Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Last day of the year was as good a day as any to build and ride a new bike eh?

Everyone have an extra-safe night, and see y'all in the new year.

12 23 05 pics

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What day is it?

Here's the skinny on the Calendars. They should have been in Lincoln Thursday last week. Today I got an email saying they'll be delivered to Bdiddy's place in the next day or so. Because it's taken so long, Costco has refunded 100% of costs back to me - for product and shipping. That's zero charge for those of you who ordered them. I'm sure Bdiddy'll post when they show up. For those of you in Lincoln who ordered these, it sure would be swell if you could pass him a dollar or two so he can send a few calendars to CO and MT.

Stinkin' Lincoln.

First time back in 18 months? Hey, lets go for a bike ride.
Everything's muddy? Hey, lets go for a bike ride anyway. Gravel roads will do.
It's cold and it's been drizzling all day? Yep.

It was good to be back. We had a ton of fun. Probably won't stay away for another 18 months this time.

Hey, did we get those calanders yet?

jewell park

don't freak. i didn't hit the dirt trails. they were way too wet. but there is a short limestone trail that i rode up and over. what i saw of the new singletrack looked great. thanks for all the hard work up there. i did find a route from my parents house to the park. so i'll be looking forward to that when the trails eitehr dry-up or freeze. omaha drivers need to learn some courtesy. m-f-ers!!! actually it wasn't too bad. that hill from the park to bellevue blvd is a bastard.

xmas ride

with bootch. on gravel south of omaha. it was sweet. rode to nebraski on 204th. foggy as a m-f. not really, but it did obscure the top of this tower.

a couple of pics

here's a few ski pics from the weekend.


pic#1...chairlift to nowhere

pic#2....me

picture share

ski pics from today.....with tracy and randall.

Well, this is the reason I have been hiding it seems. Tara had our second child. And we went real traditional with the name: Brecken Levi. He was born wednesday (12/21)  

sprockets....touch my monkey.

Buchanan says..."if this doesn't raise wood....nothing will."

a little excercise

cut, chop, stack...repeat.

another sunset pic

from tonite

Friday Ride?

Yo! Can't wait to ride with you guys this weekend! I have an appointment of sorts on Friday that is from 1-2pm but I'm free after that. Who's game for hooking up after that for a bicycle ride? Also, I'm bringing back the mtb, but what's rideable right now?

I'll make a Sat AM ride, too. Have to be back at Mary's folks house by probably 2ish.

Shortest day of the year?

Longer days are coming! Sunset from my ride earlier.



And tomorrow we head East! Can't wait to see all y'all that are East of here.

candy

Just got the first 2 Intense frames. Here is the 6.6. I can't wait to get it built up. Thinking of making it a relatively light all day backcountry machine with a Maveric DUC fork. 6.75 inches in the rear - yikes!

warning! old school content

check this old pic of some dirty hippie. if i remember correctly i was going off like a gun, but there was one dude in front of me. this was not a good race tactic for me. i made the top 10 i think but that was after fading pretty bad after starting too fast. i've learned since.

who else can you recog? can you guess the venue?

Sample Pack

Yummy.

trans iowa

missed it last year. didn't think i was ready to bite off 300+. but i rode tons of gravel last year and enjoyed every minute. i know it will be another level of pain and fatigue. i'm preparred to register tomorrow when the registration opens at 1pm our time. i've bugged a few people about it during the week. i'm ready for this adventure. wish me luck!

Order Up!

I'm making calendars from pics posted on the blog. I emailed some folks last night to try to get the full-sized pics of a few gems we've uploaded over the year. Send them my way so I can get this done!!! fwiw, Final selections have not been made, some months are still tbd.

I'm going to place the order Saturday, so if you want one, figure ~$11 and let me know ASAP how many you want.

Sorry I'm too lazty to make a collage from May right now, but I may just get that job done by Saturday night.

Jury Duty

The wife had Jury Duty all last week, and yesterday. The paper covered it today, so I thought I'd share.



Teen guilty in 'Santa' brawl

This time last year, a group dressed as Santa and his helpers got into a fight over a stolen red hat. What started with a chase and a threat to put coal in the thieves' stockings ended badly for "Santa." On Monday, a Boulder County jury convicted one of two men charged in the fight, finding him guilty of third-degree assault.