A big part of what's made my college experience so enjoyable thus far is taking part in collegiate cycling. The collegiate mountain bike racing scene offers a great way to extend the mountain bike season a couple more months, along with being a great way to make new friends and just have a good time in general. The first race of the season took place a few weekends ago in Steamboat Springs. As the crow flies, nothing is too far away in Colorado, but small roads and mountain passes make for long days on the road. Putting it plainly, FLC h...
[Payson McElveen (Bicycle Sport Shop/ Team USA), from Austin, TX is one of the top Junior MTB racers in the USA in 2011. Currently in his last year as a Junior, he is on his way to Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO this Fall to pursue his dream to become a professional cyclist. For regular blogs, visit his website paysonmcelveen.com!] Since getting into Durango this past Monday, I've been living the life. Last week Andy Schultz and his girlfriend Alison were kind enough to host us until I was moved into the dorm. Thank you two for be...
I want to be Katy Perry when I grow up. What? It’s too late? Oh, alright, I’ll settle for wife, mother, and mountain bike racer. Or hill bike racer, given the dearth of mountains around here. How did I get to be this old and not ever read W. Somerset Maugham? "Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither." Or to Riverside County, unlikely site of yesterday’s round four in the Kenda Cup West series. Can anything good come out of ...
The announcer warned us, but I didn’t listen. “Some great dirt out there, so don’t use your brakes. Just rail the berms,” Larry Longo advised. Larry has been racing, and calling races, since well before I even thought of donning a helmet. So he ought to know. Tacky dirt? At Fontana? Mutually exclusive, usually. The Fontana course is famous for being hot, crowded, and dusty. And not just ordinary dust, either. It’s the consistency of baby powder, inches deep, obscuring pointy rocks and generally making people misera...
I don’t like fishing. I feel bad for the worms. But last Sunday morning, slogging up hills at Bonelli Park, I glimpsed some patient souls tossing hooks into the reservoir below. Since my race started exceedingly early, mist was still rising as boats drifted silently across the mercury colored water. Meanwhile, my breath filled my ears with a roar of complaint, and every pedal stroke hurt. You know, maybe I should switch sports. Sit quietly in thin early light, wait for something to happen. Hope a serendipitously hungry fish somehow finds ...
"It's like blue cheese. Either you want it with everything, or you don't quite understand the appeal. One or the other." This was my explanation to people who questioned my bike choice as I pushed my single speed up the same hills over and over yesterday. Trudge, trudge. There was a over thousand feet of climbing per lap yesterday, and many times there were six or eight of us companionably hauling our bikes toward the heavens. Three long climbs per lap, followed by illegally fast ridgeline descents. At the top, racers would surreptitiously eye ...
[For sake of civility, I will declare an important truth about this post: it is NOT a comprehensive analysis of the situation, and the only expertise I claim is as a spectator and participant of the sport. Many stones may be left unturned, and many biases may be present. I am simply adding my viewpoint to the conversation of the greater cycling community. You are welcome to publicly disagree, but please do so in a manner appropriate for conversational arguments. This will be posted on both my personal blog (http://fancyshpants.blogspot.com/) an...
Nathan Guerra (Mr. Tree / Power Bar) raced to his second career victory in the Wisconsin Off Road Series BelGioioso men’s elite field on Sunday, once again claiming the top of the podium at the Alterra Coffee Bean Classic. Abigail Strigel (Trek Stores of Madison) returned to the top step in the women’s contest after missing the last race. Strigel dominated the women’s elite field with a margin of over 5 minutes on second place and claimed the prize offered by local organizers of a $100 to the first BelGioioso Elite racer to t...
I'm sorry. Kind of. . If you were taking a high line around the ponds on Plantation, and two crazy single speeders splashed through the middle and drenched you, I do apologize. Mostly. . Because that was the most fun I had all day. . I've squeaked past Brian Itzaina in a couple of previous races, but he was having none of it at Big Bear on Sunday. He got past me at the top of the first long climb, and then nipped in ahead of me onto the Plantation single track. He has great bike handling skills, so it was all I could do to hold his wheel throu...
I blame Erik. The 12 Hours of Temecula race wasn't on my schedule for the year. "Will we see you there?" he inquired. Innocuous, really, but the exact same words uttered by John Hinke swayed me into driving up to Oregon for the Spring Thaw. The race was Saturday, June 12. I registered on Thursday. "Are you allowed to rest? Or do you have to ride your bike the whole time?" I tried to explain the concept to a non-racing friend. Yes, you can stop as much as you want. But whomever completes the most laps between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ...
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