TO ALL OF YOU "CONSIDERING" RACING IN THE CULT CROSS SERIES, YOU ARE WELCOME WITH OPEN ARMS, DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED CYCLOCROSS BEFORE BUT INSTEAD EMBRACE IT, IT IS THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE ON TWO WHEELS.
THE ABOVE VIDEO PORTRAYS WHAT CULT CROSS WOULD LIKE TO BECOME...YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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There some things that should just remain as they are, because that is just how they should be.
Chair 5 on the backside of Vail, which I have been skiing for 25 years, is slated to be replaced with a new high speed quad in the near future, most of you probably think this is great, I personally think it sux. It's amazing what takes place with "progress. More people bring more demands. They move here to get away from their otherwise mundane lives in the big city and build their third, fourth and fifth homes here and then realize they can not live with out the corporate cup of $6 dollar coffee at Starshmucks (support Yeti's Grind!), next comes COSTCO, then god forbid you have to wait 20 minutes in line at chair 5 on a powder day your second time around because you just got a hair behind the POWDER curve that morning...there is something romantic about getting off of chair 5 after your first shot of chest deep snow back there in the morning and wondering if you can make it down a second time without getting caught in the goober onslaught. It takes incredible character and resolute to commit to run number two back there most mornings. So of course, to keep up with the Jones's a new super duper high speed chair MUST replace the relic in the back. Now Vail can justify raising lift ticket prices to $200/day and make parking $50/day because ANOTHER big expenditure has taken place by Vail Resorts..CAN YOU LEAVE A TOUCH OF TRADITION ON THE HILL? FUCK.
YET THE START OF ANOTHER SICK POW DAY..IT CAN ALL MELT TO LAKE POWELL NOW. THANK YOU ULLR.
So I tried it out but all I did was get piss all over the couch and carpet and hurt my back...and now I have this funny taste in my mouth to boot. I'm gonna have to work on it...this vijeo is brought to you by SQUIRT.
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IT'S YELLOW AGAIN FOR LEVI AND ASTANA AT THE TOUR OF CALIFORNIA...I'M SURE IT'S JUST A MATTER OF MINUTES BEFORE THE DOPING ACCUSATIONS BEGIN. 
JONO AND JESSE....
AND ME THE CRUMUDGEN, 50 DEGRESS OF A-BASIN BLISS DROPPIN GAUTHIER, LOVIN "THE LEGEND".
ALL THE KIDS WERE GOING BIG..
LEVI ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED "PRETTY BOY JUNIOR" TODAY IN THE INDIVIDUAL TT AT THE TOUR OF CALIFORNIA TAKING MORE THAN A MINUTE OUT OF CANCELLERA OVER THE 15 MILE ROUTE. OVER A MINUTE I SAID. BRIT DAVID MILLAR WAS JUST 30 SECONDS OFF THE PACE BUT LEVI HAS PRETTY MUCH LOCKED DOWN THE WIN TO MAKE IT BACK TO BACK AT THE TOC. THE FACT THAT HALF THE COURSE WAS A GRADUAL CLIMB IS WHAT MAY HAVE DONE FABIAN IN. OR TO PUT IT IN SIMPLE TERMS, HE JUST GOT HIS ASS HANDED TO HIM. ASTANA NOT IN THE TOUR? ADDICTED TO BICYCLES CALLS BULLSHIT.
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END OF STORY, WHO THE HELL IS YOUR NUTRITIONIST ANYWAY?
could have received as few as four years behind bars after she killed cyclist Paul L'Ecuyer while driving under the influence on the night of December 1, 2006.
Instead, she was sentenced to 10 years - one year shy of the maximum prison term for negligent homicide - after the judge heard a telephone conversation between her and a male friend one week after L'Ecuyer was killed.
During the conversation, the man told Arrington that an acquaintance believed she should get a medal and a parade because she had “taken out a tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot.”
Arrington laughed. When the man said he knew it was a terrible thing to say, she responded, “No, it’s not.”
Superior Court Judge Michael Cruikshank said the conversation was "breathtaking in its inhumanity."
Michael Rosenbluth, for the defence, told the judge his client has never been “cold, callous or flippant; about L’Ecuyer’s death and has always felt remorseful."
Arrington was convicted two months ago of negligent homicide and two counts of aggravated drink-driving in connection with death of Mr L’Ecuyer, 45, a Tucson-born counsellor and human rights worker.
A keen athlete, Mr L'Ecuyer had been riding his bike on a five-foot wide bicycle lane, when Arrington swerved off the road, hit him and continued another 800ft before stopping.
Her blood-alcohol content was .156 percent, nearly double Arizona’s .08 legal limit. She had been driving on a suspended license for a prior drink-drive conviction.
Witnesses said she had been swerving before the collision, as she drove home after having at least five drinks with co-workers.
Ironically, just six months previously, she had attended Mothers Against Drunk Driving event designed to show the results of such behavior.
The court heard that one of the people who spoke at the MADD event had suffered severe brain damage after being struck by a drunken driver. The other killed his friend while driving drunk and is himself a quadriplegic as a result of the same crash.
"Did she not care about the tragedy that had befallen them?" asked the lawyer.
Arrington replied: "I heard what happened, but as far as caring, I don't know how I can answer that."
MAN I WISH I WAS HIS TEAMMATE, I'D SLIP THIS BEAUT UNDER HIS PILLOW AT BEDTIME TONIGHT.
MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THE CODY, WYOMING STORY OF MINE, THIS MIGHT BE THE CHICK. I WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE ON THAT EVE IN 1983. I'VE BEEN TOLD SHE RESEMBLED A "SWEET INDIAN PRINCESS".
IT'S BOOOOOOOOOOOOONEN.
mario cippi lookin rad at 40 in the sweet 
is that a mouse on Zabriskie's lip? WTF? 
the guy that made Jono's kids wealthy in the Tour De France pool last year..once again dominated the TT at the Amgen Tour of California prologue, Levi just missed the podge finishing 4th. Word is out that Adam Lueck from the Vail Valley Foundation is recruiting the boys of ASTANA to come and race the Vail UCI race this coming August...that would'nt suck if they show up...
big george...my personal favorite as a fan, in his new funk kit for High Road
favorite of the Cyclocross crowd as well as other "homers" chris horner, always smilin through the pain..
Michael Ball, the owner of cycling team Rock Racing, decided not to register Tyler Hamilton, Santiago Botero and Oscar Sevilla in the Amgen Tour of California, which begins today in Palo Alto.
I NEED TO SELL MANY HOUSES, SO I CAN PICK UP ONE OF THESE BEAUTS..THE IBIS MOJO SL. IN CASE YOU DID NOT KNOW, THE POPE AT MOUNTAIN PEDALER IN MINTURN IS THE #1 IBIS DEALER IN THE COUNTRY ALONG WITH PARTNER CHARLIE BROWN AT THE EAGLE STORE. SO IF YOU WANT ONE, CALL EM. THEY GOT EM. 
The time has come to start getting the rigs ready for the upcoming season, the road and cross bike are runnin like champs, but the MTB needs some love, hence, time to take a snow day at the Mountain Pedaler where I wrench part time to replace bearings and bushings on the Salsa...little did I know what I was getting into, Charlie Brown was right, I should have EBAYED the bike and bought a new one...replacing all your bearings on a four bar suspension can easily lead to a caniption fest...
Team manager Johan Bruyneel wondered out loud if Astaná had a “too strong team.”
WTF? I SAY WE DE-BALL THE FREENCHIES FOR THIS LAME MOVE..
And when Alberto Contador heard the news today, he unleashed a viscious attack to prove a point. Does this sound like the heart of a cheat?
From the Velonews..
Pouring his frustration into his pedals was about all Contador could do in the face of ASO’s controversial decision to exclude Astaná from all of its events, including Paris-Nice and the Tour de France, two races he won in his breakout 2007 season.
“I was attacking today to claim back what is mine,” Contador explained when asked by VeloNews about the stage. “We deserve to be in the Tour de France. It’s a hard blow because I believe I could have won again.”
Here is what I think if it means a rats ass...Astana now has the door open to come and participate in the Vail UCI omnium this summer...how sweet would that be?
The day ended with some at Larkspur quaffing fine ales then heading to the Saloon in Minturn to meet the rest of the gomers where the serious drinking started in earnest...then, off to Agave for dinner and where the drinking really, really started in earnest...that's my story and I'm stickin to it. 
