Took at least an hour to clean my bike. There was at least 40 lbs of mud on the bike. It was everywhere. The plastic, chain, sprockets, brake pads all went straight to the trash.
Love that Crawfordsville race and course, but man is it hard on equipment.
Out.
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The Ironman race has come and gone and the experience delivered its usual plethora of emotional ups and downs. I’m riding shotgun to Joe as we make our way back to Madison, around Chicago in the pouring rain.
Joe and I did our usual course inspection, race registration and GNCC friends check in before eating some [...]
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I needed to post up some pictures of the aftermath of Crawfordsville. We got home late last night, so the bike just went into the garage and I piled into bed. Today after work, I got after trying to get started cleaning it all up.
That was an almost new feeling motorcycle before this. It had [...]
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What do you get when you combine 1000 motorcycles, soft dirt a bunch of river crossings and huge hills? You get the Crawfordsville Ironman GNCC – that’s what you get. This years addition was the hardest ever. I think it was at least 10 times harder than last year. The mud, the ruts, the hills, [...]
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On our way down to Crawfordsville, we needed to stop off at Suzuki Mark’s. Thats what we call him anyway.
His real name is Mark Junge. Mark and his wife Nancy run Vesrah Suzuki racing. Mark is 8 time national endurance racing champion. 8 times! Holy crap. That is some skill But on top of that, [...]
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Joe and I are on our way to the last GNCC race of the year. This will be the only GNCC race that I’ve done this year which is has sparked conversations about the complete GNCC calendar that we did last year. We’ve been reminiscing about the fun times, the challenging times, and our favorite [...]
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The 303 rides again!
Now that is tight. Thanks a ton AJ for the graphics upgrade just for this race. It has rained a bunch there, but it rained overnight on Thursday. Last year it rained all night on Friday and the race was fantastic. I am counting on it being similar. Either way, time to [...]
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Absolutely perfect dirt today! Rode with Mat Herrington. Damn he is fast. We did 3+ hours. We did the first hour together, and my pace. Then switched and of course I cannot keep up with Mat. We strung up the loop from the race 2 weeks ago. But, it was really good and I had [...]
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Only 9 days till the best race of the year! I cannot wait!
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Damn! I so want to be there.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/50631/
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Here are some of my favorite shots from the race we did a few weeks ago.
Ready set go
sandy climb
navigating the sand track
JD at speed
fast downhill
Marquette fast guy Ben Bernard
Teammate Joe
sand jump
race winner Brandon Houts
OMA superstar Chuck Garritson
fellow Trek employee and veteran racer Roger Bird
Thanks to Brian Terry for posting these on Smugmug for all to [...]
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The big one is just a couple of weeks away! As you can see, I am returning to my number from last year. Doing a bunch of bike prep today.
You will definately want to check out this video. Thanks Ryan Moss from Midwest Enduro’s.
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I am thinking that you will totally want to check this out.
I am so doing that!
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Sunday was the last WIXC race of the year. The race was held at the fantastic course at Rhinelander. This is the same course that was used earlier in the year for the National Harescrambles race there at Sugar Camp.
The difference here was that the WIXC course ran the loop backwards. I think that the [...]
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There are a fair number of people voicing their opinions on-line and at WI hare scramble events about how the racing has been this past season. Its my opinion that two clear topics of discussion have surfaced throughout the year – that the races are poorly attended and that the two series don’t get along.
There [...]
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