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A head tube badge for all the metal loving cyclsits!       \m/

BRUTAL!!!

They have t-shirts too…. but of course they only come in BLACK!

I had no idea Manuel Prado was an accomplished BMXer before hitting the pro mtn bike circuit.  Check his website for some quality inspiration.

– Colin M

Here is a photographers website with some incredible images!  Thanks for the link Bill! 

http://www.carlosbcn.com/content/trabajos/index.html

Man look at that fancy bike that Adam Craig is riding – Colin M

Polli just helped me order mine. – Micah J

Found on Flick

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22319557@N02/3400136554/sizes/l/

Now, even though we are all big cyclists and enjoy human powered fun… every now and then we also like  to have some fossil fuel fun too!  😉  enjoy the video!

I recently got the following email…

Dear Racer,
Congratulations!  You have qualified for the 2009 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships scheduled for July 16-19, 2009 at Sol Vista Basin in Granby, CO
  
Venue Information
                
Online race registration will open April 1, 2009 through www.sportsbaseonline.com        

If you haven’t already renewed your 2009 USAC-MTB license, now is the time to do it!  Licenses purchased now are good through December 31, 2009.  All riders must have an annual USAC-MTB license in order to compete at the 2009 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships.

USA Cycling license renewal information

Hope to see you there!  Good luck with your season.

Best Regards,

Kelli Lusk
USA Cycling, Inc.
Mountain Bike Events and Program Director

AWESOME, I DID IT!!!  I QUALIFIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Wait… if memory serves me correctly… the last NORBA sanctioned race I competed in was in June 2008!  So what have I done to qualify for the US Nationals?  I mean this email was very personal “Dear Racer” and was sent specifically to me, right?!  

Oh, I figured it out…

More from “The Desk of Mitch Westall”

GREEN things commonly missed.

Things you can do to help our children, our childrens’ children and so on.

Mitch

Every year the local Golden college, Colorado School of Mines, celebrates E-Days…  and its EXPLOSIVE!!!  The engineering students actually make these fireworks and small bombs!  This year, the fireworks show will be April 2nd at 9:00pm at the CSM football field.  If you live in the Denver area, I highly recommend coming out to SEE and FEEL the show!  Just make sure that you wear something warm and have some patience for intoxicated college kids!   

Here is a teaser video from 2007 E-Days

I was about to make the official announcement that road bike season has started here in Summit County Colorado. Everything was falling into place with temperatures in the forties after work, dry roads, daylight until seven thirty, the county was hard at work plowing the bike paths.  The thought of epic rides up mountain passess in March danced in my head.  The last time I was on the road bike up here was Thanksgiving weekend, just before winter really kicked in.  I’ve been known ro ride all year around up here while most people slobber at the thought of heavy snowfalls and big days skiing.   Unfortuantly as I’ve gotten older, I rather wait till the weekend to ride.  Driving down to the front range to enjoy warmer temps and drier roads.  The thought of dodging ice patches, sliding out in piles of sand, fearing for my life because of oblivious tourists, and angry locals I now wait until everything is perfect then start riding up here.  Well that all happened sometime around the 14th of March.  I couldn’t get enough, the thought of mountain biking in a few months made the smile even bigger.  Well…….  time to get the ski’s back out and forget about all that.  The temperature dropped forty something degrees in a few hours Sunday night and it hasn’t stopped snowing since. Maybe next week I’ll make a revised statement that Summit County is open for road biking.  

jason k

Another sweet video from one of Goldens up and coming high school mountain bike gromits!  Nice work on that drop!!!

I recently realized its been a while since I have updated the blog.  It made me think…  is my life boring?  Has nothing exciting happened?  Am i tired of wasting time in front of a computer?  OF COURSE NOT!!!!  

The answer to my lack of blogging is that I have actually been riding!  Chad K has been working me over on his 2 hour afterwork rides!  Then went up to Loveland and rode the Devils Backbone to Horsetooth, and awesome MTB ride (other then the cop that pulled Matt over for speeding on the way up there!)  Then we hit some of Evergreens steep hills on the road bike.  On Fridau, Tyler and I hit Woodward on the DJ bikes.  Speaking of which, Matt was recently bit by the DJ bug.

We also had a birthday party for Charlie Knoll who turned 40 this past week!  He is proof that age is a state of mind!  He does more things in a week then most 20 year olds.  Riding bikes, traveling all over, sking fresh snow and like most 20 year olds, drinking lots of beer!
Then, like every spring, after 2 weeks of above normal temperatures, it SNOWED!  Not just a little snow… a good 14″ or more here in Golden.  
But lucky for ‘Fast’ Colin Osborn, he escaped the Colorado snow and is out in California this weekend for the first Pro XC National race in Fontana!  It may seem early for the rest of us, but he has been training for this first race since November!  Good luck Lil C!

So, while it may seem I have been MIA, its just because the weather was nice and I was out riding my bike.  I hope this snow melts quick and we can all get back to what we love and ride our bikes!  🙂  –  jesse

“Ross once ate a dozen little chocolate doughnuts for breakfast and went on to win a Pro XC race that day!” – Matt Unger

Tyler found these couple of articles on Colorados XC and DH and Super D and All Around BA, Ross Schnell! 

Taken from the Velonews article about his 2009 race bike!

Speaking of which… Ross is riding for Crank Bros this year, and Tyler found Ross here as well!

As I was updating Mitch Westall’s Racer Bio, he sent me the following email… 

Can I formally request a change of nickname from “Godfather” to “Team Slut”.  Charlie is a month older than me and has been doing this bike thing longer.
Here is a list of teams I’ve been on over the years:

Grand West Outfitters
Schwinn
Bike Lovers Place
Dynatek
Comotion
Rudy Project
Dean
Jamba Juice
Schwab Torreli
Green Mtn. Sports
Now BikeParts.com

I’ve still got clothing from all the teams.   I can wear one team for every day of the week. –

 Mitch AKA Team Slut

The Godfather has spoken, he is now Team Slut!  😉

Found on the web, 30 action photos that kick ass!

http://abduzeedo.com/30-radical-photo-sequences

Meet at Peak Cycles in Golden this Wednesday, March 11, for the 1st group mountain bike ride of the year.  We are going to leave at 6:30pm and head over to South Table Mesa.  I know, I know… usually we climb up Chimney Gulch and fly down Apex, but we are going to keep the ride simple while we don’t have a ton of daylight.  We don’t want any dusk- broken finger-elbow stitches crash, right Tate?!  😉

After 2 months of facial hair growth, we headed to Boulder to hook up with Josh Kravetz for his Urban Assault Mustache Ride 2009.  It was a nice day out riding with the crew except for Tate’s 5 mechanicals on the ride.  I just hope Tate’s 2 flats and broken chain get out of the way now instead of plaguing him during the race season!  😉  

Check out the ‘staches that BPC brought to the table… and then head over the Urban Assault Blog to vote for your favorite ‘stache!