Nov 07 2007
My Grifo Challenge tires that came with the Guerciotti have been slowly coming apart.
I’ll be using a suggestion from the Cross Crusade Forum and picking up some barge cement to hopefully repair them later this week. That should go well. What can possibly go wrong with using strong cement on the sidewalls of glued-on tubulars?
Nov 07 2007
First, the Smack Talk forum has been getting downright frisky lately. I’m not sure if it’s the weather or just that we’re coming up to the end of the season and people are feeling they won’t get a win without pushing out the top riders. Whatever. There’s just been a lot of shit flying, particularly in the Master C’s. Deserved or not, Kurt Robinson seems to have a bullseye on his back. Personally I think he should have moved up long ago but it’s more or less too late now.
I mentioned in my race report that some wash-outs claimed a number of riders in the paceline we had going. Shane at OregonVelo caught a fantastic sequence that occurred right at the finish line of lap 2 here, here, here, and here. It looks like Johnny Vergis from CyclePath that went down. Nasty.
Week and a half until the finals at Hillsboro. I’m hoping to finish my training schedule strong this week and go easy next week before the race. I feel good and strong.
Obviously before that is my own personal Waterloo: Timber Park. For whatever reason, I have done nothing but suck ass at that race. Believe me, I have a whole bag of excuses I can pull out but I’m thinking this year will be different.