Thanks to Daniel for hanging back for the photo. Things looked a little nasty for the Halloween ride with a 20 mph SW wind until our pace car showed up....
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Halloween Ride
Thanks to Daniel for hanging back for the photo. Things looked a little nasty for the Halloween ride with a 20 mph SW wind until our pace car showed up....
Friday, October 30, 2015
From Jeff: Final Call for TCI Kits
Cycling Friends,
We're nearing the critical numbers needed to submit our TCI kit order.
If you'd like to join in please submit your order online at
http://www.dnacycling.biz/tci/team-gear.html
We plan to close the order next week. Hopefully we'll have the orders back in time for the holidays.
We're nearing the critical numbers needed to submit our TCI kit order.
If you'd like to join in please submit your order online at
http://www.dnacycling.biz/tci/team-gear.html
We plan to close the order next week. Hopefully we'll have the orders back in time for the holidays.
Road Ride Tomorrow
Unless the weather takes a real turn for the worse, we are planning a road ride tomorrow afternoon departing from Sticks and Stones at 2:00 p.m.with an anticipated duration of two and a half hours or so.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
FB Link to Heather's Cube Photos
I have not see the pictures yet since I do not have a Facebook account, but I am confident that they are great.
www.facebook.com/heather.b.williams.7Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Gear Patrol Honors Brian Williams On Its List of Top 11 Steel Bike Builders
If you are wondering about how big a deal this is, look at the other builders on the list. Brian is not really big into self promotion, so I hope he will forgive me. The first thing I said when I heard about this was: “I’ve got to tell some people!” A big congratulations to Brian and Kelson Bikes. Most of our readers know that Brian is equally proficient in working with carbon and titanium. If Gear Patrol decides to compile a list of the best handmade carbon and Ti bikes, add Brian to that one too.
From Chris: Fitzgerald's Fat Tuesday Fat Bike Ride at St. Anthony Dunes Tonight
Monday, October 26, 2015
DNA Fixes My Jersey
A lot of local cyclists have experience with DNA team kits (Kelson, Sticks and Stones, TCI, others) and know what a great product they provide. Plus their customer service is unrivaled. At the Kross Kickoff, I cut in too close to a tree and tore a gruesome abraded hole in the back of my Kelson jersey. I sent it back to DNA and this is what it looks like after a zero-cost repair.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Spooky Cross Thursday, Final TNR, Road Ride Saturday (?)
I just received a message from Gabe Klamer that Spooky Cross in Victor is indeed on for this week, but it will be on Thursday instead of Friday with the schedule as follows: kids’ race 5:30 pm, costume race 6:00 pm, main event 6:30 pm. I realize several there are several difficult things about the date and time. It is fairly short notice and not the easiest time to get to Victor on a weeknight. However, I am a sucker for a cross race and willing to rearrange my schedule to go. If anyone else is interested in going to Spooky Cross, please text me to coordinate logistics and transportation.
As a reminder, Tuesday night will be the final TNR of the season 5:30 at Sticks and Stones. We will have to cut it a little short due to the early sunset. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to an outstanding season of the TNR.
I have received some requests for a Saturday road ride and I think this is a great idea, particularly since most of our recent Saturdays have been dedicated to cross. I am going to toss a tentative plan out there for a midday ride of two and a half hours or so. The details will be contingent upon the degree of interest in the ride as well as the weather. The forecast right now for Saturday is rain, but a lot can change in a week. Like the message above on Spooky Cross, the best way to give me some feedback on the Saturday ride is probably text. If we can agree on a plan for Saturday, I will post it on the blog.
Dave
Great Pumpkin, The Cube, Some Random Comments on the Weekend Cross Races
It has been a pretty eventful weekend for local cyclists. We had another great day at the Cube yesterday with so much support from the City Rec Department, sponsors, volunteers, and participants. I am very grateful to Lana for her Cube video and post. Any meaningful thing I have ever posted on the blog can be traced directly to Lana and Jeff who have mentored me in this project from the beginning. I hope when people watch the video, they can get a sense of what a fun day this was for everyone. The Cube may never become a huge event, but I am very proud of our efforts and gratified by the positive feedback we receive year after year. A number of people with broad cyclocross experience tell me the Cube is one of their favorite races anywhere. It continues to draw high quality regional talent as well as locals and first-timers. Kellen’s course got rave reviews from riders ranging from the newest to the most experienced.
Gabe Klamer was the winner of the men’s “A” Race yesterday, but Kelton made him work a little finishing second. Shae was the only woman to ride the “A” race and held her own among some of the faster men. In addition the content Lana posted earlier, we will be following up with a link to Heather’s Cube photos and perhaps some other odds and ends. If anyone has content or comments they want to add, let us know.
The night prior to the Cube, Jeff, Kelton, Kellen, and I went down to Idaho Falls for the Great Pumpkin Race. It was the first time I had ridden at the Community Park. The venue has some fun features including a number of little hills, but the course was a little rough around the edges. It included a sand pit in the parking lot at the bottom of a little hill which was constructed by filling a 2 x 4 frame with wet heavy sand. If the sand did not crash you, one of the buried 2 x 4’s was likely to. Many people, myself included, crashed heavily there. Kelton and Kellen finished second and third respectively.
Many of you are aware of the tremendous popularity of fat bikes among the Idaho Falls cyclists and several of them rode fat bikes at the Great Pumpkin. I mentioned this to Scott Hurst last night and he proposed an interesting idea for next year’s Cube. How about adding one additional race: a fat bike only cross? Please let me know how you feel about that Idea. No promises, but anything is on the table for next year.
Gabe told me yesterday that there is a good chance that Victor Velo will be putting on Spooky Cross on Thursday night. That is a change from the original Friday night schedule. We will confirm that information as soon as we are able.
CUBE CYCLOCROSS • Race Highlights
October 24th was a beautiful day in southeastern Idaho, albeit uncharacteristically warm for cyclocross racing. Many thanks to all of the out-of-towners who travelled to Rexburg to participate in the CUBE cyclocross event. We appreciate all of your support.
Video: A Race
A & B Races
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Cycling and the Heart. Lennard Zinn Responds to a Skeptic.
In the overwhelming majority of cases folks will be much better served getting out and riding, and occasionally riding hard, than just riding slow all the time, and even that is better than not riding at all. If you have any concerns about your individual case speak with your physician... and unless you have an abnormal EKG he or she will probably tell you the same thing.
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