Friday, February 29, 2008

ICEMAN COMETH!

I have made the lottery, and I have already registered. I'm not 100% certain I'm going to be able to go, but if I have any doubt will be putting the word out. I know many of you would want it. Currently I'm registered as 39 & under Singlespeed. If I do it, 2008 will be my first Iceman. I also have friends in Traverse City so I should be able to bunk up fairly easily.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Bye Bye 8500, hello ???

I am having my 8500 acid dipped and having every little piece of paint removed. Its going to be my new kick ass singlespeed painted in gloss black. Its being defaced of it "TREK" and "8500" so I'm having my name done in bright green vinyl and its going just in front of seat tube on the top tube like my other bikes. I don't want it to look so nude. So my question to everyone is I need a name, like a "model name" and a "manufacturer" They don't have to be real. I could always go the tacky route and just call it a B.U.S.S. by MARS or something like that. I don't know, I'm open to wild and crazy suggestions. This is going to be my WORS bike and my 24-9 solo bike if that helps at all, I need to come up with something ASAP because I need the vinyl cut so I put it under the clear coat.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

February Training Numbers

Well its that time of year kids. Time to try to break that winter funk. Go balls out, make it hurt. On sunday I met up with the Mars Boys @ Crank Daddy's and made myself look really stupid, I was beat by a 12 y/o girl. I only averaged 115 watts over 1 hour, the only highlight was my max wattage of 675. After that result, I was rather pissed with myself, I know I'm better than that. So Wednesday afternoon I redeemed myself. I went to Transition Cycle in Pewaukee, its only about 1 mile from my school so I went after class. I ended up kicking some pretty good butt. I averaged 182 watts over 1 hour. I know its a combo of a bunch of things that helped me succeed better. I did not have any HR or Cadence info from Wednesday's session. I will have photos and/or detail of the build my '08 WEMS bike starting to come together.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Ordered


Thursday, February 14, 2008

Valentine's Day Don'ts

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

8500 #2 I have decided is a no go for 2008.

My secondary geared 8500 set-up much like how I had my Oleta bike set-up is not in the budget in 2008. I have drivetrain and brakes and wheels for it but no bars, cranks, seatpost, and most importantly a fork. Combined with the fact that I am moving in march/april I won't have it in the budget. I'm still building my really really kick a** Geared Salsa for my WEMS Effort.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Teammates




Friday, February 1, 2008

2008, New Bikes, New Team, New Teammates

After a poor showing @ 12 hours of Oleta I was down and out. The end of the month rolled around and get some Emails from Gus talking about new sponsors. One of the new sponsors conflicts with with my interests. I work @ Personalized Products and we do Embroidery, Screen Printing, and Promotional Products. Expo Racing's new official Apparel Sponsor does all the same things. When you combine this with a number of other sponsors I don't support, not to say they don't make quality products, I just don't use their products. I decided that it would be in my better interest to find a new team that could use me and they could help me as well, aka a team effort. Something I never felt that existed @ Expo Racing. I'm very happy to go to a team that is a team in every sense of the word.

The question that leaves me with is where to go? Well I felt the decision was really simple. Go to a team that I have friends at as well as a former teammate of Expo Racing. TEAM MARS. For those of you not familiar with TEAM MARS, it has nothing to do with the planet, it as all to do with SRAM MEAT, or something like that, lol. No, MARS is is SRAM Spelled Backwards, Nothing more. With great sponsors I love like Sram, Twin Six, Maxxis as sponsors, all products I love and use. I will still carry Personalized Products as an individual Sponsor but I'm not about to force it on anyone. I just firmly believe in all these products. I will be equiping my new Geared Enduro Bike(WEMS) and Single Speed (WORS & 24-9) with SRAM, Rockshox, Avid, Pitstop, and Truvativ components.

You can find All of My new Fine Sponsors on the right column. Have a great 2008.