bikes are fun

went riding yesterday outside of frisco colorado. riding was fun. rode my Cannondale Rush for the first time this year. it was awesome, i love that thing, ive got a Cannondale rize and PBR fork on order so well see how that compares.

truck fixed!

My truck is now fixed. It caused me a few extra days of downtime. But now all is fixed, power steering flush, new brake rotors and pads in the rear pads in the front, an oil change and that was about it.

tried to get a ride in this past weekend but couldn't find the time, but i'm going XC riding tomorrow in santa clarita. im excited. Might swap my parts over to my team paint frame after the ride, but i might just get my perp back up and running by putting my 40 on the front to get rid of my ruined totem.

in other news i got a raise which is awesome. and got to hang out in santa monica with my sister and my friend from high school Ryan which is pretty sweet. he lives right around the corner from my sister which is convenient. anyway 2 good weekends in a row. and now im an old man.....

a couple of bike rides and he goes and cuts his hair.

So ive been able to ride my bike more lately. up to at least once a week now since Nova. Which is good. Im excited about that. It can only build from there.

Working has been good. Hit a nice groove. Nova was the first time out of the box that i felt pro. I also rode 3 times that weekend a preride of the XC course, then the Super d Course. Then raced super d on saturday and then XC on sunday. and on top of that i had to work. which one guy didnt seem to understand what i was there for. he was asking for help with his fork right after i got done racing, i dont think he understood what tired meant but i think i got it across. had some podium action at that race.

The next weekend i spent at mountain states cup number 1 outside of fruita, CO. only had a few racers show up, but gave me a good amount of time to work on the trailer. Ben got top 10 in pro men XC which was good. I rode my moto after the first day of racing and forgot the right brake lever is the front brake on a motorcycle. so down i went and snap went the clutch lever. got to rie my bicycle the next day which was good.

the weekend after that was Sea otter. Which changed the format of the layout that i had just gotten used to and the number of athlete's attendance went up as we had XC and Gravity folks again. womens XC kicked ass. we had a 2,3,4 finish for the pro womens XC which im pretty proud of.

and now im hanging around socal fixing my truck and trailer, and my motorcycles and bicycles before santa Ynez valley national comes around. My sister lives in Santa Monica so i spent a couple days with her. and ill be back tomorrow if all goes well. I figure this is enough for now. ill drop a few more photos and be on my way.

So pro

and that was the view from the NOVA NMBS brought to you by Sobe/Cannondale. The event went awesome i have good feelings about the season. Knowing the racers is a lot easier then knowing customers. I actually just got my team bikes for the truck today and they look sweet. Im looking forward to getting them built up to show off at Sea Otter. Should be a good event. will have about 12 athletes there for me to service. Hope it all goes well. this race will be more difficult then NOVA or MSC #1 because there will be gravity and cross country athletes which makes it harder to juggle everything. well thats all for now.

21 days late and a dollar short

check it one time... I had originally planed for all this product to show up 3 weeks ago. It showed up today. but hey guess what errors were made and we were short shipped. that means more work! oh well.... i leave the factory tomorrow to enjoy the holiday with my family only to leave on sunday to drive out to fontana. should be a crummy drive. not excited at all. thats all for now.

Dog doesn't bite, Gun's loaded, and the keys are in the ignition

"Dog doesn't bite, Gun's loaded, and the keys are in the ignition". Just another day in Bedford..... Came back to the factory after a dentist appointment. All's well in there fortunately. Puller up to the factory as Troy was leaving he had me follow him to the Chevy dealer where he let them know about the dog and all that other stuff. Amazing how saying something like that gets no reaction. I guess its like on cops when they ask about weapons knives, guns, or hand grenades. You just don't expect it. Thats about all i got right now. Headed to Virginia Beach tomorrow to play Repo man with the Crocs Expo crew then getting some drinks.. Should be entertaining. Im looking forward to it, until then Just another day in Bedford.....

you asked for it you got it. an update

really only one person but thats ok. Anyway been cross country back and forth twice since my last update.... so whats happened since then well now im the Sobe Cannondale Team mechanic instead of the East Coast tech rep. Now i get a truck and a Trailer to drag around the country. What does this mean to me well i have to spend less on hotels every night. Which is a bummer but well see how it works out.

Was out for tour of palm springs with Troy. We went to Joshua tree national forest or whatever park it may be. and took some really cool photos. as you will see here. well ill try to get a photo up again soon.

then we went to tour of california which was a big waste of time but fun none the less.

Got a fancy new lefty that im not supposed to talk about but thats cool. Im really excited about my scalpel.

Enough about me.