blue squirrel

after a self-imposed 20 year absence from cycling, the sport i love, i am back and dedicated to holding my own in the superfast 40+ catagory. this blog will tell the journey, the highs and the lows, the team [team becher+] and it's cast of characters, our sponsors, supporters, and other local riders that make it happen... [anonymous comments are lame, cowboy up and put a name or start a blog]

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

ODDS ENDS AND LOTS OF FLATS


[looking good in the blues]

well the week or so since i have returned from my below sea level dutch / flemish / swedish holiday have been super busy. i got in a great ride with tim, well not so great as he got 6 flats [yes he was NOT riding conti's tires or tubes and took all of my patches], but it was great to get out and suffer [wow, 15 days off the bike sucks] up the san diego east county climbs. tim has an eloquent summery of the ride and his flats at MASIGUY.


[heading home after all the flats, hence the smiles]

now on to the latest additon to the club, our first junior rider, casey debold. a lean, mean, soon to be arizona state champ [not like tim...] in his age group. MASI set him up with an awesome team race bike and i had the privledge to deliver it to him. after setting it up and getting the fist go at sizing it, we head out for his first ride in proper cycling shoes and pedals [speedplay]. the next day was a little different and very reminiscent of tim's and mines ride the previous weekend. i hear a all to familiar bang behind me and see casey pull over and we are about to fix his first flat. the combination of simano rims, vittoria tires did not make for a clean, fast and simple tire change. after 3 tubes and a few patches and all of our c02, we had to call for the support vehicle to come pick casey up [as i continued on my conti riding way for the rest of the planed ride]. we then spent the rest of the afternoon buy and installing some conti gator skins on his almost impossible to re-tire shimano rims. latest report, no flats, hum imagine that.


[casey after our fist ride]


[casey looking good]

ok off to interbike... late at night of course, i will try and update tomorrow and friday with some cool new stuff.

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT.

masiguy, fellow teammate [and bike sponsor] will be in the new york times today, september 27th, in the tech section [circuits ?], check him out in all of his team becher+ kit glory.

[i will be posting from interbike tomorrow and friday if all goes well]

UPDATE:
you can check him online in his super cool team becher+ kit at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/technology/circuits/27peril.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Monday, September 18, 2006

thanks for a great race Vuelta!

a little parting spot for a great vuelta. ah, remember why we ride, i do, makes you want to say 'enough already about the doping' lets ride.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

MORE BREAKING EUROBIKE NEWS

MASI's new 3 seat cross bike [custom fit available]

more vacation photos


[my healthy dutch steed, and no dog shit]

[doing a litle training dutch style, i know i know, i don't have a helmet on]

[i think they are trying to tell me something here]

[a well deserved pils after training dutch style into a 30km head wind]

["if only my high school guidance counselor had told me that trappist monks in belguim made beer all day"]

[still love belgium]

[ok time to go my delivery is here]

Saturday, September 02, 2006

BREAKING EUROBIKE NEWS


breaking news, presenting the new 07 bad ass MASI cross bike. [i don't think i need to say anything more, just look at that black beauty, find out more at http://masiguy.blogspot.com/]

Friday, September 01, 2006

vacation [translation: beer]



hey ya'll, i'm on vacation in the flat wonderland of holland and then off to sweden for a few days. but i can't forget my short stint into the cycling uberland of flanders for a few days to pick up flanders lion trinkets for greg. i will up date you on boring vacation things and photos etc. as i am off the [road] bike for a while [2 weeks of r and r and beer]. i will be riding dutch style a few times and will let you know how it goes as i climb the local rotterdam mountains [road overpass] a few 50 times. ciao for now.