Hey Henry...

What if I told you...It’s Vets park weekend..

So..

Hey Henry..what if i told you... It’s one of the mainstays of Michigan CX scene. 

Hey Henry..what if i told you. Its One of the oldest courses, still in use..

OK..

Hey Henry, what if I told you they have real life true to form mud pit!

Why..? Why? ..Why ..by golly you ask...well my good man with what I assume has all the good intentions of keeping  this radical scene alive with the most killer racers we as sceners have  to choose from. Why.?...Please sit your eager rumpus down and let me spew my worthless yet obviously full of truthful sticky opinions all over your pasty white arse....

Ummmm...

I’ll get to the man made stuff later, after I yell at you...

YOU SEE.. THE SCENE HAS BEEN FUCKING LIMPING AND STUMBLING ALL AROUND AUTUMN AFTER AUTUMN, TRYING TO REGAIN COMPOSURE, COMPOSURE OF ITS FORMER..GLORY..

Uhhh...

SOMEONE ASKED ME NOT TO LONG Ago......HEY HENRY..WHY IS OHIO THE CX SCENE OF THE MIDWEST..! And  I replied ..you see green yet lean fit human.. the OVCX has something we used to have a legitimate series. Weekends we can count on...weekends that were put into place far early into the summer...when the Tailwind enterprise sold itself to un aware but caring individuals, after a few short seasons.. they went into the darkness.. and eventually. They succumbed to the pressure of running something with no return other than good stories come January. Years later like a Poison love ballad the 6-9 folks that still remember the Tailwind 8 race series... play the song you don’t know what you got till it’s gone ceremonially inside a two car attached garage while sniffing tubular cement, all the while haphazard promoters put on events that more often than not conflict with dates to bigger more fun and value oriented events less than 3.5 hours away...

But wait a minute Henry...how many of the local hot shoes are really gonna pile into the Transit van and release close to 500 smackers to finish probably mid to the back of the pack of reality?

Well just listen here..One: overlapping events is somewhat of Miscene tradition so saying this something of a new gig, is wrong..B: you are partially correct not many make the trip, BUT! What if...what if? There were not any events that weekend, I’d bet my Supacaz grip more than a few would..thus sparking more CX fire to there torch.

Now I’m more cynical than half the population of Ann Arbor, but unfortunately the golden years of Michigan CX are now beyond us...and will never return to the state of UCI races, double headers, Munson Park CX under the lights, and the gnarled run ups of Lower Huron. It’s over with...enjoy what you have...

Alma..LeFrost cross..Motor-City madness! Vets park! ....and last but certainly not least the entire KISS cross scene..

You say the above Henry, like it’s a curse or something of a worthless chain of events..

NO! Like a poorly interpreted text message. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just not the old thing.

Hey Henry...

Yeah..

The mud pit?

Ahhh! Years ago The good lord Robert Linden drug around telephone pole size logs to every venue, carefully laying them in already nearly un ride able sections, often destroying the natural flow to finely laid out CX course. I believe CX is hard enough, that added snake pits, fire rings, and death loops is often too much. Just because you are at 180 heart doesn’t mean you can’t get a flo on...

Huh?