hypo-thermia on the the 4th of july????

ya thats right i froze my ass off with about 30 other bikers at 2pm at 10,000 feet. it was so cold and wet i almost died. i bet someone did die up there today. lightening, wind, rain, mud, hail. holy shit it was bad.

if you were in the valley all day you saw some light rain and some wind but up in the mtns is was full on epic. i have never been so cold since january. we had the heater in the van turned up full blast, we had numb hands and other body parts. we barely made it down millcreek.

i decided to ride back in the rain and mud just to get back. i passed and left behind over 30 bikers with abandoned bikes on the trails, they were off the trail hiding under bushes and shit. crazy is all i can say. i almost got killed 5 times from lightening just feet from me. i dont know how im alive. its really serious up there today.

check out these pics. from 1 pm. then a few hours later me and spencer were hiding under this tree trying not to get pelted with hail.























this is chans fat cat da-lyla.
















in the morning news at sundance bucky the wonder pony used his dh skill to win the super D at sundance. beating krispy and me. maybe i should get a job at sundance.

sorry bucky no pics.

the balancing act

after so many years of experience im still trying to figure out the balancing act. you know the part about racing where you always wonder if youre over trained or under trained. trying to figure out how much to ride the week before a race just enough to get you the perfect result for that week. also when to say no, to yourself. wanting to to do more hours or go harder. then i find out in the morning i over did it and i have to lay around all day to get out of the hole in time. well im trying to figure that stuff out this week. i want to hammer. i feel good, but i dont want to be tired. i hate heavy legs and feeling lethargic.

i did 2 hrs today and it was awesome. i hope i can feel like this on saturday and tomorrow. i want to crush the super D tomorrow morning. then after that a group of free riders is doing the crest trail into millcreek.

my bike is blowing up now. last week the rear brake blew up. i had to borrow rosies magura. then today i cut my tire and stans was leaking out every where. then my lefty blew up tonight plus the rear tire went low again so i had to coast with the brakes on, on all the downhills and that really sucks ass.

i have to get up early and drive to sundance but that shouldnt be a problem with bart getting up at 630 goin to work, its a built in upstairs alarm.

the day after

the day after a race is always weird and different. today was the same. lazy doing nothing, watching tv, napping, movies, superman, night ride coming up now. hot summer dog days, pretty boring. its a long weekend for most normal 40 hr week peeps. that means nobody online buying my stuff. so until they buy i have nothing to do. its another what they call rest/low hour week, like last week. i get bored alot, not as much work or riding. so what do i do? still sit here and look at the wall thinking about 154 different things. why this, why that. what if this what if that.
usual normal stuff i guess.

check out chucky, 1 speeder ripped arms with baggy shorts from yesterday. yaaaa rigid 1 speed. hardcore.

http://www.joaquimhailer.com/findphoto.php?eventid=115

the wonder pony says the super D is at sundance tuesday morning. so i will go down there and reclaim my title that has been dormant for 3 years. i have not ridden there since 03' but i still have the trail memorized in my photographic brain. then the norba is at deer valley saturday. i guess im racing age grouper 30-34. just for fun and old times sake. maybe tom cook and jason travis will show up and make it interesting.
massage day is always mondays so thats all i got goin on tomorrow. maybe some napping and eating.

until then, im out the door for a night ride and here are some pics for sunday.

rippin the dh

the 4 month plan

thats how long it took me to get back in the game. 4 months of dedication to racing, today was a perfect day. i didnt win but i got 2nd in expert. thats big improvments in many ways. today was 2 hours of power, no problems, perfect trails, it rained on them last night so they were just perfect, perfect bike, no problems, no body problems, just power and hammering. this should happen every week and wouldnt that be the perfect life.

the only complaint i have is passing slow pros and other categories getting lapped. how hard is it to pull over and get the hell out of the way when i yell 100 feet behind you and make it known i am completely hauling ass right behind you??? some people dont understand the sentence "IM REALLY REALLY GOING WAY FASTER THAN YOU AND TOTALLY HAULING ASS GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY" i dont climb like bart or jones, i am fat and slow uphill. i can rip the dh and i need to make up time on the dh. i like going fast downhill and shredding. i dont want sport riders getting in my way. get out of my way or i will get pissed and freak out.

i dont know why????, but i did make some people upset from me yelling and screaming and its not my intention. just move over and get out of the way, then you can keep riding, dont cry,.... its not hard. its pretty simple dont complicate it.

back in 1996/97/98 we raced pro , we i mean jarom zenger and me. now we are 10 years later and experts, back then we were really fast and we each had races where i would win or he would win along with alot of other guys but the point is today jarom kicked my ass on the same bike he used back then. dude should invest in a scalpel. i ripped the dh today and still got worked by the old skool pro.
too bad bp was MIA but bobby was goin good and came in right behind me. maybe i might race dv next week.

jones won all the prize money again (23 pros) , and ripped his shorts wide open leaving a big patch of ass skin on the pavement. too bad i forgot my camera. that would have been a good pic.



i dont have any pics yet but when i do i will put them up.

phonak is a team of dopers , if so many of them are getting caught then what about the rest of the team?? like does half say " oh not me im not doing that shot today" ya whatever.

im not gonna talk about it

ok, i guess i am talking about it.

its over kill, drugs and cycling. the whole pro tour is guilty. anyone who disagrees with me leads a sheltered life. same with the people who say aliens dont exist or have never been to planet earth. human arrogance is disgusting, i dont exclude myself. i admit i talk alot of shit, but wake up and learn:

1. george bush sucks, or i should say hes the puppet. his admin. sucks.
2. aliens are here and have been here for a long time
3. 99% of tour and pro tour riders and lance are or were doped
4. tyler lies
5. ATRAIN will go down
6. sly is a prophet
7. eric jones is a mutant fueled by cereal, bags of raw spinach, beer and coffee.
8. kday, bz, bg, and many other local fast racers lead fruitful, peaceful, wholesome lives by holding true to their faith.
9. my basso, ulrich posters are friggin worthless now. thanks boys. 2 years ago at interbike i got 300 tyler posters, i thought it was a gold mine. then he screwed that up and i lost out on unforseen millions hawking tyler posters on egay.
now im stuck with 100 basso/ullrich posters. im gonna sell them as toilet paper.

fools pissing away my fortunes in poster revenue. dammit,.


so off my soap box, im bored, no work, no riding, nothing to do except look at the www. good times in the big city.



so instead check it out these funny pics

i first raced solitude back in 1992

this course has been around awhile, first time i did it was 14 years ago, since then i have been fast, and won, been fat and slow and got last, one year i broke my finger, and the last 2 years i have only been here to spectate. but saturday i will be hammering as fast as possible to test out my fitness and dh skills one more time.

solitude is the best course on the ICUP circuit. fast flowing 1 track with good middle chain ring climbing. i went up there tonight and was practicing my dh lines. if you can rip the dh this is your course. good downhillers can make up or gain 2 mins a lap on normal guys each lap. hopefully i wont need to pass too many, they screw up my flow and i dont like eating dust. so i guess i should climb faster and then not worry about passing anyone. i did 2 laps and was going to leave then i find slowran with the 22 lb rush claimin he has 500 watts. so i did a lap with him and worked him over. that must mean i have 600 watts. i found some deer, some snow and alot of racers getting ready to shred saturday morning. i like the course i race it mostly every year and its because its the best 1 track race course in the state.



heres the last patch of snow at 9000 feet on the mtn. its not very big.

















here is slowran "Oh dude, my tires got 50 lbs in them, oh dude i gotta let some air out"
he really needed to stop and catch his breath.
















this thing was like 20 feet away but it looks farther.

join my crew

the other day i said horoscopes are gay, well heres more proof.

leos in general. i dont know tell me if it sounds right. atrain bday is aug 18 or some shit, it sounds like him more than me. but i am constantly reminded by the mirror effect and kind of cringe when that happens.

you consider yourself a born leader. everyone thinks you are an idiot, most leos are bullies, you are vain and cannot tolerate constructive critisism, your arrogance is disgusting, leos are thieving mother F*$&%($(@@s and enjoy masturbating more than sex.

hmmm, kind of blunt. i like that.

ATRAIN wreck at dmv

check out the train wreck at dmv.















atrain says hotter than georgia asphalt. 9 guys racing A flite at dmv. thats not fun. why? its 100 degrees, they are fast as hell, and i suck at crit racing. i made it about 15 mins before they went fast and i didnt. i left early and the guys were split 4 x 4. and ATRAIN missed the split.

so dr cross norm and I headed back from the burbs to the big city. 2 hrs today, 2 yesterday. tomorrow is laps at solitude 2 hrs, and the race sat. of course.

over at 9th and 9th.
check it out.

the pink dude is changing his uniform, where's the pink jersey pink dude? get with it.

ever seen an ATRAIN CRASH

derailled, tipped over, bent and busted up. come to dmv tonight and watch me lay down the watts and burst the ATRAIN bubble.

the wolf told me aliens dont live at alta, but in the mormon vaults up little cottonwood.

http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/crossworlds.html

some famous fortune tellers have told me that the aliens have a secret cave up high above alta and they hold confidential meetings there to decide the fate of the salt lake valley. i believe them but the wolf says otherwise. maybe they are at both, who knows but when the earthquake comes and ruins the valley i know where to go and get some pizza.

im going nite riding up there in a few weeks to scout out the blinking sky lights and find this hidden cave. those who dare can come, bring your own weapons, safety is not guaranteed.

horoscopes are stupid

they say when good things are happening but they never are, then they say you have trouble today and i never do. some moron is posting this crap on the internet reading the stars and it never is right. its like the weatherman, they dont know what the hell is going on. so they both suck and im not gonna read it any more. its hot as balls outside. i was maybe going to rmr but said F it. im riding at 9pm in the cool mtn air and maybe going to dmv tomorrow to put the hurt on ATRAIN and norm. that little hill suits me good. blogger sucks and i cant post any pictures. it sucks about as much as the weather man. everytime i count on it, it doesnt work. same with my cable tv and internet. it works whenever i dont need it. then the computer freakin blows up. im throwin all this shit out the window and moving to a cave up by alta where the aliens land. then i will have a nice quiet place to rest where nobody or any electronic electromagnetic chaos wont piss me off.

im gonna kick ohrans ass on saturday.

ohran-texas holdum-slowran-vin-ohran-ass whoopin

i pretty much kick ass

its kind of hot outside

this is a nice wall, instead of pics of the back side of timp. everyone has seen it before so i wont bore you.




my strength is tempo work for the skinny climbers with over the shoulder pics.





thug life posse


jones gettin drunk









kday livin large














this week was a weird one, but first i just got back off a 6.5 hr ride. it was a long day in the heat. i rode down to american fork canyon over sun crest, then to sundance to provo and back downtown. its like 110 miles or something. first we started out this morning with 6 guys, norm sean spencer and 2 other guys from the shop. once we got to the top of the alpine loop i find out they were going to ride down to sundance then go back up the same climb and then over suncrest again. i was already blown and so was everyone except stormin normin. so i left them while they waited for 2 other guys i wanted to go to provo and do the flat route back to town. so i did that and rode the 3 hrs by myself in a hot headwind back to the big city. i didnt even have my ipod. so i just looked for sprinklers everywhere and got soaked about every hour or so.

the weird thing about this week is i took 4 days off, and that means like i did nothing. but i still had 15 hrs in 7 days. 3 days on 4 off. i have never ridden my road bike in my whole life as much as the last 3 months. i used to be a the type of rider to do like 10 or 12 hrs a week and go to the races and just feel fresh. now days its totally different. im not sure bad or good yet but well see in a few weeks.

last night was a hoe down over blakes new house. hes a high roller banker livin the high life with sue and jones in the basement. the highest hood in the b town. kday shannon, bg rosy, ej sue ty, bobby and his wife came over for a bbq on bz's new grill last night.
those guys did the same ride i did today, but yesterday and with sager. im glad i didnt go with them. its like 5.5 hrs of hammering trying not to get dropped. i let bz go and get creamed, then watched him zobie around the house for a few hours before his glucose levels hit normal.

check out the pics from today and yesterday.
im in the lazy boy for the rest of the night, time to lounge.

heres bz king of rugby
















blake needs a couch at the training compound

ATRAINS dad sent me this pic

heres young ATRAIN learnin how to get it done

cold mackin

i have not done a damn thing today, back down to zero after yesterdays hammer fest. this was me all day today.


















im not gonna do anything either. its loungin time and i will take advantage of it. so heres to long naps, eating melon, and stupid shows on TV.