Good evening Holy booger picking shit talking in the your own world of bicycle racing...top of the heap Cat 3 racers and lower end cat 2, racers, Oh im sorry i dont want those old trying to remain relevant Masters men feeling left out its your scene too..Ill be your host just for a bit before turn the schedule over to a more nicer fella ....
After snoopin around and going through everyone's various forms of social media garbage ive got the old school tickle of a sarcastic shit post pumpin through these polluted artery's and tonight im gonna make a feeble attempt giving a true to roots old fools opinion on what i think is this years future..
Na na..dont be hatin me..dont come in all serious ..cuz you know deep T and the scene all that its composed of luvs ya..
so what can you expect tonight?..
Course descriptions?
Payout banter?
Rider talk?
Predictions of whole will claim the scene of domination and have that break out year?
How about weekday world?
Team gossip?
young guns?
burn out?
turn outs?
Everesting..
Zwift talk
KOM chasin
dnfs ?
Gravel banter?
length and girth assumptions?
track talk?
Will Nick Burn out?
nasty talk about your girlfriends, wives, lovers and the tranny you've been fuckin on the side..
Strava talk?
Zwift envy?
Comebacks..
What team Luke Mullis is riding for this year
Possible heart attacks?
Kolo-TC?
How fat your buddy is..
Hmm Naa..that would take too much of your time and probably just get some one all butt hurt..then would go to that next level and start finger pointing and makin claims of whos behind the door..
i gotta believe if in this calendar year you folks dont find some old school lift off in at least few weekends you need to go hang up the cleats and start collecting somethin that will completely worthless in the future
dont choke on the grammar
March
Sunday...15th..
Waterloo G/G start the official season year off the year right with what? the 4th edition of the G/G.....despite the dumb expensive entry..this is a pretty hard ass day..the course more roadie..until you get to the two track by the prison..
Saturday...21st
Melting Man..7th year and countin nothin better than , phart bikes..beer ..cookies...fields mixing folks changing flats in the middle of the road...ahhhh good times..can you say true real world gravel..to the winners go the spoils of thousands of dollars in gift cards to local bars, and gas stations..
Saturday 28th
Dirty 30..out in the middle of no-where now in its 3rd season..
April
Saturday the 4th
Lowell 50..the underdog of the gravel series..more roadie than grindy.....watch that dog leg sprint its longer than u think
Rough Road 100..
same day as above................not good.
Waterford Spring training series..
cold windy ass beatings are always fun..........
April 5th
The AAVC spring training series kicks off a little early this year...lets see how this year goes..as this forever event has been on life support for over three years now....but you cant fault the expensive entry fees for its weakend state..there is lot more events that have more to offer than a bunch of cold wind swept Sunday mornings in a industrial park..
Saturday the 18th...
Barry Roubaix..didnt get in...be there or die wondering..or better yet..go and hang out be scene..im pretty sure you could probably bandit this one anywhere you want on course..
Saturday the 18th.
The AAVC crit .poor planning on this one.....lets pray they change it on calendar to some other opening...
April 25,
The Willow Time Trial..its back and taken over by
Downriver Cycling Club, but once again offering a season-opening opportunity to test your off-season base-building. We are adding a couple of fun new categories this year, including a first-timer category, as well as a Fat Bike category. Racing is fun,
interesting concept..hope it works...
April 25,
Yankee Spring TT
the classic and still one of the best attended events in the State..
it still dumb that its a two lapper.....
May
Sunday the 3rd..
HellKat 100...go and get gutted..or dont Dan Yankus dont care cuz he would hand you your ass anyway
Sunday May 3rd
Despite being on the same day as above...the Fort Custer MTB...long standing Mountain bike greatness..now made better with introduction to the Ebike class
Saturday May 3
Kranza...All day sufferfest in the mid-state
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Saturday the 16th...
Arcadia G/G...make this the year you go up and check it out.....
Sunday the 17th
Hines TT...that is if you still own a TT bike...Hines back with a 20K edition of the classic..might wanna hit this up before the Hines that you know it is gone for good...
Saturday the 23rd
Port City Crit
Spend the day in Muskegon getting beat up by Base Media, Bissell, and that Dentist team
Monday May 25th
The Blom Gravel ride/race...skip the Indy 500..skip the cook out and skip dreading the going back to work........... skip doing yard work ..fuck everything.....and go hang out with Nick and the crew
Saturday May 30th
Alma Gravel ramble..is JB makin the switch? or is this just another ride in the mid-state region
Saturday may 30th
Mid-Michigan Health Road Race Classic....hmmm been years since we had a road race in WestBranch..most dont even know it ever existed in the first place....not a bad spot..one big hill and the wrest is ugly northern Michigan farm country..doubting this is a good idea..but totally respect the effort and you can count on the losers here at the scene will promote it..
Sunday may 31st
After you get done hanging in Alma..or feel like driving to the other side of the state after the WestBranch race.. you got nothing else going on...head on over to...Dans Dinky Doughnut ride...not sure how the first edition went over but looks like a good excuse go pedal a bike again...cuz you dont have a life right?
May 31st
Hanson Hills XC go here and maybe you get a chance see the Giant in his domain
June
Saturday the 6th
Sancho 200..you like sand, and sand likes you ..and if riding all day is your shtick go here.UFF
Friday the 12th
Zeeland Crit..
Friday night racing in the west side of the state..past winners include Nate Dog, Vanderslagmorelend..Junge..etc..
Saturday the 13th
ADA crit...good thing you stuck around..cuz its the one of only two back to back weekends of crit racin in the scene...
Saturday June 13th
the Island lake TT..you think you can hold Scottys, DC the WIZ or Yankus jock..skip all the above..go here and prove it
Saturday the 20th
The Cow Pie Classic..poor scheduling...as its going up against....
Saturday June 20th
Michigan Mountain Mayhem..head up north again and try your odds against the Gunslingers that think there climbing gods
Saturday June 20th
Lumberjack 100..if you didnt get in..dont worry..you probably wouldnt had any fun anyway
Saturday the 27th
Coast to Coast gravel..this one should become a classic..a hardmans gravel day in the office
Saturday June 27th
The Long standing summer has arrive Sweat shaker...MTB mid-state
July
July 12th
Pontiac Lake XC...better than ever..
Saturday the 18th
THE CRUSHER...Way up in the Land where you could be eatin by shit people like to hunt..looks cool but also looks too hard and too far for most trolls to make the commitment
Saturday July 18th
Iron Shoe Distillery Lawless 50..back out to the corner of the State..Vandalia Michigan has another gravel thing for you..
Saturday July 25th
Big M is always a fun place..even more fun in 100 degree heat
Sunday the 26th
Hines State TT..for the first time in over 20 the scene has three..three TTS on th docket...last year it was met with a luke warm attendance..folks on TT rigs, comfort bikes and gravel rigs came and tossed there hat in the ring for a little 40k suffercation...seems befitting to our times...
The Divide
part of the gravel race series...The Divide will consist of three bike races...find one you like and throw that thing people like to do with there fingers that look like horns at all the photographers..SLAYER!!
August
Saturday the 1st
Cherry Roubiax..that race up north that isnt a race..nothing like some good old swingin it against all comers..oh yea its a race..is it the USAC state championship?...will it get scored right?
Friday the 7th
Corktown..if it happens this will be rad...
Saturday The 8th
The Detroit Cycling Championship..crit racing in the MurderCity...continues for its 4th time ...embrace it as its the only one of its game in the scene
August
Saturday August 8th
Watermoo..Nick and the Boys promise you a rad fuckin day in the southern half the sate..complete with a water-crossing..he's a cool dude
but dont expect him to wait for you
Saturday August 8th
Frankenmuth Fondo..miss the old days of fighting for wheels around the second boringest place in Michigan have no fear...you can relive the glory days of yore and go do a fondo in the forever Christmas village
Saturday August 8th
Odram
Saturday August 16th
Glacial Hill XC...
August 23rd
Maybury TT...such a fun place to loose skin
Sunday The 30th
Debates..since its back on the Labor day weekend...go buy a UCI license and head over to Windsor and taste the Italian air for 90+ minutes at the tour of Italia Sunday night..
September...
Monday 7th Winnennnan...if you missed ridin with Nick all summer...your runnin outta chance..go do this one...cuz he is working really hard at keepin the fun in cycling...
Saturday 12
the Lord of the springs...
the scene needs more of this shit...one of the coolest races all season...
Saturday August 12, Addison Oaks XC
MTB racing..on a single track through a golf course..what once was miserably muddy ass march through hell is a pretty darn sweet place to ride a bike
Sunday 13th
Off road TT Rockford Mi..nice concept to this one...
Friday the 18th
The Margie Getsick Upper Peninsula...yea..its sold out ..soo what..you probably wouldn't of finished it anyway
Saturday 26th
Michigan Mountain Mayhem Gravel grinder...The Grayling Giant needs skulls...
there are two ways of lookin at this season...
Its full of stuff..mostly grade 5 events, and few solid ones....is it too thick?
or
Toss in the mid-week stuff..and there is no way in hell your ever gonna lose that fitness..
Peace fools..
4 comments:
You missed Ore 2 Shore. The most underrated big race 90% of people have never heard of.
UFFFFFFF
I wasn’t around during the lance wave, sounded like a great time to racing bikes in Michigan.
But when I look at this list and think, “damn I could race my fat bike, gravel bike, road bike and mountain bike in a given 30 days (mid March through mid April) How rad is that? Yeah the turnouts won’t be in the thousands for every event, but it’s hard to knock it when an event promoter has to share a day with another event.
We can’t forget the cool events around the Midwest that will pull Michigan’s racers out to try their hand against stiff competition and big turnouts. That’s cool too.
Enjoy the events that you want to support, buy those brake pads from the local shop, race with people you love, or you hate, but just have a damn good time because we’re all fortunate enough to do so.
T, this was a great write up. I’m excited for 2020
11:09 AM
amen
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