Monday, December 24, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Nice concept.
My friend Abby turned me on to this website yesterday. http://www.freerice.com/
Here is the breakdown- You go onto the site and it gives you a word with four possible definitions. You try to choose the correct def. For each correct answer 20 grains of rice are purchased by the sponsors of the website to go toward the needy via the United Nations World Food Program. You can play as many times as you like and there is a counter to let you know how many grains of rice you have generated for donation each time you play.
It's pretty cool. Yesterday I got on a couple of times, had some fun and earned over a thousand grains of rice. And now I feel wicked smart.... maybe not... my kids thought it was pretty cool (and probably better for them the Guitar Hero 2).
L8'er
B-Horn
Here is the breakdown- You go onto the site and it gives you a word with four possible definitions. You try to choose the correct def. For each correct answer 20 grains of rice are purchased by the sponsors of the website to go toward the needy via the United Nations World Food Program. You can play as many times as you like and there is a counter to let you know how many grains of rice you have generated for donation each time you play.
It's pretty cool. Yesterday I got on a couple of times, had some fun and earned over a thousand grains of rice. And now I feel wicked smart.... maybe not... my kids thought it was pretty cool (and probably better for them the Guitar Hero 2).
L8'er
B-Horn
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Score!
Had more fun last Saturday hangin with my newly appointed fashion consultant. She steered me right and hooked me up with J. G. who is a local clothing designer at the B.C. which is his funky clothing shop.
There is now an official "Ballistic Hornet" winter jacket. Being that it is my X-mas present it can't be donned until Dec 25th.
The specs- It's long and warm- in fact it's made out of airplane seat material. That's right, I think it's the seat base pattern for NordAir. It is actually fire retardant and may be used as a floatation device. So, I figure I got that going for me... and it's got the bling factor with an embroidered steely Hornet with checkered flag racing wings that is ready to sting on it's sleeve, A big B on the left side of the chest, and even a symbolic honeycomb pattern to conceptualize the Nest!
It is my special superhero cape like thang... I noticed right off the bat that when I put it on, I definately ran faster and jumped higher... a lot higher!
There is now an official "Ballistic Hornet" winter jacket. Being that it is my X-mas present it can't be donned until Dec 25th.
The specs- It's long and warm- in fact it's made out of airplane seat material. That's right, I think it's the seat base pattern for NordAir. It is actually fire retardant and may be used as a floatation device. So, I figure I got that going for me... and it's got the bling factor with an embroidered steely Hornet with checkered flag racing wings that is ready to sting on it's sleeve, A big B on the left side of the chest, and even a symbolic honeycomb pattern to conceptualize the Nest!
It is my special superhero cape like thang... I noticed right off the bat that when I put it on, I definately ran faster and jumped higher... a lot higher!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Save the best for the last!
Saturday was AWESOME! Cold, with a lot of snow and mud, yet warm enough to make slop. But just because the conditions were prime doesn't mean the racing would be equal. In these conditions you need hardcores willing to put in an old fashioned yeoman's effort. In fact the racing wasn't ok, or good, the racing was exceptional. In every category, each rider brought his/her A-game and made this day of racing the best of an already phenominal season of cross racing. The Men's A race took the cake... please read the various blogs for the inside scoops, here is how this outsider saw it...
First off, the one and only "Sly and the family" Fox showed up donned as Santa going to the beach... so you kind of knew things were gonna heat up.
As far as the Men's A race, let's use the analogy that Bartmang is the '08 Patriots, and the rest of the field wants to knock him off. So what are the other NFL teams doing, they are attacking the Pat's all the time throwing everything they have at 'em. Enter, and here is a new one for ya folks- Street-Ali-fighter" Goulet. From the gun he went ballistic (you know I dig it when I pull out the B-word). He took charge of the race much like Bart has done race after race... Bart hung on to his wheel for a while, and it looked like he was ok. But, the "Alifighter" kept on attacking on the narliest corners creating just a bit of distance. Ali is a mudder, no doubt about it. When you consider how ninja Bart's skills are, to be in a position to one-up-him at any aspect, is worthy to the max. So here is where Ali changed the whole dynamic of the race, he saw Bart falter ever so slightly on the turn leading up the hill near the start and drilled it. Eventually getting more than 1/2 a minute on Bart and then sustained it (ed note-I know Viagra ad ha, ha). Ali looked like a bounty hunter chasing down a bail jumper, focused- would be an understatement. Well the difference between Bart and the Patriots, is that the Pat's only play one team at a time. Bart was going to feel the heat from a group of bad men with worse intentions.
This is where the sharks smell blood, and it was impressive how smart the tactics were. Reed Wycoff knew that Bart had teammates around him, so he had no choice but to drill it hard to try to chase Bart down which he did with A-Train riding roughshot,not about to help... Team Rico was not far behind with Gallagher right there not sure whether to conserve for the Nat's as planned or take a great opportunity as it presented... and Mitchell Peterson who started off toward the back only to heat up and start picking off groups in front of him. Each dude playing his cards to only his/his team advantage.
So, here is how it went from that point-Rico is just off the 2nd chase group of 3 lead by the Gallagher who is now putting the gas on Wycoff and A-Train, lap after lap. Ali is gapping Bart Big time and the three chasers somehow catch up with Bart! Bam! With Rico right there in the mix after a huge effort just dangeling behind... WHAT a race!!! Then it appeared as if Wycoff was losing a bit of steam after his gargantuan effort chasing Bart down, Art was somewhat rested, potentially ready for an attack... as was Gallagher who was probably in the best postition with Bart and Team Rico having done a lot of work soloing...so basically really good stuff at that point... with it being unclear who had the goods, and who was spent in that group of 4, with Ali in command. At that point these guys were smelling blood and were going after Bart en- masse. After a few laps Bart apparently recovered and made his move, no-one could hold his wheel and he was going after Ali, only to make up a second or two per lap at first... but then on the stretch next to the pond, Ali's pace got instantly slower yet his rpms were still up. This was not good for him, while Bart kept steady in a bigger gear and made up 15 seconds the first lap and caught Ali with a 3/4 of a lap to go on the last lap. We could see the move by Bart has it happened, at it's onset with ONLY two laps to go, but never did we think that he could catch Ali in that time span. Now the hunter was being hunted! Bart kept his Tom Brady composure throughout the entire race but especially in the waining minutes of the 4th quarter- with the game on the line, he rode steady and DID IT! Bart caught Socks! No one could believe it!!! Then it got even better, Ali would not let Bart pass, they attacked each other like boxers in the midst of a draw in the 15th round, punching and countering relentlessly... did Ali save enough? Did Bart expend too much reeling him in? Until finally, it was answered with 1/2 lap to go Ali's rubber band broke. Bart took 1st, Ali with a valient 2nd... A-Train was riding his A-game solidly in third, but had yet another mechanical... and walked the course to the finish, calmly with his bike in hand. Then came Rico and Gallagher (Rico has had his share of mechanicals this year) around the last muddy corner they were nose to nose and Rico outsprinted the G-man at the line... for 3rd and 4th respectively... I thought it was the damn Preakness with those two. Then came the lunch pale man, blue collar worker of the day, yes Reed "Whycough?" who lead the chase to catch Bart for the majority of the race getting a well earned 5th...
Everyone looked like coal miners after, mud all over their bodies, faces, teeth, ears etc... and freezing. Ali was holed up in the Ridleymobile, as he got his verbal high fives from everyone including Bartmang.
Post race notes- Ali apparantely hit the wall at 50 minutes and got tunnel vision. Bart let his guard down just a bit during the race (he won't do that again) and the rest of the field dug very, very deep to make him pay... Gallagher and A-Train are looking good and definatley on excellent form for the Nat's (good luck gents) and Team Rico pulled off the podium after refusing several long solo efforts to bridge forward. Probably the best race I have ever seen, bar none!!!
Thanks to Matt O, Jon G, Steve the Patriot, Steve the Flahoot, Ellie and Gardie for making my rookie season fantastic. To my team and sponsor Mikelo Prattini and Canyon Bicycles for their interest and support, and all of the sponsors. But especially to all of the riders who rode their tails off all year, and never gave up. You guys were truely inspiring and motivational both on and off of the bikes to me... at a time when I really needed it! You guys have lifted my spirits big time in the last few months, and I can't wait till next year! Lets make next year even bigger and better (if that's possible!)... Look forward to seeing ery'one at the awards banquet...
Sincerely,
B-Horn
First off, the one and only "Sly and the family" Fox showed up donned as Santa going to the beach... so you kind of knew things were gonna heat up.
As far as the Men's A race, let's use the analogy that Bartmang is the '08 Patriots, and the rest of the field wants to knock him off. So what are the other NFL teams doing, they are attacking the Pat's all the time throwing everything they have at 'em. Enter, and here is a new one for ya folks- Street-Ali-fighter" Goulet. From the gun he went ballistic (you know I dig it when I pull out the B-word). He took charge of the race much like Bart has done race after race... Bart hung on to his wheel for a while, and it looked like he was ok. But, the "Alifighter" kept on attacking on the narliest corners creating just a bit of distance. Ali is a mudder, no doubt about it. When you consider how ninja Bart's skills are, to be in a position to one-up-him at any aspect, is worthy to the max. So here is where Ali changed the whole dynamic of the race, he saw Bart falter ever so slightly on the turn leading up the hill near the start and drilled it. Eventually getting more than 1/2 a minute on Bart and then sustained it (ed note-I know Viagra ad ha, ha). Ali looked like a bounty hunter chasing down a bail jumper, focused- would be an understatement. Well the difference between Bart and the Patriots, is that the Pat's only play one team at a time. Bart was going to feel the heat from a group of bad men with worse intentions.
This is where the sharks smell blood, and it was impressive how smart the tactics were. Reed Wycoff knew that Bart had teammates around him, so he had no choice but to drill it hard to try to chase Bart down which he did with A-Train riding roughshot,not about to help... Team Rico was not far behind with Gallagher right there not sure whether to conserve for the Nat's as planned or take a great opportunity as it presented... and Mitchell Peterson who started off toward the back only to heat up and start picking off groups in front of him. Each dude playing his cards to only his/his team advantage.
So, here is how it went from that point-Rico is just off the 2nd chase group of 3 lead by the Gallagher who is now putting the gas on Wycoff and A-Train, lap after lap. Ali is gapping Bart Big time and the three chasers somehow catch up with Bart! Bam! With Rico right there in the mix after a huge effort just dangeling behind... WHAT a race!!! Then it appeared as if Wycoff was losing a bit of steam after his gargantuan effort chasing Bart down, Art was somewhat rested, potentially ready for an attack... as was Gallagher who was probably in the best postition with Bart and Team Rico having done a lot of work soloing...so basically really good stuff at that point... with it being unclear who had the goods, and who was spent in that group of 4, with Ali in command. At that point these guys were smelling blood and were going after Bart en- masse. After a few laps Bart apparently recovered and made his move, no-one could hold his wheel and he was going after Ali, only to make up a second or two per lap at first... but then on the stretch next to the pond, Ali's pace got instantly slower yet his rpms were still up. This was not good for him, while Bart kept steady in a bigger gear and made up 15 seconds the first lap and caught Ali with a 3/4 of a lap to go on the last lap. We could see the move by Bart has it happened, at it's onset with ONLY two laps to go, but never did we think that he could catch Ali in that time span. Now the hunter was being hunted! Bart kept his Tom Brady composure throughout the entire race but especially in the waining minutes of the 4th quarter- with the game on the line, he rode steady and DID IT! Bart caught Socks! No one could believe it!!! Then it got even better, Ali would not let Bart pass, they attacked each other like boxers in the midst of a draw in the 15th round, punching and countering relentlessly... did Ali save enough? Did Bart expend too much reeling him in? Until finally, it was answered with 1/2 lap to go Ali's rubber band broke. Bart took 1st, Ali with a valient 2nd... A-Train was riding his A-game solidly in third, but had yet another mechanical... and walked the course to the finish, calmly with his bike in hand. Then came Rico and Gallagher (Rico has had his share of mechanicals this year) around the last muddy corner they were nose to nose and Rico outsprinted the G-man at the line... for 3rd and 4th respectively... I thought it was the damn Preakness with those two. Then came the lunch pale man, blue collar worker of the day, yes Reed "Whycough?" who lead the chase to catch Bart for the majority of the race getting a well earned 5th...
Everyone looked like coal miners after, mud all over their bodies, faces, teeth, ears etc... and freezing. Ali was holed up in the Ridleymobile, as he got his verbal high fives from everyone including Bartmang.
Post race notes- Ali apparantely hit the wall at 50 minutes and got tunnel vision. Bart let his guard down just a bit during the race (he won't do that again) and the rest of the field dug very, very deep to make him pay... Gallagher and A-Train are looking good and definatley on excellent form for the Nat's (good luck gents) and Team Rico pulled off the podium after refusing several long solo efforts to bridge forward. Probably the best race I have ever seen, bar none!!!
Thanks to Matt O, Jon G, Steve the Patriot, Steve the Flahoot, Ellie and Gardie for making my rookie season fantastic. To my team and sponsor Mikelo Prattini and Canyon Bicycles for their interest and support, and all of the sponsors. But especially to all of the riders who rode their tails off all year, and never gave up. You guys were truely inspiring and motivational both on and off of the bikes to me... at a time when I really needed it! You guys have lifted my spirits big time in the last few months, and I can't wait till next year! Lets make next year even bigger and better (if that's possible!)... Look forward to seeing ery'one at the awards banquet...
Sincerely,
B-Horn
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Way to think inside the box!
Being that my brain is the size of a good sized pebble. I dig when you humans use your's... Below is a picture of typical shipping containers that are used for imports into this country. It's too expensive to ship them back to Asia, so they sit. LSS (long story short)-Dudes figured out that they can re-use these for modular homes.
One company Lot-ek makes each shipping container with all the modern stuff, plumbing, appliances, air, storage etc. self contained. You can order what you want with respect to rooms (See Below) Here is the outside...
This is the kitchen...
And here is the bedroom...
They are portable for the nomad in all of us... when you go, just move it, or if you want to store it while you travel the globe you do this (below)... Hey those are my two on the top!
If you look around some companies make them custom for you however you want it, in fact some just look like regular homes and other's are way upscale and big.
Anyway for an ave 2000 sqft (3bd/2ba) they start between 99k to 129k and go up from there... imagine the applications world wide (Katrina, alternative to Habitat for Humanity etc, etc, etc) let alone the enviro friendly stuff. So pack it up and pack it away... cool stuff fo' sure! I wonder if they make'em in Nest like dwellings?
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Couldn't ride today!
Took the Hornjet to South Africa today in an effort to get some good road training in... unfortunately we encountered this...
So we went surfing instead... see ya this weekend... I hope, surfs up...
So we went surfing instead... see ya this weekend... I hope, surfs up...
Monday, December 3, 2007
This is what it is all about!
This is Nathan Greeneisen (from now on will be known as LGH "Little Green Hornet") he races with the young'uns... snow was not going to stop him! He wore his ski helmet and goggles...
He has some awesome support, and if you look closely in the background (to the upper right side), you will see Scott Allen riding with his son Sam also!
That's right he wore his ski helmet and goggles. These dudes (ettes) are very, very rad... it makes announcing a lot of fun. And kudo's to the parents of the these crossers (crossents) as well as all of the sig others that make it happen... I have seen neighbors come down to support, as well as other racers helping parents out with the race spawn, when it is their go time...and that's what it IS all about brethren and sistarista's!
So raise one up for the LGH group and their support... and by the way the L.G.H can give a pretty mean post race interview. (And thanks to Wasmund) for posting the pic's here at this site http://www.pbase.com/swasmund/cx112407
B-Horn
Cross weather was Cross.
If you didn't cross, or watch cross this weekend you really missed out... here is a pic from the north side of the course where it dips under the power lines going eastbound with A-Train posing pre-race...
Great job to everyone being safe, no-one got electrocuted... except for G-Love post race when he got shocked disconnecting the speaker, which then dropped on my head... feel kinda bad for the speaker... thanks for everyone who fishtailed and dumped only to get back up and do it again... mucho time-o's... and to the awesome Oktoberfestive beverage drinkin' fans... I truely felt like I was in the bleachers near the frozen tundra of Lambeau field...good stuff...
B-Horn
Thursday, November 29, 2007
See you at Wheeler this weekend
This is what true crossers look forward to all year, good weather... it should be kinda like this tooling up the hill... and don't forget your crampons...
Gardie and I will be dressed like those two world renowned cyclocross announcers from Greenland- Jdackt and Vrimbar the Vikings...they ARE our IDOLS! G-love wants to be Vrimbar on the right, in fact he has a bedspread just like Vrimbars coat at his pad in P.C....and I've heard an awesome man thong to match!
See ya there,
B-Horn
Monday, November 26, 2007
What a weekend!
Simply put- onehellavaweekend!
Met the legend of Sly Fox at cross... his blog is obviously the naddiest and he's even more coolio in person... Gardie and Miss Julie had a few good stories about him... and for some reason, I think there are probably a lot more stories out there about the dude.
The weather turned out to be awesome and the crowds for the first 1/2 of the races were mucho grande... some of the junior riders are absolutely a riot to watch... one dude was on a trials bike with pegs, and when he saw the crowd on the back side, would proceed to rip out at like 150 rpms... and get this- his knees were up near his chest.... goes to show-bike position is so over-rated.
The course was fast and everyone was flying through the back side at like MACH 8...
Got to take my girlfriend "Huge Relief" for a long ride and the Pat's squeeked out another win...
A weekend just doesn't get better than that...
L8er
Met the legend of Sly Fox at cross... his blog is obviously the naddiest and he's even more coolio in person... Gardie and Miss Julie had a few good stories about him... and for some reason, I think there are probably a lot more stories out there about the dude.
The weather turned out to be awesome and the crowds for the first 1/2 of the races were mucho grande... some of the junior riders are absolutely a riot to watch... one dude was on a trials bike with pegs, and when he saw the crowd on the back side, would proceed to rip out at like 150 rpms... and get this- his knees were up near his chest.... goes to show-bike position is so over-rated.
The course was fast and everyone was flying through the back side at like MACH 8...
Got to take my girlfriend "Huge Relief" for a long ride and the Pat's squeeked out another win...
A weekend just doesn't get better than that...
L8er
Friday, November 16, 2007
2007 State Cross! Championships
Gotta tell ya, it was a lot of fun, I was exhausted after a day of announcing, but it was worth it, fortunately I work with the legend of G-Love, which makes it even that much better... here are some observations if you missed some of the races...
Men's A's- Bartmang G just let it rip from the beginning to take another title... he told G-Love before the race that he would need to keep it under control because he was going to the C Rica the next day.... pretty much looked like he was on form, for sure... Bryson "think I'll race for Canyon Bikes today" Perry solidified second spot not long into the race, and kept on trying to drill it, in an effort to reel in the mang'er to no avail, but big kudo's for the effort... Hardwood flew in from Cali at 4am Pac time to drill 3rd overall and take the 35+ A group, only to stagger off after the race like he was in a brawl with Mike Tyson, once again, another cyclocrosser delivering the goods on championship weekend regardless of the circumstances... to round out the top 5 we had Copper Peterson and Reed Wycoffifyouhaverobitussin with a never say die attitude, good on ya...
and...Ali "socks" Goulet who had a mechanical right off the bat and was sitting dead last, probably in a different zip code for the first few laps, to lay it down and catch 1/2 of the field... he ended up being one of the studs of the day...
Womens A's- The Sherwin took control early and stayed in deep space, there was a fight for the podium postions with Dr Kris Cross spinning away to second holding off T Pezz pushing a really big gear and eating up about 10 meters per stroke with Deuter Time not far behind, this was a great race with the womenfolk flying... and the Mistress did it with her Catholic School mini then had the energy to get the whip out (see real pics at the bottom of this blog in the SL Trib webblog... it's pretty cool)
Men's A 35+- once again Hardwood took it with Jonny "Give me more work" Gallagher taking a hard earned second after setting up the course and doing a ton of work all day, to round out the podium AJ Air Jordan, who crashed multiple times, looked painful, but he still finished while flashing the pearls... ed.note.- A-Train was ripping it up until all at once he pulled the plug... read in his blog he felt horrible and couldn't overcome it... prediction the Train will be on new high speed tracks next year, watch for him to be back in a big way, (I'm just one of many Art fans out there, no doubt).
Men's 45+- was a race with McWin taking charge from the gun and to Mc Win it a Mcgain, but it wasn't an easy ride for him, he looked like he was fighting the big lactic acid build... Killer Warsoki took second looking like he caught the virus from McWin and rounding out the top 3, yes the ever classy Chuck "Tom" Collins...
Juniors 15-18- will promote the law firm of Swenson, Lasky, Matthews and Cottle pretty quickly, look for all of these dudes in the future, they are all greased lightning greenies... Congrats on a great race that Mr Jackson and I really enjoyed covering...
Men's B's- Connor O'Leary wears a lot of sunscreen on his face... probably because he's Irish... the 1/2 pound of the white stuff doesn't do three things- 1. Slow him down. 2. Make him less cool, and 3. Do him any good, 'cause he goes so fast the sunlight can't catch him! Coming in second was the Hoove who did his best impression of a Spanish climber up every hill with Kelly Glenn of Contender rounding out the 3 spot.
Womens B's- had Jennie "in the house" Wade churnin' and burnin' to create a decent gap on hard charging Heather Gilbert and Christy "Casius" Clay... side note, I had to run up next to Christy to ask her what her name was because we wanted to announce her postions, a couple fans asked me if I was interviewing her while she was racing... I told them that "I was asking her what her HR and Watts were at the time"... I think they thought I was serious... big ups to Mother Theresa for making the trip all the way from the Cape de Cod to race... and do pretty well at that.
Men's 35+ B's- the story was simply Scott Allen showing up for the first time and carting Micholo Pratini around the course, lap after lap... only at the end to have both guys trying to push the other across the line first... Micholo was not going to let Scallen do all the work and not win... that is why I really dig my teammates, because they are... great crossmanship boys, that is what a team is all about...
Masters 55+- Roger "I am also a winning" Gillespie held off the Lew brothers for first...
Singlespeed- was absolutely one of the very best races... Jason "Sammy" Sagar (yeah, like the front man of Van-Halen) showed us why he IS the man... then Alex Rock shows up from nowhere with his gasoline suit on... yes, his gasoline suit (there is an old Pete Rose saying "love the sport hard and it will love you back... I would go through Hell in a gasoline suit to play"...well that is what the Rockstar did, and he would not be denied for the two spot and fought hard for the gold to no avail... this guy is lethal when locked and loaded and stormed through the race harder with each lap, Gardie and I went nuts! I heard Alex may go to the EU next year to race, I hope he does! Jess "the body" Dear was Revolutionary getting 3rd...
Men's C's -was a huge field and everyone went hard.. Mike "I'm not" Walkenhorst took another one, he will be upgrading quickly...
Junior boys 14 and under had another big field with 14 bikes that were loaned out by Canyon Bicycles of Draper... it was Curtis, Hoover and Duncan in that order.
and finally the Junior Girls had a good showing with Chelsey Layer rippin it up for the top spot.
Thanks to all the fans including one Marty Jemison showing his support... here is a really cool link from the SL Tribune Blog regarding the race with pics... and yes thats our own Stephen Chops Lewis commentating, he is quite articulate...good job man!
http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2007/1110_cyclocross/index.html
B-Horn
Men's A's- Bartmang G just let it rip from the beginning to take another title... he told G-Love before the race that he would need to keep it under control because he was going to the C Rica the next day.... pretty much looked like he was on form, for sure... Bryson "think I'll race for Canyon Bikes today" Perry solidified second spot not long into the race, and kept on trying to drill it, in an effort to reel in the mang'er to no avail, but big kudo's for the effort... Hardwood flew in from Cali at 4am Pac time to drill 3rd overall and take the 35+ A group, only to stagger off after the race like he was in a brawl with Mike Tyson, once again, another cyclocrosser delivering the goods on championship weekend regardless of the circumstances... to round out the top 5 we had Copper Peterson and Reed Wycoffifyouhaverobitussin with a never say die attitude, good on ya...
and...Ali "socks" Goulet who had a mechanical right off the bat and was sitting dead last, probably in a different zip code for the first few laps, to lay it down and catch 1/2 of the field... he ended up being one of the studs of the day...
Womens A's- The Sherwin took control early and stayed in deep space, there was a fight for the podium postions with Dr Kris Cross spinning away to second holding off T Pezz pushing a really big gear and eating up about 10 meters per stroke with Deuter Time not far behind, this was a great race with the womenfolk flying... and the Mistress did it with her Catholic School mini then had the energy to get the whip out (see real pics at the bottom of this blog in the SL Trib webblog... it's pretty cool)
Men's A 35+- once again Hardwood took it with Jonny "Give me more work" Gallagher taking a hard earned second after setting up the course and doing a ton of work all day, to round out the podium AJ Air Jordan, who crashed multiple times, looked painful, but he still finished while flashing the pearls... ed.note.- A-Train was ripping it up until all at once he pulled the plug... read in his blog he felt horrible and couldn't overcome it... prediction the Train will be on new high speed tracks next year, watch for him to be back in a big way, (I'm just one of many Art fans out there, no doubt).
Men's 45+- was a race with McWin taking charge from the gun and to Mc Win it a Mcgain, but it wasn't an easy ride for him, he looked like he was fighting the big lactic acid build... Killer Warsoki took second looking like he caught the virus from McWin and rounding out the top 3, yes the ever classy Chuck "Tom" Collins...
Juniors 15-18- will promote the law firm of Swenson, Lasky, Matthews and Cottle pretty quickly, look for all of these dudes in the future, they are all greased lightning greenies... Congrats on a great race that Mr Jackson and I really enjoyed covering...
Men's B's- Connor O'Leary wears a lot of sunscreen on his face... probably because he's Irish... the 1/2 pound of the white stuff doesn't do three things- 1. Slow him down. 2. Make him less cool, and 3. Do him any good, 'cause he goes so fast the sunlight can't catch him! Coming in second was the Hoove who did his best impression of a Spanish climber up every hill with Kelly Glenn of Contender rounding out the 3 spot.
Womens B's- had Jennie "in the house" Wade churnin' and burnin' to create a decent gap on hard charging Heather Gilbert and Christy "Casius" Clay... side note, I had to run up next to Christy to ask her what her name was because we wanted to announce her postions, a couple fans asked me if I was interviewing her while she was racing... I told them that "I was asking her what her HR and Watts were at the time"... I think they thought I was serious... big ups to Mother Theresa for making the trip all the way from the Cape de Cod to race... and do pretty well at that.
Men's 35+ B's- the story was simply Scott Allen showing up for the first time and carting Micholo Pratini around the course, lap after lap... only at the end to have both guys trying to push the other across the line first... Micholo was not going to let Scallen do all the work and not win... that is why I really dig my teammates, because they are... great crossmanship boys, that is what a team is all about...
Masters 55+- Roger "I am also a winning" Gillespie held off the Lew brothers for first...
Singlespeed- was absolutely one of the very best races... Jason "Sammy" Sagar (yeah, like the front man of Van-Halen) showed us why he IS the man... then Alex Rock shows up from nowhere with his gasoline suit on... yes, his gasoline suit (there is an old Pete Rose saying "love the sport hard and it will love you back... I would go through Hell in a gasoline suit to play"...well that is what the Rockstar did, and he would not be denied for the two spot and fought hard for the gold to no avail... this guy is lethal when locked and loaded and stormed through the race harder with each lap, Gardie and I went nuts! I heard Alex may go to the EU next year to race, I hope he does! Jess "the body" Dear was Revolutionary getting 3rd...
Men's C's -was a huge field and everyone went hard.. Mike "I'm not" Walkenhorst took another one, he will be upgrading quickly...
Junior boys 14 and under had another big field with 14 bikes that were loaned out by Canyon Bicycles of Draper... it was Curtis, Hoover and Duncan in that order.
and finally the Junior Girls had a good showing with Chelsey Layer rippin it up for the top spot.
Thanks to all the fans including one Marty Jemison showing his support... here is a really cool link from the SL Tribune Blog regarding the race with pics... and yes thats our own Stephen Chops Lewis commentating, he is quite articulate...good job man!
http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2007/1110_cyclocross/index.html
B-Horn
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Be there!
The Utah State Cyclocross Championships are this weekend at Wheeler Farm... I'm pretty sure that all the 'crossers will be there.... here is a shout out to all the rest of the roadies... be there to cheer these guys and gals on... they work their tails off and it's a lot of fun.
Bring the kids, fam, sig others and even your arch-enemies, but don't forget the cowbells! Here are two pic's to motivate you.
A pre cyclocross version of a dude we all know, and a hardcore psychocross version of what happens when you get the bug (hornet's use that term loosely)...
Before...
And after...
Hardwood has definately gotten stronger but I like the original uniform a lot more than the current team kit... nice belt!
Look forward to seeing you there...
B-Horn
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Don't die, because this could happen to your loved ones!
*A lady died in January (2006), Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, it was then somewhere around $60.00.*A family member placed a call to Citibank. Here was the exchange:
*Family Member:* "I am calling to tell you she died in January."
*Citibank:* "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
*Family Member:* "Maybe, you should turn it over to collections."
* Citibank:* "Since it is two months past due, it already has been."
*Family Member:* "So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?"
*Citibank:* "Either report her account to frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!"
*Family Member:* "Do you think God will be mad at her?"
*Citibank:* "Excuse me?"
*Family Member:* "Did you just get what I was telling you? The part about her being dead?"
*Citibank:* "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor."
*Supervisor gets on the phone:
*Family Member:* " I'm calling to tell you she died in January."
*Citibank:* "The account was never closed, late fees and charges still apply."
*Family Member:* "You mean you want to collect from her estate?"
*Citibank:* (Stammering) "Are you her lawyer?"
*Family Member:* "No, I'm her great nephew."(Lawyer info given)
*Citibank:* "Could you fax us a certificate of death?"
*Family Member:* "Sure."(Fax number is given)
*After they get the fax:*Citibank:* "Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I can do to help." ('cause Citibank clients don't die, every knows that! B.H.)
*Family Member:* "Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care." (nice work F.M.)
*Citibank:* "Well, the late fees and charges do still apply."
*Family Member:* "Would you like her new billing address?"
*Citibank:* "That might help."
* Family Member:* " Odessa Memorial Cemetery , Highway 129, Plot Number 69."
*Citibank:* "Sir, that's a cemetery!"
*Family Member:* "What do you do with dead people on your planet?"
Wow, sounds like we may need to get some info out to the troops manning the lines Citi!
B-Horn
*Family Member:* "I am calling to tell you she died in January."
*Citibank:* "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
*Family Member:* "Maybe, you should turn it over to collections."
* Citibank:* "Since it is two months past due, it already has been."
*Family Member:* "So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?"
*Citibank:* "Either report her account to frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!"
*Family Member:* "Do you think God will be mad at her?"
*Citibank:* "Excuse me?"
*Family Member:* "Did you just get what I was telling you? The part about her being dead?"
*Citibank:* "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor."
*Supervisor gets on the phone:
*Family Member:* " I'm calling to tell you she died in January."
*Citibank:* "The account was never closed, late fees and charges still apply."
*Family Member:* "You mean you want to collect from her estate?"
*Citibank:* (Stammering) "Are you her lawyer?"
*Family Member:* "No, I'm her great nephew."(Lawyer info given)
*Citibank:* "Could you fax us a certificate of death?"
*Family Member:* "Sure."(Fax number is given)
*After they get the fax:*Citibank:* "Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I can do to help." ('cause Citibank clients don't die, every knows that! B.H.)
*Family Member:* "Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care." (nice work F.M.)
*Citibank:* "Well, the late fees and charges do still apply."
*Family Member:* "Would you like her new billing address?"
*Citibank:* "That might help."
* Family Member:* " Odessa Memorial Cemetery , Highway 129, Plot Number 69."
*Citibank:* "Sir, that's a cemetery!"
*Family Member:* "What do you do with dead people on your planet?"
Wow, sounds like we may need to get some info out to the troops manning the lines Citi!
B-Horn
Friday, November 2, 2007
Lance and Ashley, what?
Do, da, do, da, dum, dum, dum... hey maybe I'll text one of the Olsen twins and see if they might want to hook up, they're hotties... dum, dum, dum, dum... let's see which one is which... I like this one, Ashley huh... ok here goes... why am I nervous, I am Lance, how can she say no... dum, do dum, dum...
"Hey, Mary Kate... you are never going to believe this... Lance Armstrong just texted me and wants to hook up and hang in Manhattan tonight... I'm gonna go for it, I knew these sunglasses would make me look older, I'm glad I got you a pair too, I told you they would work! Hey, maybe Tiger Woods would go out with you, he's so cute... oh yeah he's married, hum, lets see who's available"... dum, dum, dum dum...
"Hey, Mary Kate... you are never going to believe this... Lance Armstrong just texted me and wants to hook up and hang in Manhattan tonight... I'm gonna go for it, I knew these sunglasses would make me look older, I'm glad I got you a pair too, I told you they would work! Hey, maybe Tiger Woods would go out with you, he's so cute... oh yeah he's married, hum, lets see who's available"... dum, dum, dum dum...
and that's how it all began...
B-Horn
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
I have a new girlfriend.
She's a red head, she's fast and has nice wheels. When I ask her to go, her only response is "how fast and how far." I think I love her! Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been getting to know her better...
B-Horn
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Cross rocks "part trois"
Our local Samurai is a rubber burnin' lactic acid buildin' blue collar workin' never say die crosser...Sunday's race he bridged, then pulled and attacked...multiple times...Gardie and I thought it was the nads...
Anyway he writes some really detailed stuff about cross within his most recent post found here-http://slc-samurai.blogspot.com/2007/10/thing-about-cross-aka-cx-part-ii.htmlhttp://slc-samurai.blogspot.com/2007/10/thing-about-cross-aka-cx-part-ii.html and if thats not enough go back a bit to his 24 Hours of Moab commentary, the Nose Dive, WTH!
Enjoy, and of course as hardcore cross-dude Team Rico would say,"just go cross!"
B-Horn
Anyway he writes some really detailed stuff about cross within his most recent post found here-http://slc-samurai.blogspot.com/2007/10/thing-about-cross-aka-cx-part-ii.htmlhttp://slc-samurai.blogspot.com/2007/10/thing-about-cross-aka-cx-part-ii.html and if thats not enough go back a bit to his 24 Hours of Moab commentary, the Nose Dive, WTH!
Enjoy, and of course as hardcore cross-dude Team Rico would say,"just go cross!"
B-Horn
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Cross rocks "part deux"
We have a new rider in town Mother Theresa from Mass-a-choo-setts. I think she shared some really impressive insights to why different people do cross and why its cool. So check out her blog at http://www.newbieontheblock.blogspot.com or in the Nest its located under Mass Appeal.
I think MT brings some good stuff to the table so lets eat! This is how the Hornet sees cross from an outsiders viewpoint.
The young juniors- these guys are fun. Bottom line they get separated, go hard and generally like the cool attention they get over the speakers. Every lap each one will look over, some will send a one handed point and others provide the "look-no-hands-ma" classic pose. It get's better after the race with the raffle, that's where the bike skills really come in handy. But, the best part is to interview the pups on mic regarding the tough spots on the course, it's worth it to make a few minutes early to the venue, just to hear this crack analysis.
The Men's C's and Women's B's- you have every kind of rider here. Fast ones in great shape, brand new to the technicalities of cross, and the vice versa crowd, as well as every kind of rider inbetween. This makes these races pretty interesting because placings are up in the air for a lot of postions, especially being that there are lots of groups. Sometimes you will see racers good too hard at first and pop, or more often than not, bridge groups each lap from almost nowhere. If you are in the Mens C's Please make sure you check in early, and if you are a new registrant, please, please come over to the announcing booth so we can match your name with your number. Last week the powerful Men's C's Not Listed Squad dominated, kicked tail, and garnered one-half of the top spots! We really want to yell your name loudly over the airways, so help us out.
Junior's 15-18- wow this is like watching whippets chase tennis balls in Central Park. No fear, fast and are willing to go down in corners at anytime, but usually don't. The trend this year seems to be Mitch Peterson look and ride alikes.
Masters 35+ B's- once again a different type of race. This race will sometimes have a cluster of 3-5 riders in the very front for the majority of the race only to break off at the end, or one by ones at the front end with small groups chasing. Often times with mechanicals, crashes and lead or postition changes, because a good number of racers have a chance... and are burying it. We really try to give insight to lead changes here.
Singlespeed- what the what? Like cyclocross isn't hard enough, lets give them one, uno freekin' gear. Hunh? Whatever. Problem is most of these guys are like thoroughbreds running the Preakness. Warp speeders who generally go pretty solo. So really its a TT in the cold and mud... with one gear! What next boys and girls singlespeed unicycles...backwards...in the dark!
Masters 35+A's- ditto on the 35+ B's, but a bit faster with a few more team tactics. These are savvy experienced cross riders who are going to play a chess game out on the course... the only problem is, most of the time they are redlining while they are trying to think. These guys don't go down much, but when they do... its hard.
Mens and womens A's- Simply three groups- fast, seriously fast and sick fast with superhuman bike skills. Generally, one gets the hole shot and blows up the field the rest chase sometimes in small groups. This results in a few changes from the start, especially near the end... but other times the top 5 can be separated by 5 to 30 seconds or more from lap one throughout.
More fun! Yeah, be Stevechops Lewis, the e-Flynn, Mike Pratini or the rest who decide to do more than one race, usually back to back. It's hard to pull off two top tens, but it is done.
The bottom line is cross is a riot, a real cool thing to bring the fam and friends to. Some racers will kill themselves to win, others will do so just to see what they can do, yet some work hard and smile more, 'cause they're just having a ball. While everyone is cheering, slamming cow bells or just delerious post-race, but most of the time with a grin (just watch Miss Julie, Hardwood or Team Rico) race and you'll know what I mean. Stevechops will even give you high fives mid race.
Lastly, again...please read Mother T's Oct 21st and 22nd blog entries, for the reasons why she digs the local cross-ings... I could have written my thoughts, but why when she articulates it so well.
Peace out,
B-Horn
I think MT brings some good stuff to the table so lets eat! This is how the Hornet sees cross from an outsiders viewpoint.
The young juniors- these guys are fun. Bottom line they get separated, go hard and generally like the cool attention they get over the speakers. Every lap each one will look over, some will send a one handed point and others provide the "look-no-hands-ma" classic pose. It get's better after the race with the raffle, that's where the bike skills really come in handy. But, the best part is to interview the pups on mic regarding the tough spots on the course, it's worth it to make a few minutes early to the venue, just to hear this crack analysis.
The Men's C's and Women's B's- you have every kind of rider here. Fast ones in great shape, brand new to the technicalities of cross, and the vice versa crowd, as well as every kind of rider inbetween. This makes these races pretty interesting because placings are up in the air for a lot of postions, especially being that there are lots of groups. Sometimes you will see racers good too hard at first and pop, or more often than not, bridge groups each lap from almost nowhere. If you are in the Mens C's Please make sure you check in early, and if you are a new registrant, please, please come over to the announcing booth so we can match your name with your number. Last week the powerful Men's C's Not Listed Squad dominated, kicked tail, and garnered one-half of the top spots! We really want to yell your name loudly over the airways, so help us out.
Junior's 15-18- wow this is like watching whippets chase tennis balls in Central Park. No fear, fast and are willing to go down in corners at anytime, but usually don't. The trend this year seems to be Mitch Peterson look and ride alikes.
Masters 35+ B's- once again a different type of race. This race will sometimes have a cluster of 3-5 riders in the very front for the majority of the race only to break off at the end, or one by ones at the front end with small groups chasing. Often times with mechanicals, crashes and lead or postition changes, because a good number of racers have a chance... and are burying it. We really try to give insight to lead changes here.
Singlespeed- what the what? Like cyclocross isn't hard enough, lets give them one, uno freekin' gear. Hunh? Whatever. Problem is most of these guys are like thoroughbreds running the Preakness. Warp speeders who generally go pretty solo. So really its a TT in the cold and mud... with one gear! What next boys and girls singlespeed unicycles...backwards...in the dark!
Masters 35+A's- ditto on the 35+ B's, but a bit faster with a few more team tactics. These are savvy experienced cross riders who are going to play a chess game out on the course... the only problem is, most of the time they are redlining while they are trying to think. These guys don't go down much, but when they do... its hard.
Mens and womens A's- Simply three groups- fast, seriously fast and sick fast with superhuman bike skills. Generally, one gets the hole shot and blows up the field the rest chase sometimes in small groups. This results in a few changes from the start, especially near the end... but other times the top 5 can be separated by 5 to 30 seconds or more from lap one throughout.
More fun! Yeah, be Stevechops Lewis, the e-Flynn, Mike Pratini or the rest who decide to do more than one race, usually back to back. It's hard to pull off two top tens, but it is done.
The bottom line is cross is a riot, a real cool thing to bring the fam and friends to. Some racers will kill themselves to win, others will do so just to see what they can do, yet some work hard and smile more, 'cause they're just having a ball. While everyone is cheering, slamming cow bells or just delerious post-race, but most of the time with a grin (just watch Miss Julie, Hardwood or Team Rico) race and you'll know what I mean. Stevechops will even give you high fives mid race.
Lastly, again...please read Mother T's Oct 21st and 22nd blog entries, for the reasons why she digs the local cross-ings... I could have written my thoughts, but why when she articulates it so well.
Peace out,
B-Horn
Monday, October 22, 2007
Cyclo- Cross is mucho funno!
Announced Cross for the second time yesterday, the first was with the Marek... and yesterday with G-Love. Both days were a gas.
Working with Marek is like being on an ESPN7 cyclocross set. He has all of the sayings of an A-list broadcaster. Aka "cool as the other side of the pillow" sort of stuff, and he runs around like Sandy Perrins on crack... let alone the creative names he comes up with for certain parts of the course. I needed his help, my first race at RMR was the men's C's, which if I self graded my performance on a scale of 1-10, I would venture to guess that I was pretty close to a minus 14. But, after that it came together a bit better and was a BLAST!
G-Love (aka Luscious Jackson) is simply legendary at the task. Before, during and after races a ton of people come by to say hi and check in with the man. Yesterday, was a double whammy because we are both from the Boston area and big Sox fans (how else do you think I got the gig) so we, (ok, I) talked Sox trash throughout the race. I really look forward toward working with Gardie again, he made it really enjoyable.
Saw T-Mac at the UCA awards fest, and he announced on Saturday, so man, we have the Big Dawg of the Tour de Utah rolling out the commentary, sweet. So I guess what I'm sayin' is I'm a pretty lucky guy....go figure, those three are like Ramirez, Ortiz and Lowell, sorry I digress...11-2...sorry, three straight...whoops!
Matt Ohran, Jon Gallagher and the crew really do a great job with the setting up the courses, general organization, officiating and scoring, basically the whole enchilada. And lastly, all the sponsors donating a lot of time, support and cool stuff. If you have some spawn that want to play cross, bring 'em out, Canyon Bicycles of Draper will set em up on a loaner cross bike to see if Cross is for them, if it's not they don't supply violins, sorry.
Note from the Nest- Bob Walker went down at the barrier section yesterday, where he broke his leg... Dr. Kris was right there attending to him... and yeah he rode his bike to the car! Best wishes Bobchops for a speedy recovery, everyone will miss you man!
I am really impressed with the whole show, thanks for letting me be part of it. My goal now is to screw up less and less each race, I know- big aspirations. Anyway, up next, comments about Cross at the RMR on 10/13 and Wheeler on 10/21...
Out,
B-Horn
Working with Marek is like being on an ESPN7 cyclocross set. He has all of the sayings of an A-list broadcaster. Aka "cool as the other side of the pillow" sort of stuff, and he runs around like Sandy Perrins on crack... let alone the creative names he comes up with for certain parts of the course. I needed his help, my first race at RMR was the men's C's, which if I self graded my performance on a scale of 1-10, I would venture to guess that I was pretty close to a minus 14. But, after that it came together a bit better and was a BLAST!
G-Love (aka Luscious Jackson) is simply legendary at the task. Before, during and after races a ton of people come by to say hi and check in with the man. Yesterday, was a double whammy because we are both from the Boston area and big Sox fans (how else do you think I got the gig) so we, (ok, I) talked Sox trash throughout the race. I really look forward toward working with Gardie again, he made it really enjoyable.
Saw T-Mac at the UCA awards fest, and he announced on Saturday, so man, we have the Big Dawg of the Tour de Utah rolling out the commentary, sweet. So I guess what I'm sayin' is I'm a pretty lucky guy....go figure, those three are like Ramirez, Ortiz and Lowell, sorry I digress...11-2...sorry, three straight...whoops!
Matt Ohran, Jon Gallagher and the crew really do a great job with the setting up the courses, general organization, officiating and scoring, basically the whole enchilada. And lastly, all the sponsors donating a lot of time, support and cool stuff. If you have some spawn that want to play cross, bring 'em out, Canyon Bicycles of Draper will set em up on a loaner cross bike to see if Cross is for them, if it's not they don't supply violins, sorry.
Note from the Nest- Bob Walker went down at the barrier section yesterday, where he broke his leg... Dr. Kris was right there attending to him... and yeah he rode his bike to the car! Best wishes Bobchops for a speedy recovery, everyone will miss you man!
I am really impressed with the whole show, thanks for letting me be part of it. My goal now is to screw up less and less each race, I know- big aspirations. Anyway, up next, comments about Cross at the RMR on 10/13 and Wheeler on 10/21...
Out,
B-Horn
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Put the telemarketers out to pasture!
Again some great info from Sean "the cell-mate" Hoover...
REMINDER...12 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls........YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222 . (You must call on the phone that you want registered- this will not work from another number) It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years.
Help others by passing this on to friends and the family members you actually like (sorry I added that part) It only takes about 20 seconds, (or the time it takes for Hardwood to down a Kiev-again I took liberty)
Thanks Sean, and if you let 10 friends know about this you will have good Karma for the rest of the year!
B-Horn
REMINDER...12 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls........YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222 . (You must call on the phone that you want registered- this will not work from another number) It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years.
Help others by passing this on to friends and the family members you actually like (sorry I added that part) It only takes about 20 seconds, (or the time it takes for Hardwood to down a Kiev-again I took liberty)
Thanks Sean, and if you let 10 friends know about this you will have good Karma for the rest of the year!
B-Horn
Thursday, September 27, 2007
What do you think?
I want to promote an epic bike ride in the next year or two in the Salt Lake Valley that can't be duplicated anywhere near a major metropolitan area... Why you ask? Please read on-
Nicholas Negropante is a man that has a big goal and refuses to be told he can't accomplish it. He is the founder of a non-profit organization called One Laptop Per Child http://www.xogiving.org/ His goal- to provide a laptop to every child that needs one in Africa. He met with the leaders of three African Nations to tell them that he wanted to produce a very cost attractive computer to accomplish his goal. One leader in particular shared her (rather large concerns) like-
Nicholas Negropante is a man that has a big goal and refuses to be told he can't accomplish it. He is the founder of a non-profit organization called One Laptop Per Child http://www.xogiving.org/ His goal- to provide a laptop to every child that needs one in Africa. He met with the leaders of three African Nations to tell them that he wanted to produce a very cost attractive computer to accomplish his goal. One leader in particular shared her (rather large concerns) like-
- We lack sufficient energy resources- can you make it super energy efficient, that will require low wattage?- Answer from N.N.- "sure!"
- These will be going to kids, can you make it extremely durable- Answer from N.N.- "sure."
- Can you make it solar powered?.."sure."
- Can you make it really sensitive to local hot spots? ..."sure."
- Can you make it so it is impervious to severe heat..."sure."
- Since they will be used outside can you make them glare resistant?... "sure."
(paraphrasing) "in fact I'll make it cool looking with neat software for music and a couple of interactive games, and make it e-book extraordinaire. Oh yeah, and my goal is to produce them for $100 US dollars each."
So, Nicholas went back to his production plant in Cambridge MA and had his team work it up... and now... it is rated very highly for its indestructibility, and might be one of the most sensitive units out there for hot spots... it is solar powered, is super energy efficient, is really cool looking, is bake tested in ovens to 140 degrees F, and has the cool software stuff he mentioned to her... Right now it's price point is $188 because of lack of production, but they may be able to produce this in the near future (based on volume) for get this, da, da, da, da... $50!
Now he needs governments, companies, organizations and individuals to donate $$$. He is offering a one and one special. You buy one for $399 dollars and one is donated AND shipped to an African child. Your purchase is tax deductible,so it is really just about $288 (based on your tax bracket).
Here is my idea (I would like everyone who reads this blog to let me know what they think, please!)
I want to establish an truly epic ride. It will be called the Daniel "Popa" Santoro Tribute ride for African Children.
It will encompass six Salt Lake Canyons, 16,000 vertical feet and run 130 miles...It will start in Draper, go up the North Side of Traverse Ridge to the Stop sign and back down then up and down Little, Big, Mill (to the gate), Emigration and City, ending at the top with a party...
This could be done (before) in conjunction with Lotoja as a training ride, it also would be invaluable to those training for the Everest Challenge. As you know everyone and there brothers asks this question to every cyclist around "did you do LOTOJA?"... now they may say... "did you do Popa's?" We are the only city, possibly anywhere, that has the canyons to do it, and the population of riders to make this ride a true great!
It gets better, like the MS ride we will ask for donations, all proceeds going to One Laptop Per Child, and we could even pick a sister African Township of say 3,000 school age children to try to meet the goal of supplying them all! Individual certificates go out to all who completed at least one canyon, this could be incentive each year to do more canyons, obviously promoting a more healthy lifestyle for the typical citizen riders. Each year we could pick another sister township and so on... It also makes us, as cyclist's, more human to non-cyclists in the community... when we do something truly altruistic like this. I'm really charged about this one, I realize the challenges, but whatever, look at what Nick did... he's the hero here.
Thanks for your time reading this, so what do you think?
B-Horn
Monday, September 24, 2007
Tour de Mizz
The V had cov of the TdM and it was cool to see the props that not only Louder got in the "Beer" KOM Jersey, but also for the Z-man and Burke... "who they call T-Bird."
and what a crash in the final sprint out... that was definately an "agony of defeat" clip, yet the dude got back on his bike and finished... man he deserved points in the "most industructable" category...
Good job Mizz, we need the Vs to cover the Tour of Utah next year!
B-Horn
and what a crash in the final sprint out... that was definately an "agony of defeat" clip, yet the dude got back on his bike and finished... man he deserved points in the "most industructable" category...
Good job Mizz, we need the Vs to cover the Tour of Utah next year!
B-Horn
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Climber's Cup people...
Jon Gallagher is the man! He put on another great race and even ordered a tail wind, a big tail wind...to the tune of speed's hitting 40mph plus on the flats. So Jon does his race stuff, gets a quick warm up, then rips it up. He's going to Seattle this weekend and will do the World Cyclocross Championships later this year. The G-man waited to peek late, so keep an eye on him- he should do well... and by the way he looks like Levi from the back when he's spinning circles...
Talkin' 'bout doing well in the World's congrats to another one for Dirkus Cowleyus, he trained like a dog this summer, right up and through nationals, way to work it D.C.
Shaeffer is flying right now, obviously... he put in a great time, as did Zimble(men), yeah I pluralized him... Shaef-dog is going to the Everst Challange, I think he's gonna tame it, so good luck Bra, and to all the other Paul Tracy's facing it... I know the Boss is on form, hell everyone's strong in the P.T... but special kudo's to Jimmy Wingman, he's a power man by trade but always show's up to climb, lay it down!
Kash Johnson is a way fast climber, and yeah he's 15... He could be like another Mitch "Copper" Peterson...we'll get back to him soon...so what's Kash's nickname going to be... please vote...and feel free to add your own.
Talkin' 'bout doing well in the World's congrats to another one for Dirkus Cowleyus, he trained like a dog this summer, right up and through nationals, way to work it D.C.
Shaeffer is flying right now, obviously... he put in a great time, as did Zimble(men), yeah I pluralized him... Shaef-dog is going to the Everst Challange, I think he's gonna tame it, so good luck Bra, and to all the other Paul Tracy's facing it... I know the Boss is on form, hell everyone's strong in the P.T... but special kudo's to Jimmy Wingman, he's a power man by trade but always show's up to climb, lay it down!
Kash Johnson is a way fast climber, and yeah he's 15... He could be like another Mitch "Copper" Peterson...we'll get back to him soon...so what's Kash's nickname going to be... please vote...and feel free to add your own.
- Kash "Valley"
- Fast Kash
- Cold hard Kash
- Mo' Kash (double meaning in Utah)
- Kash on hand
- Kash in the bank
- Rockin' the Kash-ba
- Kash it in
- Kash on the Barrel-head
- Don't except checks...sorry I ran out
Mitchell Peterson is so fast there is no nickname... but he wears a cool uni with a big sherrif's badge on it, so I'll call him the Copper... he's kinda like a Mod Squad dude with that big hair... Mitch if you cut it you could gain about a minute on the climb, but the college chicks might not dig it... so keep your priorities straight and keep the coif...
New fast chick, ex-oly gal Abby Larson... second straight torching of a local Hill Climb... watch out for her, she is new to the sport...looks like the femme fatal version of Billy the Kid Demong who tore up the 3's this year. Way to go Abbith Climbith... latin is totally in for nicknames right now...
That's it for now, gotta bring the male spawn to guitar lessons ASAP or I'm DOA.
B-Horn
Friday, September 14, 2007
Talent
In the Hornet's Nest go to a blog named One Fast Squirrel (he's a hardcore Paul Tracy teamer from No-Cal) and check out the U-tube posted on the most recent blog.
Sanford and Son rules! That's talent.
B-Horn
Sanford and Son rules! That's talent.
B-Horn
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Man-o-man!!!
This is huge... Dave Sharp sent out a chain e-mail with a comment of "Nate Pack, who is this guy... a Cat 5 with a 9:16 at Lotoja, he must have soloed."
Here are some facts about Nate-
Here are some facts about Nate-
- He posted a 50 flat time in Snowbird several years ago at 5'11" 197 lbs with a good portion of body fat...thats right 50 flat, he ave. over 440watts...
- I met him on a climb last year and told him how I knew about his climb times, and how impressed I was that a dude of his size could climb like that.
- He is a very intellingent dude (who analyzes training like Max Testa) and likes to do shorter sessions on the trainer (year round) of really hard intervals Vs time in the saddle...
- He's about as nice of a guy as they come...
- He took me up on a gratis offer to help him lose weight, he got down to 168 last spring and kept the same wattage... imagine what he would have done the SBHC in...anyway between the training, dieting, having a new baby and remodeling a house, it burned him out... he gained a lot of weight back. Then I never heard from him again until today, in response to an e-mail of mine.
- Apparently, he quit riding until May, then started riding around 8 hours a week throughout the summer.
- He didn't feel great during Lotoja and kept it steady... he said he soloed close to a total of 140 miles of the race.... and still posted a 9:16! What if he would have been with the group of 180?!?
This guy is an absolute cycling machine... Nate there is no reason to apologize to me, you didn't let me down... I don't know what to say outside of "amazing bro."
B-Horn
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Things you can do with your cell phone.
Sean "Bourne" Hoover had the following to share regarding cell phones...
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST-----Emergency-The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number, 112, can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND-Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
THIRD- Hidden Battery Power. Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
FOURTH- How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone. To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes th e SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either . If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. And Finally....
FIFTH- Free Directory Service for Cells. Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
Thanks, great info Sean,
B-Horn
5 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW CELL PHONES COULD DO
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST-----Emergency-The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number, 112, can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND-Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
THIRD- Hidden Battery Power. Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
FOURTH- How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone. To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes th e SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either . If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. And Finally....
FIFTH- Free Directory Service for Cells. Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
Thanks, great info Sean,
B-Horn
Monday, September 10, 2007
No Way!
Today something pretty cool happened, it just goes to show how Karma is linked and what a small world it really is... hope you like it.
First the facts then how they relate-
First the facts then how they relate-
- Three years ago I rode for Midoule and really enjoyed it. To this day when I see the guys we'll hook up to ride. Hence Chris Petersen was nice enough to keep me on their active e-mail list.
- I host the Tour de France competition in July on this blog, the winner gets his/her beverage of choice. Utrider wins. We exchange names and numbers to get the job done.
- I receive a chain e-mail from a Midoule rider Brian V. on Friday with regard to a bike that was stolen from him, that he found on e-bay... with great info on how to prevent theft and what to do after the fact.
- I post it Friday (see blog)
- I get a phone call at work this morning from a guy who saw his bike listed on a link within Brian's text.
Those are the facts, this is how it runs... the rider listed in #5 calls me at work because he knows Utrider, who is one of only a few people with my work phone number, or for that matter know my full name...
So sometimes blogs work, and they work fast... but this would not have come about without Midoule keeping me on their active chain e-mail group; and without Brian V. taking the time to help others (let alone attaching some key links of stolen bikes) and then finally the advent of the blog to distribute the information...
Job done for the day, everyone raise a big cold one for Karma, technology, a bit of good luck and the recovery of a another bike.
B-Horn
Friday, September 7, 2007
Has your bike been stolen, read on...
Great post from fellow rider Brian V from the Midoule Squad... he had his bike stolen and months later found it on e-bay... apparently there is a rash of thefts going on, so Brian decided to get out some valuable information regarding this... read on.
I thought you guys might be interested to know that I just recovered my bike that was stolen from my garage almost two months ago (along with some other items), after spotting it on eBay. ) I was about to the point of giving up looking for it when it appeared. I've heard from the various bike shops around town that they've all noticed an increase in bike thefts lately, and so it is probably worthwhile for all of us to be more aware. Through some diligence there is a chance you can recover your stolen items, and hopefully take down these guys. Since I am already on to a new bike, I am mainly just concerned in catching these guys and getting them off the street. (I think this is all a result of bad karma when about a year ago I saw a homeless guy riding around on a top-of-the-line Bianchi with flip flops and clipless pedals and chuckling to myself, "That bike is totally stolen and he has no idea what it is worth.")
Apparently some local pawn shops are involved in this rash of thefts, and this is the story my guy is also following, claiming he bought it from a pawn shop and had no idea it was stolen. Despite the fact that I totally don't believe him and he was very evasive when I tried to see the bike in person and despite the negative review accusing him of dealing in stolen goods, I'll follow the line of our judicial system, and allow him to remain innocent until proven guilty. So, as of right now, I won't give out his contact info and email address for us all to spam him. It appears that over the course of two years he has sold over 100 bikes or frames.
However, of concern to me is that even though he took down my bike from eBay, he still has two bikes actively listed that I can only presume are stolen. Included is a nice Felt carbon bike built up with DA components, being sold with no reserve. You can see them at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Felt-F1-C-Carbon-Dura-Ace-Ksyrium-Easton-Road-Bike_W0QQitemZ140154161981QQihZ004QQcategoryZ98084QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com/Trek-Pro-9-9-OCLV-Carbon-Bike-XTR-Rock-Shox-Avid_W0QQitemZ140154170810QQihZ004QQcategoryZ98083QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It should be noted that they chopped up my bike and put a different wheel set, seat and seat post, and pedals in a bad attempt to make it look different. I assume the same has been done to these bikes. It makes sense to forward this email to anyone you know who rides locally and hopefully someone else can also recover their lost bike. Or maybe you want to bid, it looks like a really good deal.
I've told the police on my guess of the value of the Felt bike and told them that likely someone who can buy a bike like that isn't going to pawn it away for a couple hundred bucks.
I don't know if I'll recover my Ksyrium wheel set (which was purchased less than a year ago and is probably worth more than the bike at this point) or the other items stolen. As a result of this fun little experience I've got a few easy tips to help you recover your bike, and none of it requires wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat with a camera hidden inside:
1. Write on some small slips of paper your name, contact information and some variation of "If you find this note, this bike has been stolen..." and put it inside your handlebars and/or in your head tube. In the chance that they chop up your bike, or knock off the serial number this will help you identify your bike.
2. Write on the inside of your wheel set with a sharpie or paint pen your name and contact info, either under the rim tape or wherever. I didn't think of it before hand, but my wheel set had a serial number as well that I should have written down.
3. If you haven't already, make record of your serial number(s) and even give it to your insurance company. You may also want to take photos of your bike, including any significant marks or chips or whatever, and with every upgrade or noteworthy change.
4. Check eBay and CraigsList for your stuff. eBay even lets you save searches and it will notify you if any like items appear. What could have been my fatal mistake was I didn't have my search broad enough. The guy put spaces in between the lettering on "200 SCI" so my automated search didn't catch it. Luckily I did a manual search of "Kestrel 200".
5. If you do find your bike, if you bid on it you can request the seller's contact information. WARNING: When you request their information, it also sends your contact information to them, so you may want to be sure you are comfortable doing that, or at the very least chose a phone number that can't be easily traced back to you, if you fear retribution. On grandcentral.com you can get a free phone number that can redirect to your real number. (I'm a little disappointed in eBay's stance on this, but only a police officer can report to them a stolen item, and then eBay will assist in getting the information to the police officer. Given the speed that things come and go, and how long that will likely take, there is a good chance your bike will be long gone before they take action.)
6. Once you have a phone number you can do a free reverse search on a variety of phonebook sites and get their address.
7. Keep pressing the police if you do find it. Although the SLCPD was very helpful, I imagine that in their view a single stolen bike isn't a big enough ticket item to get excited about. You are likely going to have to do much of the legwork yourself. However, if this guy has indeed sold 100+ stolen bikes at an average of $500 each (likely much more) that is at least $50,000 in stolen merchandise.
Anyway, spread the word and hopefully we can help curb some of this stuff and also help some people recover their bikes.
Brian
Great info and detail, thanks Brian,
B-Horn
I thought you guys might be interested to know that I just recovered my bike that was stolen from my garage almost two months ago (along with some other items), after spotting it on eBay. ) I was about to the point of giving up looking for it when it appeared. I've heard from the various bike shops around town that they've all noticed an increase in bike thefts lately, and so it is probably worthwhile for all of us to be more aware. Through some diligence there is a chance you can recover your stolen items, and hopefully take down these guys. Since I am already on to a new bike, I am mainly just concerned in catching these guys and getting them off the street. (I think this is all a result of bad karma when about a year ago I saw a homeless guy riding around on a top-of-the-line Bianchi with flip flops and clipless pedals and chuckling to myself, "That bike is totally stolen and he has no idea what it is worth.")
Apparently some local pawn shops are involved in this rash of thefts, and this is the story my guy is also following, claiming he bought it from a pawn shop and had no idea it was stolen. Despite the fact that I totally don't believe him and he was very evasive when I tried to see the bike in person and despite the negative review accusing him of dealing in stolen goods, I'll follow the line of our judicial system, and allow him to remain innocent until proven guilty. So, as of right now, I won't give out his contact info and email address for us all to spam him. It appears that over the course of two years he has sold over 100 bikes or frames.
However, of concern to me is that even though he took down my bike from eBay, he still has two bikes actively listed that I can only presume are stolen. Included is a nice Felt carbon bike built up with DA components, being sold with no reserve. You can see them at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Felt-F1-C-Carbon-Dura-Ace-Ksyrium-Easton-Road-Bike_W0QQitemZ140154161981QQihZ004QQcategoryZ98084QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com/Trek-Pro-9-9-OCLV-Carbon-Bike-XTR-Rock-Shox-Avid_W0QQitemZ140154170810QQihZ004QQcategoryZ98083QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It should be noted that they chopped up my bike and put a different wheel set, seat and seat post, and pedals in a bad attempt to make it look different. I assume the same has been done to these bikes. It makes sense to forward this email to anyone you know who rides locally and hopefully someone else can also recover their lost bike. Or maybe you want to bid, it looks like a really good deal.
I've told the police on my guess of the value of the Felt bike and told them that likely someone who can buy a bike like that isn't going to pawn it away for a couple hundred bucks.
I don't know if I'll recover my Ksyrium wheel set (which was purchased less than a year ago and is probably worth more than the bike at this point) or the other items stolen. As a result of this fun little experience I've got a few easy tips to help you recover your bike, and none of it requires wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat with a camera hidden inside:
1. Write on some small slips of paper your name, contact information and some variation of "If you find this note, this bike has been stolen..." and put it inside your handlebars and/or in your head tube. In the chance that they chop up your bike, or knock off the serial number this will help you identify your bike.
2. Write on the inside of your wheel set with a sharpie or paint pen your name and contact info, either under the rim tape or wherever. I didn't think of it before hand, but my wheel set had a serial number as well that I should have written down.
3. If you haven't already, make record of your serial number(s) and even give it to your insurance company. You may also want to take photos of your bike, including any significant marks or chips or whatever, and with every upgrade or noteworthy change.
4. Check eBay and CraigsList for your stuff. eBay even lets you save searches and it will notify you if any like items appear. What could have been my fatal mistake was I didn't have my search broad enough. The guy put spaces in between the lettering on "200 SCI" so my automated search didn't catch it. Luckily I did a manual search of "Kestrel 200".
5. If you do find your bike, if you bid on it you can request the seller's contact information. WARNING: When you request their information, it also sends your contact information to them, so you may want to be sure you are comfortable doing that, or at the very least chose a phone number that can't be easily traced back to you, if you fear retribution. On grandcentral.com you can get a free phone number that can redirect to your real number. (I'm a little disappointed in eBay's stance on this, but only a police officer can report to them a stolen item, and then eBay will assist in getting the information to the police officer. Given the speed that things come and go, and how long that will likely take, there is a good chance your bike will be long gone before they take action.)
6. Once you have a phone number you can do a free reverse search on a variety of phonebook sites and get their address.
7. Keep pressing the police if you do find it. Although the SLCPD was very helpful, I imagine that in their view a single stolen bike isn't a big enough ticket item to get excited about. You are likely going to have to do much of the legwork yourself. However, if this guy has indeed sold 100+ stolen bikes at an average of $500 each (likely much more) that is at least $50,000 in stolen merchandise.
Anyway, spread the word and hopefully we can help curb some of this stuff and also help some people recover their bikes.
Brian
Great info and detail, thanks Brian,
B-Horn
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Webster's to publish new words and def's this week.
I do some consulting for the publisher of Webster's Dictionary. After the TT this weekend I traveled non-stop around the globe to most of the English speaking nations. Our crack team of professionals submitted this elite list of new words and def's... as always, you are first to know.
- Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.
- Bozone (n.): substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating; the bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
- Cashtration (n.): act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
- Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit & the person who doesn't get it.
- Inoculatte: to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
- Hipatitis: terminal coolness.
- Osteopornosis: a degenerate disease.
- Decafalon (n.): the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
- Glibido: all talk & no action.
- Doppler Effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
- Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning & cannot be cast out.
- Ignoranus: a person who's both stupid & an ...
Study up, and please use correctly, if you need any assistance with these terms- see me after the next race...
- Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.
- Bozone (n.): substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating; the bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
- Cashtration (n.): act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
- Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit & the person who doesn't get it.
- Inoculatte: to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
- Hipatitis: terminal coolness.
- Osteopornosis: a degenerate disease.
- Decafalon (n.): the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
- Glibido: all talk & no action.
- Doppler Effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
- Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning & cannot be cast out.
- Ignoranus: a person who's both stupid & an ...
Study up, and please use correctly, if you need any assistance with these terms- see me after the next race...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
The Fall is coming!
Yeah, yeah and yeah!
Get the rides done early 'cause it's all about college football (App State / Michigan) come on... Fla State and Clemson in Death Valley... High School F.B.- the Ohio Challange where Ohio teams played some of the best teams in the Country and man helmets were flying...
Baseball, Sox are up 7 games and the Cubs might just pull it out...
I even watched the US Open and Golf ... it was awesome. Tiger and Phil going at it... Phil is Mr Short Game, holy smokes... went to Heber to play a round with my red headed spawn. and I've been knighted the official Mr No Game by the Homestead Homies- but my son drives a cart like Mario Andretti, so we got that going for us... I guess when you hit a 134 on 9 ya gotta go at speed, ya know...
The Pro's start this week, that's football Mon, Thurs, Fri (H.S), Sat and Sun. I guess Tue I'll take a shower and Wed I will brush my teeth... that should keep me busy...
Get the rides done early 'cause it's all about college football (App State / Michigan) come on... Fla State and Clemson in Death Valley... High School F.B.- the Ohio Challange where Ohio teams played some of the best teams in the Country and man helmets were flying...
Baseball, Sox are up 7 games and the Cubs might just pull it out...
I even watched the US Open and Golf ... it was awesome. Tiger and Phil going at it... Phil is Mr Short Game, holy smokes... went to Heber to play a round with my red headed spawn. and I've been knighted the official Mr No Game by the Homestead Homies- but my son drives a cart like Mario Andretti, so we got that going for us... I guess when you hit a 134 on 9 ya gotta go at speed, ya know...
The Pro's start this week, that's football Mon, Thurs, Fri (H.S), Sat and Sun. I guess Tue I'll take a shower and Wed I will brush my teeth... that should keep me busy...
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tomorrow will be...
LRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL
-will have a trail of fire eminating from his wheels... the Manitoba Missle has been eating lightnin' and poopin' thunder... this bad, bad man is going to lay down one blistering time. The Skull's in the Valley will be yapping once and for all...
-will have a trail of fire eminating from his wheels... the Manitoba Missle has been eating lightnin' and poopin' thunder... this bad, bad man is going to lay down one blistering time. The Skull's in the Valley will be yapping once and for all...
Monday, August 27, 2007
Paul Tracy Part Deux- Sanpete style.
How do you spell pain - P.A.U.L T.R.A.C.Y... simply stated after Sat's race even my hair hurts...
The Canyon boy's did a great job doing the tactical things at first, then it was go time... 2 on 2 with Andre Gonzalez and myself matched up with Jim "Wingman" Robbins and Steve "Hazardous material" Kircher (sorry I forgot the nickname but it works). From this point on it was a hard paceline going forward, non-stop... these guys are horses, or more accurately Mustangs... they would have just kept on going... even if everyone blew up... until they ended up in the Atlantic off of Maine...
Jim was relentless, and Steve's elastic band never unwound. At the end Steve wanted to drag race at 1000 meters, I cramped badly at 1200, he wanted to wait for me, huh? I implored him to take it (he deserved it). I had to pedal in right footed (that must have looked pretty ugly). I made it in, only to cramp for the next 1/2 hour. This is not an excuse, this is simply the fact of trying to pace with those cylclodroids...well it didn't kill me... so I must be stronger. Thanks Canyon gang for all of the hard work, Andre for being there and sticking it out and to the P.T. guys for putting the big hurt on... I'm just glad Mike "Chickey" Anderson decided to just sit in... Seriously, thanks guys for another "lesson," school was definately in session.
Congrat's to solid Ben Nichols for winning his first Cat 3 race (after coming soooo close) and to Spence DeBry, great race and even better sportsmanship bra.
The Mazda 45+ crew had a pretty good day taking 1-3 and 5. When Gary Porter is acting as a domestique...enough said. Teammate Louie Riel was outnumbered but worked his Canadian Bacon off regardless of group numbers, nice job...
Last but not least, T-Mac was in the house and he looks pretty good... needless to say his mere prescense was insirational and a sight for sore eyes... Raise a big Dave Harward Kiev Brewha for Mr Terry... In fact two or three for the dude, I can't think of anyone more worthy!
The Canyon boy's did a great job doing the tactical things at first, then it was go time... 2 on 2 with Andre Gonzalez and myself matched up with Jim "Wingman" Robbins and Steve "Hazardous material" Kircher (sorry I forgot the nickname but it works). From this point on it was a hard paceline going forward, non-stop... these guys are horses, or more accurately Mustangs... they would have just kept on going... even if everyone blew up... until they ended up in the Atlantic off of Maine...
Jim was relentless, and Steve's elastic band never unwound. At the end Steve wanted to drag race at 1000 meters, I cramped badly at 1200, he wanted to wait for me, huh? I implored him to take it (he deserved it). I had to pedal in right footed (that must have looked pretty ugly). I made it in, only to cramp for the next 1/2 hour. This is not an excuse, this is simply the fact of trying to pace with those cylclodroids...well it didn't kill me... so I must be stronger. Thanks Canyon gang for all of the hard work, Andre for being there and sticking it out and to the P.T. guys for putting the big hurt on... I'm just glad Mike "Chickey" Anderson decided to just sit in... Seriously, thanks guys for another "lesson," school was definately in session.
Congrat's to solid Ben Nichols for winning his first Cat 3 race (after coming soooo close) and to Spence DeBry, great race and even better sportsmanship bra.
The Mazda 45+ crew had a pretty good day taking 1-3 and 5. When Gary Porter is acting as a domestique...enough said. Teammate Louie Riel was outnumbered but worked his Canadian Bacon off regardless of group numbers, nice job...
Last but not least, T-Mac was in the house and he looks pretty good... needless to say his mere prescense was insirational and a sight for sore eyes... Raise a big Dave Harward Kiev Brewha for Mr Terry... In fact two or three for the dude, I can't think of anyone more worthy!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Stuff about the characters of the '07 TdG
Let's start with the Cat 1-3 ladies...being that it was kind of hot at the crit... they were walking around in tank tops and bikini's before the race... ok, maybe an exaggeration... anyway these gals are really fit, I'm glad I had sunglasses on. Seriously, the hard work shows ladies.
Keeping on the same subject, Can-Am Kirsten Kotval (ex-national crit champ) was tooling around the wacked corner at the crit, when her front wheel just went perp out of nowhere. She hit really hard. It looked just like one of the crashes in Euro-land when the sprinters are lining it up. She landed on her caboose and just sat there stunned, got up, was moved to the ambulance where they bandaged her up on her caboose, leg and arm...then put goop on her fat lip... her bike and carbon wheels were fine, so she got back on her bike to cool down... She is one tough chick, and don't worry Kirsten-swooners, she still looked fine with her big ol' lip... and she's alright- her biggest concern after the crash was for the other riders that crashed behind her, that's class. By the way, the cause of the mechanical- looks her Specialized chain ring on her Tarmac SL gave out, so if that's your ride, Specialized will switch it out fo' fee with a Dura-ace set up... take heed!
Nicole Evans got 6 minutes on the field in the first climbing stage (with only 10 days of training in her legs after the mono-episode), she stayed with the lead pack in the crit, yet before the stage 4 TT she was lined up in one-spot, apparantly she had some serious der. prob's in stage 3. Typical Nicole, smiling ear to ear before and after the TT, who would have known.
Chuck Collins rules! I will say it again, Chuck Collins rules... he must have either taught at, or attended the Luscious Jackson School of Motivation. I, like many have seen C.C. when he is on... no matter what, he is just a good guy, got me pumped up to continue to press hard on stage one...thanks Chuck, hope I can be half as motivational when you can use it bra.
The Claw- this is the second time I have called the Claw out... whatever this guy didn't get in natural talent he clawed (like that) his way through hard work and persistance. Every year he gets better and better at climbing, breakaways, crits and TT'ing, and when it comes to the latter in the 45+ he is right there already... so for the newbies... if you want to get good, and it doesn't come overnight, well just work your tail off until you are, or forever hold your claw (sorry).
Don Armstrong is Ford tough, what are they putting in the water up there? These guys are bad-bad men... Don, when Mark Schaeffer is "worried" about you, you gotta be good, oh yeah and John McWin had the same thing to say... I want to see you and Porter go 10 rounds in the ring, don't know who would win but...what a fight that would be. I don't think Mike McDonald would approve, but I'll only take 10% of the share...
Last, but not least, this is all about Andrey Yarbrough. Andrey used to be the race organizer for the Tour de Gap, he lives in Brian Head with his lovely racer lady Utahna. Andrey races, big deal right? Well yeah it's a big deal when riding and minding his own biz he gets plastered by a truck! OK, a Mack Truck! Better yet a Mack Dump Truck! He did, and has the scars all over to prove it... too many injuries to name including titanium plates in his head... interesting fact- he used to put out 400 watts for 6min's at 147 lbs (calculate that P-man)... anyway he was the main reason the break worked in stage 3. For the first 10 miles he was a mad-man, I got a glimpse of what those 400 watts must have looked like burning rubber... by the way, he is looking at setting up a race in St. George in the spring that goes through Ivans, and up though the climbs.... more later... thanks Andrey, thanks Utahna.
Keeping on the same subject, Can-Am Kirsten Kotval (ex-national crit champ) was tooling around the wacked corner at the crit, when her front wheel just went perp out of nowhere. She hit really hard. It looked just like one of the crashes in Euro-land when the sprinters are lining it up. She landed on her caboose and just sat there stunned, got up, was moved to the ambulance where they bandaged her up on her caboose, leg and arm...then put goop on her fat lip... her bike and carbon wheels were fine, so she got back on her bike to cool down... She is one tough chick, and don't worry Kirsten-swooners, she still looked fine with her big ol' lip... and she's alright- her biggest concern after the crash was for the other riders that crashed behind her, that's class. By the way, the cause of the mechanical- looks her Specialized chain ring on her Tarmac SL gave out, so if that's your ride, Specialized will switch it out fo' fee with a Dura-ace set up... take heed!
Nicole Evans got 6 minutes on the field in the first climbing stage (with only 10 days of training in her legs after the mono-episode), she stayed with the lead pack in the crit, yet before the stage 4 TT she was lined up in one-spot, apparantly she had some serious der. prob's in stage 3. Typical Nicole, smiling ear to ear before and after the TT, who would have known.
Chuck Collins rules! I will say it again, Chuck Collins rules... he must have either taught at, or attended the Luscious Jackson School of Motivation. I, like many have seen C.C. when he is on... no matter what, he is just a good guy, got me pumped up to continue to press hard on stage one...thanks Chuck, hope I can be half as motivational when you can use it bra.
The Claw- this is the second time I have called the Claw out... whatever this guy didn't get in natural talent he clawed (like that) his way through hard work and persistance. Every year he gets better and better at climbing, breakaways, crits and TT'ing, and when it comes to the latter in the 45+ he is right there already... so for the newbies... if you want to get good, and it doesn't come overnight, well just work your tail off until you are, or forever hold your claw (sorry).
Don Armstrong is Ford tough, what are they putting in the water up there? These guys are bad-bad men... Don, when Mark Schaeffer is "worried" about you, you gotta be good, oh yeah and John McWin had the same thing to say... I want to see you and Porter go 10 rounds in the ring, don't know who would win but...what a fight that would be. I don't think Mike McDonald would approve, but I'll only take 10% of the share...
Last, but not least, this is all about Andrey Yarbrough. Andrey used to be the race organizer for the Tour de Gap, he lives in Brian Head with his lovely racer lady Utahna. Andrey races, big deal right? Well yeah it's a big deal when riding and minding his own biz he gets plastered by a truck! OK, a Mack Truck! Better yet a Mack Dump Truck! He did, and has the scars all over to prove it... too many injuries to name including titanium plates in his head... interesting fact- he used to put out 400 watts for 6min's at 147 lbs (calculate that P-man)... anyway he was the main reason the break worked in stage 3. For the first 10 miles he was a mad-man, I got a glimpse of what those 400 watts must have looked like burning rubber... by the way, he is looking at setting up a race in St. George in the spring that goes through Ivans, and up though the climbs.... more later... thanks Andrey, thanks Utahna.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Blue Train and synchronized critting
The Tour de Gap was eventful to say the least. First off, the Paul Tracy Team from Las Vegas was in full force with Louie Amelburu and Mark Schaeffer at the wheel...They brought the A-team, and the team was large... with that I would like to focus on one stage in particular... the crit.
Note- this blog has always been intended to be an observation of racing and racers, not on me, but I must use a first person perspective to give a clear picture of tactics played out perfectly... and this will be done in bullet points for effect...
Paul Tracy shows up with a lot of gunslingers for the 35/45 masters categories.
Note- this blog has always been intended to be an observation of racing and racers, not on me, but I must use a first person perspective to give a clear picture of tactics played out perfectly... and this will be done in bullet points for effect...
Paul Tracy shows up with a lot of gunslingers for the 35/45 masters categories.
- and yes, they are representing with some cat 1's...
- and yes, they employ great tactics
- and yes, these riders are willing to sacrifice at anytime for the sake of the team.
- and yes, these riders are good, very good.
- and they came with the full aramada of Paul Tracy signifigant others- PTG (Paul Tracy Groupies) generally hanging around the Paul Tracy Mobile and being great fans... to everyone.
To the crit- bottom line this was a lesson in tactics played out to perfection...we will refer to it as synchronized critting. The course was small, tight and fast with a funky corner...encompassing roughly one city block, so you knew where everyone was- and here is where it gets good...follow along...
Scott Allen was sitting in 3rd, and I was in 5th... with P.T. dudes, Louie 1st, Mike Anderson 2nd and Jon Edwards 4th... so what do they do- of course isolate Scott and I... Scott had 2 dudes with him on the break, I had 3 or 4 with me behind... it was like a clock with the little hand going slower than the big one...after a series of attacks they dropped Scott, and he was isolated exactly on the opposite end of the course from me (to the tee as far away as possible) my P.T. men were pacing me appropriately to make this happen, always waiting for Louie and Mike to come around, I knew this, I also knew that here would come the attacks... so I only had one choice, suicide on the bike! I looked back and said to Jim Robbins, "well it looks like I'm dead meat, so I am going to attack until I implode" which I did lap after lap until with perfect timing, just when I popped, all the P.T. guys were together in one big blue train...going fast, very fast...
The point is, any team can show up en-force, but to put it together like that was just poetry in motion, and yes, the other team's riders not mentioned were also strewn all over the course...on top of this there were super savvy tactics and the power to see it through for the other 2 road stages...even though I was on the other end, I respected the hell out of what they were doing...
So for the second time in one week, new members of the Hornet Hall of Fame, the entire Paul Tracy Team and sig... others, Paul, buy 'em each a case of Heinie's for that one... they deserve it!
Tomorrow, Kirsten Kotval, Chuck Collins, the Claw, Don Armstrong, Cat 1,2,3 women and last but not least Andrey Yarbrough.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Dave Z and Kaylee
Ok, today I was already going to write about end of the season burn-out, and not to forget to count your blessings for just being healthy enough to ride... to many times we get caught up in racing and forget that we are really fortunate...
Then I read Stormin Norman Sr's (Mr Clean) blog and I get all charged up again... Story goes Z-man threw his bottle at the feed zone nailing little Kaylee, obviously upsetting her greatly. Z-man found out about it and promptly makes a phone call directly to Kaylee to apologize...
I can't imagine what it's like being Z around here trying to mind his own business and train. And for anyone who knows him, he's a bit off center in wit in the first place, and secondly tries to be somewhat reclusive. Yet when a mistake occurs he does the right thing and picks up the phone for a little local girl.
Dave, you know you have a ton of support around here, we all dig when you bury the Euro's in a prolog or TT, or for that matter wear yellow... but that is nothing compared to the phone call. As I tell my son, anyone can develop talent, but those who display class are the real deal's. The phone call is what did it for me, you are the real deal.
My newest entry in the Hornet Hall of Fame, Dave Z for doing the right thang! Good job and thanks for making my day! Damn, I'm really psyched about this one, can ya tell?
B.H.
Then I read Stormin Norman Sr's (Mr Clean) blog and I get all charged up again... Story goes Z-man threw his bottle at the feed zone nailing little Kaylee, obviously upsetting her greatly. Z-man found out about it and promptly makes a phone call directly to Kaylee to apologize...
I can't imagine what it's like being Z around here trying to mind his own business and train. And for anyone who knows him, he's a bit off center in wit in the first place, and secondly tries to be somewhat reclusive. Yet when a mistake occurs he does the right thing and picks up the phone for a little local girl.
Dave, you know you have a ton of support around here, we all dig when you bury the Euro's in a prolog or TT, or for that matter wear yellow... but that is nothing compared to the phone call. As I tell my son, anyone can develop talent, but those who display class are the real deal's. The phone call is what did it for me, you are the real deal.
My newest entry in the Hornet Hall of Fame, Dave Z for doing the right thang! Good job and thanks for making my day! Damn, I'm really psyched about this one, can ya tell?
B.H.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Ok it's the blonde joke competition!
Before I get jumped on for this one... everyone knows I can take a verbal beating... so the jokes on you this time... and please feel free to send in your best blonde jokes... but remember keep the verbiage somewhat kid friendly, I don't want to tramatize the young cat 5's or anything...
I'll open the proceedings up with these...
> > A married couple was asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning.
> > The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment
> > and said, "How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!" and hung up.
> > The husband said, "Who was that?"
> >
> > The wife said, "I don't know! It was some woman wanting to know if
> > the coast is clear."
> >
> > What did the blonde ask her doctor when he told her she was pregnant?
> >
> > "Is it mine?"
> >
> > `?*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*:- ,_,.-:*?`?*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*:-
> >
> > Bambi, a blonde in her fourth year as a UCLA freshman, sat in her US
> > government class. The professor asked Bambi if she knew what Roe vs. Wade
> > was about. Bambi pondered the question then finally said, "That was the decision
> > George Washington had to make before he crossed the Delaware "
> >
> >*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*: -.,_,.-:*?`?*:
> >
> >
> > Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her house
> > ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the police at once and
> > reported the crime.
> >
> > The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the radio, and a K-9 unit,
> > patrolling nearby was the first to respond. As the K-9 officer approached
> > the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde ran out on the porch,
> > shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog, then sat down on the
> > steps.
> >
> > Putting her face in her hands, she moaned, "I come home to find all my
> > possessions stolen. I call the police for help, and what do they do?
> > They send me a BLIND policeman."
Alright send em this way, I know you have good one's. P-man, you can even use a personal example, maybe start with "blonde with a beard..."
Good luck, Hornet
I'll open the proceedings up with these...
> > A married couple was asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning.
> > The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment
> > and said, "How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!" and hung up.
> > The husband said, "Who was that?"
> >
> > The wife said, "I don't know! It was some woman wanting to know if
> > the coast is clear."
> >
> > What did the blonde ask her doctor when he told her she was pregnant?
> >
> > "Is it mine?"
> >
> > `?*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*:- ,_,.-:*?`?*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*:-
> >
> > Bambi, a blonde in her fourth year as a UCLA freshman, sat in her US
> > government class. The professor asked Bambi if she knew what Roe vs. Wade
> > was about. Bambi pondered the question then finally said, "That was the decision
> > George Washington had to make before he crossed the Delaware "
> >
> >*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*: -.,_,.-:*?`?*:
> >
> >
> > Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her house
> > ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the police at once and
> > reported the crime.
> >
> > The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the radio, and a K-9 unit,
> > patrolling nearby was the first to respond. As the K-9 officer approached
> > the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde ran out on the porch,
> > shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog, then sat down on the
> > steps.
> >
> > Putting her face in her hands, she moaned, "I come home to find all my
> > possessions stolen. I call the police for help, and what do they do?
> > They send me a BLIND policeman."
Alright send em this way, I know you have good one's. P-man, you can even use a personal example, maybe start with "blonde with a beard..."
Good luck, Hornet
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