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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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Rambler Pics

Rambler Pics

A few random pics from the Rambler. Thanks to Noelle for hanging on the back of the moto and taking some sweet pics!! Burtacus grinds on at the the top of the first climb Lead Group on Canen Hill Yeah it’s pretty steep and it’s not over yet! Yours truly descending Ridge Rd (though not [...]

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Rambler: Quick & dirty edition

Hit the greatest race in New York state up this past weekend. The Prattsburgh Rambler. 30+ mile dirt road race with some intense descents, few bits of singletrack and some ferocious clims that top out well over 20%. The past 2 editions saw warm temps and dry & dusty race course. It was only fair [...]

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Parma cross

Parma cross

Hit the local cross race up this past weekend. Spent the evening prior riding my bicycle up and down the hills of Naples valley guided by the moonlight till 2am. We only got lost a few times. Even had to cut through some alfalfa fields to figure out where we were headed. Was a gorgeous [...]

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Interbike Day 1 Photos Finally

Ok, os I finally figured out how to create slideshows from flickr. Since I wasted so much time on it, I’ll just dump it in here and go forward. This past wednesday night was rad as usual. Headed down to Naples with Chad & Hanggi for some climbing. The legs were still feeling the effect [...]

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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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Fall is here

Fall is here

Yup folks, tis the season for the fun rides. While summer isn’t officially over it’s pretty darn close. Only 1 big race left on the mountain bike (el reto) and time to dial in the cross bike and cross fitness. Tuesday am I did some solo cross practice at the local rec center. Cornering in [...]

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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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Swelterin Weekend

Swelterin Weekend

Similar routine to last weekend. Hit up some Dawn Patrol with Hanggi, and this time Jim-Jam Hogan joined up with us for our ride. We decided to shuttle them up to the top and Start from Ontario County Park (OCP) and then they’d grab their car at Parish Hill and head into work, while I [...]

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Speaking of Performance…

Speaking of Performance…

Last Night was Farmall Hill Challenge #2. I’d missed the first week as I was traveling. I had some heavy motivation to get out there and shred the trails. I’ve not raced in a bit and I’m in full on prep mode for the Shenandoah 100. Here in Seneca Falls, we’ve had massive thunderstorms early [...]

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