BASHERS CORNER

TMS the quote. MICHIGANSCENE, just that title can mean lots of things to few or many. The mention of the name provokes emotions such as hatred, disgust, joy, anger, jealousy and pride. Bashers thought this one out in the 11Th hr of the 1st day of June 2009. he takes a look at the word MICHIGANSCENE .

point:

OK i get it the michiganscene! a blog dedicated to the realm of Michigan competitive cycling and a culture that influences those behind blog. Right? or The michigan Scene itself? The state of the state? We got alot going on here in our state, its almost as if were left to our own little world cups every weekend from late march through the 2Nd week of December. You want to race a crit no problem, how about a MTB event sure, club ride any night of the week yep. fix gear urban ride OK! go solo..? do that too. where else can you pick virtually whatever discipline in the cycling world has to offer. Lets face it we have some great things going on in our scene, more road racing than ever before, endurance events, etc two cyclocross series. want to ride a challenging mtb trail? hit the poto or Pontiac lake trails up. Go for a ride with the girlfriend or introduce a newbie to the love of cycling try Island lake, or stony creek metro park.

How about the talented riders emerging from our state? without naming all the names every season we seem to put alotta riders out on the national scene, ok its not the world cup! but do you think they really care? and how about the over 40 something crowd? example: Mike Wissink winning the USGP masters title isn't easy.

The TMS blog oh yea. the blog well, its NOT Velonews, or PEZcycling but it sure as hell beats the shit out of all those self gloating myspace, facebook and twitter tweakers. Honsetly to all you twitter tweakers..Do I really fucking care about what your doing every second of the day? Hell no! i cant even keep track of what the fuck I'm doing from day to day to keep tabs with what your doing. Facebook? i don't get it. its like high school revisited on a daily basis, if your over 40 and hit tin the facebooks up, you need to seek some other activity's, spend sometime with the wife ,kids, family, ride more, or at best just Be productive while doing it. eat a large bag of lead filled paint chips. Enough of that! ill meet that subject later.

In my eyes the blog touches on as much as it can, fills it with a style unlike any other cycling website/blog around, sure the writing and grammar is worse than mine, Its packed with whole bunch of anon posters hiding behind there fears of being linked to such a edgy site...You get alittle race action, alittle in depth interviews of your friends, some humor, art, sex, drugs, rock and roll, . what the fuck more could you ask for? Isn't this America? what were made of? variety is the spice of life? problem is allot of you fuckers like the same shit fed to you year after year, and hate change. don't be so goddamn close minded pull it out and play with it once and awhile.

counterpoint:

Our scene the Michiganscene, the state of the state? What the fuck? OK we got racing, group rides ,trails, and culture all around us. but just because we have done it every year doesnt mean we gotta keep doing it, I mean god dam how many times can we do the same shit year in year out? How many of you cant wait for another Kensington? or another edition of the Allen park crit? Gets my dick hard just thinking of 90 minutes of the 1/2 field circling that pot hole infested office park . Best thing to happen to that race is it went 90 minutes and thinned the fat asses out . Why the hell cant we get a MBRA edition of the TDL course? make that the state road race! No!!! now we all have to drive 12 hrs to the UP to race our state race were there is probably less than 10% of our races there already.

How about another edition of our cyclocross series, same races, same order, same faces, same outcome. really exciting. Dont change venues as we all have short term memory loss and have forgot how dam boring Bloomer park is, or how redundant the Hill is at the Munson park course. Meet you for the weeknight night pain train at any of the local group rides? hey! there goes so and so again ridin dudes of his wheel..man he was killin it, yea too bad the moron is waist in his shit for bragging rights over a brew at the local pub.

Up for another lap of the POTO? sure! I clocked a 1 hr and who gives a fuck! what do you run there? Dam you should be postin blistering times there, you know the place more than you know your own wife and kids. Oh i forgot they left your lame poto GOD ass. But im training! sure. FUCK i could go on and on, on how over blown the ego's are in this fucking state! The guys goin out of state with the exception of a FEW are finding out how soft they are, I mean when you got dudes 40+ and fat winnin races, it aint that hard here. to be 20 thin and fit in Miscene? its like being a shark in a fish bowl.

the TMS blog. were do i start? I'm not even going into the grammar and writing of the whole thing, it FUCKING blows. there are you happy? The race reports are stale to say the least. The interviews are soft, and too few and far between. come on! what is this Bicycling magazine? i don't give a flying fuck what kind of bike that guy from Essex learned to do wheelies on. or what CD he left the local Wal Mart with. If this is such a edgy site how about how often he has cheated on his wife, or if he has ever done hard drugs while masturbating.

The choke..uh??? I cant call it art work, Photocrapping at best! Its old, and played out. enough, we get it! you have fetish for nasty chicks with guns and gore. Its run its course, pull the plug or make up some new shit. I mean fuck what in gods name does any of that dumb ass crap have to do with michigan cycling? Oh i know its tasteless and redundant and played out, just like our whole scene! now it makes sense, its like watching the same episode of Maude every tuesday night. over and over and over

perfect.

Im good

i get it.

from now on Basher will move to Wednesday night.