again......................

Well the frame has been sent back for the fancy paint. I just need to make a note that after 8 races the rear linage was cracked. So i guess I am 6 for 8 on broken trek products. I hope they repaint project 1 stuff for cheap when it breaks.

its on the way

The Pearl White paint has been picked and Trek will take care of the rest with a P1 custom paint job. The 2009 Autism Awareness bike build is underway. The crude colors on the tubes will be jigsaw puzzle pieces in Yellow Red Baja Blue and Lime Green.. I just ordered the rim stickers and some other white things. Now I need to talk to someone about getting a white wheelset built up.

MAN sorry I didn't leave any

Well the best thing about a good frost is it turns the wild blackberries about as sweet as sweet can be. Once there is a heavy frost the plant pumps as much sugar as it can to the left over fruit to crystallize so it drops to the ground full of seeds. Well if you get lucky like we did tonight you find soft black berries that will stain your hands and keep a smile on your face even through the pain of the thorns in the arm. Now I just have to go to Culver's for some vanilla custard and I will be all set.

all dun

Cole did 2 laps this year and passed everyone but the big kid. He is hooked. Josh not so much this year.

Finally the Wors season for 2008 is over. I missed more than a few races with the torn quad but I really didn't miss anything it seemed. This winter I am going to buy a new road bike and do some training in Missouri in march and April and some spring road races. Oh and I will be joining the gym November 1st and going on a strict diet. There will be no Clyde race for me in 2009 I promise. Sheboygan was just OK this year. I really didn't care for the course as much as previous events. It really sucked that the equalizer money was gone before I climbed it on lap one. I did manage to pull out 10 bucks from the holeshot money starting 4 rows back. Man call ups make a huge difference. On the first lap I got passed by Jeff from Hayes and stuck myself to his wheel for the next two laps until the log jump the last time. I came in at a weird angle and landed kkicked out little and the rear tire came lose. Man the disk brake make a lot of noise when not in the right way. I had to stop and fix that right away. Russell's work needs a spoke wrench and some love plus a new set of pads and a rotor. Then I tried to make up some time to catch up to jeff and over short a corner at the river and ended up in the trees not the river amd then ran into the tree in the last turn in the rocky creek bed. That was it I was happy to sit in for 2nd. That was until a day of guy we just happen to pass on the start of lap three came around me just before the bridge. That is me pointing him out to the score keepers. Asking how we passed him on lap 3 and he is finishing all of the sudden. Well it turns out talking to more that a few spectators they 2 guys started in their age group. They where wondering how the 2 guys got that far ahead on the first lap. Well we all filled a protest. The first guy admitted he started in the wrong group and the other guy, who knows but he got 2nd again.

Next post will have a smaller wheeled BMX theme

boo hoo uaw workers

I felt bad for the GM workers in Janesville for about one day. That was until this morning listening to the radio and the had on someone that has worked with the UAW contract. Here are some things the media isn't telling you. Every workers with more that 5 years of "time in" will get 39 month pay at 85% of their wages and keep their health care for that time . When that 39 month runs out they also will get 60% percent of their pay as long as they stay a full time student training for a new career. Wait it gets better. They have the option to "bump" other workers out of jobs in other GM locations, if they don't bump another workers and accept the layoff they can collect Unemployment Insurance from the state as well. You ask why, because taking the layoff prevents someone else from losing their income/job. So if you play your cards right. You can collect 85% of your wage plus $335 a week for 39 weeks. Then when the unemployment runs out you get the 85% of your wages for the next two year. Then towards the end of that two years you sign up for class at a 4 years college and get your 60% pay for a guarantied 60 months period and you have had health care the whole time.

Wow I hope no one every wonders why Toyota and Honda at killing the middle three.