Single Speed Sunday Sprints for Speedy Stoners!

Well, another 420 has passed, and despite the odds against us with the blustering weather (not to mention the holdiay, which does not encourage sprightly behavior) we managed to have some 40 dedicated riders show up to the Sunday Sprints yesterday.
We met at Gallivan and zipped over to the racing strip in a skipping, skidding mass, racers of every shape and size testing out their sprinting legs.



We raced against a crazy headwind at times, which for my first heat wasn't bad, but in some of the others it was preposterous. In Greg's words after an improbable heat win on a 40 lb schwinn varsity fixie: "Dude, heavy bike+headwind+easy gear=domination!"

Greg's a burly mothaf**ker though, and sly too. Don't trust a word he says.

Anyway, the win went easily to Andrew Love, heap-big speedskater and general cool dude. Check out his blog post on the races and this super sweet picture I snapped of him:

Note the legions of defeated Fuji's before him and scads of inspired lads.

All in all, it was great fun, and I expect to see ya'll there racing next month. One thing though, we need more women! Lindsey was the only female racer, and she didn't report being lonely but I'm not a very faithful journalist so I say she wept a bitter tear in her solitude. So come out and race, girls and boys!

In other news, the dude in the middle of the first picture with the neon pink/yellow bike won the trackstanding competition. And his bike's super hot.

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