Heading to Alta/Snowbird. One last winter hurrah, before we get this racing season under way for real.
I could not embed this video, but follow the link and you will see where I will be. Call if you need, to but otherwise I will be doing this.
Enjoy.
http://www.altachalets.com/alta/check-out-our-new-alta-video
Joe
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This is a loop that Scott and I were riding at St. Joe this weekend. You will see about 1/2 of the loop and then a small turning exercise we were doing in the open.
I crash at the end of it, where severely bruised my thigh. It was bad enough that it ended my day. [...]
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Yep. I can say it out loud.
I have been into socks. Specifically, cycling socks of the higher type. I used to wear cycling socks that were lower, but they seem really dumb now.
Here is a list of some of what I think are the best out there.
Yep. I am into socks these days.
Out, Joe.
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We bugged out of town this morning early, Very Early. Scott pulled up in front of my house at 4:45am to load up. It was 8 degrees! 8 degrees! Good god. I do not know how much of this a person can take. At my house, there is about 20 inches of snow on the [...]
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New team casual wear showed up this week. You will not miss us at the race. (Thanks Thomas Baker)
Joe
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I am not much of a trial rider, but I have to admit this video is impressive and makes me want to get a trials bike.
And this one is also impressive.
Wow.
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For the last few rides, I have been hearing a funny ticking sound in my bike. It has been a few months, because at this time of year it takes a few months to ride your bike a few times. After Crawfordsville, I heard a funny ticking sound. I thought it was my valvetrain with [...]
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Holy Cow this one is good. I just got it from Wasting Time Films. It is called Piecing It Together. It covers GNCC, OMA and a bunch of other midwest racing. It is really really good, and on a February day makes you want to go riding really bad.
Here is the trailer for it on [...]
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What the…?
Yep, you see it right. No rear brake pedal.
The crew at Rekluse make a rear brake lever that replaces the stock clutch lever. I have been using their magical Rekluse Z-Start Pro auto clutch since last season. I cannot ride without it. With my history of MTB racing, and given that I have already [...]
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Jason Weigandt posted this link. I am reposting it, because it completely rocks.
Heikki Mikkola was a hero of mine. This was a long time ago, and yes we rode bikes like that.
Joe
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Don’t know how I missed this before this point, but this is really really cool. Wow.
This is the new NWD 10 movie. I trust it will not all be about crashing… that would suck.
Found this one, and it is pretty cool. And, it is Irish, so yeah…
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Check these out.
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Helmet cam that I was sent showing section 2. I go by this guy somewhere around minute 18 or so. If you fastforward to minute 15ish and watch from there, you will see the mud hole and how tight things get.
Not my video, but not a bad view of the race.
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This is by far the best MTB movie sequence I have seen. Enjoy.
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As promised, here is my main entry on my experience down in South Carolina.
John Buechner, Brian Terry and I decided a long time ago that we would head down to South Carolina to do the opening 2010 National Enduro. I do not really know how it came about. I don’t recall how we came up [...]
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Some of the first pictures from the weekend.
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I have been saying for a long time now, that Quiznos kicks but on any other chain sandwich place. That would be on Subway, Blimpies, Jimmy Johns et al…
You don’t have to believe me, but I know I am right.
I’m just sayin
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This is a short entry after the race. I will try to do a bigger entry later with the computer instead of the phone.
Sumter South Carolina is mostly sand. It rained huge on the Friday and Saturday before the race. I figured, “great, typical, I travel to do a race and of course it [...]
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35 minutes to our start time it’s 28 degrees. Woohoo. #Sumter #National Enduro. (via @joev3)
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So I think it will all work out. It is raining cats and dogs there now, but it looks like high 30’s or 40 and sun – no rain for race day.
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail/USSC0333?dayNum=2&&from=weekend
The trail will be sweet.
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Yep. It is January. Heading to SC to do the national enduro. Oh yeah.
Damn it is cold out.
Karen, the painted australian hussy GPS unit on the dash says we have 787 miles to go. Be there in no time.
Illinois kinda sucks to drive through. Look a squirrel. Flat forever.
(Brian just said [...]
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This weekend I get started. But, the first race locally is still 87 days away. In the mean time, here is what I wish I was doing.
Cannot wait.
Joe
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This post has nothing to do specifically with Motorcycles. It doesn’t really have much to do with Bicycles. I call it space filler. Space filler is exactly what this time of the year feels like – in regards to Motorcycles or Bicycles. January/February is just sort of that time of the year when we wait [...]
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Scott and I rode at Waterman Indoor MX track last weekend. It is not the greatest riding, and I am not the greatest MX rider. But, it is January and we rode our motorcycles. Good on that, eh?
It was really cold in the building. Probably around 40 degrees. 40 is not that bad, considering. But, [...]
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Someday I want to do a race like this.
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December 19 , 2009
- We are almost out of the first decade of the 2000’s.
- We are almost to the shortest day of the year, and my oldest daughters birthday. (Dec 21)
- We are unfortunately a long way away from riding locally.
- We are just 43 days away from the first National Enduro in South [...]
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Next season will be here soon, just a few months away. But, in my book it cannot get here soon enough. My counter says that it is just 31 days till the National Enduro in SC, but a pathetic 114 days till the first local race. The season of racing signifies so many good things [...]
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Dave Hollub made up this video for Sugar Maple MX track and woods. I am following Brian Terry in the video. Not the greatest riding, but we were just figuring out the track and woods that day.
The D16 race there in May should be really good though. There is a lot of [...]
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Sometimes my job doesn’t suck! This week was one of those times.
I was out at the new RadioShack cycling teams first camp in Tucson. If you are a cycling fan you know that this might be the strongest cycling team that has ever been built. It is all built with the singular focus of dominating [...]
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The reasoning.
For a long time I have been thinking about writing this. I am finally doing it because I have been inspired by an advertisement that I saw from Fox mountain bike suspension. I the advert that I am referring to, there is a really sweet piece of singletrack heading off into the distance. The [...]
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Snowed on Friday. More snow coming today/tonight. Possibly 5-6 inches. If that happens, we will definetely be done riding this year. Knew it was coming, it always does. But, I was just so hopeful that it wasn’t really going to be soon. You know, living in denial.
Since I didn’t get to make it to Tennessee [...]
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Lots has gone on of late. Unfortunately, not a lot of motorcycle riding. But, plenty to talk about
MTB riding in Arkansas
As usual, the whole family was down in Arkansas over the Thanksgiving week visiting my mother. My brother and his family and my sister and her family all converge on my mothers house for a [...]
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I followed Brian with a helmet cam last week at Sugar Maple. There will be a D16 race there next year, and it will be great.
The first video in a small little woods section that has not been worked on yet.
The second video is me following Brian for a mellow lap or 2 on the [...]
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Text to movie stuff can be really funny. I have found a couple that I think are great. As a racer and organizer and helper and… I think I have met both of these people in person.
And this one.
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5721683
(can’t get it to embed, but follow the link – it is good.)
Joe
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Today I went out to Sugar Maple MX track. It is on the far western side of the state, about 1.5 hours from my house. There will be a D16 HS race there next year, and I had a chance to go and check it out with Brian Terry today. Chris Halverson was there with [...]
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So the old truck was showing it’s age. Not horribly, but a bit. It was having some transmission problems. Sometimes when you would put the truck in reverse, it would just sit there. Revving and making noise, but not going anywhere. Hmmm… Not good.
Ok, time to take the truck into the dealer. [...]
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Wow. Check out this Kailub Russell training video. Now I know why I cannot keep up with guys like him.
Wow.
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Taiwan road bike ride
This past week I was in Taiwan. Working all week, it is halfway around the world and when you have been there a bunch, you tend to want to just get through it. The days get long.
But, I have been planning an extra day lately, just to get out for a ride. [...]
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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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