Interbike 2007

Just got back from Interbike. Pretty hectic but now I can get back to building bikes.
Our friend Brian came out to help us. Here are some pics that he took.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianbrooks/sets/72157602174347774/

SyCip Love at Interbike

SyCip Love at Interbike (Belgium Knee Warmers blog)

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Race Report: Central Coast CX #1

CCCX #1, Manzanita Park, 9/23/07
5th place, Elite Men



I had a very good first race. Lined up second row, and was about tenth wheel about 60 seconds after start. As the gaps formed on the first two laps, I'd leapfrog up to the next rider(s). By lap 3, I'd moved up to Hooptie's wheel (Rob Evans) and was working pretty well with him. We were running 5th and 6th at that point. At about 30 minutes in, I put in a bit of a dig on the start/finish climb and rode him off my wheel. Maybe not the smartest move, as the next guy up the road (Aaron O'Dell) was 20-30 seconds ahead and I probably wasn't going to be able to bridge to him unless he cracked. But I felt like I could ride a bit faster than Rob, and didn't want to tow him around to the end, where I knew he could out-sprint me. So I spent the second half of the race solo. Extended to about 20-25 seconds ahead by the end of lap 7, but wasn't gaining much on the guy ahead. So I went into conservative mode for the last 3 laps, focused riding smoothly. Lance had come up to Hooptie behind me and they were closing some in the last two laps. But never got closer than maybe 10-15 seconds. I still had a nice buffer when I rolled out of the last chicane and accelerated up the hill to the finish.

-Aron

Glad to see other Sycip folks out there and in the results.
http://cccx.org/2007/race1/2007_CCCX_Race1Results.shtml

Photos

Riding Trip to Bend Oregon

I'm new to the blog thing & could only get the one photo up (you need to squint to see my new red SyCip).

Anyway, Maria and I spent a week up in Bend, riding every day road or mtb (geez, it was like a training camp). Bend is a bike town. There are bikes everywhere - fixies, SS, big hit, road, tri, townies, cross. Did a couple of rides on the many legal single track trails that head out of town on my sweet new SyCip. Perfect single speed terrain, smooth single track that went on for ever (see the photo)! We just rode until we only had enough food left to get home, and then turned around.

Rode the Cascade lakes loop on the road one day. A good straight 1.5 hrs of climbing at about 3% up Mt. Bachelor out of town.

Stumbled on the local Thursday nite cross race. Over 100 folks racing around a dusty circuit in town at 6 PM. For a town of 75K, that's a pretty good turnout!

We did a road trip over the Cascades on Friday and rode the MacKenzie River Trail (MRTR). Beautiful, but damm challenging on our hardtails. In fact, we rode with Chris Sheppard (ex-Haro pro) on Sat on the local hammer road ride, and he said that you want to ride MRTR with a 5" bike (he also told me about all the single track I should have rode - next time!).