tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273477302024-03-07T21:21:10.320-05:00BoxedbeeBattling cheap crap from day one.Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-67672762736826548722012-10-04T09:38:00.006-05:002012-10-04T09:38:54.763-05:00Lifted and twisted.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This past week I was supposed to be in Utah, racing over the weekend in Moab at the Whole Enchilada. Due the wonderful position of being a landlord I had the pleasure of canceling my trip and kissing plane tickets, entries, and dreams goodbye. So I sucked it up and went for the next best thing. New Jersey.<br />
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I took a drive north with friend and biking fellow Matt to check out the King of the Mountain Enduro in Vernon, NJ. It was my first time at the Mountain Creek Bike Park where many a good soul has returned from with glowing commentary.<br />
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My bike park world is limited since I traditionally have tended to be a 'keep it on the ground' type of rider. Meaning; paying to ride a lift with my bike just seems a little to lofty of an idea. But, if you wrap a two day ticket into a race entry fee then I feel a little more liberal with my time and money.<br />
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This was a five stage enduro with three stages in Saturday for amateurs and pros and two stages just for pros on Sunday. I think it's a misnomer to say 'pros' since anyone could race both days, riders just need to consider themselves capable of handling the terrain. There is no governing organization that has determined what a "pro" in Enduro is anyways. So go ahead and define yourself anyway you like.<br />
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Matt and I left before light and arrived with a heavy cloak of fog, clouds, mist and drizzle on the mountain. It's definitely fall and the color saturation was strong on the hill. We suited up and said hi to a crowd of racers who's faces are new but becoming more familiar with each event. After years in the xc racing world it's neat to go to a race and realize it's a whole bunch of new people, bikes, styles.... It's also a little daunting since my memory is crap and trying to remember a new crew is intimidating.<br />
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Dave, Paul, Jim, Derek, John, John, Chris, Matt. This is not my forte`.<br />
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One of the best things about this group is we are all challenging ourselves on the bike in a way that is new to me. Long days in the saddle used to be my obstacle, now it's how am I going to clear a berm-to-hip step-down. I didn't get it yet, but now I know it's another skill to add to my bag one day. This is the world of surfing bikes hard. Finding edges, pressure control, and body positions that add up to a feeling of dominance, a desire to high-five, and a little chest thumping. This is called getting my neanderthal on. It's pretty primal. Kind of like collecting primitive furniture.<br />
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So the race was really fun. Legendary bike guru/ trials rider Jeff Lenosky designed the stages and spent a lot of time thinking about them. Enduros are such a new beast that everyone is trying to interpret what they are and it seems that each one that comes around has it's own taste. Even though it's a style that is supposed to cater to a group of riders who have not traditionally had a venue to race at, most people who show have some experience in the xc race world or the lift access world. When you bring the two extremes together there is going to be something about the course that someone isn't comfortable with. Pedaling for the bike parkers and tabletops for the xc guys.<br />
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Maybe you saw this over at the MBM blog, but I'm reposting it here because I care and I'm busy! Here are three new sponsors that are generously donating to the cause!<br />
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Title Sponsor Dirt Rag!!<br />
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Expect some sweet goodies from the East Coast's premier Mountain Bike Magazine!<br />
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Perusing the web and checking out my sponsor sites I came across a few things I didn't know were hitting the stores. It's always nice to geek-out.<br />
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Stan's has some new rims I'd love to throw some rubber on. A little teaser is that I've decided to eat my words and actually race some cross this year. Call it serious if you like, but I have another word for it. I'll tell you all about it later. I digress...<br />
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New cross ready rims from <a href="http://www.notubes.com/ZTR-Alpha-400-32-Hole-Black-P1065C128.aspx">Stan's are the Alpha 400's</a>. Beefy and tubeless ready I imagine these are going to start showing up on a few wheels in the fields.<br />
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Back to my true cycling love.. The newest <a href="http://www.notubes.com/Flow-EX-Rims-C123.aspx">Flow EX </a>has a wider inner diameter to really increase that big fat tire's footprint. Traction; Yes!<br />
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That difference between 25.5 and 22.6 is enormous! Don't underestimate.<br />
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Did you see the newest <a href="http://www.santacruzbikes.com/tallboylt_carbon/">Santa Cruz release? The Tallboy LTc? </a>130mm of rear travel, designed for a 140mm front fork?<br />
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I got a frame waiting to be built up and it's killing me sitting there! I got the Schoolbus waiting to pick me up!<br />
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Back from British Columbia where I worked the BC Bike Race as the writer. Just before I left I worked on copy for the catalog of a major bicycle manufacturer. Strange to hired to write when I can't even keep up my own blog. But I need to practice, find my voice again.<br />
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I did manage to ride my bike 27days out of 30 last month. It was an attempt to prove that I'd just been making excuses for not taking a spin almost every day. In that time, felt a joy coming across many things in the normal world I wouldnt have seen if I didn't take the little trip out.<br />
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Those random things were much better than most of the random things I see on facebook. Much better to experience in person than through another person. It's so easy to think that FB is a conduit of information. It's junk. Interesting junk, but really just other people's ephemera. Traditionally that's my favorite, to root through the personal things that others have collected, but on the screen it's just distracting candy. So here are some random distracting things.<br />
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My cheeky sponsor <a href="http://www.santacruzbikes.com/">Santa Cruz</a> granted my wish and sent me a bike I can't ride. It must be them just humoring me and my playing with fire. I asked for a Jackal as part of my 2012 sponsorship package. Given that I'm known as an endurance racer 1st and a Super-d/Enduro guy more every day, they must have thought it interesting I'd ask for a bike so far out of my range. A Jackal has three purposes. Jumping pump-tracking and dual slalom racing.<br />
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Pump-tracks I got. As a matter of fact the Philly Pumptrack is about ready to be built and I'll be ready for that epic day. We've worked long and hard and the reward is almost here. If you want to learn more about the<a href="http://www.phillypumptrack.org/"> Philly Pumptrack go here.</a> I figured with my involvement in making that happen I'd represent the bike pretty well.<br />
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The other reason I told them I wanted the bike was to race the new dual slalom series at Launch Bike Park this summer. I've never done anything like that in my life. I want nothing more than to survive. I can't even imagine what it's going to be like to race for 30 seconds to a minute at a time!<br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.santacruzbikes.com/">Santa Cruz</a>, <a href="http://industrynine.net/">Industry Nine</a> and <a href="http://www.notubes.com/">Stans NoTubes</a>!<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">So this is new territory for me and it's exciting. I still have a couple more frames to build up for my more "normal" style of racing. I'll post those soon. </span></div>
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<br /></div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-81214767212072507612011-09-20T07:33:00.000-05:002011-09-20T07:33:40.696-05:00Raccoonology is:"like"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is one of my favorite sites. Just beautiful photos. </div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-77774273824462997232011-09-20T07:30:00.002-05:002011-09-20T07:30:54.190-05:00New Post at Find-The-Best<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Just put a new post up at Find the Best. Most of you will live without the info, but it was a little investigation of 2x10 vs 3x9 gear inch comparisons. </div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-5947692104284653362011-09-11T19:49:00.000-05:002011-09-11T19:49:33.480-05:00More favorites: Because I like a lot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">2011 has been a good year for me and motivation to take photos. I recently lost my little Lika, who served me beautifully for the past three years.<br />
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</div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-33950326502899200772011-09-09T15:55:00.000-05:002011-09-09T15:55:00.702-05:00Favorite Pics from 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90tBKF7fTqM9n1SlNOW7VXXIg9TQ5zZ5sM8dpHA8bpK4euQ608tJwJfYYZftHZbmMgPC5zo30oExHLX0yywefKXrmCE9rdhrMvexBnZh8c4xIHZGrm1qRopynfFQE1aJS6za8bQ/s1600/IMG_1151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">2011<img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90tBKF7fTqM9n1SlNOW7VXXIg9TQ5zZ5sM8dpHA8bpK4euQ608tJwJfYYZftHZbmMgPC5zo30oExHLX0yywefKXrmCE9rdhrMvexBnZh8c4xIHZGrm1qRopynfFQE1aJS6za8bQ/s640/IMG_1151.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br />
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They collect and list a pretty complete catalog of the current models out. As a tool for comparing and contrasting bike costs, geometry and componentry it's a pretty solid site.<br />
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Check it out at <a href="http://mountain-bikes.findthebest.com/">http://mountain-bikes.findthebest.com/</a><br />
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I'm down at the bottom!<br />
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</div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-82089649098068035952011-09-02T10:50:00.000-05:002011-09-02T10:50:38.055-05:00My right side slouch.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Voices in your head should be listened to. Last Sunday I was packed and ready with two dogs to go home. In the space of time equal to a convience store stop, Gertie ate more beef jerky than I've eaten in two years.<br />
I feared the worst on the drive home. I decided to kill some time and let her roam around my friends yard in case she needed to discharge. From whatever end. The problem with stopping at my friend Pete's before they go on a ride in my favorite forest to ride, is that I'll eventually give in to the argument.."Why would you drive home to ride, when you can ride here and then drive home.?" I can't resist peer pressure.<br />
So off to the forest we went, dogs in tow. Gertie had made a few unsuccessful attempts at ridding herself of the jerky. Please god I was hoping the cork wouldn't pop on the way to the trails. We met up at the gut-pile parkinglot with a few other like minded souls and proceeded to role out after the necessary start rituals.<br />
Literally 3 minutes into the ride I have gone over my bars trying to hop an rather high log that everyone else had stopped in front of. Committed I landed on my right shoulder with my hands still on the bar. I heard a funny noise and tasted a familiar flavor. It wasn't a simple dustoff. That was it for me. I announced I was going home. Sorry to leave in a relative huff guys, but I was pissed. I went to see Dr. Evil who told me it was a partial seperation and all I could do was stabilize it and let it heal.<br />
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Last year I missed the last Teaberry race while in the series lead and it may happen again this year. I pulled out of the Shenandoah 100 because it's just too close and I rode it injured last year. No need to repeat. I have nothing to gain. Except a weekend at home.....</div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-53807266815768558592011-07-19T08:03:00.002-05:002011-07-19T10:32:23.029-05:00More Tour Please: Keep it real.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWE0h_QXrq64nVJDKf1O2LBxjGfKxmVm2xMwmveaIznN20l5tkbG8YozBii8dLxtwKJa2RKJE-4wD2VWtrlFJzdt-3C-M9nBgW3TdesQc8Hzy27Z4HX1-7PGz-ZO_FETeh_Y2QcQ/s1600/IMG_1875.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWE0h_QXrq64nVJDKf1O2LBxjGfKxmVm2xMwmveaIznN20l5tkbG8YozBii8dLxtwKJa2RKJE-4wD2VWtrlFJzdt-3C-M9nBgW3TdesQc8Hzy27Z4HX1-7PGz-ZO_FETeh_Y2QcQ/s640/IMG_1875.JPG" width="426" /></a> <br />
Tour stages 4-5 are the days of rythmn and survival. A stage race creates intimacy with yourself, your racing mates, your bike, the weather, le directors and your chamios. In short one-day races, your actions of the day are stories you tell to your friends back at the car or home. In le Tour you show up to eat dinner across from your race nemesis (your new friends). All your actions are subject to scrutiny and if there was a slip of conduct or cool, jabs will abound. <br />
In other words, this is your family for a week and they retain all the rights of family to make you feel foolish. Unlike a family jab, it's easier to laugh at yourself and forgiveness abounds. If, you can laugh at yourself. I've seen people who have a hard time relaxing, return year after year and eventually their stiff shell softens from the humbling beating. That transformation can happen in a day or a decade.<br />
Essentially stage racing distills you to your essence. When your body is kneeded, whipped and blanched daily, what rises to the surface can feel very raw. This makes me want some key lime pie.<br />
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Day four was a classic mountain stage. We parked at the Stokesville Church to start the stage underneath a pleasently overcast sky. How the organizers managed to retain permission to park this rolling, heathanistic party on God's soil is still a mystery of faith and forgiveness. I expected to find a bible in my race package for the day. We started with a strolling parade pace up Leading Ridge road and turned our troops up at Todd Lake to climb to the top.<br />
I can't remember the exact course of the first stage, but I'm pretty sure it involved racing to the top of the mountain then dropping down Chestnut Ridge trail. I believe that would be 1900' of climbing in the first 4 four miles then 2500' feet of descending in six miles. If you've done the Shenandoah 100 then you have gone down Chestnut. It's the second to last trail descent, just before aid station 6. So long, so fast and probably one of the most perfect super-d descents you could ask for. The top section is a snug fit between mountain laurels to the sides and wet rocks from below. They have done a fair amount of work in the past year, so some of the trail is now more flowy for those who like that kind of thing. The over cast skys had made the trails a little slick but I was pretty happy with my traction since I had converted my tires to tubeless with the help of my trusty <a href="http://www.notubes.com/">Stan's</a> tape. Amazing the confidence you gain, and the velcro grip lower pressure gives you. So dumb of me to allow myself to think I could trust tubes. On some of the screaming descents I managed to nail my rims once each and <a href="http://www.wtb.com/usa">tires held</a>! Across the line I was 8th, further proof that my climbing legs were less than acceptable. Well, that's why I was there. Training, not straining. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7leN3CrK_D1vXYed3susyS1qyb2yqrFx0ExNm6hgMjpC8q4E8kEaPbeWe0atLFr1m0TYLgmx3KPbYBmsExN95unm6DzQbBHFqp8HM1864CTRoKVLoMFhrdIyy-W9qFOe4SKmP3A/s1600/IMG_1930.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7leN3CrK_D1vXYed3susyS1qyb2yqrFx0ExNm6hgMjpC8q4E8kEaPbeWe0atLFr1m0TYLgmx3KPbYBmsExN95unm6DzQbBHFqp8HM1864CTRoKVLoMFhrdIyy-W9qFOe4SKmP3A/s640/IMG_1930.JPG" width="478" /></a><br />
At the bottom was the trusty red truck and the Carps waiting with food and drink. They also had their dogs plus mine, all rolling in the dirt or diving for rocks in the stream. Chilling....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YbQdHBq2DC2R-u2BKhLxRJt3-hZjoH_nkmZx6xaf8-v3RfEfZ2PHvhLSmwCnD14qH8XXW9VIIEFM8sifSNe77txhYYlh6w3EVRWiKYsvURol2tgiyWJLCRhebfuC3BOY2RQTQA/s1600/IMG_1889.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YbQdHBq2DC2R-u2BKhLxRJt3-hZjoH_nkmZx6xaf8-v3RfEfZ2PHvhLSmwCnD14qH8XXW9VIIEFM8sifSNe77txhYYlh6w3EVRWiKYsvURol2tgiyWJLCRhebfuC3BOY2RQTQA/s640/IMG_1889.JPG" width="426" /></a><br />
A parade pace and sprint later we worked our way to the far end of the Narrowback ridge for the next timed section. We would be racing the whole ridge, back to the cars. The last couple miles would be on road, but the ridge miles were going to be a series of rocks that look more jagged than broken glass. Narrowback has many similarities to the trails of Michaux state forest, so I had confidence I could work my way up if I started off in a controlled manner. Towards the end of the "Barely there trail" I felt the rain coming and all I wanted to do was get off the rocks before they got slimey. Allah save anyone who was still out there. About the time I exited the last piece of trail the heavens opened up and it was a serious downpour all the way to the finish. Besides what it does to the bikes and the trail, I love riding in the rain. Across the line in 5th place. Behind, people were getting lost and time was ticking away. My closest competition, Spreng, was sacrificing time to support his teammate who had a busted bike. Good on him! <br />
All good, everyone safe, and found. Bruce Dickman was the last one in, lost in a haze of lube and party pace pounding. He made it.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvRXtChsmbK4-FMaa-zWFWSGniAK_dvIWtx0Kw5C-Y6WWOijmsSFaKq_cId1pYRHL7CxAAH6FCuQSqEflkmJgnvG0WHKwsHl69dToWO3QP1MduNWDUxRV2GLVg7UlfigyTAX9MA/s1600/IMG_1940.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvRXtChsmbK4-FMaa-zWFWSGniAK_dvIWtx0Kw5C-Y6WWOijmsSFaKq_cId1pYRHL7CxAAH6FCuQSqEflkmJgnvG0WHKwsHl69dToWO3QP1MduNWDUxRV2GLVg7UlfigyTAX9MA/s640/IMG_1940.JPG" width="476" /></a></div> I'm gonna hold off on the road stage report... This is too much work!Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-82622170713399872332011-07-12T13:41:00.001-05:002011-07-12T13:45:29.630-05:00So many days of racing...Day's 2 and 3 of Tour De Burg+ a Local XC<iframe frameborder="0" height="548" src="http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/96395413" width="465"></iframe><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQttRt94EJH58JE8lxZHAqZJxTiCSqZHuNLxtR1TKTGQ4aJGKPiAwkvX_0mb758AuHlo5rUg4o_XmB5-TzGySR1h2GwY3alkhRCmZqDdBqrNZA4j6gjeY9AJcayt4srPyyTWXHMQ/s1600/IMG_1812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQttRt94EJH58JE8lxZHAqZJxTiCSqZHuNLxtR1TKTGQ4aJGKPiAwkvX_0mb758AuHlo5rUg4o_XmB5-TzGySR1h2GwY3alkhRCmZqDdBqrNZA4j6gjeY9AJcayt4srPyyTWXHMQ/s640/IMG_1812.JPG" width="426" /></a> Day two of the Tour took us north of Harrisonburg to the Big Schloss part of the Shenandoah Valley. The first big day on the mountain bike was going to also have the biggest gnar factor with rock gardens that had the least amount of grooming. I'd never actually ridden Schloss area eventhough I used to stop and ride Wolfgap on drives between Harrisonburg and Gettysburg. This part of the George Washington National Forest is further away from the trail workers of Harrisonburg and has remained pretty raw.<br />
I was looking forward to unleashing my Blur LTc on the rock gardens and long descent time sections. One thing had me worried...Tubes in my tires. Why they were still in there, I don't know. I've run Tubeless for over six years and this time I was being a little lazy. I'm used to running my Stan's rims, but the Blur came with non-tubeless ready DT Swiss and the unknown was a little inimidating. Can I convert them? 'Yes' according to some. What do I do? "Run Stan's tape and throw in a valve..." Well, I was out of tape and still not confident, so I decided to let the tubes stay and see if tubeless was all that important....<br />
It is... Three flats in the first timed section later and a loss of 20minutes in the overall was not a good way to start the tour. I blame the bike...I shouldn't have had so much confidence going into the first long rock garden, but the Blur had disappeared from under me and as far as I knew I was moonbouncing down the trail. It felt so good that I didn't even feel the first snake bite the rear tube. A not so quick change was complicated by a tight bead/rim interface and I accidently pinched the new tube I was putting in.<br />
At this point the trail turned a little more flat but kept the rock profile and getting a rhythmn was proving to be difficult. Finally I got it rolling again and just after picking up some speed into the next few rock sections, I found myself off the bike fixing a front flat! That one I felt and heard but it was still at a speed I hadn't ever seen on the hardtail. With that flat fixed and most of the field in front of me, I managed to roll on without incident. Well there was one incident left which was seeing Dicky with his second flat and no tube. He'll hate me for saying it, but "I told you so." For some reason my third tube was a 29er and I passed it on to him. At the beginning of the day I had noticed he had no camelback and one tube. He seemed (without humbleness) certain that he wouldn't double flat since he never doubles. The Tour pounced on that smugness.<br />
After gathering back together at the sag wagon, we ate, drank, fixed bikes, added air to tires and sweated in the shade. A good hour after regrouping and imbiding, we remounted the bikes, paraded out of the stop and soon were getting reved up for the first sprint. I tried to lead out Ryan Fawley but he jumped early and missed first. We slowly regrouped and parade paced till the next timed section which was mostly downhill! It started with enough of a climb that I let myself relax and stay steady to the top, but once it started getting fast and technical I began picking off those who were a little more spritely on the climb. I wish it wasn't a timed section, because I would have loved to stop and taken pictures of the rock shoots and big gardens where everyone had to get off. They would be hard to clean at pleasure pace. If you think you're good, call me up and we'll go down to see just what you got. Good luck...<br />
I ended up taking some time back on the section and rolled in, in third place behind Sam Koerber and Nick Waite. Good Company!<br />
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Day Three: 98miles on Road/Gravel<br />
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The TDB is a true adventure around the Shenandoah valley and doesn't limit itself to mountain bikes. The thing is, we are all mountain bikers first, so you have to imagine that to keep us entertained there will be a plenty of gravel. True to form we paraded out of town towards the first KOM of the day. Straight up the two mile climb on exposed gravel up Massanutten mountain's back side. I didn't bother with the KOM since there is a limited amount of energy in these legs and I've done that climb enough time over the years in the Hoo-Ha and the Tour. Let the others punish themselves. We had 98miles to go and it was going to be hot and hard.<br />
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So hot! On the Eastern side of the Masanutten ridge we had the pleasure of crossing the North Fork river. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1HMNtxVl-C_Mhg02HPcqGm4V2gkQyYJS1cEU7FHuskJndwAntk3Zdky1tjcbmzqvbhlb6v2pOv7mVz_A-Qh7Rco1TVYh1K_ftLdmQ7W3s6VmFcg5knROFhfTVI4NQySAXcu0VA/s1600/IMG_1843.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1HMNtxVl-C_Mhg02HPcqGm4V2gkQyYJS1cEU7FHuskJndwAntk3Zdky1tjcbmzqvbhlb6v2pOv7mVz_A-Qh7Rco1TVYh1K_ftLdmQ7W3s6VmFcg5knROFhfTVI4NQySAXcu0VA/s1600/IMG_1843.JPG" /></a></div>This is the TOur director, Miquel Carpong. A tour veteran, who was suffering back issues. He's been known to go bigger than all you. At the end of day three I managed to scrape back some more time in the GC. Stage two saw me down in about 20th overall. At the end of day three I moved to 15th. The competition is stiff and traveling up and down the results sheet is easier done going down. I was hoping to work my way into the top ten, and by miracle, maybe I'd get into the top 5. Tides turn quickly in the Valley, and though I wished no one a mechanical or a meltdown, I knew they were around any corner. Including for myself.<br />
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The problem with arriving unannounced and unknown is the fact that you have no idea what you are getting into. A mentor is highly reommended to help you navigate the political and social quagmire. Not to mention the riding. It's a two bike event; a rugged mountain bike and a fat tired road bike. I chose my SC Blur LTc and my Specialized Tarmac with Conti 700x28 hardscrapes. No other race I know of, expects you to ride the things we do with the bikes we bring. 26-29 hardtails, ridged singlespeeds (rare air) and 6" travel bikes all have their moments. The two road stages involve more gravel than most cross races. The climbing could choke you out. 6 days, 7 stages, 300 miles, 31,600 ft of steep! Two of those stages are less than 7 miles in length. Sooo that means, 5 stages 289 miles 30, 000ft.<br />
Besides the people and atmosphere, we return because the riding offers no apologies. Oh my, did we just start the day racing up 3,000ft of climbing in less than 10 miles? How about a road stage descent that drops another 3,000 feet in 19 miles, but the first 4 miles almost straight down on forest roads with rocks and ruts. If you've ever suffered the steep part of the climb up to check point 5 in the Shenandoah 100 then you've gone up what we came down. On our road bikes. <br />
As much as it sounds like a party on wheels, there is much pride on the line. Besides the standard jerseys of GC, KOM, Sprint and DFL, it has been proven that a new jersey could be made up if you are standout enough to create a new jersey. Ask Bruce Dickman about that. The famous mouth from the south pounded so much party pace off the front he earned an imprompt PP Pounder Jersey. <br />
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Here is day one.. a Prologue seven miles in length. <br />
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Day one's prologue: go up, come down! This is similar to the loop used in the Massanutten Hoo-Ha, except we ride up and descend in opposite directions. The new trail on the other side of the Massanutten access road has become the best addition to the mountain. I'd gone up it a few times, but going down has added a new flavor for Death to dish out. <br />
Day one went good for me with a 6th place finish.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDTpAQ0LPzAW6paSTn6dRXu6arWKNzcQhX11Evi0LHkOLqRXzn6UiGUwFO6R9UEsTqsmXFNssy5W0PFq3ThYN_nGok6r7NTW_Xh1wuET82LNoM8uKHCcjQvulWR2-n2sTL3Rj5MQ/s1600/L1080840.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDTpAQ0LPzAW6paSTn6dRXu6arWKNzcQhX11Evi0LHkOLqRXzn6UiGUwFO6R9UEsTqsmXFNssy5W0PFq3ThYN_nGok6r7NTW_Xh1wuET82LNoM8uKHCcjQvulWR2-n2sTL3Rj5MQ/s320/L1080840.JPG" width="180" /></a></div>Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-6525257656427708012010-10-13T20:18:00.003-05:002010-10-13T21:07:47.075-05:00It's as if I never left. Still racing. But now it's on a dirt track with petroleum as my energy food.<br />God save the Williams Grove Speedway. 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It's 5:30am and I'm up and ready for day one of<a href="http://www.retodelosvolcanes.com/english/index.cfm?subpage=stages"> El Reto De Los Volcanoes.</a> Today we got 2 volcanoes on our hit list. <a href="http://www.retodelosvolcanes.com/english/index.cfm?subpage=stages">Turrialba and Irazu`</a>.<br />I'll be updating here and at Liberty Sports Mag's blog. It's a little too much to do new things for each so check it out over there....<br /><a href="http://www.libertysportsmag.com/?p=1294">Pre-Ride</a><br /><a href="http://www.libertysportsmag.com/?p=1298">Day before</a><br /><br />pura vidaHarlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-324684132138436852010-03-22T07:28:00.003-05:002010-03-22T07:35:38.025-05:00Mr. My old bike is for sale!It's sad to say goodbye to an old friend, but I need to sell my first 29er frame. It's the lefty one with Inine wheels, XTR, and Formula brakes. Complete bike has to go. IF you got $3500 and a desire let me know.<br />Here is the <a href="http://boxedbee.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-bike-my-bike-my-bike-is-on-fire.html">link to it's profile.</a> The wheels are a different color, but other than that it''s all the same.Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-26369963693051724302010-02-16T12:46:00.004-05:002010-02-17T11:25:30.900-05:00Comb-Over Yards and Angry Plants.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCUJPmdBcvxAPjKmwMiycOFtq9vtpqsayx50n3eRLpxZlOR8yhMsRrZpCOmJBu9KGmQb0WmdpV1LcWKe27Rxd3tUpqYWDlPsQ1drhMAAsE70imx6Nv1_0Hr9K1WPKwXUFIxQ0zw/s1600-h/IMGP0890.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCUJPmdBcvxAPjKmwMiycOFtq9vtpqsayx50n3eRLpxZlOR8yhMsRrZpCOmJBu9KGmQb0WmdpV1LcWKe27Rxd3tUpqYWDlPsQ1drhMAAsE70imx6Nv1_0Hr9K1WPKwXUFIxQ0zw/s400/IMGP0890.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439030445326221474" border="0" /></a><br />As much as my generous guide, Dejay, tries to convince me that Arizona is the place to live, I've got to admit it scares me a little.<br />Everywhere I turn some plant is trying to jab me. If it wasn't for the dry air, serrated mountains in the back ground and an abundance of something called tex/mex I'd assume I was in Florida. It's a place that is flat, hot and dirty like a mangy dog. Charming. Still I can't say enough nice things about the people who are surviving here.<br /><br />I mean I flew in from a town that was just shut down under 40" of snow. Philadelphia tried to hold me tight by closing the airport the day I was supposed to leave. If I had stayed I'd probably be dead, crushed underneath a snow laden limb in the Wissahickon while skiing.<br /><br />Instead I was suckered into the desert to be on a 24hr 5 person coed team with Dejay and the <a href="http://www.notubes.com/">Stan's NoTubes</a> team.<br /><br />Now I have a tan.<br /><br />I haven't done a 24hr race in 7 years. Ever since I took a nap in the middle of a lap in Whistler in 2003. Since then, I've had an allergy to staying up past 1am to ride my bike.<br />Still, the coolest thing about the race was hanging out with the Stan's crew.<br />Getting there was a cluster. After a one day delay out of Philly I showed in Tucson without a bike. Andrew was a doll and picked me up, wondering where my bike was. After calling around for a few hours we put together one of Dejay's bikes. Fortunately my new, never ridden, SS Superfly came in at about one in the AM.<br /><br />We had fun and managed to win while dethroning the Topeak/Ergon team. Sorry Jeff, Dave, Sonya, Yuki and Rebecca!<br /><br />The hardest thing about riding in the desert is the number (all) of plants that want to stab me and leave their prickers behind. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span>After totally crushing the day and practicing our 1000 yard stares into the wee hours, I have had the pleasure of playing in Tucson with Dejay.<br /><br />There isn't much green here, but the weather at this time of year makes riding a pretty comfortable activity. We rode up Lemmon Mtn, on Monday and touched snow on our hike-a-bike to the top of Bug Spring trail. The hour spin across Tucson on the single speeds was a little tedious after racing for 5 hours the day before, but the tequila stash on the trail and multiple flats on the way down gave us plenty of breaks, for me to silently cry in my thoughts.<br /><br />The trails down the mountain were a bit more exciting than the 24hr race course with multiple chest-to-saddle drops, some cliff riding and Suarez cactus all around.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxL85Jauucc32AZs-xPlNzRQlaFM9QFTefBZa9BtC2rm33k7_psLI6FlH_q8LmiPdl6DcxVd6uqS1M' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />Yesterday we rode out of town to the Tucson Mountain Park. Another flat, across town ride resulted with us in the basin of a collapsed cauldron. We ran across Geoff Kabush getting handled by five men with shock pumps and some measuring devices. It pays to be a world cup racer.<br />Dejay and I took turns doing each others hair and riding down rock features.<br /><br />Yeah AZ!Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-56833838296834004662010-02-02T05:55:00.003-05:002010-03-13T08:07:35.948-05:00Rumors, lies and general vaguness, Plus Pictures!There is a shift in the trade winds these days. Like climate change (global warming), the economy and an endangered species' status things have to change. Some call it a cycle, or a balance of the universe's equilibrium, but I'm not sure where I'm going to file this one. Maybe label it with my new favorite term, a nearing to "zero-entropy" or moving my body to room temperature.<br /><br />No I'm not dying, but I am shifting my focus away from full-time racing to fun-time racing and advocacy. I've joined <a href="http://teamcf.org">TeamCF</a><br /><br />This is a pretty exciting shift for me. Now I'll have a team close to home, a full suspension big-wheeled bike and a bike with one gear! Thanks to <a href="http://fisherbikes.com">Gary Fisher</a> for supporting the Cystic Fibrosis cause.Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27347730.post-10492171080884583772009-12-27T22:10:00.002-05:002009-12-27T22:12:57.352-05:00maybe I'll dust off..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT26TrxS6tfFPrBPSVKab-Yq_uRsolxryBG50xZhoNuCbjwD5Lz_4VZLWHLsdnBmyDmKxdmwLcKjCTnbgHb0lJ_nsn5r2n_Rvu-pBI9nc43B2WAEo6Oa09VChGNcM8RagHbZH_Rw/s1600-h/L1000936.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT26TrxS6tfFPrBPSVKab-Yq_uRsolxryBG50xZhoNuCbjwD5Lz_4VZLWHLsdnBmyDmKxdmwLcKjCTnbgHb0lJ_nsn5r2n_Rvu-pBI9nc43B2WAEo6Oa09VChGNcM8RagHbZH_Rw/s400/L1000936.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420119678752938322" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNWxPBZ-TONSTdAa2IAHGvPqCjLbNMzSKO_lI2Cc0KGGLX6HznS5rtuoqxZ7IHIjV92UnC50rjiXzIPkFfJnK8dmetxiexIik60CbmsKT_B2Lu-5e7ZEcUKz751N3XHaQseQKXQ/s1600-h/L1000935.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNWxPBZ-TONSTdAa2IAHGvPqCjLbNMzSKO_lI2Cc0KGGLX6HznS5rtuoqxZ7IHIjV92UnC50rjiXzIPkFfJnK8dmetxiexIik60CbmsKT_B2Lu-5e7ZEcUKz751N3XHaQseQKXQ/s400/L1000935.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420119673906855698" border="0" /></a><br />It might be time to pull out the Louise the fixie pixie. Starting to feel better!Harlan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487622455454735535noreply@blogger.com2