What a great week of riding it!

single digits °F makes for hardcore toughness... I'm loving it.

Nothing better than riding in while people are sitting there shivering their freaking ass off in cars... they wear more clothes than i do and push a motor around chewing the crap out if it cause the oil ain't up to temp and the anti-wear additives in there don't do shit until the motor hits 60°C yeah - that's celcius - do the conversion your ownself... i'm too lazy...

DC rocks again - pretty funny seeing big tex getting reamed by some of the local dudes...

I gotta wonder - WTF didn't i get a pic of him? of the 200+ shots i got not one of that slowass punk... sure he could easily kick my ass in the cross circut - but he's sponsored and shit - maybe he was doggin behind slowass funny crosser Horner and with everyone yelling "Go Chris" i missed the Big Tex. Big... must be a misnomer nickname... dude's not even 6' hell he ain't Kerry short (she's got a cool page btw) and that cross nats video kicks ass.... (can't wait to meet that cool chick in person)!!!

anyway - Big Tex... i'm callin him a big pussy - no signage on the vehicle in the space... well I walked up and down - saw Tailwinds (big up props to the michigan gang) and VeloBella, and Van Dessel, and a bunch others - just no Voodoo/DC boys... what up wit dat...

ah hell who da heck cares... the race freakin was cool to be at... like i've said a million times before - it was all i needed to get completely jazzed about racing Cross next year.... my fat slow ass this year would have been beatdowntoshit if i'd tried to race...

soon enough...

oh and cars...

Volvo's are rankin up there as the most courteous drives out there - bottom of the list are wanna be gang-bangers in american sedans... big fat ones - not the "import' branded american ones... but i do my best - and damned the counter culture - carry the peace flag and stop at a fucking read light/stopsign... obeyin traffic - occasionally not passin a big line of cars (but there are big exceptions to that rule in my book)....

ah well - so much for my supposition that riding in kills the written train of thought...

maybe this is what i need to work on to get my flickr crap back and going... maybe i'll just upload some Cross Nats pics or something.....

peace out for now!

-G

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images from Cross Nats - just three of the few hunn'erd

Freaking COOOOOOOOOL

first the links:
nbwclub.org/images/2005/051209_CrossNats/index.html
www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2005/dec05/UScrossnats05/?id=stages
www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2005/dec05/UScrossnats05/?id=photos
drunkcyclist.com/

velospews has some stuff - as do a whole host of others... that's the links as i peeped and read...

i've got a boat load of images to upload...

the racing was kick serious freaking ass...

sketchy to the max - muddy beyond belief on sunday but in general - what a damn cool deal -

next year - next freaking year - one of the 1800+ racers will be me. Its my goal...

first to survive the Verge series - then to see if i can race the big race - and hopefully race the big race with a second rig (anyone wanna get me a demo 60 or 62 cm frame?)

I'll post some pics... someday soon...

Sunday kicked my ass though - sure i was just spectating but i was doing it hiking up and down packed icey snow with a 25 pound kid in a backpack thing... alllllll day.... i'm hurting but itsa good hurt...

I was sooo jealous...

My oldest kid was pretty bored with the whole thing by the end of sunday- and when i asked if it looked fun (ya know - get a junior racer started young) she said: "NO" when prodded why she wouldn't want to "I don't want to eat dirt, they ate alot of dirt today." I guess racers with dirt on their teeth - all over their face and crashing left and right - were not a big exciting thrilling spectacle for a little girl who was enjoying playing in the snow more than watchign adults have fun riding crazy bikes in the mud... only to get off them and back on them.... over and over....

well till i get pics up

PEACE!
G