woo hoo!

so I met up with Ron today at the park to hit the road. I got there a little early to look at the trail, and to my amazement noone had ridden the trail and the chain at the bike trail head was still there. the one over at the Y for the hikers entrance was down though.So I stretched out the chain a bit and relocked it. Ron showed up and we hit the road. wind blew pretty hard. rode out to interlochen and did some hills.Ron kicked my ass, we did 20.10 miles, with the hills in 1 hr 16 min. top speed was 42.7 mph on the downhill. that was fun.
MMMMM hotdogs.

I must say

We needed some rain but, this kinda sucks and blows at the same time. I know there was zero chance of riding this evening, but it pretty much shot the Friday night ride all to hell as far as trail riding goes. It will be interesting to see how the chain across the trail has worked out as opposed to the caution tape.I guess we get to ride the river path.So my friend Krystin locked her keys in her truck and just borrowed my Element to meet her sister with her spare keys. Its the first time someone else has driven my car since I bought it. looked weird driving off.
Im digging the vitamin string quartet right now, incredible covers of rock music with strings.

random..................... and later.

Hmmmmmmm........

Im thinking................ I dont really have anything to say. Normal work day, at least it didnt rain. Rain pretty much ruined the day yesterday. So even though the weather looked really crappy this afternoon, I went ahead and loaded up for the group ride. stayed cloudy and windy but no rain. we averaged something like 17 and some change, not too bad. Steph( rons wife) nearly blew chunks, Megan got crossed wheeled and fell at a red light. wasnt her fault, she was the unlucky one though. Overall it was an interesting ride.
Maybe tomorrow will be intersting too. I do get to service Megan tomorrow. A/C problem that is.

this vid is sweet. >http://gizmodo.com/5231112/best-video-ive-seen-today-will-make-you-smile

Ok

so im watching the history channel's show earth after man. Kinda trippy to know that if man suddenly disappeared from earth, 100 years later, there would be talking going on. parrots. millions of parrots kept as pets would still repeat our sounds to the millions of offspring. Anyway,spent the day today watching racing, sunday ritual you know, nascar was pretty exciting, talladega usaully is. Danica finshed top 5 in kansas, still looked hot after the race. Thats really all I got to see today. I'll have to catch up on moto GP. no riding today.

Saturday, I went and did some trailwork at cedar hill on the 12 mile loop with Steve,Brad,Dennis, another Steve and the trail stewards. We did some major work on the downhill that should make upkeep much easier. No riding day, to frakin' tired after the trailwork. but did take a couple of bottles of wine over the the "circle of deaths" house for a dinner get togther. got a little buzzed and found out I really like disorano on the rocks. At least I wasnt the one that ended up praising the porcelaine princess. I did find something interesting to mount last night :)

I wonder if Glenns ever going to update his blog?

Thank god its friday

Had a busy day at work today,but the honda guy called and said the Element was ready so I busted out the day without lunch so I could get over there in time to pick it up before friday afternoon traffic went to crap. It was fixed right, no more noises or anything. While I was standing with the warranty guy, the big sign above the service bay blew out and on to this mini van there to get the oil changed. scratched it up a little but that was it. better him than me. Got the FNR in. three more laps tonight. went to Als to eat and heard a great story about the DICK DOCTOR convention that Lee's wife was at. dick doctor. thats freakin funny.

Thats all I got. man its nice to have my own car again.

finally

I got to ride today. did 3 laps at RLP . all of it.all laps less than 28 minutes. not too bad. ran into casey cole on his new yeti 575, man what a sweet ride. the formerly fun jump at the entrance to ekg is now so fast that two people shot onto the uphill and crashed. Man did I laugh . then asked them if they were ok.
I didnt have anything to say yesterday, so thats that.

sooooo

I didnt have crap to do today at work. so I took the time to remove all the low hanging limbs in the trees in the field next to the house. Some d bag has been tying boxing gloves to some of them to train his pit bull to do running lunges at. he hangs them at head height, so he's training it to attack. so no more limbs to hang them from.
then I got cleaned up and went over to my aunt mary's house for dinner and to hang out with family from out of town. I missed the tuesday group ride but did go hang out and drink a few frosty barley pops at my sisters house after dinner.

thats all I got.

developing an attitude

I think I am . I think I am. definitely am. so saturday was a lazy day. sunday is race day,F1,indy, most 2 wheel racing. Started out the day doing a little trail work at RLP. armoured the low water crossing on the north loop and papa bear in fun town. then went and looked at the suckfest that is now the formerly fun jump going into EKG . Since three whole people crashed and walked out from riding over their heads, we cut 18 inches or so off of it making it a worthless pile of dirt with zero fun factor. even though 3000 or so other people had no problem controling themselve and riding within the bounds of their own skill, we will cater to the lowest common denomenators.
well that was sunday.

on to today, work was a breeze, got the call from honda about the tranny. should be ready wednesday afternoon. crossing fingers. Met up with lori,kz, vanessa, glen and tony(crashrider) for a liitle road ride. out and back at RLP, then out to interlochen wher Tony preceded to crash on a great left hand downhill. didnt hurt the bike or him really. tore up a good set of bib shorts.
we ended up doing 23 miles or so at 17 and change. hit 41 on the crowly road downhill.
thats about it.
Oh,, F1 was pretty good, racing in blinding rain at 180 mph. sweeettttt. And in indy news. Danica Patrick finished 4th, would have been a win or 3rd, but got screwed pitting around a yellow flag. damn she looked yummy after the race.

later

gown day

So on the few days that I just dont want to do anything,I stay inside.eat,watch tv and get caught up on shows I want to watch but dont. Shower, shave,eat. In general be a complete lazy ass. My mom calls them gown days.
well anyways. today was that day for me. I dont think I even went outside.

TTFN

friday night

Ride got rained out.bummer, but new it was coming in. An easy day at work today. got the call about the Elements tranny. drive gear had cracks and missing teeth that caused some damage elsewhere so they ordered the parts and should have it going back together by tuesday.Its all under warranty, so I got that going for me. So for a bit longer I get to drive the work truck. They are firing off the fireworks at the ballpark right now.I can see and hear them from the yard. Not too bad for free. Top guns on right now, so I guess I'll go watch that and sleep-in in the morning.

well hell

so honda called me today at noon to tell me that they were going to drop the engine and tranny to find the problem. So far no word probably tomorrow at noon again. Got 4 laps in at RLP today, all included the now open north loop. That gives us 6 miles of sweet single track trail.legs are pretty dead now.single speed does thast to you i guess. It going to rain all tomorrow they say. major suckage. no Friday night ride. but we will get to eat drink and be scary at Al's. Im sitting here typing this crap watching kill bill vol2 and staring at my roomates new rebuilt right foot. IT got 4 pins sticking out the ends of all ,but the big toe. Edward scissor foot. :) ha ha. 75 miles this week so far 24 on dirt. not very impressive, but better than nothing.

later...

humpday

Wednesday for you folks in rio linda.slow boring day at work. got a little excited about the wed TBI crits, hopped in the ride to head home and whooooo. Major knocking from the front of the Element. Clutch related knocking. SO loud the beastie boys couldnt drown it out. CRAAAPPPP! Haul ass home. Clean out the car. Haul ass to Huggins honda to drop it off. Reassuring news from the mech that did the drive. A knocking he's never heard before in a honda. yippee. Got the Pops to pick me up and take me back to work so I can drive the work truck for a couple of days.Major suckage. a couple of hot dogs followed by some gummi centipedes for dessert made it all better... we'll see tomorrow.............. oh no riding today afterall.


Later

tuesdays are much better

today was mucho rad outside. Did the Bicycles inc group ride,32.25 miles in 1 hr 45 min. not bad my legs felt pretty dead when we were done. could have been from the 32 mph sprint at the end.Still going to ride tomorrow too. I'll be totally fried then.Will be dead at work tomorrow, so I may try to make over to the huggins honda so they can look at the weird clutch knocking I developed Saturday.Fringe was frickin good tonight. It s a shame Fox lets American Idol run long.
Big ups to Randy for busting out the entrance and exit for the north loop at RLP. after months of waiting, it was time. thats all I got.......later

mondays...............

Suck. The weather is keeping business slow, but it gives me time to get some stuff done earlier in the day.Naturally it was a beautiful day all day long until I got off work then the wind pickes up for my road ride.nice.pulled off 24 miles in 1 hr 2 min with the wind. the park was fairly busy and I got a late start talking to Gordon about the north loop trail and various other things so 24 miles is all I wanted to do. Besides I still have the tuesday group ride tomorrow.Man sushi sounds good right now.........

The first

The first blog post...hhhmmmmm.
Well it rained like hell last night and this morning.should be good for the trail though. we have put alot of time in the south loop lately, so hopefully it withstood the rain like we hoped it would. the good thing about rain is it cleans the air up. should be great for a little road riding tomorrow.Im actually looking forward to hot weather, It will help me lose the holiday weight Im still carrying around and Im tired of wearing pants. pants suck. I need to break out the kilt this week too.
Freaking mondays.......