Dat's the post title i've had rolling around in my head for a couple days now.
Raced yesterday, Effin FUN. Brilliant course. Tough, challenging, bike handling at a premium. Watched Luke put on a freaking clinic. Had a Dales Pale Ale, ya know it was pretty good beer! I could definitely feel the slip in fitness and the soreness was far more lingering than most races. Fun stuff.
Rode in this morning. Damn it hurt to sit down for the first few minutes. But i felt strong, felt good the whole ride in. Maybe i should have opened up a bit saturday, maybe i should have gone hard more than just on Wed night leading up to the race. It was fun tho. At the last minute i thought "I should stick a spare tube and the tool kit with those park glueless patches in the bag" this morning. Heading just before the drop off at daycare, squishy squishy. GD rear tire flat. But it lost air about perfectly. I could ride it all the way to daycare. We parked and the little one wanted to watch me change the tire before going in. So she held the stuff i needed until we got it sorted out and changed. Damn bit of glass, one millimeter outside of the plastic armor strip in these serfas tires. Damn it. Ah well, at least i had a spare tube, a safe place to change it, and somewhere to wash my hands afterwards.
Post race CTodd followed me back to the top secret tubular glueing hideout. Here's to hope the fact that one big omission of "I'll do it if" doesn't cause them to roll. Should be okay though. Should be. I'll say this though. The ambrosio curve looks like it would be good for a 18mm casing, in terms of the curve of the tire seat, but not so good for a 32-34 tire. The previous glue job looks like it never made contact with the center of the tire. No wonder it rolled. Here's to hoping the current glue job holds... I ain't got complete confidence, but i think it served the purpose of conveying the couple tricks i learned about gluing tubulars. The Grifo's might not have the most perfectly centered tread (like an FMB hopefully has) but they do go on really easily. Maybe that means they roll off easily too, hmmmm...
Yall missed a damn fine bike race on sunday. Here's to a GREAT week.
peace
G
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That race was fab. Loved the snow.
Thanks again for the tubular gluing clinic. Here's hoping that Fast Tack lives up to its reputation!
when i get rich of crossresults i'll pay you to glue tubulars for me. if it's good enough for the world cup then it's good enough for the B race!
and yeah, that course was fun, I don't know what the heck is wrong with people. if there's some secret anti-dayville bias, someone please clue me in.
more likely i suspect more crossers are just scurred of racing when they haven't done a 6-month training program to maximize their performance
bunch of sally bag pus buckets!
That is a damn fine fun course.
It also proved that you don't have to be "on" form to have fun.
Cross is just freaking
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no matter what time of year, when it is, except august and early september when everything is dry, dusty, warm and grippy.
Give us sloppy, wet, cool (or cold), tractionless courses. And a few good mates to race with like CTurd, Colin, CBurke, and B-MAC(innis). It no get better than that.
I was a phlegm producing machine. I wasn't on top form at all.
It was still damn fun. Even though it hurt.
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