Gone With The Schlitz

Some cool history here. Enjoy.

as for me and Grandpa WE BELIEVE

In a world that often seems devoid of hope and love...

In a land consumed with commercialism and the rampant Yuletide machinations of capitalist-driven secularism...

In a place where the true meaning of Christmas has been obscured by giant, inflatable snowmen and professionally choreographed light shows...

I bring unto you good tidings of great joy for this day, in the City of Smucker's a miracle was brought forth, and one man's dream became a reality!

'Twas the granting of the perfect Christmas gift. The world may never be quite the same!

For those of you who dare to believe that there is no Santa Claus,
here is concrete evidence to prove otherwise!

The Gift That Keeps On Giving!

Raisin' em right!
Clearly the benefits of a high-fiber diet have not been lost on my son. This was his Christmas gift to me. A whole box full of special, custom-mixed bags of oatmeal including all my favorites and a few new concoctions:

• Late night sugar buzz- flax seed, brown sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, maple
• Working Man Delight- flax seed, chocolate

• Hungry Man- basically more flax seed than oatmeal (after my first dose of this mix I suggested Ben change the name to "Thundering rectal explosion!"

A fine boy that son of mine. A fine boy!

HO HO HO

It came upon a midnight clear.

With a bottle of wiskey and a 40 oz. of beer.

As childern dream of santas sleigh.

And scurry to bed in wait of that special day.

I'll be up all night joyfully drinking.

All the Christmas food will have my bowels a stinking.

How many will I have?

One or four?

I will find out as I hit the floor.

The Russian Giant

This is the Russian dude I was tellin ya about. His name is Nikolai Valuev. Valuev is the tallest and heaviest recognized champion to this day, standing at 213 cm (7 ft 2in) tall and weighing in at 145-150 kg (320-330 lb).

White Floyd

Heres the pic of Floyd I was tellin ya about on Stage 17. You can go to Velonews and check out the race coverage to check out pics from other stages. He just looks freakishly white here. Dunno, I'm not a doctor.

mohican adventure in pics

the day started with a cold hand freezing climb into the land of deer hunters who didnt seem real happy to see a bunch of bike geeks riding in places they had been siting in since sunrise, but what do you do. i guess you should think about where your going to hunt and not sit on a bike trail. it was still an epic ride with the only pic of gorman being his backside because he is so damn fast.

Slow and steady.

Ah yes cross season comes to a close. I had to summon my two inner beasts to get through the last race. Man I rule!!

Wes and I rode some kick ass roads and trails today. I felt like a superhero all day. Sun, mud, cold. Just dress warm and all is OK. Ohio is lookin to be a kick ass spot for the best ridin in the U.S. in my opinion. If ya wanna go for a long ride this winter and spring come on out.

Friday Beer of the Week

Great Lakes Nosferatu. Drink this one warm. 8% alcohol and they come in 4 packs. They'll knock your socks off. Pours a red color and has a stong aftertaste. Not your college swill beer. All the frat parties would end at 9pm if they tried to pound this stuff.

Cold Turkies

Damn the thing is when it's a lil chilly out are those damn chapped nipples ya get. Don't get me wrong, I have had some purple grapes after I have ridden but nothing like the dude in this pic who looks like the only marathon he was in was breast feeding half of Ethiopia.

Color me down. Color me brown.

Mad dash for the muddy spot at Boughten Farm

Here are a few profile shots of our new blog inductee.

goo butt and crashes

you know sometimes you just have to know your limits and that includes butt hygiene as well as riding ability. so remember on this day of thanks be sure to clean up real good after you grow tail or at least dont let anyone else know if you become contaminated with goo but, and if you see a little skinny log bridge 6 feet off the ground and you are a 6ft plus road geek who races mtbs every once in a while you should probably pass

Husky Thanksgiving!!!

Hope everone has a good turkey day tomorrow with some yams stffin and a big ol pile of Husky!

Drunk and Angry aim high

I kinda forgot to take the bike with me on my first attempt but Captian Angry and the Flyin' Green Machine showed me how it was done. I turned my left shoulder into mush tonight after takin a serious over the bars header on the expert course. I think Captien Angry has pics of my demise.

The ol shoes are hangin' on by the skin of thier teeth. Xmas can't come soon enough. Thinkin of throwin a patent down on a prefabed muddy paint job so some pousers can have all their guests think they do more than the Sunday two mile towpath shredfest.

here is a few picks from the aftermath on sunday we left my step at the race . i think i ended up beating you while battling the food blister on the huffy.

"Hey Wes, how many people were in the B race?"

"Fifteen."

"Oh really? What place are you in?"

"Fifteenth."

"Damn, Wheres that fat chick on the Huffy?"

"Thirteenth."

"Wow!"

what a freaking mudfest worked really hard to finish 18th bad start but moved up pretty quick and figured people would start falling back but never really did. the only one who fell back was me. oh well i did better then i would have done last year to many ham sandos . the beer drunk boy gave me almost ended my whole day wow a little strong for me but really good for a dark beer about the best i have had. if we did not get to see j-lo suffer during the race we got to see him almost go into hypothermia after the race

I got lapped in a cross race today. Think I need to change my diet. Even a couple of chicks kicked my butt.