I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO SAY....

Some days are just not fit for words, many of you know how hard I've worked for today's race. I spent endless hours and miles on my road bike freezing my ass off to get ready for Sea Otter. I'm short on time tonight as we get ready to go out and celebrate a war on the dirt, but today was the culmination of so many things for me, many things even those closest to me will never understand. Having been left for dead by a half dozen riders in front of me with 4 miles to go, all the hard work paid off. And it was there, right in front of me. And now, it can never be taken away.

So uh, what's Gary Fisher and Billy Savage up too? Billy just released his movie Klunkerz documenting the history of Mountain Biking. It's a wonderful film with all the great characters and stories. Buy it here

A bike powered IPOD? Only at the Clif Bar party at Sea Otter

SEA OTTER IS UPON US...

Stoltz New ride....he races Sunday with the rest of the Factory team from Specialized including Stander, Sauser and Overend.

Day one of Sea Otter is in the books. Conrad Stoltz, World Champion Xterra athlete stopped by today to pick up a SQUIRT LUBE chainstay sticker for his smokin new Specialized full squishy 29er. The bike was officially unveiled today.

Stoltz branding the new ride with SQUIRT stickers

And it's official, Elgee is heading to South Africa next February and March for a "Squirt Lube Conference"

SPECIALIZED TO UNVEIL 29ER TOMORROW AT 10AM, SANTA CRUZ FACTORY TOUR..

With the entire Specialized Factory team squads in house for Sea Otter tomorrow, Specialized is unleashing their own 29er furry at 10am at their Sea Otter tent, be there or be square. These are the same dudes and dudettes who are now rockin the SQUIRT LUBE all race season.

Mariano Gon at Santa Cruz was kind enough to give us a VERY exclusive tour of their bike production facility even though he mentioned they rarely let anyone behind closed doors...it was killer, below freshly painted rockers
Mariano shows Dewet finished product

Finished with paint and decals, ready to become full grown hard tails...

Just baked for 40 minutes, from powder coat to hard finish sweet paint jobs.I wish I had more time to discuss more tonight, but we now must head out to Penny Farthington's English Pub in Salinas for a Bottington so we feel perf for opening morning of Sea Otter...more to come for sure.

PICS FROM THE ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW...

the bridge

Very quickly this morning before a crazy day begins, which will hopefully include a tour of the Santa Cruz bicycle "factory", a couple of pics from the Hostel grounds in Marin County.

The Turkey crapping tree

RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, FROM FISHERMAN'S WHARF...

Believe it or not? This Turkey, along with about ten others, shit all over my car continuosly last night while I slept soundly in my bed. Does this sound like a story or what? Well, only on A2B could you get this story as being true to word. This FUCKER and ten of his buddies shat from about 150 feet up in a pine tree last night and COVERED my rental vehicle and our bikes with LARGE piles of turkey sheeeet. It took me 30 minutes to get the crap off the car, the highlight of the trip. Just another Sea Otter adventure story, more to come.

and more from the Shoe Tree....what short strange trip it has already been.

SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE...

I'm worked, and we have not even gotten to Monterey yet. Hustling the living crap out of the Squirt Lube all over NorCal and pounding BIG food. We holed up in the awesome Hostel the past two nights just on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge, and I mean RIGHT on the north side, rode a ceremonial Marin County Railroad grade time trial with Dewet, talked about me heading to South Africa next winter to race the Cape Epic which WILL happen, drove the craziest damn roads in any American city workin the bike shops, saw 1,456,233 fixed gear riders who all look the same, hopped in the car and drove to Santa Cruz down PCH where it was blowing 50 knots steady, surf was amazingly tremendous, and tomorrow is when the shit hits the fan when we arrive at Otter...I'm out for now, keep posted. You wont believe the turkey shit on the car story.....and yes, this is TURKEY shit all over the car,ALOT of it.

THE LONELIEST HWY IN AMERICA, HWY 50

If you ever get a chance to drive 'America's Loneliest Highway", Hwy 50 from Salina, Utah to Reno, Nevada, well do it. It's an amazing drive with great road and very high speed limits, you'll see 10 cars for every 100 miles you drive and the scenery is spectacular. Most importantly, in the middle of Bum Fuck Nowhere USA, you will pass one of the most bizarre sites you will ever encounter when you come upon the Shoe Tree. Pretty much speechless on this one folks. The adventure begins.

I think I'm finally sick of In and Out Burgers...

I'M ELGEE WITH ADDICTED TO BICYCLES AND IM OUT TO SEA OTTER

Locked and loaded, overloaded..

There is now way all this shit is gonna fit in the rental car, and then pick up two guys at the San Fran airport, no way. This is gonna be good