(or, Mechanical Man) We’ll keep this short and sweet. Seven laps to go, my chain breaks(!) coming out of turn four. This makes it difficult to pedal the bicycle. I am now 3 for 6 (.500) as far as completing races. I hope I get this average up a bit.

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by admin
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Finally, some nice weather for a race. The invivodata team actually had some numbers here, with four of us in the start grid. We didn’t have much of a plan, besides John perhaps getting into a breakway. I was still feeling the lingering effects of a chest cold, so I didn’t have high hopes to […]

Posted on April 19th, 2009 by admin
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From Random Stuff That’s our new car. Yes, it’s a van. Yes, we all can sleep in it. No, we don’t drive around with the top extended like that. The Focus will be sold, hopefully this week (though I will, however, take advantage of our brief stay in the land of two car families by […]

Posted on April 18th, 2009 by admin
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Another fine spring evening–windy, cloudy, cool, drizzly. Another 20 or so riders showed up, with Iron City missing two of their motors, which could be Good Thing for the rest of us. The pace was reasonable at first, with a couple of different people going off the front at various points, but the group was […]

Posted on April 15th, 2009 by admin
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There’s been quite the kerfuffle on the BOB mailing list over the cost of Rivendell‘s two newest, Taiwanese-built framesets, the Sam Hillborne and the Betty Foy. The comments are a mix of outrage (how can they charge so much for a factory-made bike!) to cult-ish defense (Rivendell is doing you a favor by selling these […]

Posted on April 14th, 2009 by admin
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Paris-Roubaix, the queen of the spring classics, runs tomorrow. I won’t venture a guess at who may win, though I think Tom Boonen has the best chance of making his luck and pulling off the win. I will, however, list a few guys who I would like to see win tomorrow: George Hincapie: The guys, […]

Posted on April 11th, 2009 by admin
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My intention was to race in Morgantown this weekend, but a chest cold seems to have gotten the best of me. The thought of dragging myself over 3500+ feet of climbing over nearly 50 miles just doesn’t sound like fun at the moment. Oh well. Secretly, I may be a bit relieved. Hopefully I have […]

Posted on April 10th, 2009 by admin
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Wednesday night? Yes, Wednesday night. I’ve moved up to the B (3/4) races. This was, in part, a scheduling decision, as Tuesday evening would be filled with Sebastien’s soccer games, but I was also interested in seeing how these races felt. Certainly, I have a far better chance of doing well at the C races, […]

Posted on April 9th, 2009 by admin
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Slightly better weather than last weekend (uppers 40s and sunny at the start, with temps quickly rising) brought out the crowds this weekend–51 riders in the 4/5 race. I caught a ride from Stuart, thus avoiding a 25 mile warm up for a 27 mile race. I felt pretty terrible on our first warm up […]

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by admin
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This is not conducive to a good race result: From Bikes I dropped my chain on the second climb. I quickly shifted it back on to the chainring, but apparently DESTROYED my front derailleur in the process. Six months of waiting, 30 minutes of warming up in the cold rain, five minutes of racing. Sweet. […]

Posted on March 29th, 2009 by admin
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