KCCX Scuffel Cross

This thing is getting beat to death. Go figure someone going to a cross race and having a little to much fun. http://velonews.com/article/86089/scuffle-at-kansas-city-cyclocross-nationals and if that isn't enough http://velonews.com/article/86104/columnist-patrick-o-grady-weighs-in-on-the-kansas-city I know Cale, most of the guys that i raced with on Champion Cycling Team went to BMC after the team disbanded, and hes a nice guy, probably just had a few 30 packs and thought he would have some fun at Pages expense. These guys sure dont mind giving it back to him though, let alone calling him, his club, and springfield out. Must have been a slow news day for velonews.....

12/14 ChristmasParty/Tulsa 3Hour ER

Friday was the Specs Racing Christmas Party located at Specs Eyeglass's @ the water front. Had a good turnout and ate some good BBQ from Pig in Pig out, with an after party at a local bar i didn't get to the rack until 12.30 am, and i had to be in Tulsa @ 8am the same morning... suck-o.. so i was trashed saturday and slept for most of the day after i got out of work.

As for Sunday i got out of work and it was, no joke, 70 deg's. Can't beat that for December, even if the wind was blowing out of the south @ 20mph. so i jumped on the bike and took of for a 3 hour ride to Sandsprings (up the 3 sisters), Sapulpa, Kiefer, Mounds and back to Tulsa.

On most of my rides i occasionally see cool stuff on the road in kansas, but Tulsa was the mother load, there was all sorts of crap on the roads there. First was a women’s leather boot that went up to the knee's, dont know where the other one was or what the story is behind losing it, but it must have been a dandy. Then i saw a ball hitch that looked like it had never been used, and a lock blade knife, and last but not lest a plastic snake. The snake scared the crap out of im, and I bet if the Hamster would have seen it he would have dropped a nugget in his shorts. Now i know what to get him for Christmas.

On the flip side coming back to Tulsa they had the main road near the river trails closed for the annual toy's for tot's Motorcycle ride. I did the ride when i was a kid with my step-dad, we had this big bear and strapped it down to the front fender in front of the headlight. (sorry to the kid that got the big bear with a hole in the back of its head, guess those headlamps get pretty hot no matter how cold it is outside).

Its was fun to be able to ride back to my old stomping grounds when i was in middle school. I went to Kiefer from the 3rd grade till 8th grade before i moved to Neosho, mo and the place hasn't changed much at all.

Found out my guard unit put me on the Hawaii trip for January. I’m stoked to be able to ride in some warm weather for a few weeks in January.Suckers! I'll be thinking of u guys while I’m basting in the sun!

12/11 Cold Weather/Elephant Stop?

The weather dot com said 55deg as i left work today so i tore home and jumped on the road bike to hit the training crit course before the sun dropped out of the sky. I found a nice little spot that they are throwing houses up that makes a sweet .6 mile loop and did a few 15 min intervals. Im sure the guys building the house and the lady walking her dogs thought i was a crazy nut driving the intervals at around 22mph for 15 min on a .6 mile course.... what tha, there he goes again, and again, what the heck is this guy doing? tongue hanging out and breathing like a chain smoker going up 3 flights of stairs.

After about 30 min the sun dropped and in my haste to get out the door i didn't put toe warmers on and damn near lost a few of them. Without that ball of heat in the sky it gets cold quick, and with all the moisture on the ground, it makes for a fringed spin.

A few months ago Trey H (aka skinny bastard that can climb like a goat) kicked out some info on a funny bike blog that i have been reading for the past few weeks, its entertaining to say the lest check it out @ http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/ the guy must have all day to look crap up on the internet. I like the showcase of freaks doing the single speed elephant stop (pictured above), what the hell is that? Check it out.
Another cool blog site is http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/, has some cool u tube vid's of the classic greats kick'n the crap out of each other... there is a ton of cool bike race After a few days of freeeeezing weather i jumped out on the old road bike to hit a local neighborhood "crit" vid's on utube...
Tomorrow is the Specs Race Teams Christmas Party, and should be a nice gathering of bike nerds and beer drinking fun...

12/5 Friday

Man it seems like fridays last forever! I'm glad to get the hell out of work and do nothing for a few days. I dont know about you but this winter thing sucks, get up go to work get home just in time for the sun to set, I dont get the whole fall forward and spring back, seems ur screwing the the a.m. and the p.m. up. Why not just jack up the morning and leave some damn daylight for the night so one can get some sun? That would leave one less hour of christmas lights burning and such. I'm sure the damn farmers don't give a damn what time it is when the sun sets.
Anyway, it looks like the weather is going to warm up for the weekend to a nice and toasty 40 deg's. Hell ya! better break out the banana hammock for that heat wave, put some extra sunscrean on the buns cause you aint going to hit 40 deg much more during this year, at lest there is allways Jan/Feb to look forward 2.
Planning on 3 hours saturday dirt roads and 3+ sunday on the road.

12/2 Trainer Love and some Dirt Roads

Monday i did some indoor spinning on the trainer and i have to say it sucks. Nothing like riding a bike indoor's and basting in your own sweat for an hour or so.
Tuesday had another bought with the indoor trainer this a.m., I caught the p.m. dirt road group ride for a good two hour ride. Gets kinda crazy riding at night on the dirt roads, the group strap some lights to there cx bikes and zipp over washboarded dirt roads, gets real fun after they lay down new sand/gravel like they did in a few spots tonight. The dogs were out in force tonight, seems like everyone in the country has a damn dog that likes to run you down and try to take a bite out of your legs. I guess it helps the sprints out later on!