Elgee gangster style hanging out with adventure race/tandem crusher mountain biker Julie Gleason at the post ride feast and party
BBQ firin up at Passion 
Dewet and myself will have the Squirt Tent set up and rollin at the Coolest 24 Hour MTB Race Against Cancer this coming weekend in Cool, California. Be sure to stop by and see us if you are in area. In addition it appears we will be doing the 8 hour duo team event as well. Just when you thought it was safe to go outside again....see you all there. 
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It's been a while since I've seen a Willie Mays, Don Drysdale matchup
Vittori Sauttiu Winery was where a lot of the trouble started, with enough wine and cheese to bound the colon of the entire Prairie City Race Series field we strolled along through paradise.And then this gal comes along and just crushes us...se la vino
Shasta Lemurian, monster climbing and psycho single track through the dark woods of Northern California. California riding does no suck at all. What a week, from first to worst and back to first...
And Dewet finishing up his journey...with racing over for this trip (I think), but not the riding, we are tossing just a few beers this eve. 
Whiskeytown Lake, where the race starts and ends.
Kinetic Cycles in Oak Grove California, just outside of Sacremento and a Specialized Concept store is now rockin the Squirt. Shop owner Bruce Kaiser gave us the tour and we met his 16 year old son Cody who rode for the US Junior cyclocross team last year. We met these guys the night before at the local race series and Cody was already rockin and lovin the Squirt when we showed up. Nice shop, good people.
And the there is the ugly side of Northern Cal where segregation still exists at the hotel we are staying in....
With some rain forecast today in Northern California, we are off to a turtle's pace of a start which is fine with me. This road trip is not without incident, as two South Africans with heavy accents and an American with a very high level of A.D.D. sometimes have a miscommunication. This was the case a couple of days ago while packing our crap pile of shit into the car. I realized that Danie had left his waist pack IN FRONT OF the passenger side rear wheel when I pulled the car out of it's parking space to pack it "better" and I heard the crunch of his camera as it took a hard hit from the Subie. It was'nt very funny at the time to him, however I found great humor in it.
The Squirt road trip continues after Sea Otter, the Prairie City race series last night and now on the road to Mount Shasta for the Shasta Lemurian MTB race this weekend. From there back to San Fran and then off the the Coolest 24 Hour MTB race outside of Truckee. What freekin day is it?
We did'nt stay here last night, but probably belong here, this is the famous Folsom Prison, Cmon Johnny Cash....
In the meantime, things have gotten tight in the Subie...
It got pretty hotly contested on course, the FELT Nine Limited performed flawlessly and was FAST.
En route to the amazing 17 mile drive, we were short one bike or a two wheeled tour would have been just awesome. Temps were in the 90's today, some kind of record or something but OUTSTANDING. 
Two of golf's greatest names..
Welcome to "Lifestyles of the rich and lamest".
This could have easily been called the "farting shot" according to my two Squirt Lube counterparts this weekend, but that is a story for another day. Tales from the road will continue later this week...we are off and runnin again!
The sun sets over Carmel Bay, Sea Otter 2009 is history.. 
Temps hit 90 degrees at Sea Otter, it was a record breaker, and it lead to more than one problem out on the XC course as racing became a test of survival in the heat for many. Large numbers of elite racers were forced to the sidelines early while the rest struggled around an abbreviated version of the original two lap course. It was (World Champion)Christoph Sauser and Georgia Gould dominating their fields for the wins in 2009. 
The Penny Farthington in Salinas, my favorite hangout.
