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.
Good to see your postings on here. Missed the Sunday Sprints, but if its like this last time, I will attach a kite to my bike.
ReplyDeleteI sent an email to the Trax people a couple years ago about this. Six months later they replied with a "working on it" response. I just assumed that it got canned, but the other day I was on one of the older Trax trains and saw that a seat had been removed and a "Bicycle Area" sign was there. Of course people were sitting in it, so there was no way I could have put my bike there, also it looked too small for an adult bike to fit, but I guess it's something.
ReplyDeleteHi Davey! Fancy meeting you here on the internet. Nice post, by the way.
ReplyDeleteyay lindsey!
ReplyDeleteGlad you didn't call me out on being a yellow journalist :).
The concert was really cool, by the way, I'll get you a copy of Saul Willams' stuff if ya wanna.
thanks for the picture & link Blaue... Yeah that was a fun, windy day, lots of really cool folks riding too..
ReplyDeletea bunch of people have meanderd over to my website and posted comments..
and I bet that some in the speedskating world have dropped by here as well..
again, thanks for the kind mention...