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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Wordpress 2.2 installed, now I just need to figure out how to get the permalinks working again.
I hope this does not take all night…
Wordpress Upgrade
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007I am going to attempt to upgrade my Wordpress files late tonight. If it fails I am going to delete this whole blog and then throw myself off the Diamond Lake Road Bridge.
Let us hope things go well.
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Romney
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007For abortion after he was against it before he was against it.
This guy is a total snake oil salesman and will obviously say anything in order to get elected.
Be afraid.
Elena Dorr
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Local track racer Elena Dorr makes the Strib.
“I love the speed, the banked turns and having all this power in the bike but no brakes,” Elena Dorr said. The Minnesota Cycling Federation named her the 2006 Track Rider of the Year for women.
h/t NS
Gay Bomb!
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007The Pentagon has confirmed that a plan was floated to create a “gay bomb” that would blind enemy troops with lust and make them want to have sex with each other then and there on the battlefield.
I suppose the idea was that the opposing army would be so busy and distracted humping each other that we would be able to march right in and take over.
My question: Is the will for sex stronger than the will to survive?
Think about it from a different point of view. You are in a bunker with one other soldier who just happens to be of the opposite sex and who also happens to be super hot. You’ve been lusting after this individual for a while. Additionally, you are surrounded by an enemy who will be launching a full scale attack at any moment. Any manner of destruction awaits you.
Are you really going to be in a mind set to get it on with your fellow soldier!? With certain death imminent?
Hummmm…thinking about it now…maybe going out ‘with a bang’ might not be such a bad idea.
How much would that gay bomb cost anyway?
h/t JR
Madison Training Wrap Up
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007It’s all clear to me now.
I used to be all negative about Madison racing. It appeared to me to be nothing but chaos with riders all over the place and crashing all but inevitable. But after one Madison training session and some time on the track practicing the mystery is gone.
There are really only two aspects to Madison racing: the exchange and traffic management.
The exchange was the easy part for me. I have been riding on the track for a few years now and I am pretty comfortable moving up and down the banking and I don’t have a problem taking my hands off the bars even in the corners. The part of the exchange that takes a bit of work is concentrating on your partners hand to make the grab and concentrating on each others handlebars to avoid any contact. It’s important to make the exchange as closely as possible to assure that you are putting energy into pushing the rider forward as opposed to pulling the rider towards you. It seemed I was able to figure this part out quickly.
The more important aspect was traffic management. When everyone is at racing speed and exchanges are happening well the Madison can be a beautiful thing. When things go wrong it can get pretty ugly. It seemed pretty straight forward during the class, ride above riders making the exchange in front of you, stay below rider making an exchange behind you, position yourself in the correct order to make an exchange according to the team order in the race, etc. I’m sure that things can get a little dicey during the race itself but the reality is that the more one races the Madison, the more experience one acquires, and ergo the less actual ‘thinking’ about what to do takes place. I am totally comfortable with all other aspects of track racing and the Madison is just something that I am going to have to do to get more comfortable with.
But, after my experience last night, I have no doubt that I will enjoy this type of racing immensely.
My thanks to Bob Williams for his help in the Madison training last night. Bob has been doing this thing for like 75 years now and he has the experience and the patience to use that experience to help the rest of us become better riders. Thanks also to Der Kruser for his encouragement to come up to the track last night and give the Madison a try. And big thanks to Skibby for his great help as a Madison partner last night.
I am looking forward to tomorrow night.
