Here are a few. I am still stuck on Whistler, but will get over it eventually. Maybe. I was there during this week. That is how the riding was. It was sick fun. I wish I was going back with Liz next week, she is lucky as she is going to Whistler. I am stuck [...]
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I did not get to go to Crankworx this year, but it is always fun. This video is from the Enduro event, which I would love to do. I don’t really care about this video as much as I care that the date stamp says January and look at the riding available if you are [...]
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This week Scott and I got a chance to participate in a really cool event. The Vesrah Suzuki Offroad team hosted the Trek World Racing Downhillers to a day of offroad motorcycle riding at Dyracuse motorcycle park. Tracey Mosely was not with us, but Andrew Neethling, Justin Leov and Neko Mulally (@andrewneethling, @teamleov, @nekomulally) were [...]
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It has been a long time since I have posted anything here. I am sorry if you have been faithfully checking back, waiting for a post. I will try to make that up here, I will not be so absent again. I don’t really have a good reason for no posting, but I HAVE been [...]
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It has been a while since I put up much on the blog site. I have been super busy with work. 2 trips to France in July, our worldwide sales meeting etc… Wow, time have flown by this summer. I have not done as many races as I had wanted to. But, fall is coming [...]
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I was there. I saw a few things. Here is a highlight video, that shows what actually happened in the race. (could not get it embedded, so you will have to follow the link – sorry). http://www.steephill.tv/players/versus4/?title=tdf-2010-extended-%20highlights&id=jLpoUwAu65wTZ_Xm9dE0cboco78UL2lW/500/720/ Here is my video from the tour. You will see that, mine is not nearly as exciting. enjoy [...]
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I have not had much time to swoop for video on the web lately. Lots of travel and lots of other obligations. So, here is what I have collected over the past weeks. This is great video from Paul Whibley’s winning GNCC season. I only did one of the races this year. Kind of a [...]
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I am in France. I have been in France for a week or so. Funny thing is that the trip was supposed to be just a few days. Ok, here it is. I left Wisco on Saturday last. That alone was funky, because originally I was supposed to leave on Monday. Monday failed because I [...]
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Annual trip to Whistler time. Annual is what I like to think of it as, but last year we did not get to go. So, as you can imagine, we had a lot of angst built up and needed to shred some Whistler jump lines. If you have been to Whistler, you know what I [...]
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OMG, that was hard! The Hixton D16 Harescrambles was this past weekend. Hixton is a storied race location for Scott and I. We have been racing there since we both got into this sport. I have always had good results there, never outside of the top 3 in whatever class I was riding that year. [...]
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I have just a small stash today. This was meant to go up on Friday, but it did not make it. Nonetheless, enjoy. Here is what the Trek race department does. Here is another one that shows just how bad it was at the Ohio GNCC. This is a pretty good Whistler video. It isn’t [...]
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This past Wed, Scott and I went up to Dyracuse to ride. It has been raining a ton here, and we knew the dirt would be fantastic! It was! Holy cow. There was plenty of water sitting around, but man when that place has moist dirt it can be just phenomenal. It is completely hero [...]
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That ranked as the hardest and least fun that I have ever had on a motorcycle. We knew it was going to be hard, yesterday when we watched the quad race. It was muddy when we first got here, then it rained big while we were watching the quad race. It rained during the night. [...]
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That ranks as the hardest and least fun I have ever had on a motorcycle slop clay mud for the entire lap. At least 5 hills on the lap that almost no one could get up. Water and super sticky mud running down the ruts. I fell at least 10 times before I was 2 [...]
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It has been a while since I did a GNCC race, other than Crawfordsville. Last year, that was the only one that I did. Weird. In 2008, GNCC is all that Scott and I did. We did all the GNCC races, and not many local races. Last year, the opposite – we did mostly local [...]
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I am off to do the GNCC race this weekend. It is in Ohio, and I have not done this one. Here are a few video’s to get you in the mood. This is not a video from the John Penton GNCC. But, it is a great video and shows you just what I think [...]
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Didn’t get this out on Friday, like I planned. But, here it is on Monday. Mountain bike Friday is back, er well Mountain Bike Monday. Here are some that I have found this week. I so want to ride this trail! Another Danny McCaskil video. This is crazy. There is no way… A-line. Enough said.
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Flying home from the Tour of California right now. Rockin the inflite Wifi. I think I will start off this post, with the more interesting photos from the trip. They are in a gallery, so if you don’t want to look at them, just skip down. The good stuff is below, but hey – you [...]
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This week was one of those weeks when I realize how good my job is. Liz and I went to Italy, with a group from work, and rode our bikes in Italy. Tuscany, to be exact. 4 days of riding, staying in a great location (www.spaltenna.it), and being taken care of by Trek Travel (www.trektravel.com). [...]
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In Taiwan this week for work. Good meetings, and of course I got out for a good bike ride. Another really nice time in the mountains on the Island of Taiwan. Found a new climb and kick butt decent. Didn’t get rained on, and was able to climb really hard and count it as a [...]
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Here is a huge gallery of photos from Aztalan and Sugar Maple this past weekend. I loaded up the lot on Flikr. Click up the link below and you will get to view them all. 2010 Race Photos
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Up early. Not sleeping well. Might be an age thing, but also might be food or might be nerves or… Any way you slice it, I am up and I do not need to be. I’ve made a couple of PBJ sandwiches, packed waterbottles, bananas and I am ready to go. I made the biggest [...]
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We raced in the mud locally this weekend. So did the GNCC circuit at Loretta’s. But just 2 weeks ago, the GNCC circuit raced in the dust. Here is the video from that race.
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Aztalan has left the building. The first race of the year is always a great thing. It can be sketchy, because it is April and you just never know what the weather will do. But, whatever it brings it is always just a great thing to get it going – for crying out loud. It [...]
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It is just 1 day till our first local race. Jeez, it took long enough. Seems like this winter was at least 380 days long. But, I did the training. I did the random offseason race. I did the training camp in Missouri. I worked on my bike. I trained. I worked on my bike [...]
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Not much to post up this week, but a few videos. This first one is the reason we all want to live in Vancouver. It is a Rocky Mountain bicycle video, but get past that and you will see why we all love it there. The classic DH helmet cam video. This one I saw [...]
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The weekend turned out really good for 2 wheeling. I always figure that if you can ride 2 wheelers both days on the weekend, then it is a good one. Saturday – 3 hour road ride from Madison with Chip Camillo and the Pinnacle Health and Fitness team. Sunday – 2.5 hours on the RMZ [...]
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Here are a few things I have found this week. In general, I would say Watch26.com is well worth the time. It will suck time away from your life, but damn is it fun! I got a little bit ambitious and found way too many this week. So, at the last minute I decided that [...]
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Yow! If you are a rider, and live in Wisconsin, you were at Dyracuse riding Saturday. The first day of the local riding season is always a beautiful thing. People come out of the woodwork. I mean it has been a long dormant season. So the first days that Dyracuse is open brings everybody out. [...]
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Friday. I am in Asia for work. But, I still managed to find a couple of video’s. I get home on Sunday, and the riding season is full on. 2 wheels everyday. Found that trailer for a good looking movie. Here is a link to the entire movie on line. What’s Next Official GNCC Florida [...]
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After you read this, you are going to swear that I made this story up. I admit to a small amount of embellishment, less than 10%. This story really happened. I have not changed the names of anyone to protect the innocent. I have only added detail to give you the real flavor of how [...]
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In no real order of importance, these are the top 10 reasons that I cannot wait for the season to start. 1. The smell of race gas. There is nothing like it. My wife hates it, and that is ok. Man up, this is motorcycle racing. 2. Blisters that tear open and bleed. This typically [...]
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Rain. When it rains in China, it rains. I don’t mean that it just sort of putters down some water. I mean the water is on high and the shower head has been removed. The hose of cold nasty acid rain water is attempting to drown you. The funny part is that everyone is just [...]
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It has been a few Fridays, since I posted up mountain bike stuff. Like to get back to that. This has been a big week of finding video’s. Don’t know why, but nonetheless here are a few that I have found this week. This looks like a pretty good trail that I wish I lived [...]
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Woohoo! The first D16 race is just 41 days away. I am getting antsy. I just love it when the gun goes off and the chaos starts. So I am back from the last winter hurrah of the year. The snow is gone outside and it is 50 degrees. The sun is shinning, and if [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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… Last one, and this one has [...]
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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 [...]
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