037: wet grass; kick ass

Wet Grass
Kick Ass

4 hit the deck.

Tom taking the worst of it. Talked to him this morning he seems to be okay. Let’s hope we can get him back out on the bike next week.
Bill is new to the cross game. A piece of off camber snuck up on him and appeared to take him down. Sneaky off camber has been the down fall of all of us.

Kid Chris, Dr. Collins, and Blair Blair continued to ride on the sharp end of the efforts. Collins went hot into a 180 and slid out taking the Canadian with him. Once I confirmed that everyone was fine after the slip and sliding, I attacked before they could get back to speed, securing my first and perhaps only “win” of an effort for the year. Mark that goal off the list.

Hollow Victory you say? Don’t rain on my parade I’ll take whatever I can get in this group. The pack was breathing down my neck all night. I’ve asked K-man and Bennie da Jeweler to return my rear wheel as they were glued to it all night.

Slip and Slide was the name of the game, as most of the group reported drifting through corners, and performed odd bicycle acrobatics to keep things moving forward. Does anyone do it better than Dennisbike? Maybe Lauri. So impressive.

Frankly it was wonderful practice, and a great chance to see what the cross bike can do.

I wasn’t thinking that as I drifted my front wheel around a corner with 2/3 of the DCCoD on my wheel. Letting out a high pitched squeal, I was able to keep from stacking it, but perhaps used one of my nine lives in the process.

As many of you know Monkey glued my tubulars. On wet off cambers, the passed the first test. That’s good because last year I was rolling tubulars like it was my job.

Fun times for sure.

No tacos for me on this night, 1 had to get home to clean the grass of the bike.

Ryan looking debonair...


Respect.
Fatmarc
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