FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, GREAT GOD ALMIGHTY I'M FREE AT LAST

FIND THIS VIEW...AND YOU'RE CLOSE.

THEN FIND THIS TRAIL...FORGETTABOUT IT

FINALLY, I GET ALL HOOKED UP ON THE TRIP OUT WEST TO RIDE ON DIRT FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL SEASON....AND WHAT A RIDE. I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU WHERE THE HOME BOYS TOOK ME RIDING, BUT IT WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED. JONO, ZB, AND COURTMAN MET DOWN IN EAGLE THIS MORNING AND THEN WE HEADED WEST, WAY WEST, TO RIDE THE TRIPLE TOP SECRET SINGLE TRACK THAT NO ONE BUT A HANDFUL HAVE SEEN AND WITNESSED, THE SHIT WAS DOPE, AMAZING RIDING IN A SPOT THAT WILL SOMEDAY BE THE NEW FRONTIER. WE SAW NO ONE ALL DAY, RODE NEARLY 4 HOURS OF SINGLE TRACK, AND PAID TRIBUTE TO A NEW TRAIL WHICH YOU WILL SOMEDAY HERE ABOUT....THERE IS NO DOUBT.

AS USUAL, THE GUYS JUST CRUSHED IT, CRUSHED ME AND INTRODUCED ME TO AN ENTIRE NEW WORLD OF UNTAMED SINGLE TRACK AND MOUNTAIN BIKING BLISS. A COUPLE OF TEN FIDYS AND A GORDON ON THE WAY BACK AND A STOP AT OUTLAW RIBS IN PARACHUTE AND THEN SONIC IN RIFLE, FOR DESSERT OF COURSE, AND YOU HAVE AN EPIC FIRST DAY ON THE DIRT OF 2008, ONLY TO RETURN HOME TO MORE GALL DAMN SNOW IN THE FORECAST. CAN'T WAIT TO GET SOME MORE AND EXPLORE...AND FIND OUT WHERE THE JANOBRAH CUTOFF GOES.

WHAT GOES DOWN...MUST COME BACK UP...

JONO, GLAD TO BE AT THE TOP OF THE "ASTHMA HILL"

AND IF YOU AINT HITTIN UP OUTLAW FOR CHOW ON THE WAY BACK HOME, YOU'RE LOSIN.

Alcohol Abuse and Cycling

While cycling one of my favorite backcountry stashes, I came upon this disaster, which can only be classified as extreme alcohol abuse. Fortunately I had my emergency "road" kit which consisted of a straw. I immediately jumped into service as any good cyclist would have, being a good Samaritan and all, and sucked up as much of this delectable delight as I possibly could be fore it drained off the highway and was consumed by unassuming worms, ants and beetles. After pounding what I could, I then used 47 patch kits to get to the other end of the mess but made it OK and continued my ride home.....

then the fight started

Officer, this is how the fight started...I rear-ended the car in front of me. I admit that. It was my fault. So, we both pull over to the side of the road, and slowly the driver of the car I hit gets out of his car. . . and you know how you just-get-sooo-stressed... and life...sometimes life seems like... suddenly funny? Well, the driver of the car I hit is a DWARF! He gets out of his car and I get out of my car. He is frowning and scowling and he storms over to me. Right up close to me he looks up in my face and says, "I AM NOT HAPPY!" And I don't know what possessed me, officer, but I looked down at him and I said, "Well, if you're not Happy -- which one are you?" .. . . and that's when the fight started...

SQUIRT LUBE CREW IS OFF TO SEA OTTER IN TWO WEEKS.

yeah dog, after being cooped up in this god foresaken hell hole of a winter in Eagle County. Dave G., Dewet and Myself are heading out to Monterey for some Sea Otter action to promote and sell SQUIRT lube. If you were at the Cult Cross party this past saturday, you already have the goods.

BEST OF ALL...killer MTB CX racing at the Otter which I Plan on participating in if I can find a bike to ride when we are out there..should be the first dirt ride of the year since it continues to be a freekin snowfest in Eagle this spring, It's snowing as I type this...and I'm over the shit.

and here is some vijeo of the course...looks just slightly more fun than plowing and shoveling snow.

TEVA GAMES...CMON

WITH THE TEVA GAMES COMING UP THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE...I AM STILL TALKING WITH THE PROMOTERS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PUTTING ON A CYCLOCROSS RACE AS PART OF THE WEEKEND EVENTS, IT'S UP TO TEVA AT THIS POINT. I HAVE BEEN HIRED TO BE THE HILL CLIMB RACE DIRECTOR HOWEVER, AND WILL BE HOWLING WORTHLESS NOTHINGS CALLING ALL OF YOU UP TO THE START RAMP...GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, NO DIRT IS SACRED ON ANY RIDER...INCLUDING FLOYD IF HE SHOWS AGAIN!

SENDING OUT SKI SEASON, WORMS, WRECKS AND POW POW.

and after hanging around Jono, you have a tendency to pick up on his highly entertaining and funny as hell Florida gangsta rap...hence the term "Texas Jackup" which can be seen below on I-70 on the way to ski pow this morning.

texas jackup #2..same drive

and then on to better things...

ONSIGHT MEDIA CULT CROSS GRAN FINAL SLIDE SHOW

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

MANY THANKS TO BRIAN PATRICK

AND A FEW PICS FROM THE GRAN FINAL CULT CROSS COURSE.

TRUTH OR DARE 1, NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART

TRUTH OR DARE 2, YOU ARE ROLLIN NOW

NOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF "SCARE" OUT THERE YESTERDAY, BUT PLENTY OF BIG AIR

TRUTH OR DARE 3, DOES IT GET ANY BETTER?

MY DEEPEST APOLOGIES FOR NOT HAVING ONE BIT OF VIDEO OR PICTURES FROM YESTERDAY'S CULT CROSS FINAL, I WAS TOO BUSY WORKING IT AND RACING TO GET THE MEDIA SIDE COVERED. HOWEVER, BRIAN PATRICK FROM ONSIGHT MEDIA WILL HAVE AN ABSOLUTE BOMB OF A CULT CROSS SHOW COMING UP ON RSN IN APRIL, TAPE IT, TIVO IT, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO.

YESTERDAY WAS A GREAT DAY FOR CULT CROSS AND CYCLOCROSS IN GENERAL. THE RANTS AND RAVES ABOUT THE COURSE INSPIRED THIS POST AND I SAW IT FIT THAT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PARTCIPATED, YOU CAN COME HERE, RIGHT TO THIS BLOG POST, TO CHECK OUT THE PICS OF SOME OF THE COURSE HIGHLIGHTS. THE CULT CROSS GRAN FINAL WAS ALL ABOUT THE DIRT, ROCKS AND GRASS YOU RACED ON. THESE PICTURES CAN NEVER CAPTURE THE SOUL AND HARD FAUGHT EFFORTS YOU ALL LEFT OUT THERE AT THE EAGLE FAIRGROUNDS YESTERDAY, BUT, IF YOU WERE THERE, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A PIECE OF YOU OUT THERE ON THAT GRASS FIELD. ENJOY THESE PICTURES, TALK ABOUT THEM AND REMEMBER THE PEOPLE AND THE PARTY. WHEN YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN TO YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN SOME DAY ABOUT THE "TRUTH OR DARE" BRIDGE OR THE "AIR OR SCARE" BARRIER...ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CLICK TO THIS POST, FOR ETERNITY, AND THESE PICS WILL BE HERE TO TALK AND LAUGH ABOUT. CHEERS TO THE SOULS OF CYCLOCROSS, CHEERS TO THE FANS AND RACERS WHO SUPPORTED THE CAUSE...I POP A "TEN FIDY" FOR YOU!