That is a funny word. I have come to loathe that word. It means that the leaves are off the trees, and the riding trails are closed and my bike sits apart in the shop for much to much time. It also means that I find myself working on my shop more and on my [...]
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From: Vadeboncoeur, Joe
To: ‘joev3.7092@twitpic.com’ <joev3.7092@twitpic.com>
Sent: Sun Nov 01 10:02:52 2009
Subject: Crawfordsville confederate flag. With Ying/Yang on same trailer
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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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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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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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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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The Dyracuse World Championship of Wisconsin offroad racing! That is what Scott and I have been billing it as.
Dyracuse is where both the WIXC series and the D16 AMA series was going to come together and race the last race of the season together. It was held at Dyracuse riding area, on trails that Scott [...]
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Could not resist. This is a good photo
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I have a lot to talk about. You could say that I probably always do. In fact, most people would really like me to shut up. But I always have a lot to say. Even on average weeks I have a lot to say. But, I really have a lot to say today.
Haven’t written much [...]
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Oh ya!
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Liz and I are in Europe now. We are visiting our former foreign exchange students and going to the big bike show in Germany. We spent last weekend in Offenbach Germany. Lisa lives there. While we were there, we met her family and friends. We saw her village. And spent time looking around the area.
While [...]
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Crystal Falls
August 23, 2009
The barn cometh.
Crystal Falls has an old barn, that we ran right through. It was really cool. Kinda alarming. You would go right into it from the sun, it would go completely dark and the only thing you would see is the light of the doorway on the other side. Yow. But, [...]
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August 22, 2009
Heading up to do the D16 HS race in Crystal Falls Mi. As I sit here writing this, things are just a bit off. I am not staying in the trailer, and Scott is not with me. Seems like I have been doing a bunch of racing without Scott this year. That is [...]
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Super excited about this. The man cave is almost done. No women allowed.
All winter, I will be able to be out working on bikes and motorcycles.
- walls finished with super grade of plywood. allows me to attach anything to the walls without having to find studs, and way more durable than sheetrock.
- insulated walls and [...]
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YES!!!!!!!
Spooned on new grippy donuts, new clutch plates, changed the oil and filter. Fresh air filter and grips. Going Racing.
Hoping for some race gas…
Holy cow, I love this whole thing.
Joe
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Summer break is a long time. A lot has changed, so let’s get started.
During the break, I did some bicycle racing and some decent training, but mostly I just felt like I got fat. Fat is not good. Makes you feel fat. Not like “Hey I am Phat!”, but more like oh god my pants [...]
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This was a huge weekend!
Saturday – 12 hour solo MTB race.
Sunday – District 16 Aztalan Harescrambles
Saturday’s MTB race was at Wausau, 9mile forest. I had originally planned to ride the race with Liz. But, I could not make up my mind about what I was going to do, and she got tired of waiting [...]
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I am on my way back from Europe right now. A work thing, but this was one of those good work trips. Mountain bike riding in Austria with a bunch of the world wide cycling media. Hey, there has to be some good trips also, doesn’t there?
But what is up with the [...]
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So you get a new bike. It is all shinny. All crisp feeling.
The fasteners do not have marks on them yet. There is no duct tape holding on a graphic yet. There are no zipties holding panels together yet. There are no dents in the rims. There are no boot rub marks on the cases [...]
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I have written a few times about glaciers and the effect they have had on the terrain we live in here in Wisconsin. There is a part of our area of the upper midwest though, that the glaciers avoided. I do not really understand that, but apparantly the glaciers were selective about the parts of [...]
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You may recall that I tried to tell the story of Glaciers one other time. I think in reality, I have discovered a devious Canadian plot. You see, the glaciers did their thing a few years ago. They picked up some rocks, and slowly over time brought them south. I mean [...]
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I know this is a blog about our motorcycle racing efforts, but I have to head in a different direction for just one post. I am the proud parent of a high school kid that had a great experience this past week.
The Lake Mills girls varsity soccer team made it to the final 4 [...]
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Brian Terry took these photo’s during the Hixton race on May 31.
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Eric found our website this past winter. He has become a Suzuki fan as a result and has just built up his own RM 250 and is pretty psyched.
Scott and I are both super psyched that someone else out there has discovered how good a Suzuki RM250 is. We are happy that we could help [...]
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I have discovered some great stuff, called Brave Soldier Friction Zone. Scott found it before me, but I am an absolute fan. You goop it on your hands in the spots that would blister up normally, and then stuff your mitts into the glove – all gooped up.
The potion is magic! I used [...]
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I bugged out of the house this morning at 6am. By myself today, no Scott. I didn’t even have Candi with me, so the drive was really an alone drive.
The morning was perfect. The sun was out, it was nice and cool and not a cloud in the sky. It rained just a few days [...]
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http://blogs.dirtrider.com/6544212/industry-buzz/raines-3-peats-in-wisconsin/index.html
Check out Scott in 5th overall!
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Once a year, we get to race on what is the best course in the state. Rhinelander – Sugar Camp. The only bad thing about Rhinelander is that it is just on the edge of being too far to drive for the day. We can do it, but just barely. It [...]
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Ok. Here is the dealeo. I am trying to decide which bike set up I should ride for the National HS race in Rhinelander this weekend.
I know I want to ride the 06 motor and frame. That one starts the easiest and the frame seems to feel the best. Don’t ask [...]
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A long time ago, the earth was covered with glaciers. Huge slabs of ice, many many meters thick. They stretched from what is the North Pole today all the way down past Canada and into Wisconsin. They moved really slowly. I mean really slowly, hence the term “glacial”.
The glaciers weighed tons [...]
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If you look up in a dictionary what the definition of rocks is, it shows a picture of the woods in Pearson. Specifically, the area near the quarry is littered with rocks. There are so many rocks, that there sometimes is just a bit of dirt between the rocks. Rocks, rocks rocks. [...]
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May 10. Arkansaw Cycle Park. The first D16 race.
Wow. It seemed like winter would never end. But then I went on a long business trip, and when I returned it is spring. The leaves are coming out on the trees, the grass is green and more importantly – we are racing!
Scott picked me up at [...]
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Ok. Just 5 days to go! 5 days, and the curtain goes up on another race season. This is about my 6th now, and I can never get enough of it. I wait and wait and wait, and then it finally gets here. Then we race a ton, and travel and race some more. The [...]
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Been in Taiwan all week. Heading to China next week. Big work weeks. Lots of stress, loads of work time, loads of hotel time etc… Never a lot of fun. People ask me all the time what it is like to be in Taiwan. I usually say, drive by the dump in your part of [...]
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I am in the middle of 10 days in Taiwan and China. We are just a little bit less than 2 weeks until the season starts in earnest. The first HS race is on the weekend of May 9 in Arkansaw, Wi. Then we are into the race season pretty much from [...]
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Back in the saddle again. It seems like forever since I raced a motorcycle. The Enduro in November in northern Illinois. Wow. That is a long time ago. Today was the day that we headed down to Indiana, to be ready for tomorrow morning’s Sand Goblin Enduro. [...]
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This is the funniest advert I think I have ever read.
enjoy
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/765370039.html
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Still hurting from Saturday’s ride. Damn, this getting old thing sucks. My back, shoulders, arms and legs all still feel it. Riding my bicycle to work this morning, to a meeting in Cottage Grove (15 miles away). That should loosen everything up. But, it is just 29 degrees out so [...]
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Perfect! That is about how I would describe it. 50 degrees, moisture in the soil but no real mud to speak of. There were a ton of people there.
Joe Bauer, John Buechner and I arrived at about 9:30. The gate does not open until 10, but we got changed and all set by the time [...]
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Mary Daubert has worked with us over the years, to have us ready for the season. She is magic and easy to work with.
She has a new website for her fitness training business.
check it out.
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