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| igssc 04 2nd release |
| 09.30.04 (12:27 pm) |
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FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE: 9/29/04
IGSSC 04
GALACTIC GALAXY
CONTACT: PLUTO PILOT
>2004 Intergalactic Single Speed Championships
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>TO ALL WACKY ONES AND THEIR BRETHEN. THE INTERGALACTIC SINGLE SPEED SPACE
>FEDERATION ANNOUNCES TO ALL A FORMAL INVITATION TO THE LARGEST AND MOST
>PRESTIGIOUS SINGLE SPEED EVENT IN THE GALAXY!
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>YES, IT'S TRUE, THE INTERGALACTIC SINGLE SPEED CHAMPIONSHIPS WILL BE HELD IN
>BOULDER, COLORADO, STARTING AT THE 14TH STREET AND WALNUT STREET BUS STATION
>AT 5:40 PM, ON OCTOBER 1, 2004, IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY SYSTEM. THIS EVENT
>IS LONGER, DARKER, AND DANKER THAN ANY OTHER IN THE GALAXY
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>FORGET THE STUPID "WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS" AND SUCH, THEY PALE IN COMPARISION.
>SO THEY HAVE NEDERLAND? DO THEY HAVE CARIBOU? DO THEY HAVE 2 PAC SHAKUR? DO
>THEY HAVE MERIWEATHER? NO THEY DON'T, BUT WE DO. AND WE SHALL TOUR THEM ALL
>AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A LOCAL BREW TO HONOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM! OH
>YES!
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>WE WILL BEGIN WITH A SPACE SHIP BUS RIDE UP TO THE NEDERLAND STAR SYSTEM
>(BRING $2.75 FOR BUS FARE), AND CONTINUE WITH A SPECTACULAR RIDE YET TO BE
>DETERMINED AS FAR AS YOU KNOW (SNOW IS PREDICTED!!!). WE SHALL TRAVEL
>THROUGH THE ASTEROID FIELDS OF WEST MAGNOLIA, THE PEAK TO PEAK GALAXY, THE
>RINGS OF SUGARLOAF AND EVENTUALLY RETURN TO BOULDER.
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>EVERYONE IS WELCOME. ANY BIKE WILL DO AS LONG AS IT IS OFS - CROSS, CRUISER,
>TOWNIE, TRACK, JUNKER, ROADIE, JALOPY, BIG WHEEL, UNICYCLE, THEY ARE ALL
>WELCOME AT THE IGSSC. THIS IS THE FIRST EVER INTERGALACTIC SINGLE SPEED
>CHAMPIONSHIP SLATED FOR A NIGHT TIME RIDE. BE SURE TO SET UP YOUR X-WING
>SINGLE SPEED FIGHTERS WITH LIGHTS, AS WE WILL TOUR THROUGH DARK EVIL WOODS
>ON OUR VOYAGE FROM NEDERLAND TO BOULDER.
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>FOLLOWING THE RIDE WE WILL DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY AT A LOCATION TO BE
>DETERMINED. AND THEN, IT'S THE TOUR DE DEWEY THE NEXT NIGHT, SATURDAY,
>OCTOBER 2. MEET AT EBEN G FINE PARK AT 9 PM FOR THIS HISTORIC EVENT.
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>FOR YOU SLACKERS WHO MISS THE BUS ON FRIDAY NIGHT - MEET AT THE PIONEER INN
>AT 6:20 PM IN NEDERLAND.
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| weekend report |
| 09.28.04 (8:34 am) |
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what a weekend, I was going non-stop. It all started on friday night, Cathy and I went to the Salina cafe with Michelle and Steve. The cafe is really cool, basically just a large dining room where a woman does a four course family style meal every two weeks, nothing fancy just good down home cooking. We worked our way through a couple bottles of wine, and had a really good time, some great stories were passed around.
So the training started Saturday morning up at 6:30 to get to golden gate state park for boulder racing's mines madness mountain bike race. With no warm up, except for raising the BR banner. It was such a good time. Started out with a good amount of smack talking with one of my co-workers, I never really rode with the front guys but I had a blast. Although a really hard crash in the first third of the race put a bit of a damper on it. The course it self was really cool, a super mix of fast colorado singletrack and eastcoast style rocks and roots. stuff that you really had to get in a groove on to ride fast. Hands down the best race that I have done in colorado. And the vibe at the race was awesome; it was mainly collegiate kids and super grassroots, a bunch of mountain bikers to do a great race on great trails. Once again Boulder Racing does it again.
Sunday
Finally, FINALLY we got to ride with Ben and Amber, it seems that whenever we try hang out we have to deal with scheduling conflicts. Ben travels a lot for work and Amber is a student /vet so it always seems like someone has plans. All four of us finally got together for a great ride on Kenosha pass. The weather and ride were great although we missed the leaves by a week and there was a fair amount of mud to contend with. The views were epic and the ride was really fun. Cath scared the crap out of me riding bridges; she had a good crash too. No serious injuries just some battle wounds. I had the chance to ride Ben's maverick for a good 45min, it is a really cool bike, but the fork was the one thing that really impressed me, 3.5 lb 6 inch travel fork, that you can climb up hill with, pretty awesome. It was a great day; it is too bad that we can't do it more often.
hey boulder guys TDD is coming up in less than 4 days, see http://www.offcamber.com" title="http://www.offcamber.com" target="_blank"http://www.offcamber.com hope everyone has been training. Boulder Racing has scheduled their first cross race for the day after, that should be fun- yea right.
FYI- last year I witnessed some mope try to beat down one of the pilots because of a ghost riding incident down 9th st, the ghost bike knocked his girlfriend off her bike. They shouldn't have been there in the first place, people like that are not invited. Listen up! If you don't want to get hurt at TDD, then be careful. Realize there is a good chance of loosing some skin or breaking an arm. If you get hurt and are pissed about it then you shouldn't be there so DON'T COME!
word,
paco
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| mtb race this weekend |
| 09.24.04 (9:58 am) |
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Back to the roots, collegiate mountain bike race this weekend, they will have norba categories as well, put on by Boulder Racing- see http://www.boulderracing.com" title="http://www.boulderracing.com" target="_blank"http://www.boulderracing.com for details. I have been a bit under the weather all week, finally got a ride in yesterday evening. felt kind of crappy but is was nice to be out, it feels like fall already. Already winter not 20 miles to our west, crazy. Possibly riding Kenosha pass on sunday, could be a good one, I am embarrassed to say that I have never ridden it. Finally check out this http://www.fatcogs.com" title="http://www.fatcogs.com" target="_blank"http://www.fatcogs.com pretty cool site devoted to one of the coolest frame builders of all time, I was lucky enough to ride for them one year and I am super bummed that I didn't keep the bike.
Later,
paco
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| race two and a hell of a moto |
| 09.21.04 (7:58 am) |
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well i raced again this past weekend, up in breck, cross racing over 9000ft should be illegal. I started well and was able to think about the race while it was happening. Planning my efforts for the spots where I wasn't at a disadvantage on the single and resting and relaxing in the spots where the disadvantage was the highest. All that is really good, it teaches you patience in racing and you learn quickly on the single. If you try to rush or make up time in the sections where you are at the disadvantage all you do is hurt yourself, and make the even spots of the race even slower. I also thought about being smooth, smooth is fast, but like all other things in life if you try to force them you only make them harder. If you can be smooth at your LT on a course fit for a mountain bike, then you have really accomplished something. I was smooth in parts but not the whole course or race, I suffered on the dismounts definitely giving up too much speed, trying to force the moves. There were a couple corners where I was on rails, faster than I could have gone on a downhill bike. It is such a great feeling, pushing a steel bike through a corner and having it dampen the bumps and hook up like a CU student. I got fifth in the race, I blew the doors off a cocky junior and perennial powerhouse Joe D. Well I don't know if it was actually that powerful but I got a good gap and held it to the finish. I do think if there had been a couple more laps I could have caught forth, he was fading pretty fast on the last lap. PPV's JB had a stellar race leading from the gun and never looking back the guy's got some form right now, but ever modest he thinks he will be coming down soon. Finally Tim got beat for second by an mtb, come on Tim, just kidding- way to start the season swinging.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
ICI moto crew- Jon, Lara, Don and Paco
Plan ride from boulder to breck, on dirt bikes via DIRT! Epic, to say the least. We only made it to Idaho springs but it was an epic ride nonetheless. Over 8 hours on the throttle, only dumped it once at the end, turning around in the middle of a trail no less. The ride was filled with jeep roads, high two track, a short stint on I-70, some single track, and a lunch stop at Burger King (when in Rome do as the Romans). You would not believe what people get themselves into in their stock suvs "no honey really, I saw it in a commercial, really" then the axel breaks, doh. We saw some trashy two strokers out cracking silver bullets at 13000ft on the divide. Great Idea- ride to 13000ft and drink beer to keep loose on the rocky descent to civilization (kind of reminds me of good ol' PW, and his buddy Grover). The ol' DR did great keeping up with a new XR 650 and a DRZ just fine. Props to Lara hanging in there on an epic with only a couple days of motorcycle riding ever look out Irm. Overall we didn't ride anything too tough, but it was a great ride to get the skills up. I have to say I am feeling more comfortable than ever on the bike. But cruising the highway still makes me think about the age of the bike. As bad as it sounds riding dirt bikes is a pretty great way to experience the rocky mtns. You see so much, and this weekend was no exception, it was great to see the high country and as an added bonus the aspens were already starting their change, it was really beautiful.
Till next time,
paco
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| cross |
| 09.17.04 (6:46 am) |
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so much for staying on top of this thing, oh well. So big news I pulled off the first cross race of the season last night. It was rough especially not having any Wednesday rides under the belt. But being a training race I figured it was a good place to blow things out a little before the first real race this weekend- Breck. things went ok for the first 3 of 11 laps then all I was able to stay up with the leaders but after a few bumbled remounts I let gaps open and since I was on the old single I wasn't afforded the luxury of faking it. from there on I stayed on the gas and punched it a couple times but I never really did anything but loose time to the leaders. Ran into newt on the bike path this morning, that kid is inspiring he was out on the crossbike this morning at 5:30, we had a quick chat sounds like he is doing well he is going to be riding with gully at all big crank bros races this season. Pretty cool, he definitely deserves it, and with the dedication he has hopefully he can capitalize on the opportunity to get some results. As for my season I am pretty much on the dl, local stuff. But if anyone out there has some extra cash out there I would gladly let you be my sponsor, ha! The one morning where I need to get to work on time (board meeting) I got passed by the head honcho of VN, so I cut it short with newt and rode in with him. He asked why the single, and I tried to give the best answer, "well first off it is a good built in excuse, but most of all it keeps you real” How? "Well on a single you have to be out there for a good time, because if you really wanted to win or at least do well you would be on a real bike” So there you have it folks, this is my the sum goal of my cross season, to have a good time. But I am going to be fast come December, so watch out. Nationals on a single, not out of the question. Talk about shit talking, huh? So who was going fast, well gully won easily keeping it real with hairy legs. Micah was up there too, and believe it or not he kept both wheels on the ground the whole race.
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