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Lady Luck has departed

WTF even gone when I wrote his post…. As I just had it all typed out and disappeared!! Grrrr! Now for the short and pissed off version. Managed 5th overall and 3rd age at the Singletrack stampede. Broke my chain on the 1st lap & then next lap, busted up my front derailleur. After a [...]

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Hardcore 24-short version

Quick report & full post coming later. Was suppose to be 4man, but changed to duo due to fears of a weather repeat if last years monsoons. Casey & I manned up & got ready to rip. Raced my ass off & won the first lap. Gave everything I had and won the 2 up [...]

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Tearing myself up

Tearing myself up

Took another good opportunity to go back down to Naples again this weekend.  After putting in a killer night ride in this past Wednesday with Casey & Hanggi, where we ripped up OCP & Cutler in the dark.  I figured putting in a little more time and keep burning in that HardCore 24 course.   [...]

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Naples in the Spring/Lake’s Birthday

Naples in the Spring/Lake’s Birthday

Went big on this past Saturday.  Decided to head down to Bristol/Naples area, get in a 6 hour ride on the mtb with some heavy climbing and some singletrack ripping.  The plan was to start at Bristol mountain, ride over to Stid Hill for a bit of a warmup.  Climb Stid Hill all the way [...]

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Saturday in Pictures

Saturday in Pictures

Hopefully by this evening or sometime tomorrow I can get my race report up from the Handlebars Spring MTB Classic at Sprague Brook park in Buffalo that went down this past sunday.  Ended up 3rd, down 12 secs on Nathan Chown and Dan Staffo (who were on cross bikes).  Yeah, yeah, if you can ride [...]

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GROC Fest/Weekend in Naples

GROC Fest/Weekend in Naples

What an incredible weekend in Naples. Weather was super all weekend long. Big rides, big views, big fun had by all the entire weekend. I’ll skip to it all and let the pictures sum it all up mostly. Saturday Saturday, hooked up with Todd and we railed around Naples area. Some super fun climbs and [...]

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Another Naples Weekend ;)

Another Naples Weekend ;)

Saturday, rolled down to Naples with Todd Scheske. Since he’s going to be my teammate for El Reto next month, I figured I better make sure he can ride a mountain bike . So nothing to do but take him on some of the toughest descents around…. The mountaineer/highlander was also going on down in [...]

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Stompin’ it on my old stompin’ grounds

Stompin’ it on my old stompin’ grounds

Had a chance to get out for a decent ride today. Weather wasn’t horrid nor was it perfect. The kind where it’s easy to get out the door, but you grumble a bit every know and then about how it could be just a bit better. There was a constant North-Northwesterly wind at about 15-20 [...]

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Horrible 100: Long Version

Horrible 100: Long Version

My apologies for the lateness. I had to head out of town for work; and then I fell ill over the weekend Full Writeup from the Horrible 100: Went of this past Sunday the 9th with 19 riders who showed up to brave the rainy conditions. As is usual we kicked off as early as [...]

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Horrible Hundred: Quick and Dirty version

Horrible is all finished. Myself and Matt Hanggi were the only sole survivors who made it up over the top of Wolfganger to put down 108 miles of riding and 11,000 ft of climbing. Ride time: 11:29, TSS 597.8!!It rained all friggin day…. Too tired and busy to write a full report. Pics and full [...]

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