Archive for the ‘Local Cycling’ Category
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Looks like things will be dry.
There will be some sprinty dumbness before the Madison race. Bob will be picking the Madison partners and I am all excited to see who I get to hold hands with. Who ever I get as a partner is going to be really sorry because I am sloooooooooooow.
I saw Tom Lee at Flanders yesterday. I had not seen him since the big wreck of ought four. He had healed up fine over the past four years. I tried to talk him into coming back out, he sounded kind of interested…
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
It’s going to be 150°F at the start of the Tuff Ride tonight.
I’ll be there.
Posted by Smithers at 2:36 pm in Local Cycling | Permalink | 4 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
At the NSC Velodrome on August 7th.
This event will kick off three days of incredible action at the track, including the Midwest Sprint Challenge.
All your favorites will be there. Go and race, go and watch. Don’t miss it, you’ll never forgive yourself if you do.
Posted by Smithers at 11:30 am in Local Cycling | Permalink | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I stopped by the track this morning and took a photo.
Things are a wee bit wet with all the rain we have had, maybe it will dry out if we don’t get any more rain today.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The lesson for today is called “Product Placement”.
Chris Doig get’s gets an A+!
Pete Hanna get’s gets a B.
So ends the lesson for today.
Update 12:49pm - Punctuation lessons continue however…
Posted by Smithers at 10:22 am in Local Cycling | Permalink | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
If you knew that you would going to get pounded at the State Fair crit would you even bother going?
Why should I ride all the way over there just to get dropped after 15 minutes of racing?
That’s what I am trying to decide…
Posted by Smithers at 12:32 pm in Local Cycling | Permalink | 8 Comments »
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Bug = Up Ass
A reader writes in detailing his experience:
Three of us were heading West yesterday (Sunday) to ride the tuff ride loop and were pulled over and ticketed in Wayzata for failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign.
Mostly this is embarrassing for me — I’m usually the one nagging others to wait at lights and to ride predictably, etc. Nevertheless, Wayzata police have apparently been getting complaints from residents about out-of-town cyclists riding through their business district. When we asked for clarity, the cop said he was looking for a complete, foot-down stop from cyclists.
He actually went on to give us a mini-lecture regarding how we ought to be riding, instructing us that we should always be within 3 ft of the curb and never side-by-side. We tried to engage him on these points but he wasn’t really having any of it. I’m bummed about the ticket and worried about whether it’ll affect my car insurance, but we did slow-roll the stop sign and that’s that.
Anyway, I wanted to pass the word along so that no one else suffers the steep penalty for a seemingly minor offense.
Foot down at a stop? Three feet of the curb? Never side-by-side? Do Wayzata police know the law? Maybe we should print off a copy and carry it with us to present to the cops when they make such absurd statements.
So the police in Wayzata have decided to start harassing cyclists just in time for the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Fine, send out the word:
Don’t spend your money in Wayzata! People in Wayzata hate cyclists…and I’m sure that they hate women and minorities too. All the money you spend in Wayzata goes to support the oppression of cyclists, women, blacks and Mexicans. All the men in Wayzata sport Hitler moustaches and the women dress like Eva Braun.
Screw you Wayzata, Excelsior is a way cooler town anyway.
Posted by Smithers at 1:03 pm in Local Cycling | Permalink | 24 Comments »
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
It’s a big secret! Don’t tell anyone else that Jared is a colossal TT dork.
Posted by Smithers at 9:07 pm in Local Cycling | Permalink | 5 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Back when I first started racing (1986) Tuesday night racing at the State Fair was a standard of the Twin Cities cycling scene. Then cycling got punted from the fairground by some Nazi.
But Category 6 came on the scene and filled the role of Patton to the fairgrounds Rommel and Tuesday night racing is back.
So just go out there and race unless you are some Nazi appeaser like Obama.
Posted by Smithers at 4:01 pm in Local Cycling | Permalink | 5 Comments »
