Good golly sceneer and haters alike...its been a pretty exciting winter of sorts soo far huh?
If you can get through the social media barrage of dream teams and solo units doing what it takes and how many brain cells and toes they can be destroying all for the sake of something....
you might be even more blown away...
One would actually believe ol T still gives two shits about this site and all its supposed to be...he do sorta...
What with all the hub-bub of the Velodrome..this past weekends Phart Bike Nats...Fuck..speaking of that...national championship with sub 120 riders....come on man you gotta be joshing me....im not gonna go into the level of the competition but when a guy is racing the elite race that has only club road racing experience something is pretty fucked up there..
USACs attempt at making a few bucks off something that shoulda stayed a grass roots sport is sadly failing...if they were smart they should be jumping on the gravel scene and making National champs and state championship events in this discipline...fuck
Hell its soo dam good right now in our scene even the now legendary riders are calling it home and pounding out those precious base miles for the quest..
But what quest? .and can they really find it here..and if soo....and what really lays before us..
lets take a little look...
If your into gravel..like who the hell aint right now you pretty much got yerself the fair share of some mighty juicy pickens..interesting how we have evolved aint it humans..folks not too far back belly ached up a storm over shitty road conditions at the State Championship road race..
Now people cant get enuf of pot holes, washboards and collar bone snapping gutter sand..I aint hatin im just laughin cuz its all so mind boggling...
since we are on that subject...i gotta ask why do the promoters see the point in making these events a fuckin death march??...there i said it....I see the romance...the whole 100 miles on gravel..almost makes you feel little eurofucked right at home in your own backyard...I think it seems better over beers and nachos..but when it comes right down to it..it aint fun..and its only really competitive for about 5-8 guys the rest are there for social media bragging rights..i mean really 50-60 seemed like a perfect length..
a great example:
the Dirt Road derby last fall was sub 37 miles..and it started like a cross race and finished like a 45 min crit...
The scene isnt full of euro-fucks training 30 hours a week...well maybe Lexey is...but fuck it all the same...100 miles is dumb...and Then taking the Lowell 50 to 100..wtf..I can kinda see why..you got BRX coming why not get that time in your legs..but its silly..the average human with few exceptions are wrecked for days after some times weeks doing that shit...unless your some pro-deal single guy just married with a dog and a sprinter van its a plan wrecker...
but holy bat turds it looks good in your tweets..and who cares its gettin Rick that sweet ass new aluminium metal roof for his cottage...
more on Events...............................?
I mean by this point in our relationship do we really need to hash over every single one on the calendar? I think you all know whats coming and if you dont.......... right click over Kolo-TC cuz those zany bros got this shit figured out..
but either way ..its a full Spring Classic like place around the The Michigan Scene...
I suppose if that aint your style...The Velodrome seems like the place to be scene...and for good gawl darn reason..its a big deal..folks are getting fast and TV celebrities are getting made...just show up and walk through the door and its a instant gain of 220 watts at max sprint and your credibility goes to 10 on the hot-shoe charts...
But i aint dissin Dale i think hes going in the right direction..he just needs time figure that shit out and get the schedule straight and all the blah blah blah crap...
You got yer spring fling i dunno what my take is on that anymore..if you wanna race 25 mm tires your kinda forced with the lack of anything other than gravel shit...besides you can ride gravel on 25mm you need 38mm tires...i suppose if you gotta race and you dont mind takin what you can get ....go hit it up.its as hard you make it....Road scene seems to be on sort of a come back at least until mid June rolls around...a new Stage race in May...a few heres and there..and in between you got Gratten and Waterford....seems perfect though kinda peters out for a few weeks maybe do Lumber Jack 100 or if dudes can refrain from unleashing there patented calculated chaos for a few weeks it may give folks a chance to regroup...
MTBing? Hhmmm looks pretty thin..T dont follow that all too close..not that he dont like it..but always seems like there a few last minute events gettin tossed into the fold...besides the TC-Kolo folks got that shit dialed up north...
i always hate long good byes..
i do love me the Michigan scene...
2 comments:
Make gravel events 100k not 100 miles. Just sayin'
Not fuckin' rocket science.
It seems like cyclists in general have fallen into the Ironman mentality. It's easier to pretend to be hardcore on a 100 mile gravel race than a 30 mile gravel race you actually have the fitness to pedal hard during. At the heart of it I don't think there is anything wrong with people finding satisfaction in any time of athletic pursuit or ride, it's just a bit of a disappointment that so few cyclists seem to prize true competition and aren't willing to allow competition rather than monotonous miles to define what is difficult.
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