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Top 5 Favorite Concerts
1. Beck- solo tour in philly- incredible
2. Foo Fighters- this fall with weezer and hot hot heat
3. Ramones- hammerjacks in Baltimore-
4. Radiohead Ok computer tour
5. U2- beautiful day tour, we were right on the heart


Okay, so very quickly my clothes are feeling really tight. Been on the see food diet, as in If I see it and it's not nailed down I'll eat it. One of my goals for 2006 is to go into base phase with in 2 pounds of race weight, and hopefully get down another 5lbs. Let me put some numbers here: I want to start base at 170lbs, I want to get down to 165lbs for the season.

I set up my B cross bike as a fixie. I rode that a lunch today. Holy crap that was hard. I was gonna ride that on the Amnesty ride, but clearly I have no Fixie skills, gotta get better with that before I rock in a big group. I am looking forward to going back to Elk Neck this weekend. The loop is small, maybe we'll have to double up, no worries though it's big fun. Anyway, anyone see any great shows of note ? And Elle, don't be bringin' that Barry Manilow shit.

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Christmas Song-

Elk Neck Christmas Eve Ride. We had a great group of 15. ( 5 of the 7 Spot boys were there) and the wool made this SPOT brand whore smile. This ride reminded me of so many great gruop rides down here. It was awesome. 3 years ago, many trails were closed, and bikes were generally not welcome. Some of that has changed recently. Fuzzy lead the loop, which is much shorter than the old loop, but is still wonderful. Elk Neck is incredibly technical, but not in the rocky kinda way, but in the tight, twisty, rooting, off camber way. Perfect if you ask me. It took me a good 30 minutes to get my mtb bearings back. A couple of silly early stacks, and I was on my way. We had a very festive ride. The ride itself was the idea of TedLogic. He and Fuzzy did an outstanding job maestroing. This was the first time I touched a bike since nationals, and man was it fun. Up top at the look out we had a chance for us all to sit back and take it in. We were stoked to have home town hero Katie and KidChris join us. Needless to say, I'll be back to Elk need Monday morning.

Katie home for the holidays and enjoying some fine single track

The boys talk about why L-Webb's bike is so heavy.

"I think it's the wheels" says TedLogic
"I think it's the fork" says Andrew
"I think it's the EBB" says Dennis
"I think it's the long ass name INDEPENDENT FABRICATION, that will weight down anything," says Fitzy aboard his svelt SPOT BRAND.."

we love you Lauri.

In this picture Jeb drops his mom L-Web. L-Web said it was because her bike was too damn heavy. I mean it's like pulling two bikes up a hill...

L-Web abd Katie enjoy the view from the over look...

KidChris home from Lees-Mcrae. Chris was second at the NCCA nationals for the b's. chris was riding wheelies today. When he left for school he had trouble cornering. See college is really good. 

Fuzzy and Buddy lead teh group out of one loop and into the next... 

The Gay UPS Truck made it's debut ride today. SWEEEET...