Friday Nights Live
Hellyer Velodrome … Final Friday Nights of 2008!!!
Hey folks ~ come have some fun with us at your local velodrome. Or, if you’re out there in interwebland … check it out LIVE
(http://www.stickam.com/ncnca_kc).
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Spread the word, eh?
Spectating: $0
Food and Drink: $0
Evening heckling with friends: … pricele$$.
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good thoughts about the l’ Carrera
Mark Deterline has this cool article in the main program for Carrera.
that’s boss.
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hey, that reminds me … i never called them back after announcing last year. oh … oops.
damn, and just when i could use the reason to scream.
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… well, there is the upcoming August 22nd Friday Night Races at the Velodrome. It will be shown live on the interwebs and should be richtering heavy on the party scale.
more info soon. Have a blast at Carrera, kids!
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Williams Wheels… local love
the What’up after a few TestWhaps
Williams Cycling had their chingon 38s tested by that cyclingnews.com cat, JamesHuang (sounds like the ultimate Webcor rider … tedhuang+jamesmattis = JamesHuang!).
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GAWDAMMIT … i want a set of these wheels.
But, i only roll tubies on the velodrome and Williams already has me testing out their clincher line, so …
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still ~ at a few sniffs over 1200g for the wheelset AND under that number in american-dollare$ … that’s one helluva bang4buck transaction.
I know that a lot of pro/elite riders that thank Keith Williams for hooking them up with these 38/58 sets of his to race on.
Trust me, if DannyHolloheed’s thunderclap thighs aren’t snapping these wheels … yours won’t either.
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utter reliance
I’ve shared my thoughts before, about the importance of wheel choice. My points of negotiation when choosing any wheelset center around bike handling … full stop.
Now don’t get me wrong … i loves me some aerodynamical weightweenification ~ i mean, that shyte sho’nuff do help when you’re banging balls off-the-front with a few CalGiantDingleBerries or a Jacques-Maynard, or two.
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BUT ~ the vast majority of my racing rides (as well as pedals in pleasure) flirt firmly in and huck they way through … the darklands of sweet jumpery and pucker punching corner bombs. .
It’s this obsession with the hop, an unhealthy preference for gliding blind, a need to carve like the knife through dirt and tarmac …
it gets me in trouble.
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and, the wheelset must be game to bail my ass out.
Williams does it.
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VegNews & Peanut Vardaros
Check out Christine’s new gig at VegNewz. She’s a columnist there and saving the world one piece of celery at a time.
GoVeggiesGo!
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There’s a contest where you can pick your favorite VegNews athlete … you can vote for Vardaros. Pretty cool.
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Ya’ll know how fond i am of the instantly-available interwebs and all the connectivity it provides …
but sometimes there’s a need to just grab a few slices of literature, a strong swing of drink, and perch the self somewhere comfy to pass the time and expand the mind.
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pretty pictures always help.
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I’m sorry Sabine …
but it’s true ~ there are women who might push you off the pedestal …
Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Donna Woods, and …
it’s then i realized …
Most know that i’ve let stray the large chunk of politico rants on this latest website carnation.
When you open norcalcyclingnews … it usually centers around some goofnut, bikelusting, choco-laden hack of a journOessaypoetacyclist syphoning a few pics and jokes from those internet tubes.
yup, not much politics or socio-economic ethics or religio-scours on the new site …
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but the next chapter is black
Barrack Obama’s energy policy framework ~ I continue to read and gather information about Obama and the planning of his administration. His website and networks of information sharing are … available for scrutiny.
ohthankye_interwebs
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I ask myself … and affirm ~ yes, i agree with the direction he points the ship.
I am a person who bears teeth in protection of an individual’s right. It is a position of bias so deeply ingrained in me that no opinion formed, or action undertaken would pull me away from that core, rooted position. And i go to the mattresses.
And i believe in community. And I believe in compromise.
Reality, as i perceive it, is filled with people who must be compromised with. Because not to do so ~ and still to fight desperate and mortal for the individual’s rights ~ is to set on a path of enforcing decision by force … a path that shakes, evermore unsteadily, towards fascism.
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compromise, and fight for it.
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but enough of politics
after all …
isn’t bike riding about tan’d spandex lines, creme d’ chamois, and curvy sculpted calfcakes?
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some say so, some act so, and some couldn’t care less.
For some,
it’s pure love of bike, love of wind … the wild glee of missiling down a country hill’d road ~ bubbling gritty tears in the corners of eyes.
Handlebars a milli-moment’s wobble from inattention, but back in hand ~ pointing down and onwards, skimming smoothly over pavement with the rushing sounds of breeze caressing ears, and the humm of tyres singing loud where you are, where you go.
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