45 presidents, one king........

 

 

1. 2006 Someone comes up with a silly Idea to start an anonymous blog documenting the Michigan cycling scene, the grammar is soo bad the authors cant even reread there own posts The road scene is gaining steam, and SIMONSTER wins ICEMAN
2. 2007, videos, and poorly separated births clog up most of the year, T makes his first appearance, and the entire race scene is healthier than its ever been, SIMONSTER almost gets his second ICEMAN win 
3. 2008, The Post Cyclocross tires to and fro garners the biggest hits and race reports fill up most posts, Mike Wissink is ranked 43 in the country for the cyclotrons UCI standings, SIMONSTER and Mike Anderson are pretty much the dudes on the dirt side, and The Bissell crew is slowly getting assembled
4. 2009, Tailwinds is still the go to series, but Uncle Bobbie is getting tired, The WIZ wins his last State CX title, Ts is in full effect, Alan Antonuk is rapidly becoming the guy to watch on the road side. Bashers corner appears, Bill Gilboe wins a National crit title in Masters men
5. 2010, Charles Bronson Kills Hipsters Glenn, and Henry toss out cross predictions,  Marne (whats her name) arrives on cross scene, and Chicken Parm is on point, the Lil Pony takes a swing at Saari
6. 2011, Das German is in the house, The Bunny is starting his hop, gravel isnt even a thing yet. The Death crit makes its first appearance, Record heats the state and The Milford crit becomes one of the most attended crits of the summer with the 1/2 field post nearly 60 riders, most from the Michigan alone, 32 finish  Burke wins the State TT Championship and adds another jersey to the closet 
7. 2012 TMS now in its sixth year and the grammar hast improved.Friday 15 starts, Barry Roubaix is in its inaugural year. The Ithaca GP is in the House, the German wins the Cherry Roubaix road race soloing off the front beating some kid called Alexey, and a pile of other Michigan strong men. 
8. 2013, Lemmy takes a job, T is scene less, team Bissell pretty much owns the road-scene, The last real Cone Azalia goes off, and Shreks kid is just a puppy
9. 2014. Someone forgot to turn the power on January first, the scene is silent until July. Monster Magnets releases the Mndless one LP, Lemmie pretty much has taken over for T and in october the Big 200 drops, detailing the top 200 most bad ass things
10. 2015, Fred Savage turns 39 the Phart bike phenom starts, DC wins a a national title on one and people pile on Lako for unknown reasons, Kroske buys a drone and The Bunny wins a state CX title 
11. 2016..Kolo TC is still better than TMS Johnny Utah is here, Acker is coming, and Burke wins his first CX title
12. 2017, 3 T do it all bike is the rig to have, Base Media is built from a bunch of fast wild eyed Cat 3s Zwifting seems to be a odd thing Phart Bikes are unaware of the effect is gonna have on them, suddenly Barry Roubaix is a big deal. and Scotty A is winning alot of shit everywhere, and Trump is the prime contender for worst human since Hitler 
13. 2018 4.5 million USD builds the Lexus Velodrome..Base media picks Alex Tenselhof, and Barry Roubaix is the real deal
14. 2019  Rumors of some weird virus circulate, the gravel scene is pretty much the only scene, Bloomer CX promoters low the snow off the course Burke wins another State title, and the scene loses another great person 
15. 2020, the scene is gripped in a pandemic, Zwift racing is pretty much the thing, and the derby rides keep the local CVS hopping selling second skin
16. 2021, The world tries to right itself, racing tries to make itself right again, USA cycling is nearly non existent in the scene, and tempers continue to flair every other Wednesday

sixteen years of  TMS

 

69. Everwresting is now almost as popular as doing that thing with your fingers that people that like heavy metal music do.

68. Onam Nows Caldwell arrived 

67. Terry Ritter is still lurking around, and has yet convince Corey Stange to shave his legs

66. Rumor has it former CX state champion and a founding member of the Blue Wave Jer Walker puts more miles inside riding Zwift than three people do outside in a day.

65. Fun Promotions Brent Walk, takes up walking 

64. The Moran 166 is announced and has trolls stoked

63. Waterford racing heats up, and No longer Free Ride Mcbride is the wheel to be on

62. Luke Mullis saves the East side white pride by feeding it to the west side on there own turf.

61. Jungle leaves Base Media

60. Ralph Buckingham is one strong ass mofo.

 

 

 If six...turns out to be nine

79. The Gravel calendar is slowly getting sorted out by mid May.

78. Despite the harassment by Jeff posting every Strava fart seems to be as contagious as the fake virus 

77. The Alama GP gains steam by June

76. Waterford returns, And well Gratten really never left

75. Buy mid July11 speed chains and cassettes are nearly as hard to get as blow job and ball cradle in the home of a 20 year married man

74. Mountain bikers look like they have way more fun..

73. The Watermoo is rumored to have a stream crossing.

72. If you hadn’t ridden the DTE trail, by mid summer, you probably should of jumped of an overpass 

71. Freeride Mcbride, stops sitting and starts rotating, unfortunately still not garnering the deserved respect 

70. Yankus seemed off this year 

 

Trippin', trippin', trippin'

Trippin'

I gotta gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip out of this place

I gotta gotta get away, get away from the human race

I don't know what I'll see, don't even know what I'll find

I don't know what to pack, never been to a trip at the mind

Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain

Do you know what I'm saying?

Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain

Well, I'm going insane

I took a wrong turn and I ended up at my heart

It could barely even pump no blood it was so thrashed and torn apart

Thank it for working overtime in pain and misery

Then I set back on the trail, headed for my destiny

Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain

Do you know what I'm saying?

Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain

Well, I'm going insane

Well, fly with me

Flying free

Tripping

You must be tripping

Trip, trip, trip, trip, tripping

Tripping

I cannot stop this trip, I forgot to pack the brakes

Crashed straight into a concrete wall of my mistakes

Ended up in a cemetary of a thousand wasted days

But that's alright with me, 'cause that's where most of my memory lays

Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain

Do you know what I'm saying?

Trip at the brain, trip at the brain, trip at the brain

Well, I'm going insane

Gonna trip, tripping going tripping going tripping tripping tripping going

Everybody's tripping, everybody's saying

Everybody's gonna be tripping, tripping tripping tripping gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta

Fly with me

Flying free

Gotta get away

Gotta gotta gotta gotta get away

I gotta get away, gotta get away

I'm gonna take that trip

Welcome 'cause I'm the host with the most

Now here's a little toast take your messages and put you're mind on coast

I'll exorcise your fears make your nightmares disappear

You can talk all you want

But nothing do I really hear

A situation, this operation

A simple demonstration in experimentation

I slip, trip, slip, trip every little dip

There's nothing like a lobotomy

To keep a person free of pain

Financial gain for your personal pain

Well it's so insane but won't you keep all the pain

And slip, fly, trip

Got caught up in another trap

So pay another shrink buy his wife another mink

Let me tell what I think think think, I think

I gotta, gotta get away gotta get away, gotta get away

I'm just trippin' trippin' trippin'

Never volatile, wanna sin with me?

You gotta get away, they say they're gonna freak

But that's between the cheek, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta trip, gotta...

Gotta make a sound it's a dance mom

Gotta take a trip, gotta take a trip

The real trip ain't about gettin' hip

Gotta trip tripa tripa tripa tripa ha

Sins go slam, goin' down at the chest

Gotta get away gotta get away away

Gotta trip with no permission, mind evaluation

Take your head, add a little crazy

Take that trip to the brain

Take that trip to the brain

Everybody gotta get get off

You gotta gotta gotta take the trip to the brain!

 

 Nice tape job

 1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939.

 

89.Barry Roubaix, makes the right decision and pushed the race to October.

88. All hope is saved as the Waterloo Grit  Gravels bank account stays stacked  and remains locked in place.

87. Cone Azalia happened..sorta

86. So did the Willow TT, and some douche bag rode a Stryder bike to finish in the the top 20 overall.

85. The Base media squads gets an update, kinda

84. and Captain Alex T flirts with danger at Waterloo

83. Fucking aero-bars everywhere..

82.By April, there is still no real  need of a USAC license

81.The Grayling Giant has a funny gravel style

80.Dirty thirty happened.. turn out was average  Scotty won, and his boys pretty much cleaned up the top 10

 Black Flag, Practice Pad, Greg and Dez, Torrance, 1981. Photo by Spot.

 

 

you are not going on a diet. you are merely changing your diet.

 

100. Friday, January 01, 2021 the big 100 appears, but is actually 200

99. Hopes of a normal life loom over the scene like a true to life FTP test

98. Half of Michigan heads east, to storm the capital building to take back there country

97. TMS buys a clapped Saturn sedan in hopes of educating the newbies where there scene came from

96. That Strava turd guy gets a sit down from Jeff Foxworthy.

95. The Grayling Giant is now Co-factory Giant.

94.The Bicycle industry is one big shit show, and everyone that is involved is to blame

93.TMS gets drugged ankles first down 15 flights of concrete Silverdome stairs for a FRIDAY-15 post

92. Rim brake road bikes are nearly extinct, except on Social Media market places and old school hold outs on Kicker trainers

91. Gravel races keep getting pushed back as the fake virus gains steam

90.the first vaccines for the above fake virus hit the market in February 

 

 

 

 

Oh Hey There.

I didn't think this ratty old thing was working this morning...

Well i hope everyone out there in TMS land had a fantabulous Christmas experience. And the got those things that only bring joy.

Kinda of silly unproductive week coming up for most, and its not much different up here, good thing i am not traveling anywhere by the major airlines and the cancellation notices just keep rolling in faster than riders fall at Waterford. But that is a different time and different story.  So far off from those of trying to cram in the last few miles to pad your Strava overall. and ones on the Zwift quest for a holiday closer.

Lets go and make this last week of 2021 our bitch.

Regards Tripper

 Tomorrow Night on TMS

 Get some...againnn