(From www.andrewfreye.com) Burns and I had a goal of being out of the house by 9am Thursday morning. We were out by 9:05 am, a record for us. The drive up to Canaan, VT went smoothly with minor pee breaks. Unlike last week where the Canadian government mixed up my identity with a criminal this week we made it through without a problem. In fact, the border patrol didn’t even scan our passports! By 2:30 pm we were cruising into Montreal only to be stopped for an hour and a half due to traffic! It seems like any week day from 7am-8pm there ...
Every time I travel to Canada it turns out to be an adventure and this trip didn’t let down. Burns, Cyr, Colt from cylingdirt.org and myself all piled into my father’s Explorer for a weekend of racing north of the boarder. We left Yarmouth around 9:30am and headed north. I had to make a quick detour in Waterville to pick up Colt. From there we headed North West on route 201 to the Jackman, Maine border crossing. Let’s just say the border crossing didn’t go so well. I guess the Canadian police officer somehow scanned my p...
2009 would be my 10th year in a row racing the Fat Tire Classic. I’ve raced here in every type of weather imaginable in New England, rain, snow, sunny and 65, and sunny and 90. This year’s weather would be less than desirable, sunny, hot, and about 90 degrees. I did everything I could to prepare for this race, kind of. The Superfly was cleaned and working flawlessly. I even took a lot of time to get the Bontrager XR1 set up tubeless just for this race. These tires would be the perfect tire if the conditions were dry and thankfully t...
