GO ROCKIES!

ATTENTION CYCLOCROSS JUNKIES

Allrighty then, I'm at Interbike in Vegas when the super cool cheeka making the rounds stops by the Squirt booth looking for sponsor help with this cross series she is promoting in California...we chat for a while and the woman is like the total bomb right (that's my socal valley chat). being that Squirt lube is the killa CX lube I told her I'd follow up which I have and need to share her linkage with ya. Her name is Dorothy Wong and maaaaaan has she got a good vibe, if I knew her better I'd ask her to marry me, but instead I'll just hook you all up....check it out

http://www.socalcross.org/

peace...out....cyclocross rules.
Thanks for the killa link Dorothy

MORE PICS FROM VEGAS....

The majority of the photos I took at the Vegas race honestly sucked, here are some taken by a pro....Mia Sullivan.

If you have not seen Jake Wells race (http://www.mafiaracing.com/), well these pics show what he is all about, the guy simply turns himself inside out when he races while his wife Linda lives every pedal rotation with him during the effort.
Jake "suitcasing" his cross bike up the run-up at Vegas Cross making a move. He started way back in the field of 80 and worked his way to a top 30 finish. Trust me on this as well folks, he could'nt do it without Linda and daughter Tatum by his side.

See ya in Frisco this weekend...hopefully I'll be good to go after eating dirt and Sage hard last night.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOP RIDE BUZZED BY CHOPPER

Check this out, looks like nothing going on in this video eh? Acutally, the law thinks that OJ is still runnin with the Wednesday night crew from the Mountain Pedaler and puts the chase on through the woods on Catwalk last night, but we manage to outrun the chopper....of course we put the shake on em and make it back as usual for pizza and beer, nothing can stand in the way of a cold Stella and a slice of pepperoni/mushroom.

The only casualty last night....ME, as I rolled my front tire flyin down the single track I like to call "I-70" and launched it over the bars and into the darkness of the sagebrush. Busted the bike up a bit as well as my bod as I jacked up my thumb,knee and shoulder, hopefully I'll be OK to race cross this weekend. Thanks to BB,CB, Matt and the rest for helping me get down with no further damage...what a wreck.

WELCOME MAFIA RACING AS A NEW BLOG SPONSOR

The boys and girls of Mafia Racing (http://www.mafiaracing.com/) are now on board the "Addicted to Cycling" blog site...of course one of Mafia's big sponsors...PABST...always a bottomless cooler at the Mafia race tent! See ya there soon.

DID YA GET SOME LOVE TODAY?? GO STEAL A DAY SOON.

The "Scrubbie" canopy on Catwalk

Never being one to miss a great ride on a great day in the fall to check out the colors, I embarked on the proverbial three hour tour today after rapping up the real estate obligations by mid-day....one thing you realize quite quickly just days after your 50th birthday is that EVERYTHING IS STILL AWESOME. While desperate houswives were home listening to a bucket of shit on the Oprah show today, or figuring out how to fold a party napkin watching that worthless sack Martha Stewart, both who pray off the weak and meek of the lonely, overweight housewife, I was out poking around on the local single track stealing yet another wonderful day away from life. The riding here just gets better every year, this summer's steady rains have kept our single track just stupid good, firm and fast and now with a soft pad of fallen leaves on large sections of it. Dropping in legally today behind the elementary school and heading up Tick Alley was perfect...cool breeze with killa colors on the scrubbies and berry bushes. Scratch was fast and Catwalk can't get better....if you have never ripped around Catwalk, now is the time to go....and be thankfull for the many man hours spent to create an amazing trail.....watch out for the new tree down just across the spring crossing and HAUL ASS. Then back track to Abram's single track downhill and you have a day that 99.9999% of the world will only dream about after they turn Oprah's HUUGE ass of the boob tube. The riding was so good I even had to go do a lap on the race course before heading home. The only riders I saw the ENTIRE ride were Ross and Heather Sappenfield who were on Haystacker road when I was almost home....I LOVE RIDING IN EAGLE. This is indeed a dream.....go steal a day soon.

Mario Chipollini races Crit in Vegas.....

Somewhere in this madness at night in the parking lot of the Mandalay Bay convention center is Mario Chipollini, the Italian stallion of road racing. This was an insane crit, with plenty of "dark" corners, eight total on the course, and a huge field of pros hauling ass around it 60 times...pretty cool stuff. No crashes in this race thankfully, the previous race was not as lucky. Two riders escaped with five to go....the chase never organized due to the fact that Super Mario never pulled once during the race, so the pack was content to let the break go until the finish....rather than pull the lazy Italian back to the front so he could win a not deserved sprint.....