Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Top Ten Reasons I Didn't Race (((monstertrack)))

10. Brakeless?

9. Allergic to snow.

8. Brought the wrong gear, thought was more of a dogsled race.

7. Got lost in Yonkers.

6. Phil grease confiscated at airport.

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5. It contradicts my 12-step program.

4. I'm totally going next year. I know I said this last year.

3. My roomate owed the wrong dudes for a loan on some NJS parts. They took my bike as collateral.

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2. dutret convinced me that it was stupid.

1. You mean that wierd party on 58th Street with the midgets and the whipped cream...that wasn't MonsterTrack???


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#1-10: i didn't know what time it was and where it started

The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.

I didn't go because track bikes are for hipsters.

#1 I live in Australia
#2 I don't have a track bike

#1 im in teh ch1na
#2 eatin all ur dimsumz

#19 I had work, int he wrong city :-(

me? i totally ignored all the details on monstertrack since i was on the opposite coast. what? did it happen already?

#0 - lazy

The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.
is that true? cause that would suck

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who won this year?

alfred

The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.

I didn't go because track bikes are for hipsters.

Your info says Tokyo... that must be one helluva train..

who won this year?

Who else? Not that I was surprised. :)

1. I am in de kalifourya (not up to my knees in snow)
2. I am waiting for nacc
3. I am too broke to travel

#1-#10: i'm ****ing poor as ****. have you seen the rates for tickets? and finding a place to stay? forget it. if you are in new york, participate, otherwise....that **** is made expensive.

and finding a place to stay?
Nobody pays for lodging for Monstertrack in anything but beer and sexual favors. Tonnes of cool folks with comfy floors.

16. It was my birthday and decided that suffering in NYC wasn't going to be as fun as watching my friend's band I Hate Myself and I Want to Die do their Nirvana cover set.

Plus it was my other friend's last night in town before he heads off to Guatemala.

Yes, my friends were late because of the train (or that's the excuse they gave me for being late).

And yeah, it's the Transcontinental Tokyo to NYC Bullet Train.

#20-What's MonsterTrack???:D

#x: Alley cats are like critical mass but even worse.

edit:

#1 that whole being 4000 miles away thing or whatever.

Chicago ate my life.

2. dutret convinced me that it was stupid.

1. You mean that wierd party on 58th Street with the midgets and the whipped cream...that wasn't MonsterTrack???


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haha ha. i love dutret. he is so funny and right all the time. u missed it dipper. it was banannas.

Tonnes of cool folks with comfy floors.

The wooden floor was really that comfortable? Didn't see you this morning, you get back alright?

My reasons for not racing

1. I've been sick for 2 weeks.
2. I don't feel comfortable brakeless.
3. Getting drunk at Trackstar.

--Aaron

u missed it dipper. it was banannas.


:( Yeah...fo sho. Banannas are good.

But I'm totally going next year (I know I said this last year)! [reason #4]

;)

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haha, yeah good icon, i'm lovin it

9. Allergic to snow.


Whatever the hell was left on the street yesterday, I'm not sure it could qualify as snow...

http://boxwood.subtle.org/se/albums/3rensho-track/3dirtsho06.sized.jpg

The wooden floor was really that comfortable? Didn't see you this morning, you get back alright?

My reasons for not racing

3. Getting drunk at Trackstar.

--Aaron

**** yeah! thats what i was doing.

#1 I live in Australia
#2 I don't have a track bike

I live in Australia too.

I live in Australia too.

Time for a seppo invasion!:D

Whatever the hell was left on the street yesterday, I'm not sure it could qualify as snow...

http://boxwood.subtle.org/se/albums/3rensho-track/3dirtsho06.sized.jpg

yeah, that's mostly salt...

Is it eating the frame??!!! I don't wanna know.

*hands over eyes*

yeah. those look like a couple of holes in the seat stay, am i right?

The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.

I didn't go because track bikes are for hipsters.

But the race didn't start until 2 hours after reg

I think the only good reason is "I was having sex with three people."

Obviously, I have no good reason.

The wooden floor was really that comfortable? Didn't see you this morning, you get back alright?
Slept good, but it's nice to be on a mattress again. I got up at 7 and snuck out. Back to the boring world of work.

haha ha. i love dutret. he is so funny and right all the time. u missed it dipper. it was banannas.
I met you!

I met you!
yes we did, is it erin or the other form of aaron?

sorry u had to leave to early, but it just got loader and funkier in that bar after u left. well at least now u can confirm that i'm a female.

there was doubt?

So you made it in from Queens over the ice covered streets Dylan?

dylan isn't a very female name eddie. when r u coming back from china anyway, this has been the longest 2 weeks of my life.

i had to carry my bike and walk for 23 mins of the ice sheets to the nearest train station. i looked like such a mountainier. jyossarian i didn't see u at the afterparty? did u race? reason why u didn't race?

Seeing the damage to Sasha's frame literally had me saying "Oh my god".

:cry:

i had to carry my bike and walk for 23 mins of the ice sheets to the nearest train station. i looked like such a mountainier. jyossarian i didn't see u at the afterparty? did u race? reason why u didn't race?
The brake stays on my bike. That's why I didn't race. I was at the start taking pics and hanging out, but after we moved down to Broome, I started freezing so I took off. Got to talk to Lucas B. for a bit. He said he was taping using two HD cams so the video should be pretty good when it comes out.

Seeing the damage to Sasha's frame literally had me saying "Oh my god".

"Damage"?

yossarian, i think you took a picture of me. i was the guy with the hockey sticks... i thought i'd stick around and watch the start, so i picked up a bahn mi and watched a lot of registration and moving of bikes from handrails and trees. then i went grocery shopping. pretty extreme shopping day for me.

yossarian, i think you took a picture of me. i was the guy with the hockey sticks... i thought i'd stick around and watch the start, so i picked up a bahn mi and watched a lot of registration and moving of bikes from handrails and trees. then i went grocery shopping. pretty extreme shopping day for me.
This must be you then. Were those for defense or were you on your way to a hockey game?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/393478101_a1e2eec471.jpg

that would be me, yes. i play street hockey in the summer so i was picking up a cheap stick for my girlfriend and i before they sell out. a guy on the manhattan bridge commented on my "sleek and stripped down style." i don't know what that was all about. my current set up is the bicycle equivalent of a minivan.