I am retiring from cycling

I went out to my garage today and saw that I had yet another flat on my bike! These are a different set of wheels that I was getting flats on before. I have made the decision that I must retire from cycling, because I simply can't afford tubes. My tube bill at Rubber Soul Bike shop is $7,899.32 I have come to the conclusion that I will need to get 7 more jobs to pay off my debt and I now will not have enough time to train. It's been wonderful and have a nice life

D-man's Birthday and a little bike riding

Went on the "big" local ride on saturday. We left Willow and Copper at 8:00am with about 30 to 35 guys. We should have just dropped the pants and measured before the ride started! Went hard up to Prather, the group split and half went and did powerhouse loop and half did lodge road up burroughs valley, down wild cat. Me and the Sierra Pacific boys chose the latter. I rode hard up burrough valley and then we rode pretty hard on the climb before the wild cat descent. Everywhere else we rode tempo. After the ride I went to the Boschinator's 1 year old son's birthday at Me n Ed's. I have to say that he is probably the coolest kid I have ever met. I wonder where he got it? Must have got it from his mom's side, maybe a little from his dad:) I ate way to much pizza and cake and have been starving myself ever since, trying to burn the 7,000 calories that I ate. Showed up at Willow and Copper this morning at 8:00am and the usual showed up with a couple other guys. I don't understand it, don't people ride on Sundays???? Maybe they ride later or meet somewhere else and I am not on the inside of the circle, who knows? We rode pretty easy to Friant and then Coby got to the front and drilled it for about 5 minutes! After that it was a hammer fest to Spring Valley school and then all the way back. I didn't feel very good in the beginning but I ended up riding pretty good. Isn't that usually how it is? You feel great and you ride like sh*t and then you feel bad and ride well. All in all it was a fun weekend.

Flats Suck!

Did a 4 hour ride this morning with the boys to the top of "wild cat" and back. It was fun, we didn't get rained on at all. We rode pretty easy most of the ride. I rode really hard on the last steep secton of the climb. I felt pretty good the first half, but suffered the last half. (that sh*t is hard!) It felt good to to go hard and kind of blow up a little bit, I haven't done that very much all winter, kinda felt like a race. Rode tempo back in on watts valley and when we stopped to get water at shaw and academy I had a flat. (WTF! I just put a new tire on the day before and new rim tape!) Changed the tire in about 15 minutes(thats fast for me) and even had a little help from Curtis (The Guru) Eastin. After I b*tched for another 5 minutes about my new tire we finally got back on the road. If I flat again I'm throwing the rim away!

Started a blog for no apparent reason

I have no idea why I decided to start a blog. I guess I can write about riding bikes. I don't really do anything else.

Rode my bike this morning for about 3 1/2 hours to Spring Valley school. It was pretty cool, rolled out with about 11 or 12 dudes. Didn't ride that hard on the way out, but rode pretty hard on the way in. Started to get a flat at the end of the ride, but was to lazy to pull over and change it, so I limped it in on a squishy for about 6 miles to my house. Went to go put a new tire and tube on at the house, but of course I bought the wrong size tire (IDIOT!!). So I had to drive back over to the bike shop. Good Times, I'm out