Nothing fancy. Just a new Buff... specifically from Singletrack Mag. Who are celebrating 10 years now.
Nothing special about it. Other then protects back of neck from sunburn and decreeases nasty helmet stink.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Cranium Cover
Today at Team NFI home office we recived this in the mail.
Nothing fancy. Just a new Buff... specifically from Singletrack Mag. Who are celebrating 10 years now.
Nothing special about it. Other then protects back of neck from sunburn and decreeases nasty helmet stink.
Nothing fancy. Just a new Buff... specifically from Singletrack Mag. Who are celebrating 10 years now.
Nothing special about it. Other then protects back of neck from sunburn and decreeases nasty helmet stink.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Murphy's Laws of Mountain Biking
1. Every mountain biker is God’s gift to the trail, at least in his own mind.
2. If you can’t make it up the hill, it’s not because your bike sucks it’s because you’re fat & lazy.
3. Retrogrouches are pessimistic, stingy, and nostalgic.
4. Technoweenies are status grabbing, snobbish, yuppie wannabe squids.
5. Land developers are filthy, greedy, blood-sucking, no-good rotten son-of-a-bitchen-bastards.
6. Number of people who will show up for a ride = number of people who said they’d come -6.
7. Tube Math: tubes needed for any given ride = the number of tubes you have + one.
8. Helmets don’t protect collarbones or rear derailleurs.
9. Mail order catalogues undercut wholesale prices and drive local bike shops out of buisiness.
10. Local Bike shops charge a lot more than mail order for rear derailleurs.
11. How Shtickmano changes a light bulb: First, they redesign the light, then they design a new tool to install the redesigned bulb in the redesigned light, then they repeat the process over & over.
12. It doesn’t have to work better so long as it looks different and is incompatible with everything else.
13. Magazine product tests are all done in California.
14. Just because it costs more doesn’t mean it works better.
15. You get what you pay for.
16. The more you hear the term "freeride" the more it will cost you to ride.
17. That brand new top of the line bike you just bought is already obsolete.
18. You had just as much fun on your old beater bike as your new rig, maybe more.
19. Reason your bike broke; you were just riding along and …..
20. When not doing something stupid, bike mechanics are nearly gods.
21. Hydration packs take all the weight off your bike and put it on your back.
22. The amount of ride left to get home is inversely proportional to how hungry you are.
23. Cheese is a meal in and of itself.
24. After ride pizza math: 3 mountain bikers x 2 slices/rider = 2 trays.
25. After ride beer math: 5 mountain bikers x 3 beers per rider = 2 cases.
26. If you got hungry enough, you’d eat a puppy.
27. Easy rides can be hard.
28. Hard rides can be fun.
29. If the main trail looks like a dead end it probably is.
30. Whenever someone says the trail has got to come out somewhere, it doesn’t.
31. When the ride leader points vaguely at some distant peak as your destination, check your water.
32. When someone says the trail you’re on is a deer-path, remind them that deer don’t have wheels.
33. Trip math: Number of miles actually ridden +4 ½.
34. Murphy’s bike had Suntour components.
Just shut-up and ride.
2. If you can’t make it up the hill, it’s not because your bike sucks it’s because you’re fat & lazy.
3. Retrogrouches are pessimistic, stingy, and nostalgic.
4. Technoweenies are status grabbing, snobbish, yuppie wannabe squids.
5. Land developers are filthy, greedy, blood-sucking, no-good rotten son-of-a-bitchen-bastards.
6. Number of people who will show up for a ride = number of people who said they’d come -6.
7. Tube Math: tubes needed for any given ride = the number of tubes you have + one.
8. Helmets don’t protect collarbones or rear derailleurs.
9. Mail order catalogues undercut wholesale prices and drive local bike shops out of buisiness.
10. Local Bike shops charge a lot more than mail order for rear derailleurs.
11. How Shtickmano changes a light bulb: First, they redesign the light, then they design a new tool to install the redesigned bulb in the redesigned light, then they repeat the process over & over.
12. It doesn’t have to work better so long as it looks different and is incompatible with everything else.
13. Magazine product tests are all done in California.
14. Just because it costs more doesn’t mean it works better.
15. You get what you pay for.
16. The more you hear the term "freeride" the more it will cost you to ride.
17. That brand new top of the line bike you just bought is already obsolete.
18. You had just as much fun on your old beater bike as your new rig, maybe more.
19. Reason your bike broke; you were just riding along and …..
20. When not doing something stupid, bike mechanics are nearly gods.
21. Hydration packs take all the weight off your bike and put it on your back.
22. The amount of ride left to get home is inversely proportional to how hungry you are.
23. Cheese is a meal in and of itself.
24. After ride pizza math: 3 mountain bikers x 2 slices/rider = 2 trays.
25. After ride beer math: 5 mountain bikers x 3 beers per rider = 2 cases.
26. If you got hungry enough, you’d eat a puppy.
27. Easy rides can be hard.
28. Hard rides can be fun.
29. If the main trail looks like a dead end it probably is.
30. Whenever someone says the trail has got to come out somewhere, it doesn’t.
31. When the ride leader points vaguely at some distant peak as your destination, check your water.
32. When someone says the trail you’re on is a deer-path, remind them that deer don’t have wheels.
33. Trip math: Number of miles actually ridden +4 ½.
34. Murphy’s bike had Suntour components.
Just shut-up and ride.
Friday, July 1, 2011
The 6 Commandments of The Dirtbag
1.Never let your lack of cash get in the way of fun. Find a way.
2.Fun is the fiber of our lives. The more fun you get in life, the easier the shit will pass with regularity.
3.Hair is good. Leave the body shaving to women and porn stars.
4.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's expensive gear. It starts a vicious cycle that ends with a loss of touch with the roots of your passion.
5.Buck the latest fashion trends in a big way. As rock climber Ron Kauk once said, "John Wayne never wore lycra."
6.Be happy with what you have. Humility is the path to true enlightenment.
2.Fun is the fiber of our lives. The more fun you get in life, the easier the shit will pass with regularity.
3.Hair is good. Leave the body shaving to women and porn stars.
4.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's expensive gear. It starts a vicious cycle that ends with a loss of touch with the roots of your passion.
5.Buck the latest fashion trends in a big way. As rock climber Ron Kauk once said, "John Wayne never wore lycra."
6.Be happy with what you have. Humility is the path to true enlightenment.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Kingston Death Enduro
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The Dirty Enduro
So... the date is set for the 2011 edition of Paul's Dirty Enduro- September 17h. so about 13 weeks till the day.
To go with this have a couple of projects that I have begun to go with this. Nothing to say about it at this time. Info will come out when it is done.
To go with this have a couple of projects that I have begun to go with this. Nothing to say about it at this time. Info will come out when it is done.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Motown
Friday drove down to Toronto. Headed into the East Don to ride Motown.
Under the DVP
Under the DVP
Salad anyone?
Rest stop
It's a parking lot
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
June 8th Endo Race
After 3 weeks of every excuse for not showing up to the last 3 Endo races. Got the Mistress and I to the site for this weeks O2 debt location. The new place being Macintosh Mills which is an interesting place. Report on that later in the season.
Got a little lost finding the place. So of course had little time to get organized and ready. Nil for warm up which would come back to bite me later. Plus remind me that 3 years off equals lousy fitness. Especially when you add in Canadian Shield rock and hills. After a quick line up we where off.
It was to be a 4 lap course and never having ridden the area was riding blind. So took the first lap easy as per my usual plan. It was a good plan as the short but sharp hills showed that my climbing skills where rusty and leg strength was low. So despite the climbs sucking high on the suckage scale the course was fun. Technical and some downhill sections.
Since my climbing was not helping I simply set out to be consistent and ride well. To that end I achieved that. And it was hot and humid as well. I managed to drain 2.5 L of water no problem in the 4 laps. And after 40 minutes I was done. Then after the usuall post race milling around and putting bikes on cars. It was off to Brockville for food.
Post race analysis shows that I need to do more hill repeats. And have already begun getting that done.
Got a little lost finding the place. So of course had little time to get organized and ready. Nil for warm up which would come back to bite me later. Plus remind me that 3 years off equals lousy fitness. Especially when you add in Canadian Shield rock and hills. After a quick line up we where off.
It was to be a 4 lap course and never having ridden the area was riding blind. So took the first lap easy as per my usual plan. It was a good plan as the short but sharp hills showed that my climbing skills where rusty and leg strength was low. So despite the climbs sucking high on the suckage scale the course was fun. Technical and some downhill sections.
Since my climbing was not helping I simply set out to be consistent and ride well. To that end I achieved that. And it was hot and humid as well. I managed to drain 2.5 L of water no problem in the 4 laps. And after 40 minutes I was done. Then after the usuall post race milling around and putting bikes on cars. It was off to Brockville for food.
Post race analysis shows that I need to do more hill repeats. And have already begun getting that done.
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