Monday, November 20, 2006

The images from the race... on sunday...

Setting up for the corner...

Ahhh form... if i only looked that good getting back on the bike...

Power baby power... in the drops... in the big ring... putting in a burst to hook on to the wheel of the guys up front of me...
written (if you can call it that) by before

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just want to know why there is no one around you, were you DFL again?

11:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Aaaaaahhh...that track was the ONLY place my roadie skills allowed me to catch people.

A saving grace.

11:43 AM
gewilli said...

LOL...

no - not DFL again... two BOB dudes were WAY slower than me...

and a handful of others... i was close to reeling in two more spots...

see the pictures are a result of a good photographer... fucking Curly with his fuckign mirror and stars jersey screwed up on of the frames and if the battery hadn't died maybe there'd be shots of others i was racing against...

And shimano is way better than some crapagnolo shit...

If i had been running the 32 hole wheels with the vreds i'd have had a chorus hub on the bike LOL

2:35 PM
gewilli said...

And ryank, that track, and the first pass along the barriers, and the two flats before the ridable hill... those... were roadie sections...

a nice mix i thought... a real cross course, almost...

2:37 PM
solobreak said...

Maybe it's speed blur (doubtful...) but it looks like the ol' Croll is flexing like a mofo.

I like the Lowell course. Not a cookie-cutter high school field, a little mountain bikey, but nothin on it crosses the line. The track is close enough to being pavement (so long as it's dry like this year). And they did use the 50 feet or so of real pavement they had to work with. More kudos to not running us through the available sand. All in all a great little race. I'd like to see this one happen earlier in the year...

4:14 PM
gewilli said...

i dunno - its at the point of the turn at the track, but yeah - if the frame was flexing, it'd have been at that point, seated power, drops, accelerating (insert star trek engine power reference)...

it prolly is flexing, the tubing is not extra ordinary diameter and is merely 753...

maybe a C-dale or Kona will give me those two extra gears i need to compete in stiffness...

it just feels like if i could turn over two cogs higher during the race i'd be in the points... but then two cogs is a lot to ask these legs at this point... maybe next year... i ain't some gifted freak of nature like that irksome sandbaggin yogurt boy....

4:26 PM
solobreak said...

You have to wonder. If you had more power, then you'd be going faster, so you'd need more skills. No doubt the fast guys are going through the turns faster too. If I go too hard I start to lose composure and make mistakes.

I'll go now before I end up writing my whole race report here. Plymouth results are up on bikereg btw, so you get your points...

4:55 PM
gewilli said...

i don't generally have a problem hanging with anyone on the technical sections... just feel slower in the straight flat sections.... i dunno just trying to stay positive thinking of a way to frame it to stay motivated to head out everyday... although its so much damn fun that its not a problem, but i would like to get better... and its more the sections between the technical shit that i suck at... but then... ya... going faster maybe i'd start sucking at those too... i dunno...

if i go a couple years without improvement then i'll start worrying about what i'm doing wrong... can't fucking expect to head out and win after 6 years of being a fat slow car commuting sack of crap...

5:00 PM
gwadzilla said...

great pics...

cross is an odd group

the pit bikes
the sandbaggers

the roadies saying that they do not race mountian bikes

it is a sport that often contains a million excuses

I love hearing the banter before a race
the excuses why some midpack guy did not have a better race the weekend before

honestly...
if you are not top ten
a few spaces are not worth over thinking

but
these are roadies talking
sprinting at the finish to take 42nd place

awesome

(I always lose at the sprint finish and find myself in 43rd)

10:08 AM

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