Not Paper Planes MIA, but in a sense missing like her since her one hit wonder pop on the scene.
Riding bikes... Yes I've actually been riding my bikes! The board has since been put up, and the chains have been lubed and tires aired. It's go go time.
Races have been cancelled, big bummer. Trav and I were supposed to go to Okie last weekend to duo a 6 hour but that was failed. Thought about going to NE this weekend until we found out the race was a one lap time trial.
Good ride Sunday with the boys in the hood of the Burg. 50+ miles of road goodness, and more training to get Kev in shape for the DK 200. Will I participate? Who knows, you might just see my name on the waiting list. Wait a fucking minute, 200+ miles of gravel in Kansas? Might need to re-think that plan. I'm still leaning towards following Kevin in a car getting drunk all day. That sounds more like it.
Trails will be dry this week! Yippie I Ki Ya! Got to hit some hot laps up last night. Crankset is toast, need a new one but biz has been slow so I might have to pull some strings.
My sights are set...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Help! Am I A Roadie???
Ha ha, the correct answer is B. NO! But I do love to go fast, and when the trails suck like a hoover with intense moisture, then yes, I do for a fact take to the road. I picked up a sweet deal at the beginning of last Summer on a full carbon K2 road bike. Sram Rival groupset, Easton Circuit wheelset, Sram carbon cranks, the full works, for only a grand. This thing is like a rocket on the roads compared to my old road machine, the Kona Jake. Guess a cyclocross bike isn't the most ideal road tearing machine. None the less I had an awesome weekend of riding the road. So I may not be a full time roadie, but when it comes down to it, I'll do anything to get a good ride in.
Saturday we spent the day in Jeff with my Mum and little sister. Jamie took the kids along with Mum and Libby, and they headed into town to see the capital and do some shopping while I went out and road the old roads of my day. The roads that I used to romp back when I lived in Jeff. I started at the house in Brazito, headed over to Honey Creek Road, to Tanner Bridge into town, over to Stadium where I hit up Red Wheel for a little break, some air in my tires, and some cliff shots. I started the ride with 40 pounds in both tires and didn't have a pump on me. From there it was up Edgewood, over to Country Club, to C and that's where it got interesting. I was hoping to hit Zion to Loesch but Loesch turned out to be gravel. So I backtracked a mile to Walnut Acres, which looked great for the first two miles and then turned to gravel. I said fuck it, it was only another few miles to my next turn and the gravel was super buff, so I took my full carbon road bike on a gravel grinder. Little did I know that down the next hill was fresh gravel that was unrideable. Another mile and a half of walking/running, some more riding, more walking, and a little more riding and I finally hit blacktop where I took D back home. Nothing like a little adventure. All in all it was a good 2 and a half hours of solid riding.
Yesterday was fun and interesting. I started the day at about 11 with an hour road ride from Jamies house. I hit B to 65 and then turned back around and rode back. It's about an hour ride exactly, right around 20 miles with 1000 feet of climbing. I rested for three hours, and then went back out and rode the same route again. This time I was treated to a spectacular sight. It was a group of 50,000+ geese tornadoing down into a field. If you've ever got to watch such a sight, you know how crazy cool it is. The noise alone they made was stunning, much less the wild funnel affect they show when coming in hot to land. It was the highlight of the day, and I wanted nothing else than a 12 gauge, extended magazine of about 12 shots, sitting silently as they approached, and then BAM, BAM, BAM. We're having goose tonight!
So after safely arriving home, I shot some pool with Jamie's bro, drank some brew, and three hours later turned on the computer, pulled up New World Disorder 3, and rode the trainer for an hour at a nice clip. Struggled a little, but that's everytime on the trainer. I don't enjoy riding in place. After that it was a core workout to finish off the day.
Three 1 hour workouts and a core workout. Good training for our first big race, the 24 Hours of Syllamo. I need to train according to the race which is why I broke up my workouts. At the race it will be an hour on, three off, and hour on, and such for 24 straight hours. FUN!!!!
More nice weather this week? What the fuck, I guess winter is finally on it's way out. Let us all pray.
Saturday we spent the day in Jeff with my Mum and little sister. Jamie took the kids along with Mum and Libby, and they headed into town to see the capital and do some shopping while I went out and road the old roads of my day. The roads that I used to romp back when I lived in Jeff. I started at the house in Brazito, headed over to Honey Creek Road, to Tanner Bridge into town, over to Stadium where I hit up Red Wheel for a little break, some air in my tires, and some cliff shots. I started the ride with 40 pounds in both tires and didn't have a pump on me. From there it was up Edgewood, over to Country Club, to C and that's where it got interesting. I was hoping to hit Zion to Loesch but Loesch turned out to be gravel. So I backtracked a mile to Walnut Acres, which looked great for the first two miles and then turned to gravel. I said fuck it, it was only another few miles to my next turn and the gravel was super buff, so I took my full carbon road bike on a gravel grinder. Little did I know that down the next hill was fresh gravel that was unrideable. Another mile and a half of walking/running, some more riding, more walking, and a little more riding and I finally hit blacktop where I took D back home. Nothing like a little adventure. All in all it was a good 2 and a half hours of solid riding.
Yesterday was fun and interesting. I started the day at about 11 with an hour road ride from Jamies house. I hit B to 65 and then turned back around and rode back. It's about an hour ride exactly, right around 20 miles with 1000 feet of climbing. I rested for three hours, and then went back out and rode the same route again. This time I was treated to a spectacular sight. It was a group of 50,000+ geese tornadoing down into a field. If you've ever got to watch such a sight, you know how crazy cool it is. The noise alone they made was stunning, much less the wild funnel affect they show when coming in hot to land. It was the highlight of the day, and I wanted nothing else than a 12 gauge, extended magazine of about 12 shots, sitting silently as they approached, and then BAM, BAM, BAM. We're having goose tonight!
So after safely arriving home, I shot some pool with Jamie's bro, drank some brew, and three hours later turned on the computer, pulled up New World Disorder 3, and rode the trainer for an hour at a nice clip. Struggled a little, but that's everytime on the trainer. I don't enjoy riding in place. After that it was a core workout to finish off the day.
Three 1 hour workouts and a core workout. Good training for our first big race, the 24 Hours of Syllamo. I need to train according to the race which is why I broke up my workouts. At the race it will be an hour on, three off, and hour on, and such for 24 straight hours. FUN!!!!
More nice weather this week? What the fuck, I guess winter is finally on it's way out. Let us all pray.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Snow, Snow, Snow
So I got to do a bit of snowboarding Friday, Saturday, and then on Sunday. No riding... Which sucks. Oh well, I guess I'll make up this week. Friday was a little hour rail jam using a rail I found down at the bike shop. It was a little to short but I got to have a bit of fun. Saturday, in the mist of non stop running around, I got to set up this little bit at the farm. It was fun, I only got to ride for about fourty five minutes, but did get one decent shot. This one, a little one eighty over the black barrel with a nose tap on the way down.
Sunday was no fun. Matt and I headed to Snow Creek in Weston, which seemed to take forever. I did pick up a good deal on a new Burton coat at Dicks on the way up. We arrived to the most extensive terrain park we've seen from either one of these Missouri joints. They had it all. Unfortunatly before I was comfortable to start doing more advance shit, Matt decided to hit the big jump. I told him not to, to wait until later when we were fully warmed up. The result... A dislocated shoulder. So after about 45 minutes of riding we had to get him down the hill, to the car, and to the hospital. He wasn't a happy camper. After spending three hours in the hospital I wasn't either. Oh well, shit happens. I'm glad it wasn't anything worse, but he'll be out for the next couple of months. Guess I'll have to find another shredding partner. Anybody out there board? G
Sunday was no fun. Matt and I headed to Snow Creek in Weston, which seemed to take forever. I did pick up a good deal on a new Burton coat at Dicks on the way up. We arrived to the most extensive terrain park we've seen from either one of these Missouri joints. They had it all. Unfortunatly before I was comfortable to start doing more advance shit, Matt decided to hit the big jump. I told him not to, to wait until later when we were fully warmed up. The result... A dislocated shoulder. So after about 45 minutes of riding we had to get him down the hill, to the car, and to the hospital. He wasn't a happy camper. After spending three hours in the hospital I wasn't either. Oh well, shit happens. I'm glad it wasn't anything worse, but he'll be out for the next couple of months. Guess I'll have to find another shredding partner. Anybody out there board? G
Thursday, February 4, 2010
More Press for Kuat
Not just a week ago I caught a glimps of the new Kuat NV bike rack in Bicycle magazine. Now, this morning I catch a blog on it at Bikerumor.com. These guys are going to go huge, and I'm stoked to have the NV coming my way soon. Yup, should have it in a few weeks, and I have to say I'm super excited to be supporting these guys this year, and having them support me.
Check out the Bikerumor report here.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Weekend Shredding
Sweatshop Union... There's a different group for you. Rap, not usually a genre I'm huge about but this group has some pretty strong songs, with lyrics that dive deeper than the typical "Making money, slappin hunnies, shoot up the block, and slingin rocks" rap bullshit. Water streets a great place to start album wise, with songs like Oh My and Comes and Goes. "And we slave in the old workforce, and pay for a government that don't work for us" Deep...
So this last week was about as awesome as any this month. I got to ride trails on Tuesday, trainer on Wednesday, a utmost kickass ride with Sean on Thursday at SMP, and then some snow riding at Bothwell Lodge in Sedalia on Saturday. This is a cool 3.5 mile loop that throws fast buff trail at you and then rocky tech sections too. The snow and ice made things interesting, and I cleared everything at least once which was a task on the SS given the conditions. There was about an inch of snow on the ground.
For some reason my hand experienced pain from the cold worse than I can ever recall. I guess getting dressed outside without my gloves left them cold before I even started and it went downhill fast after that. I wore my same glove set up and it wasn't that cold so I was a little confused. Thank god for Bothwell's super awesome heated bathroom. It was a life save, and once re-heated, my hands were good for three more laps. Check this sweet trail off Highway 65 just a few miles north of Sedalia if you're ever in the area.
Here's my winter riding gear, bib knickers, long sleeve jersy, and my bib Carharts, and old school Jeff City Flying Service jacket. I look like a hillbilly, but I'm at least a warm one, and suprisingly comfortable too!
Sunday I joined forces with three buddies from Columbia to hit Hidden Valley up in the Lou for some snowboarding. The snow was the best I've ever seen in Missouri and thanks to the big air comp on Saturday, they had some awesome jumps set up. It was one of those days were everything came together. The weather was Spring like, and my boarding was top knotch, the best ever. We didn't even take pics because we decided everything was going so smoothly that we didn't want to screw the mojo up with dealing with taking pics. So we rode hard, and shredded. I managed to pull a nice 360 off a kicker, and pulled the 50-50 to boardslide on one of the kinked rails. All in all it was an awesome day, but I did make one mistake which led to this...
A nice chunk out of my new to this season Omatic Celebrity snowboard. It was partly my fault, I was trying to do a switch 180 nose tap on a rail and got off balance and slammed the nose of my board into the front of the rail. I cut the excess off and still rode confidently for the rest of the day. This board has progressed my skills emensly this year, and it feels amazing. Hopefully they can help me out on getting me on a new board soon.
This week looks interesting weather wise, a little to warm for my taste. My B-day is Saturday, the big 23. Hopefully we can take to Snow Creek all day Friday for more snow action...
So this last week was about as awesome as any this month. I got to ride trails on Tuesday, trainer on Wednesday, a utmost kickass ride with Sean on Thursday at SMP, and then some snow riding at Bothwell Lodge in Sedalia on Saturday. This is a cool 3.5 mile loop that throws fast buff trail at you and then rocky tech sections too. The snow and ice made things interesting, and I cleared everything at least once which was a task on the SS given the conditions. There was about an inch of snow on the ground.
For some reason my hand experienced pain from the cold worse than I can ever recall. I guess getting dressed outside without my gloves left them cold before I even started and it went downhill fast after that. I wore my same glove set up and it wasn't that cold so I was a little confused. Thank god for Bothwell's super awesome heated bathroom. It was a life save, and once re-heated, my hands were good for three more laps. Check this sweet trail off Highway 65 just a few miles north of Sedalia if you're ever in the area.
Here's my winter riding gear, bib knickers, long sleeve jersy, and my bib Carharts, and old school Jeff City Flying Service jacket. I look like a hillbilly, but I'm at least a warm one, and suprisingly comfortable too!
Sunday I joined forces with three buddies from Columbia to hit Hidden Valley up in the Lou for some snowboarding. The snow was the best I've ever seen in Missouri and thanks to the big air comp on Saturday, they had some awesome jumps set up. It was one of those days were everything came together. The weather was Spring like, and my boarding was top knotch, the best ever. We didn't even take pics because we decided everything was going so smoothly that we didn't want to screw the mojo up with dealing with taking pics. So we rode hard, and shredded. I managed to pull a nice 360 off a kicker, and pulled the 50-50 to boardslide on one of the kinked rails. All in all it was an awesome day, but I did make one mistake which led to this...
A nice chunk out of my new to this season Omatic Celebrity snowboard. It was partly my fault, I was trying to do a switch 180 nose tap on a rail and got off balance and slammed the nose of my board into the front of the rail. I cut the excess off and still rode confidently for the rest of the day. This board has progressed my skills emensly this year, and it feels amazing. Hopefully they can help me out on getting me on a new board soon.
This week looks interesting weather wise, a little to warm for my taste. My B-day is Saturday, the big 23. Hopefully we can take to Snow Creek all day Friday for more snow action...
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Because Sometimes...
You just have to spin the legs out.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Darkness, Trail, and a SS
The sun went down, the lights came on, the ground froze, and we tore up dirt once again since what seems like 1990. It's been too long since my last dirt encounter, the last time we rode trails they had 6 inches of snow on them.
The new set of Juicy's look good, feel good, and should be a good upgrade for the new year. My old juicy's had seen some wear. On a sad note, the Fox fork didn't fit. I need 220mm of steerer, and it only had 180. Shame on me for not checking first. Marco was one cool dude about it though and took the fork back. I found another on Ebay for under 500 so I guess I'm not to bad off.
Wish I could post pics from last night but I forgot my camera. Truely awesome riding can be had in the small town of Warrensburg. There are three trail systems and if you link them up, you have one serious trail ride. We poached one of the local golf courses, and the sand was froze. Can you say sailing? Launch a frozen sand trap and see what hangtime you get. The snow was frozen too, enabling launching through parking lots. I like to get air, maybe I need a DJ bike??? Nooo...
Here's a new one. The ninja mask! Find out more at http://www.talusoutdoor.com/. You'll see me rocking one if this weather stays cold.
The new set of Juicy's look good, feel good, and should be a good upgrade for the new year. My old juicy's had seen some wear. On a sad note, the Fox fork didn't fit. I need 220mm of steerer, and it only had 180. Shame on me for not checking first. Marco was one cool dude about it though and took the fork back. I found another on Ebay for under 500 so I guess I'm not to bad off.
Wish I could post pics from last night but I forgot my camera. Truely awesome riding can be had in the small town of Warrensburg. There are three trail systems and if you link them up, you have one serious trail ride. We poached one of the local golf courses, and the sand was froze. Can you say sailing? Launch a frozen sand trap and see what hangtime you get. The snow was frozen too, enabling launching through parking lots. I like to get air, maybe I need a DJ bike??? Nooo...
Here's a new one. The ninja mask! Find out more at http://www.talusoutdoor.com/. You'll see me rocking one if this weather stays cold.
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