The Way We Were

2008 ROCKFORD CRITERIUM

June 28

2008

Sr Cat 1/2

1 Graham Howard 27 Bissell

2 Derek Graham 21 Bissell

3 Steven Howard 19 Bissell

4 John Doyle 34 Priority Health U-23

5 Robert Daksiewicz 36 Lathrup Industries

6 Lawarence Warbasse 16 Priority Health U-23

7 Jeff Koch 31 Bissell

8 Shane Braley 29 Team Wheel & Sprocket

9 Bruce Rivera 10 Essex Brass Racing Team

10 Luke Cavender 25 Wolverine/American C&F

11 Robert Hockin 14 Team Giant

12 Ben Whitehead 18 Bissell

13 Tim Finkel 26 Wolverine/American C&F

14 Dave Baar 2 Spout.com

15 Nathaniel Williams 32 West Michigan Coast Riders

16 Derek Witte 22 Bissell

17 Scott Anderson 24 Bissell

18 Robert Foshag 5 Saturn of Toledo

19 James Bruce 3 Lathrup Industries

20 David Williams 30 Bissell

21 Jeff Weinert 28 Team Giant

22 John Zaccone 13 South Lyon Cycles

23 Robert Selle 11 Cadieux/Team O2

24 Eric Phreed 9 West Michigan Coast Riders

25 Jimmi McMurray 8 Team Giant

Sr Cat 3

1 Allen Antonuk 300 Trails Edge Cyclery

2 Chris Aten 327 South Lyon Cycle racing

3 Chris Boer 302 Spout.com

4 Jimi Minnema 314 Bissell

5 Taylor Birmann 322 Priority Health U-23

6 Brian Bangma 323 GR Bicycle Company

7 Tim Keeley 310 ABD Cycle Club

8 Lupe Martinez 313 Leadout/Chicago Dr Cycling

9 Scott Gifford 307 South Lyon Cycle Racing

10 Fred Bunn 304 Cisco Cycling

11 Scott Kroske 330 Wolverine Sports Club

12 Nate Cole 305 Fusion IT/RCV

13 Waylon Janowiak 309 Unattached

14 Cody Brown 331 Wolverine Sports Club

15 Jeremy Woolcock 319 Spout.com

16 Mike Van Houten 316 Cisco Cycling

17 John Wolf 318 Mapleleaf Cycling Club

Sr Cat 4

1 Mac Brennan 401 Priority Health U-23

2 Mark Bush 403 Little Caesars Racing

3 Ben Penner 409 Ann Arbor Velo Club

4 Mark Bailey 412 Rapid Wheelmen

5 Rex Reist 421

6 Joel Bierling 413

7 Jonathan Brinkman 420 Saturn of Toledo

8 Michael Dega 405 Cadieux/Team O2

9 Brad Fry 406 Kalamazoo Bicycle Club

10 Geoff Kuyer 416 Leadout/Chicago Dr Cycling

11 Jeff Warner 415 Saturn of Toledo

Sr Cat 5

1 Tom Scott 513 Rapid Wheelmen

2 Devin Winton 516 Team Active Racing

3 Sam Deyoung 520 GR Bicycle Company

4 Lucas Oostindie 511 Unattached

5 Terry Sensiba 517 River City

6 Justin Van Beek 514 Unattached

7 David Tomasik 526 Unattached

8 Brian Bartek 500 Unattached

9 Kyle Wigboldy 527 Unattached

10 Mark Talbot 519 Fusion IT/RCV

11 Michael Basel 501 Rapid Wheelmen

12 Paul Havens 508 Leadout/Chicago Dr Cycling

13 Bryan Cornell 504 Rapid Wheelmen

14 Don Boersma 525 Fusion IT/RCV

15 Dennis Hamel 507 Rapid Wheelmen

16 Ryan Field 505 Unattached

17 John Muller 521 Spout.com

18 Dave Lenting 518 Unattached

Wmn 1-3

1 Tara Tasma 703 Team Giant

2 Sara Maguire 701 Bissell

3 Leslie Gaines 702 Bissell

4 Toni Musto 700 Bissell

5 Amy Stauffer 704 Bissell

6 Laura Melendez 705 Bissell

Wmn Cat 4

1 Tiffany Bangma 600 Team Chica Chain

2 Angela Bowers 612 Team Active Racing

3 Haggerty Rautiola 614 Hagerty Cycling

4 Michelle Leveque 605 Team Chica Chain

5 Susan Berce 601 Team Chica Chain

6 Kellie Williams 610 Team Chica Chain

7 Jill Gorcowski 613 Unattached

8 Jody Mohle 611 Team Chica Chain

9 Beth Hall 603 Team Chica Chain

10 Leigh Soderman 608 Team Chica Chain

11 Carey Seven 607 Team Chica Chain

12 Sarah Grochoski 602 Team Chica Chain

13 Jeoffery Meixner 606 Team Chica Chain

14 Denise Turner 609 Team Chika Chain

15 Heather Kubiak 604 Team Chica Chain

Juniors

1 Lawrence Warbasse 556 Priority Health U-23

2 Mark Bailey 557 Rapid Wheelmen

3 Ross Williams 555 Hagerty

4 Noah Ventkamp 554 Tri City Cyclists

5 Rudy Peterson 558 Kalamazoo Bicycle Club

6 Conner Loftus 552 KBC/Little Caesers

7 Jordon Sanford 553 Ann Arbor Velo Club

8 Mac Brennan 551 Priority Health U-23

Sr 35+

1 Mark Olson 108 Bissell

2 Dave Hietikko 103 West Michigan Coast Riders

3 Craig Gietzen 113 Spout.com

4 Houston Peterson 109

5 Jason Swiatlowski 110 Bissell

6 Jimmi Mc Murray 104 Team Giant

7 Tim Stersic 107 Fusion IT/RCV

8 Terry Ritter 106 Team Giant

9 Hal Bevier 111 Hagerty

10 Michael Dega 101 Cadieux/Team O2

11 Cliff Onthank 112 Hagerty

Sr 45+

1 Mark Cahn 203 Cadieux/Team O2

2 Terry Bandstra 201 West Michigan Coast Riders

3 Mike Krywanski 213 Cisco Cycling

4 Fredrick Anderson 200 West Michigan Coast Riders

5 Scott Claes 224 Unattached

6 Cliff Onthank 214 Hagerty

7 Tom Cole 205 West Michigan Coast Riders

8 Tony Obermeyer 221 Kitchi Mi Kana

9 Mike Van Houten 211 Cisco Cycling

10 Franklin Kistler Jr 206 Saturn of Toledo

11 Jonathan Brinkman 219 Saturn of Toledo

12 Jeff Warner 212 Saturn of Toledo

13 Glenn Dik 222 Cisco Cycling

14 Paul Bybee 218 Leadout/Chicago Dr Cycling

15 David Stebbins 209 Cisco Cycling

16 Bernie Clincke 204 Cadieux/Team O2

17 Dan Dubes 215 Bissell

18 Loren Simons 216 Cisco Cycling

you gotta be careful with girls named katherine because it could be spelled katherine or kathryn or catherine cathryn katherin kcatcheyn ckathcryrn catrchckern kathtrine 

 

 32 day’s until Barry Roubaix 

Currently

Like a world heavyweight title fight.

In a brightly lit, basement

Humidity level at 90%

Temperature cranked up, elbow to elbow to asshhole..

A stage set with youngsters, old timers, first timers, and  wide eyes

Long hairs, no hairs, kids and dudes with kids older than the before mentioned kids.

Gaps open

Is it because of aloofness 

Maybe it’s just boredom 

Or the lack of attention 

Mouths hang agape 

Some respond

While others look at the soldiers around them for reassurance 

32 mph

Then 18 mph

Like a yo yo

Sweat drips down

Over priced eyewear causes blurred vision,

One rider attempts to bridge 

Across a vast wasteland of  Critérium lack of portions

He makes it

But then shortly after pays the ultimate sacrifice 

But not to be overshadowed by a short wise and peculiarly fit middle aged bald man

Not one, but four times a player.

As Slayers first album strangely but softly plays in the background 

The pony is scene lurking beneath the surface 

Rayster is silently swimming the parking lot

Joberon is scene now in full summer sleeveless mode

Corey Stange found his razor.

He’s of course shaved down

The Highlander nearly misses the top 10.

And the Evil-Dude gets put in time out.

Uberti arrived 

The Stars and Stripes adorned the jersey of the eldest Mullis

Base Media is in the house.

But without the controversy of the past week

Smiles and good vibes were felt throughout the carnival like tentcapade

Terry Ritter was taking care of business as usual 

And Karwantsomes lady was sending the warm Tingley’s through at least a few older gentlemen 

PappaT makes for a rad DJ

And Jason Hess makes a field sprint win look like child’s play 

Oh, too be young have the snap of the under 30 year olds.

Just another perfect ending to summer

 We tell people to turn off the water while brushing their teeth, while ignoring everyone who brushes their teeth in the shower.

 You can’t get more than half-way into a forest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Kim Gordon 

1. If you own anything cycling related that once was was white, but now is yellow. Throw that shit away.its gross
2. Using the same kit more than two season. cycling clothing is soo inexpensive now there should be no excuse why your doing that yuck.
3. Keep your shoes clean, nothing looks worse than 400 dollar dirty shoes
4. Unless your The Black Ace wearing  any cycling eye wear that hasn't been produced in the last decade just fuckin stop, Its not saving your style starving aging ass
5. And if you do get the sunny upgrade make sure they fit your fat head
6. Unless your at the Beach put a shirt on no one wants to see your worn out old man body
7. Skins-suits on fat guys..see above
8. Socks that once were mid calf length, now hardly cover your ankles, for christ sake stop cooking them in the dryer
9. Masters racers crying about other masters racers taking sketchy lines, and belly aching over going to work in the morning. Hell half  the field is retired or dame near close enough.
10. They make chain lube for a reason, and its actually quite inexpensive.
11. Rim brake CX racers. You shouldn't get the out just because your income level doesn't allow a new cx rig
12. Gravel racing when your not really racing, can we just drop the term race and call em Fondos for christ sake
13. If you own pimped out CX bikes but never pit, you should give one to a rim brake CXer. if it is a disc bike or to either sell to cover the funds of a new whip.
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Great Moments in TMS History

"kicker"

 

 

Eye for an Eye

Pain for Pain

Skull for Skull

 

 That seat...................wtf

 

 

If you can not post your Strava Data in a timely fashion..

 Yea, 

Your Stinky and you know it.

OnlyFans and the Myth of Owning Your Hustle

 

When OnlyFans, a social platform with over 130 million users, announced what essentially was a change in the company’s content guidelines last week, the backlash was swift. What separated the website from other late 2010s tech properties chasing their piece of the creator-economy pie, after all, was that OnlyFans famously allowed users to monetize sexually explicit content. That made it possible for sex workers to parlay exclusive access and online content for income, like any other influencer on the internet, and to formally benefit from the newly cool economics of transactional creator-fan relationships that your faves from The Office found on Cameo or indie artists on Patreon

Apparently, the decision by OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit content wasn’t so much a matter of revenue or performance as it was a bid to appease credit card companies and potential investors; the company said it had to “evolve” in order to ensure long-term sustainability. So while nudity would still be allowed, the actual adult content that has been arguably the whole point of OnlyFans—to the extent of getting name-checked by Beyoncé last year and entering the mainstream via A-list celebrity accounts—was going to be prohibited starting in October. Then on Wednesday, shortly after this column was first published, OnlyFans announced via a tweet that it was suspending the planned policy change. 

Obviously, it wasn’t the Cardi Bs and Bella Thornes who stood to lose the most from a potential adult content ban, but the sex workers most responsible for OnlyFans’ success. The initial decision to deprive these creators of their livelihoods (many of whom have come to rely on the website for a primary source of income amidst an ongoing pandemic) clearly stemmed from tired beliefs of sex work as a third rail in the corporate world. But what OnlyFans’ betrayal of sex workers—followed by that abrupt reversal—also makes apparent is the central mythology undergirding the rising class of creator-driven platforms at large: the flawed belief that you, the creator, are ever the one in the driver’s seat.

Consider our current digital landscape. Where the web 1.0 struggled in assigning monetary value to digital content and social media only allowed the viraliest of the viral to ascend to relevance, the digital economy of our recent decade could be read as a kind of golden age for “creators”—that catchall term for anyone able to consistently package a talent, a lifestyle, or even just a niche sensibility for audience consumption.

And while YouTube and Instagram have professionalized the creator-influencer role in the context of advertising partnerships, a new guard of platforms like Cameo, Patreon, and of course, Substack have appeared, and they’re making a tantalizing proposition: Now that modern payment processors allow fans to directly fund their favorite TikTokker/Kickstarter cause/SoundCloud album, and cultural norms deem it practically respectable to pay for something you can't actually touch or hold, why not cut the middleman out? Why kowtow to skittish, scale-obsessed advertisers when you could charge your own audience directly, and be your own boss?

That alluring promise is one we’ve been offered before, back at the dawn of the gig economy in the 2010s when companies like Uber, TaskRabbit, Instacart, and Fiverr gussied up the reality of total employment precarity with millennial-friendly UX and copywriting into shining utopian paragons of autonomy. But of course, the ability to work any time meant that you actually ended up working pretty much all the time, whether you were a cab driver or a freelancer. As it turned out, the economics of gig work favored the platform again and again, as if by design.

Which brings me back to this “golden age” of creatorship that OnlyFans was supposed to embody. While it seems like platforms today are more interested in investing in the users responsible for their success via grants and creators programs aplenty, the reality is that the platform still dictates the terms. They’re not only the point of access to your audience; they’re also the ones deciding what metrics to use, and what counts as a success—and all of that is subject to change over any given quarter. Media outlets learned this lesson the hard way with Facebook Video; now individual creators find themselves subject to the same exhausting work of having to divine what a platform really wants. Earlier this year, New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz described the disillusionment and burnout affecting influential TikTokkers whose earnings remain at the mercy of an algorithm and the mysterious Creator Fund.

But there are the less-visible carrots being dangled too. In at least one instance, Substack has stipulated that a fellowship recipient publish weekly over six months; a spokesperson confirmed that recipients of Pro deals are asked to publish with some minimum frequency—which seems to limit the supposed writerly freedom of the platform to that of, well, a more traditional staff writer role. On Instagram, the idea that accounts should make use of all the features the platform promotes in order to be successful lies somewhere between an open secret and industry-accepted theory. (This is at least partly why your chef influencer friend keeps posting Reels. House rules, baby!). Worst-case scenario: You’ve been making a decent living on the one specific platform that lets you create and monetize content of a very specific genre—say, explicit photos—until one day in August, surprise! OnlyFans pulls the plug. And then changes its mind a few days later. But who's to say what will happen next quarter, or even next week? 

The idea that patronage always comes with strings isn’t new, but we should let the OnlyFans debacle serve as a reminder of the real power dynamics behind any creator-driven platform. Retrofitting your work to satisfy an algorithm or fulfilling the requirements of a grant is one thing; having someone who doesn’t even pay your health insurance flip the switch on your means of income is another entirely. You might be made to feel like you’re in charge, but in reality, you’re still the office temp. Run afoul of the rules—or simply end up on the wrong side of a rebrand—and there isn’t even a severance package waiting on the other side.

 

 

The Way We Were

Lowell 50 the Hardmans, Hardman break 

 

 

 You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

 Sock Game!

 

Currently

 Miscene 

 The TransRockies Gravel Royale stage race was slated to start today through the 26th,

 but when the Canadian government issued a 100-person cap on events this weekend, the organizers were forced to postpone the event until 2022.

"You must be the short depressed kid we ordered."

 

What, wow,

Its 5:30 am and its already whopping 72 degrees here at Camp Mohawk.

I bet your completely surprised to see me, and you should be, Im not exactly the person your used to waking up with on the start of another glorious week of fun in your amazing lives. the only thing that would make it better would spending a few days with me in the north woods and having me ramble on with my uncontrollable verbal nonsense.

So since i really only have a short time until wide eyed and bushy tail campers awake hungry for there nutritious break fest lets get into it.

Are you stoked? Its nearly that time. Cross is coming. But wait you say Tripper not so fast we haven't even had a chance to catch our breathe from the summers road scene.

Yes i suppose im pushing things a tad but the sand in the hour glass doesn't slow down because im multi tasking.

Yes indeed the The race Detroit was a barn burner. a class reunion of sorts, old stalwarts rubbing elbows with (when did all the cycling related women become so pretty), and carefully sculpted beards and the only thing that out number the variety of jerseys (although some very good and other quite a fashion nightmare) and eye wear would possibly been the different micro-brews that were attached to the many spectators hands 

And no im not educated enough to give the play by play of the results, outcomes, pile-ups, melt downs and recovery routines of all the wonderful attendees.

But wait..

was this all that happened last week?

Yes you have two very different versions of week day race track scenes On one side of the state you have a very controlled environment and carefully run, and of course the closer you get to the murder city, its a chaos, and kinda goopy. Not sure where that world is going to end up. But currently from where i sit up here , its gonna stay stinky for awhile. But on a positive note there is always time trials at any of our local trails 

But keep the faith i was told, gravel is still sitting here. But Ahh soooo the american people are known to have a short attention span, and the sickness has seemed to have made even shorter. normal folks i believe are not gonna wait around for things to clear up and so they can get there  Tifosis into the lens of Rob.

And no i dont believe cross will save it. Cross will be cross.

Well thats about all i have for now, If all else works out and the powers of the internet allow me i just might greet you again from Camp

Tripper