Friday, November 22, 2019



1. Mike Cool Big Lap
old school XC...scene needs more of this...


2. West Coast Michigan Riders
The beginning of Y2K the super squadra of fast west coast riders..


3. Essex Brass
Not the fastest bunch of fellas..but the nicest


4. UCI Cx in Michigan
Yea that was the beginning of a golden time of CX from the first Bloomer with a youngster called JPOW..to the last Springfield Oaks with Paige


5. The Ithaca Challenge
No hills all singletrack XC racin


7. Saturn of Okemos
small team fast guys...


8. Lower Huron CX
brought to the light by the 05 State champ...quite possibly one of the best CX courses no longer


9. Munson Park CX
some hated..some loved it..but no doubts the most friendly spectator CX race in the state..and it was in the Evil-Dudes back yard..


10.TK Lawless TT
11 miles in a 1 mile square patch of forest...all single track MTB TTn...rad..cept if your DC....bad


11. Realistic MTB time trials
One lap.............. Balls to the wall...................Thats TTn


12. Brighton MTB Stage Race
neat idea...should do this again


13. Rhonde Van Stoney
One of the coolest gravel races before gravel


14. Irish Hill Mtb challenge
Hard as fuck


15 The Lapeer Crit
six corner uphill downhill crit with oil stain all over and hay bails covering the telephone poles..


16. Bigmac
That guy was good for cross..


17. the Bunny
The beauty of  burning out


18. Cross Bastard
something in the fall died with the loss of the cross bastard and his blog


19.Queen Anne
One and only......she raced Elite women, and then turned around and handed the dudes there ass in masters..


20. Kelly P..
The nicest gal to kick your ass

21. Monte-Sano-
3 year wonder


22. JTP
He moved the land of rich and infamous..and all the comments ceased..


23. Underwood
Yea that kid was pretty good...


24 John Gault
who was he?

25 Parmachicken
the First of the young guys to crack the old guard


26 The Wiz
The original working mans champ..went from chasing the Pony amd the Black ace to winning US GPs and earning UCI points


27 DC
set times around trails that although will never count cuz you didnt do on strava that probably will never be matched..


29 SIMONSTER
Does things his way..raced the Fenton road race in the 1/2 field  on 29er mountainbike with skinny tires...that was rad.....always wonder if he would of stuck to the road..


30. Bells Beer
Scene never been the same without all that style



31. Milford Crit
sketchy last turn..Hard mans uphill sprint...


32. Flint crit
Those cobbles.....

34. Hot laps before strava
Real life bragging righst....


35.TimmyF
Man that one summer he emptied the tank on everyone and everywhere..before pulling the plug..thats going out the right way....


36. The Tour of Mount Pleasant
Everything was going great 3 stages..the longest RR in the State..then the Nazis came in


37 Tanguy
The TMS version of the lung


38 Tour Of Cedar Creek
The first really cool road race of the modern day


39 Julie Bellerose
Single handed the outta town gals there asses at infamous Tor De Leelenau


40. Kachelmeyer
Hes gone but his legacy remains 


41 dont worry about the blind mule, just load up the wagon.
best quotes...think about it...........


42. Bill Gilboe
National champ.. and TT honch


43. PENNER Ben
pnce penned as the future of Michigan cycling


44. Rob Iser
could throw a football over the horizon


45. Tony Wieczorek
that little guy got really quick before he decided folks need more new cars


46.Grand blanc state Road race
Yea..that was a bad time for road racin


47. Pump tracks
we need more of them


48. Cone Azalia
gravel before gravel..then before gravel again...died in a most ugly way


49. Canti brakes
wow..how the fuc did we ever keep from dying


50. Brew-champ
needs to bring his cool ass videos back please...........


your always on my mind

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome list. Thanks TMS!

Anonymous said...

remember the tour of southeast michigan that superdave put on circa 2003?

Anonymous said...

JTP still a dumb ass from afar.
Timmy F out for fear of getting popped!
Kachelberry same as above, the text book
definition of “jacked”.