enough guy, but always wanted a definite answer to questions that some times were totally a matter of preference. Classis big tex question: "so which one is faster?"



chad from...uh...kalamazoo...and the coast guard. Nicest dude in the place. Hands down. Definitely bailed me out like 3 times, and somehow got talked into driving for like 6 hours with terry, the biggest chatch in our class. Nice dudes always get stuck with the pisser work.

more...

chai catching sikk ass air



evershed unpacking his so carefully packed frame




the worlds most dangerous bicycle, chai's giant tcr, which has been raced on for 2 season with a crack where the head tube and down tube and top tube meet. Jeff, one of the instrucors who used to be manager of product development for giant, talked about the bike and how it was going to like, explode and tear a hole in the space-time continuum if it was ridden any longer.



bike tetris



more bike tetris

more...

one of the framebuilders rigs, i think jon or aubrey..



evershed, chai, and chad, talking me into going mountain biking



words cannot describe how horribly i handle a mountain bike, let alone a gnarly 7" travel boat. This is a bad idea.




chai, former partial owner of godspeed messenger in SF in denial about the thorn in his tire. We had an intervention later and after that it was smooth sailing.




evershed catching some sikk ass air.....bro.

more...

chad truing a wheel



aubrey, tanner, and others hangin out in front of the commons. At this point in time there is a middle aged woman in the ashland area freaking out that there are nogoodniks drinking in front of her poor mans bed and breakfast.



jon "don't call me camera" kamera



evershed at the creekside pizza joint



profile of taylor and his sweet ass curly locks.

UBI fiesta pictoral

went and saw a movie about hunter s thompson, probably the greatest american ever.


me and the frame builders went out for mexican at the BAD place up he street. We locked our bikes up. Here's the proof.



evershed and i taking myspace pics. Mine came out awesome. It was just my fabulous body with a flash for a head.




team redlands colorscheme lugged steel



much toolage.