What's New

It's been a while since my last post, So what's new? . . . Not much. Just doing what I was doing. Riding and training. One day I'll race again. Got a lot of outdoor house work to do before winter. So when it rains 15 of the last 20 days sometimes the weekends have to be given up.
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It's not all bad. It good just to get out and enjoy to fall colors

But in the mean time here are some picture from a bike ride I did to Freeman, MO.
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Went to Freeman, MO not too long ago. It's a city that looks like it hasn't changed in 100 years.

. . . I've also got something cook'n in the shop. Hmmmmmmmmm.

The Great Power Outage of 2009

So I made it out to Raytown BMX . Here are some picture of the first straight. There are more on the Raytown BMX site.


The gate. Nice hydraulic lift. Back in my day we had to have some guy lift the gate back up. I mean we thought it was cool when we had an electronic latch.

Here's a good view of the first straight away. Here we go . . . "Back in my day" . . . Well it's true back in my day a first straight away usually had jumps you could not pedal over. The trick is now to be flexable enough to perform this act. Now I know why eveybody hase their seats down really low. I took mine in the chest a couple times on some of the jumps.

This is the first turn. It's almost exactly like the other two. I've ask people what they thought about making a dirt velodrome. I either get no answer or the "What! . . . I didn't order a pizza." look.

Here is proof it would not be that hard to build an oval with banked turns.


AND! it was coming out of that turn I suffer a power outage.

This happened before I could get any pictures of myself riding on the track. Well My better luck later this week.

Another Post

Not much to say. Had to miss last week's race because I'm running out of good days to work on the outside of my house. 87 degrees is not exactly Cyclo Cross weather anyway. . . . Oh I did manage to beat my best time ever on my morning 17.3 mile route by over 45 seconds. It doesn't mean I'm in the best shape ever, considering a week before I rode a lot harder according to my heartrate monitor, and it took me about 2 minutes longer. The course is not a straight point to point, it's more of a C shape and comes 5 mile from being a complete circle. So the wind can still effect your results a bit. Well it's encouraging anyway.

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So what's on tap? Raytown BMX This should be a real hoot. I've got a GT cruiser, but I would exactly call it a cruiser. I'd call it a BMX bike with 24" wheels. It's really hard to make the distinction between the two these days because they make the frames so compact. I'll post picture and be more illistrative later.

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I think I'm going to skip the numbers. I think you all get the point, or got an Idea about what I do. It's just more of the same.