Sorry for the lack of updation today.

I was a little busy today running around.

I will be updating hopefully later tonight after I get back from a ride.

In the meantime- quick get better soons to OBRA racers Jason Atkinson and Mark Loder.

Wow- cloudy and a little rain. Definitely refreshing.

Been pretty quiet today. Waiting on updated flyer info before we link to it on the OBRA site.

Don’t forget the High Desert Omnium! This will be the next installment of the Cat 4 Women’s Series.

News

Omer and Evan Elken will both be down in Charlotte for some racing. Omer made the marathon 12 hour drive from Chicago. Wow.

Blogs

Lyne Lamoureux of Podium in Sight posts a nice piece on Doug’s retirement.

Bike Hugger posts up pics from the FSA Gran Prix.

Tim and Sue Butler celebrated their 7th anniversary. Congrats!!!!

Meanwhile…. Erik Voldengen got lost near Detroit Lake.

Dave A. is very proud of his Ironclad riders who performed well at the Vancouver Crit. (and had a huge showing too!)

Martha posts some pictures from the Co-Motion Classic here and here.

Mark Duff posts a look back at the year so far.

Kennett posts a report from race #2 and #3 and some pictures of the team.

Heidi posts a happy birthday to her sweetie- Sal Bondi (whose butt was featured on this blog a week ago or so). Happy B-Day Sal!

Random

Random Good Stuff posts up some cool concept bikes. (one example below)

The mobile unit has arrived and is set up!

Yay!

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get results from the finish line laptop directly onto the iPhone.

Oh… and I heart Dremels.

The new iPhone didn’t fit in the docking cradle… so I used my handy dandy dremel to “shape” the old dock to accept the new phone.

Well, here’s an assortment of random photos from K-Man’s random wanderings.

A week and a half ago I was supposed to have a LT test but ended up not having one (see prior post). Afterwards T-Girl and I wandered around Portland where we stopped by the Lizard Lounge (free coffee and interwebs)

After which we spied Aaron Tuckerman (who now lives in Portland) eating lunch with his friend and his bike.

Then K-Man spied what must have been the team semi.

Later we stopped by Uwajimaya- my favorite place to pick up random stuff like Lactic Acid Bars. (Which T-Girl finally threw away a few days ago- after sitting in our garage since before Hillsboro Cross Crusade last year). This time, we found the drink of choice for the Gentle Lovers.

Last week I hoofed it up to Portland for a smorgasbord of tasks. First up… stop by Columbia HQ to chat with folks about bike racing.

Whereupon I ran into OBRA racer John Spiegel who gave me this totally rad hat! Thanks John!

Also in attendance was Joe Kurmaskie- aka the Metal Cowboy. He’s the author of:

Really nice guy… really tall. He was nice enough to sit down on the bench while I stood to make it look like I wasn’t a midget next to him. Seen below.

After that I jetted over to Alpenrose where I jumped into the Cat 3 race. Then I loaded up the Uber Buru like burro with lots and lots of signs. Whereafter I jetted over to Dougie and Adrienne’s going away party at the Lucky Lab in NW. Fun times!

Well.. the weekend came and we rode for 1.5 hours on Saturday while some folks were critting or going on really long ass rides. Then on Sunday we booted up to Vancouver for one of my favorite races… the Vancouver Courthouse Crit. You may remember this from my helmet cam video. This year was in the Senior Men Race. Hey, it was easy for the first 40 minutes.

Then it was OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG. Then Elmo says it how it was….

Then… well… I and 13 other souls don’t appear in the results.

Hey… at least I didn’t crash and destroy a wheel like this one (from the 4 or 5 race- don’t quite remember)

But… Kiffy summed it up…

I am totally bummed that I wasn’t able to make it to PIR tonight… with both Monday Night PIR and the last of the STXC- it must have been a hoot!!! Unfortunately, K-Man was stuck down here working on stuff. Oh well.

International
MTB World Cup
Women CX
4 Georgia Gould (USA) Luna Womens MTB Team
6 Mary McConneloug (USA) Kenda / Seven

Men CX
4 Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team
23 Barry Wicks (USA) Kona
40 Spencer Paxson (USA)

Notes-
If you didn’t notice from Adam’s post….

Mary McConneloug (Kenda/Seven) and Adam Craig (Giant) successfully defended their US national cross country titles last weekend in Mount Snow, Vermont.

Boo ya!

Chad Hartley, Jittery Joe’s took home the red jersey from Superweek.

Local
Vancouver Courthouse Crit
Senior Men
1. Steven Beardsley, Gentle Lovers
2. Evan Elken, Jittery Joe’s
3. Aaron Johnson, BRI

Senior Women
1. Jadine Riley, Team Group Health
2. Melissa Sanborn, Vanderkitten
3. Norrene Godfrey, Team Rubicon

See full results

Co-Motion Stage Race Final GC
Tandems A
1. Devon Simbert/Brian Cowie, BC Blind Sports
2. Mick and Martha Walsh, FRM
3. Greg and Davis Shepherd, Hutch’s

See full results

Co-Motion Crit
Senior Men
1. Orion Berryman, Midtown Direct
2. Dan Vrimojet, Hutch’s
3 Mark Hibbard

Senior Women
1. Lisa Turnbull, Team Group Health
2. Jill Howe, Poplollies
3. Karey Miles, Life Cycle Bike Shop

See full results

Blogs

Sue Butler is happy to be back home!

Brian Barker took some pretty rad photos of the Vancouver Courthouse Crit. NoPo Girl is also due in two weeks!!!

Check out Martha’s Co-Motion Tandem Stage Race report.

Sam Johnson goes all caveman.

Heidi states that centuries are for sissies.

Steven Beardsley is finally taking a break after a hugely long stretch of racing.

Jason Sager posts up some Canadian photos.

Jessi Brunson hikes, not bikes.

I’ll leave you with this little bit of humor.

My dad sent this on to me…. absolutely hilarious mangling of the English language- the subject was… “Who says China isn’t ready for the Olympic tourists…?” (Click for larger versions) If you’d like to see the original e-mail, shoot me one.

Track 4->3
Greg Valentin, Gentle Lovers

Road
3->2
Kyle Wuepper, Bend Bike ‘N Sport

4->3
Harald Graham, Specialized River City Bicycles

Selle SMP has come out with bib shorts that have a built in zipper for nature breaks or as I see it, some more adventurous activities. :p Click the link above for some pretty funny pics.

From Quickrelease via Cyclelicious.

Finally got my helmet today! Woo hoo! It’s huge compared to a bike helmet. All I need to get is mic for an open faced helmet, take the moto ref course in San Francisco (October)- then I’ll be set to moto-officiate.

Nohs K-Man. You look like dumbaz in that. Youz have to do it like thees.

News

CXMagzine has an article on avoiding injury- Getting Ready for Mounts and Dismounts

Alrighty- time to check the blogs:

Blogs

Sam Johnson posts a link to a picture of himself at the FSA Grand Prix, provides us with a visual of his ode to breakfast seen below, and links to an absolute hilarious Pez story. (definitely worth the read)

Adam Craig reports from MTB Natz.

Martha posts a race report from the Co-Motion Classic tandem crit.

Wow!

Molly photoblogs her trip to Minnesooota. (which includes pictures of Vikings- for real)

Steven Beardsley writes up a post AVC race report.

Ironclad gets their first track win and sends us a Tuesday PIR report.

NRR also serves up a Tues. PIR report.

Jessi Brunson had some rides of awesomeness.

Joe FINALLY posts after a long hiatus.

Both Galen and Brian Barker commented on the former Saunier Duval-Scott team being renamed Scott-American Beef… unfortunately, Brian took down his hilarious post- which had included a picture of the famous and unfortunate… “beef” picture.

Jason Sager is photo journaling his time up in the great white north.

Kennett blogs more about his European adventure here and here. Includes references to Nutella.

Jeanie posts a Utah photoessay.

And finally… Heidi posts about enjoying running again.

I will do my best to ride strong and fast. See you out there.

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