New Rig
Today was a good day. Why? My new rig showed up. After much anticipation my first 29′er is finally here and ready to roll. The usual suspects at Orbea, Crank Brothers, Mavic provided the hardware and the magic man CD assembled it. Getting new toys, er I mean tools for work, never gets old.
A couple of weeks ago I made the annual trip out to the New England World Championships, aka. Fitchburg. The racing was actually quite aggressive, everyone wanted to race their bikes for once, which made for a good race. The highlight of the trip though was my return to New Haven to see friends and conduct some business. For all of my bashing of the hav, I do miss certain aspects of it. One of those is definitely the Sleeping Giant Ride. We just don’t have rides and characters like that here in nor-cal, I mean how can you top a ride that has attendees named Angry Ron, Action Figure Mike, Empire Matt, Bubble Boys? Add in their New England sarcasm combined with trash talking while racing down open roads weaving in and out of traffic and that is the recipe for an entertaining hour of riding. The entire ride I was busting up and had a huge grin from all of the trash talking going on. Also, you know a ride is legit when, A) they have a blog and B) El Jeffe Lance Armstrong has ridden it…
ok chris, finaly a little love for us. Always good seeing you, all the guys like following you and when you are around cheering for you.
Mike