Hold your line! Look out! Where did you learn to ride like that? Did you just get that bike today? What, your license says Cat 6?
While I am now in full training mode and should be in great form to stay close enough to the pack to yell and scream at people at Grattan this year, the romance of road racing still eludes me. Maybe it's because I haven't been able to find any performance enhancing meat at Meijer, or because Sheryl Crow has lost interest in the sport, I just don't know. None-the-less I continue to train and acquire the appropriate road racer tan, and plan to participate in the skinny tire season to the best of my ability.
Could this meat make me like Grand Tour faster?
Still, while the road season is young, I'm already asking myself, "is it cross season yet?" It looks like I'm not the only one, either. So I started digging around looking for cross porn. I just picked this video up which is a teaser for a race in somewhere like Switzerland this coming September. As usual it has the same weird Euro-Music bed as well as the tip of the "card" to that old Bob Dylan video. What I really like, besides the cross racing are the use of oomlats. I going to start using them myself. If I can find them on this keyboard.
Trailer Süpercross Baden 2011 from Süpercross Baden on Vimeo.
The Surly commentary is the best thing about Grattan, followed closely by the free watermelon.
ReplyDeleteCant wait to hear the barking. it is the best of Grattan! Next week ABS ride starts.
ReplyDeleteI'm for the free water melon. Hopefully dignity will rein ... ah fuck, it's Grattan what am I talking about ...
ReplyDeleteFrom the comments I've been reading on FB you know the road season is back when group rides start popping people off the back in the wind and making them ride in alone. Well done road season, you suck.
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ReplyDeleteHow is your southern training vacation going?
I'll share my great adventure when I return, I haven't mastered pecking on my iPad yet.
CB ride Tuesday night?
RB
Southern training is going great. I have an awesome head tan that's scary. When'd you score the iPad? Made a handlebar mount for it yet? and yes, Tuesday ride at the same place. How's the weather? Hear it's sweet ...
ReplyDeleteSB
ReplyDeleteWe are on our way back from South Carolina with with Redline riding the roof of my little wagon.
The iPad was a Christmas present for my wife. When ever I want something, I just buy it for my wife. This year she's getting a carbon fiber x-bike for Christmas.
See ya Tuesday, have a safe trip.
RB
That's what happens when you are sick. No air = no ride! Don't burn the dome!
ReplyDelete"From the comments I've been reading on FB you know the road season is back when group rides start popping people off the back in the wind and making them ride in alone. Well done road season, you suck."
ReplyDeleteSeconded!
WB