Team Red Wheel

Next Weekend

Bubba Cross on the 8th at Faust Park.

Y'know what I remember about this race from last year? I remember 2 super-duper painful off-camber climbs, free Monster sodas, the "Zorro incident", getting smacked on the ass by cowbell ringing cross-dressers and just barely not getting lapped by Nick Smith. So yeah, it was pretty much awesome.

Hey Nick, you want a re-match?

Gravel road ride tomorrow a.m.

I posted this ride in Velo Cal.  If you don't know what that is you should find out.  Time is negotiable, but for now it's 10 a.m. leaving pavilion parking lot.  Heading to Claysville via Katy.  Up to New Bloomfield.  Cross under 54 hwy  and head down towards Tebbetts and back into town via gravel roads that go through bottoms.  We'll finish up on the gravel road rides we do on Thur nights.   Mostly gravel roads.  Maybe 50+ miles.  I've printed up a couple of maps and maybe I'll share them. 

Maybe I won't. 

Yeah I'm not ready to let Mt Biking go yet this year...

Don Daily found this race and we are thinking about going down and doing it.  Just thaught I would see who would want to go.  I think he may have a place for us to stay down there.

Linky ---->  http://www.fasttrails.org/

Team Meeting

Not to take away from  Barry's win or "The" Mitch's schlong, but a few of us have been talking about  a team meeting. It might be a good idea to get together and discuss the upcoming cross season, new jerseys?, putting together some group training rides, sponsors. Thoughts? We can have it here at the shop or at the Smith headquarters (at out top secret bar in the basement). Thoughts? I can make almost any night work. What night works best for everyone else?

Bubba CX #3 - Jefferson Barracks

While all the rest of the team was off in the backwoods racing mountain bikes and a few others were being athletic supporters, I was the lone TRW member lining up at the JB Bubba race.  The course was amazingly hard, yet at the same time, awesomely fun!  There was a very nice steep run/ride up with a 180 at the top to come right back down.  If you have seen any of the pics it seems like Jeff Yielding had many issues with this part of the course.  While I don't have any great war stories or victory speeches to give, I did have a blast on this course.  I did run into Bopp and Wolfie, they both past me, but hey who gives a fuck!  I hope we get some troops to come out for the double-header(not Fuhrman's new toy) this weekend at Creve Coeur Park for some night time shenanigans on Saturday and some ass-whipping on Sunday!

Berry "is the man" Epic pics

I thought I'd better put up some of the pics I took this weekend before Berry takes control of the web-site. Too late.

Let 'er rip Corey

Our hero

Peat, close your mouth.

"The Mitch" warming his ass.

Corry in hot pursuit.

If you look real real close you might see Ferman still waaay out there on the road.

Peat, CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!

I stood in the rain for almost an hour to take his picture, he almost road past before I could get the lens cap off.

Moments after this picture was taken, Mitch was warming his ass by the fire with a beer in one hand and a pulled pork sandwitch in the other.
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Berryman Epic Weekend

We had a good group of Red Wheelers at the Berryman race this weekend.  Pete, The Mitch, Corey and myself.  Nick and Bob came down to help out and take some pics.  Sonya came down as well, but didn't race.  It was a big turnout, don't know how many riders, haven't seen the posted results yet.  But there is only one result that I care about, and we'll just talk about that later. 

Weather was half good half bad.  Trail was half good and half bad.  Race was all good.  Too darn much water.  But even though the course was ankle deep in mud in many places, that didn't stop the first few riders from breaking the course record set last year.   Lots of good barbecue and free beer afterwards-a real well done race.   All this and add to that I got to spend the weekend with The Mitch and it''ll be a month before I can wipe this smile off my face. 

Now for the truly epic news...Please note that from here on out the Furhmannator will refer to me as "Mr. Vollmer Sir".  The reason for this salutation being because I kicked his ASSSSSS.  Everyone who knows me knows that I am a very subdued and normally soft spoken competitor.  But epic results require epic statements.  So as far as I'm concerned until the next race is in the books and the results show differently than they do right now.  It's Vollmer-W, Fuhrmannator-L.   So there will be no more talk of old fart and too slow.  Because we all know now who's the Daddy.  

Bubba Cross 2 - Faust Park

Bopp, Jason Wulff, and I drove up to St. Louis and raced the sandbagger C race.  Peat rode his bike to the race and then did the B's and Singlespeed race.  Justin was there too.  He wore a Mesa jersey, so who gives a shit how he got there or what race he did.

I prerode the course and it wasn't really muddy but very soft, so at the last minute I decided to switch to the spare wheel Nick had let me borrow with an easier gear.  Apparently, this caused me to miss my callup to the front row, so I had to line up at the back of the pack.  The start was uphill on pavement so I was able to move up, but on the second section of pavement I was spun out and lots of people passed me.  Shortly after that Bopp crashed some guy in a corner and I was able to get a few spots back.  Thanks dude!  

This was my first race on the new singlespeed cross bike.  It's a big change from racing on a geared mountain bike.  Yeah, I know what you're thinking - No shit, Sherlock.

Bopp and Jason spent most of the race riding near each other.   On one of the last laps, Bopp went to blow his nose, hit a bump and went down, allowing Jason to get past him.  Jason was able to hold Chris off on the sprint for 20th place.   I mozied in another 10 spots back.

Dan Miller, of Team Seagal fame, easily rode away from the pack in the B race.   The guy didn't even try to make it look hard.  Peat finished middle of the pack riding a 42x17 gear, making me feel like a little female doggie for riding a 42x22.

In the A race, Jeff Yielding jumped to an early lead, and held it for much of the first lap.  Unfortunately, his brakes started rubbing and he finished in 7th place.  Still, a very respectable finish.

I got a few pictures of the B race, and tried to get some of the A race, but those guys were too fast for my camera.  Yeah, it's the camera, not me.  I did get a picture of some dude with toilet paper stuck to his shoe.  Or maybe it's the yellow ribbon they mark the course with stuck in his derailleur, I'm not sure.

I put the crappy pictures that I didn't delete here.  When others post some decent quality pictures, I'll add them.

We are discussing doing the Jefferson Baracks race next week.  So far it looks like Bopp, Jason, Bob Jenkins, me and possibly Robby, maybe?  Who else is goin?

Sedalia Fall Duathalon 2009: Race Report

Sedalia

Fall Duathalon 2009

Got 12^th out of 43 on the long coarse. (Run 5k, Bike 30k, Run 5k)

Won Clydesdale class.

 

Noelle got 10th out of 35 on the short coarse (Run 2miles, Bike 8miles, Run 1mile)

Won her age group

That is all.        

Cyclocross Schedule

Here is the schedule of remaining cyclocross races, that I know of.  Instead of waiting til Thursday to ask if there is a race that weekend, where is it and who's going, how about we try to target a few races and get a big group going?  I think several of us are racing the weekends with Saturday night / Sunday morning races, one is THIS WEEKEND, the other is the weekend of Halloween.  Take a look at the schedule and we can discuss it on Tuesday nights gravel road ride.

10/17/09	Bubba #1- Night of the Living Bubba	Faust Park (at Night)
10/18/09	Bubba #2- Dawn of the Bubba	Faust Park
10/25/09	Bubba #3 and Mike Lischke Memorial Ride	Jefferson Barracks
10/25/09	De Stad – Smithville Cyclocross Festival	Smithville, MO
10/31/09	Boss Cross #3	Platte City, MO
10/31/09	Bubba #4- The Sprints of Darkness CX	Suson Park (at Night)
11/01/09	Bubba #5-  Daylight Savings Bubba	Suson Park
11/08/09	Bubba #6- Harvest Bubba	Bellefontaine Park
11/08/09	De Stad – Veterans Cross	Riverside, MO
11/15/09	Bubba #7- The Ides of Bubba	St. Vincent Park
11/15/09	De Stad – Kansas State Championships	Leavenworth, KS
11/22/09	Bubba #8- Mt. Pleasant Winery Bubba	Augusta, Missouri
11/27 - 11/29	Jingle Cross	Iowa City, IA
11/29/09	Bubba #9- Jefferson Bubba	Jefferson Barracks Park
12/05/09	Boss Cross #4	Kansas City, MO
12/06/09	Bubba #10  Missouri State Championships	Hermann, MO
12/11-12/14	US Cyclocross Nationals- just go do it!	Bend Oregon