Landahl goodness :)

Went to Landahl this morning for some tasty tasty good times on the sweetest single track the midwest has to offer. Parked at argo, dropped in on Tasty to the tri-trail meet up, root canal and rim job out west to the clusterfuck trail meet up, family trail around past scotty's drop in then across the double track down dave's maze, back to the clusterfuck, then took the rest of the little rim job connector down to the boulevard, took that about 1/4 of a mile before turning back because of mud, went back up the double track to the family trail, hit both tech off shoots, back on family past scotty's again, down dave's again to the clusterfuck, then back east on will's with swedish erotica thrown in, continued past the double track to the tri-trail meet up, then up tasty goodnes back to the argo lot.

landahl is the bomb. It will work your ass like no other, especially when the rocks and roots are just damp enough to make things interesting. Best trails in the KC area, no doubt. Everything from the tightest, twistyist single track, to open runs, to technical beat downs, double track, rocks, roots, berms, creek crossings, multiple ways to take on every trail. Time to spend a 10 hour day out there soon.

Race Results

Quick post about the couple races Mason and I recently competed in. At the BoneBender Mud Fest from Hell, we got 4th in the team class. The next weekend at the God's Country MTB Race at the Lawrence RIver Trails, Mason and I both entered the single speed class and got last and second to last, hahaha. I blew out a sidewall on my rear tire my second lap, and DNF'd while Mason posted his fastest lap times out there ever, and the old dudes still threw down the hammer. we got a long way to go to start winning stuff around here.

glasses found at BoneBender

Found these glasses as we were leaving the BoneBender Race. If they're yours gimme a shout, bscm8@umkc.edu or (seven-eight-five) nine-seven-nine, two-seven-zero-six.

Fun in Sean's Backyard

This is a video compilation I put together tonight of some fun that Sean, Mason and I had at Sean's backyard trails and features. I've never made a video before this, but damn, windows movie maker is butter easy to use. even got some music from my boy Approach on there, song entitled "Funk Reaction" ENJOY!!

BONE BENDER AFTER ONE MORE DAY!!!!!!

taco flavor kisses for my ben

So, I decided with the weather the way its been going I needed to rip dirt today while I could. So I bussed it up to Lawrence and met up with some peeps from Sunflower Bike and Outdoor, Steele and Andrew, to go for a little river ride. We were planning on 2 laps, and I was to lead the way, since Steele is just coming back from a broken collarbone and Andrew said he was way out of shape. I was reluctant since I had never ran the 40-18 gearing set-up on dirt yet since I converted to single speed. but I took off and was RIPPING! It felt great, I had a 2.3 exiwolf on the front at 25 psi and a specialized crossroads 38c on the rear (cyclo tire) at 75 psi for some nice push on the rear. I also had never ran this tire setup and really liked it as well. So I was ripping and felt great in the gearing, almost like I could go to 40-16 (ya right), then I hit a went over a log funny and my front wheel must have had a few spokes that weren't to tension, because next thing I knew I was face first in the brush on the side of the trail. Tacoed the absolute crapola out of my stock front wheel. So I had a nice little 4 mile hike or so back out the trail/levy/through downtown to the ReCyclery at 23rd and Louisiana. Got some really nice looks going through downtown with a bike draped across my shoulders, tacoed wheel and all, and my clip shoes making the nice clack against the sidewalk. I was going to order stuff to build up new wheels but Brian at the ReCyclery had a wheelset for me that I'd wanted for awhile: Salsa Delgado rims with American Classic hubs (including SS specific back hub) and DT swiss butted spokes. totally badass and he hooked me up, as always. If you are in Lawrence, or if you need a good used or new GT bike, hit up The ReCyclery and tell them I sent you. They're cool guys. Dropped way more money than I was planning on today, but I guess I got the new upgraded wheelset, nice and light, nice and strong, nice and sexy. Now, to just get them tubeless... :)

peace!!!

42 miles!

yo yo!

Well yesterday's weather was weird! It started out raining and really windy, so I waited until around 1 pm to go out for a spin. I rode from the crib up and down the hills of 67th street out to Sean's house to show off the new build on the single speed. The 40-18 gearing was killing me going up some hills, but I made them all. Chilled there for a bit with Sean and Seamus, checked out the Y-chromosome and then spun back home on midland/blackfish/75th to the Turkey Creek trail. I thought I was done for the day after a nice little 15 mile ride or so but Sean called me up around 6 to see if I was down for more, and I totally was! We decided to spin down to Bike Soure and check out their spring specials they have going on. However we took our sweet time before starting the ride and showed up at Bike Source 9 minutes too late, bummer. By then the sun had set, neither one of us had lights and we were probably both way under clothed, and I know for sure Sean was in his lycra with no jacket. Instead of spinning back up the Indian Creek Trail/Lowell, which was the way we took down to Bike Source, we decided to take the "short" route back up Quivera. Our brains actually worked a little after riding so long and we decided to split our paths at 75th street so Sean could spin back west to his crib and so I could get back northeast to mine. Riding the Trukey Creek trail is SUPER INTERESTING in pitch black darkness by yourself, I was kind of scared, I won't lie :) But I made it back home and mapped my route for all the day's spinning and I had surpasses 42 miles! Holy crapola! Didn't feel like I had ridden that far, especially since I was pushing the 40-18 29er the whole time. Guess I did have the cyclo tires on though :) Well, today I got some philosophy to do and a team wine tasting tonight at the Cellar Rat with the good folks from my new team: Team Colavita/Parisi Coffee, good ole' saturday morning chemistry lab tomorrow, oh yay :/, and Sunday I think I am going to go out with Eric from the Team to the road race in Leavenworth to check out the roadie scene. Should be a generally good weekend! Hope you enjoy yours!!!

Peace!!!

new team

sup y'all:

Well April has brought the showers and every single trail within 200 miles is done for, for a while :'( Let there be rejoicing though, I have found myself a team to race with this year, Team Colavita/Parisi Coffee: http://www.teamcolavitakc.com/content/index.shtml

Check them out, really cool peeps building a REAL team, not just a show-and-go-jersey-wearing club. Seems like most of their riders are primarily pavement pushers (just kidding!) so I'll have to bring the dirtiness to the team. I am really looking forward to being a part of Team Colavita/Parisi Coffee as they offer great support during races, team training rides and sweet deals through Volker Bike Shop: http://volkerbicycles.com/content/index.html

Mason has been working some CRAZZZZY hours. 5:30p-10:00p at UPS then he drives to Lawrence for the 11:00p-7:30a shift at another packaging plant, gets home around eight-thirty, eats, passes out by nine and wakes up again by 4:30 in the afternoon to do it all over again. I am sure he will be loving all the dough he's about to have though, damn that's a crazy schedule! Kind of sucks because we haven't ridden together in about a month, honestly we haven't really seen each other that much since he started working like a crazy man. Maybe 15 minutes on T/R mornings and maybe 10 minutes every night. I am just all confused on living with someone who I used to ride with 5-6x a week and now we are on COMPLETELY opposite schedules. I wake up/he gets off work. I get home from school/work, he is waking up to leave. Totally weird.

But anyway, we are still teamed up for the BoneBender 6 hour race and we plan on killing some people on some single speed goodness. The weekend after is the God's Country Duathlon/MTB race, I am doing the duathlon and Mason will be in the single speed class of the MTB race. Of course, the rain has to let up for a little bit :/

have a good month! it's warm enough now you can get outside for at least a little bit everyday!

peace!!!!!!!!