169: i wish i would have met you...

Irony?

Driving through the Cecil County Fair today.

One of their theme's this year for the Rodeo is "tough enough to wear pink"

A fund raiser for breast cancer/cancer awareness.

I watched as a couple of 20 year olds or so crossed in front of my car with their "tough enough to wear pink cancer research organization" t-shirts on, whilst smoking a couple of Marlboros.

Irony or Stupidity?

Henry posted this sweet video. Does it get any better than this ? Buddy and Les rule.
My new cross frames :

sweet frame, super light, great geometry, made for cross. unbelievable. Yes Meg, they would still be pigs on the road, and be a knife at a gun fight in the woods.

Wait, those aren't my new frames, that's a water filtration system.

sometimes being grown up sucks...

Half dozen videos from cyclocrossvideos.com $42

DVD Player to play them $28

Watching a Sunday in Delaware and seeing so many familiar faces: priceless

I find myself in the garage wrenching on my cross bikes. I glimpse over at this:

Man I love that bike. It's just brings joy to me. I have said it before here, but really my love of mountain bike racing is a thing of the past. This bike isn't tied to my identity, it doesn't make me "fatmarc the douche bag brand whore." It just makes me another guy wearing black, riding a black bike. Sometimes it's nice to hide in the crowd, and not be the local jackass.

Maybe I'm just another of Auer's Damned Goons (that's what ADG stands for right?) We are the scourge of Mabra Cross, at least in some's opinion. But I digress, my bike is pretty basic, but all decisively set up to my specifications. It makes me happy. It was the instrument that allowed me to exorcise many a demon this spring. I make no bones that my love affair with mountain bike racing has waned, but my love of this bike, and applying it to do the job it was designed to do: ride trails quickly, and fluidly- is an extreme pleasure.

We had some out of town friends stop over and Monkey and I took them for a little tour of Fairhill. It was a lot of fun. I was picking Mark's brain like crazy. Finally, I said to him" if you get tired of me doing that, just tell me to shut up." He smiled," nah, I love to talk about this stuff."

Not only is he dashing, but also a gentleman.

So pro, always tinkering with their position... (that was for you Jan ;-) )

Grass Track starts soon. My cross bikes are delightful. Really. Now to try and bring my fitness around. I guess I better lay off the high life and nachos huh?

Cross season is bikini season for dudes. I mean, a skin suit is a skin suit. I better stop eating this stuff:

Jebbagger is such a rock star. Except his not at all. Great kid.

Remind me to give him a wedgie next time I see him.

tonight is game night.

Gonna get my Yahtzee on...

respect

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