I should have known better.We’re racing bikes through what is left of a former insane asylum. A few rotting concrete walls and several deadly spikes of rebar growing out of the ground here and there are the only remnants of the building that was Dammasch State Hospital, but the ghosts are out in force.
I should […]
Life and circumstances have conspired to keep me from the roller races tonight, but I managed to sneak over to the Oregon Manifest bike show yesterday long enough to ogle some seriously sexy handmade steel, and a few other delights.
I’m heading off in every different direction today, but here are some snaps to tide you […]
Quote from a friend last week, “I am getting so fucking annoyed that everyone who races ‘cross can’t bring themselves to talk about anything besides fucking ‘cross!”
Don’t worry. I cut him off. He’s off the friend list. At least until mid-December when I’ll probably have to grovel my way back into his good graces.
So. Since […]
I had to kill a bird to get the ‘cross gods to bless me with a remount. Since then my front wheel is a magnet for suicidal vermin. Squirrels dodging underneath my mud tires, looking for an easy way to end the pain of losing the backyard battle to my anti-squirrel boyfriend.
The bird was one […]
Let us speak plainly.
The race did not go as planned.
Buried on the start line despite my early arrival. 4o-something headed into the single track.
Are you kidding me?
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It’s here. The Crusade is upon us. Tomorrow morning.
We ventured out last night to Portland Velo’s First Friday gathering at the Lucky Lab and then over the Roots Brewing Company for the Cross Crusade Kickoff Party. The ‘crossers were out in force. Rabid. Frothing.
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Last week, reader Guy Smith of the Crossniacs forwarded me a link to this article in the New York Times. In the first paragraph, the author quotes a former coach who once told him, “Pedal until you taste blood.”
I liked that.
I thought about it a lot.
The perfect’cross race is composed of a lot of things, […]
Lights, cameras, beer!
What a show. We rolled with an impossibly crazy posse, crashed the VIP area (thanks, Brad!), stole flats of beer, made Flava-Flav style necklaces out of stolen objects, and heckled Mr. Armstrong.
Most memorable? Lance comes down the hill past us on a warm up lap. Dead silence until “Little” (aka Richard) calls out, […]
What’s the shiniest, twinkliest, most soggy way to start the ‘cross season? StarCrossed 2008, baby.
It starts raining while we are driving up and as soon as the first drop hits the windshield, I know we are in for it. Glory hallelujah. Rain! Now this is cyclocross, damnit.
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Team Bobo is headed north this weekend for some good old Washington style racing. I have wanted to race Starcrossed ever since I first read about it on Molly Cameron’s blog so long ago. As a Seattle native, I’m proud that there is such a kick-ass rockstar race in my old stomping grounds.
So what if […]
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