View Full Version : Giro d' Grafton race preview on the air Friday afternoon...
Hipcycler
06-14-07, 11:31 AM
Bill Ochowicz will be on with me to talk about Saturday's upcoming Giro d' Grafton bike race.
4:00
Friday
AM 620 WTMJ
Listen Live on the net (http://www.620wtmj.com/_content/news/thegreenhouse/index.asp)
I'll try to sneek in a mention of you guys during the interview too....
Lets see now...just to review the BF racers we've got entered in various Cats:
--recursive
--Cromulent
--Dave342
--frunkin
....did I leave anyone out?
And lets hope for a dry course Saturday....showers possible now.
dave342
06-14-07, 11:36 AM
Thanks Hip I'll be listening.
John Wilke
06-14-07, 12:32 PM
Thanks for the heads up.
Cool. May have to skip out of work early to hear it! :D
CyLowe97
06-15-07, 06:21 AM
Good luck to all you guys tomorrow!
Hipcycler
06-15-07, 06:26 AM
Good luck to all you guys tomorrow!
Thanks CyLowe....appreciate that.
It's gonna be a full day of racing fun!
dynodan22
06-15-07, 09:08 AM
Good luck on your races folks, I will be watching from the side with my 2 wee ones maybe my wife
to if it doesn't get to hot out for her. I will listen to the show on my ride to Dousman from Milwaukee.
Dynodan
Is the race itself going to be on Versus this Sunday? Cyclism Sunday perhaps?
Kenal0
Psimet2001
06-15-07, 10:55 AM
Is the race itself going to be on Versus this Sunday? Cyclism Sunday perhaps?
Kenal0
Only the celebrity race. That's all that matters anyway....;)
Hipcycler
06-15-07, 11:21 AM
Only the celebrity race. That's all that matters anyway....;)
BINGO!
Hipcycler
06-15-07, 11:23 AM
Final practice before the race today....a light 26 miles with several stops to practice clipping in from a dead stop and getting up to speed. Now I have my gearing selected.
Nothing left to do now but go get all the chocolate milk tonight for "Team Hip" at the race tomorrow.
Good luck everyone!
I'm hoping to get the wife and kids out there as well, but nothing's been formalized yet.
Hip: You gonna have Bill talk about his recovery following his crash at the Trek 100?
Hipcycler
06-15-07, 11:50 AM
Good luck everyone!
I'm hoping to get the wife and kids out there as well, but nothing's been formalized yet.
Hip: You gonna have Bill talk about his recovery following his crash at the Trek 100?
...first thing I'm going to ask him today my friend. I heard it was pretty darned bad too...
Hipcycler
06-15-07, 03:12 PM
Nice shout out!
....He!! ya...I took care of my boys.
John Wilke
06-15-07, 05:23 PM
I have it recorded in .wav format if there is any interest. Runs about 10 minutes without the traffic report.
Psimet2001
06-16-07, 07:46 PM
Interested in getting the .wav. I'll send a PM. Aham, CyLowe and I were drinking at a pub in Mt. Horeb by the time the show as on the air.
Hipcycler
06-16-07, 08:14 PM
http://cycleciola.bravejournal.com/
It's in my blog.
Not a good day for BF'ers at the Giro.
recursive crashed twice in the same....and from what I read in the racing forum dave 342 was involved as well.
frunkin dropped out of the 4/5, then rocked the junior division. He was racing tough in the second pack when I last saw him.
Cromulent was hanging with the main group toward the back the entire time in the Masters race, but I never hooked up with him afterward.
Me...bah....
It was a joke basically.
I'm still lost in no-man's land, somewhere between lame celebrity race that only gives me a taste, which I'm too good for, and not good enough to be a Cat 5.
Oh well....
Next big cycling event....the BF Hip ride in August!
CyLowe97
06-16-07, 08:24 PM
Bah!!
:mad:
Sorry Hipman.
Hipcycler
06-16-07, 08:31 PM
Bah!!
:mad:
Sorry Hipman.
Yeah, like I wrote in my blog...I'm conflicted about today.
I had a great time overall, but the racing? Well, that left something to be desired.
Psimet2001
06-16-07, 09:07 PM
That's too bad Hip...and everyone else. Looks like they just don't know how to appreciate the celebrities up there....
...or...too bad you got the celebrity treatment
Hipcycler
06-16-07, 09:24 PM
That's too bad Hip...and everyone else. Looks like they just don't know how to appreciate the celebrities up there....
...or...too bad you got the celebrity treatment
Yeah...hey psimet....Bill Och was talking to me after my so-called race today about his big crash....and you're not gonna like who he blames! (He's on crutches and STILL looks like he could crush souls with those on a bike!!!!)
More coming....I've gotta get to bed. You know, those two hot laps really wore me out. :rolleyes:
and you're not gonna like who he blames!
Come on Hip! Can't leave us hanging like that! :cry:
I did the Trek 100 and heard all sorts of "theories" as to what happened. I'd like to get he take.
In any event, sorry to hear that you're conflicted about your race today Hip. Congrats on the finish anyway! :beer: :beer: Sounds like itwas a good event . . . just sorry I couldn't make it up there (it just wasn't in the cards).
John Wilke
06-17-07, 12:06 AM
Sounds like you had fun overall. There's no shortage of races out there, hopefully you can pick and choose those which will satisfy your thirst for the speed and thrill for racing, plus give you a zone of safety that makes you comfortable. I think that the stronger of a rider you are, the safer your races are because you can hit the front, and simply ride with other strong riders. (strong in the usual sense, and in the ability to handle their bike through the hot tar, gravel, wet paint stripes or man hole covers, bumping shoulders, touching wheels, or simply sensing a potentially bad situation and avoiding it). You're well aware of the risk for crashing in a race ... but the reality is that you can crash on your every day rides too. Heck I just went over the handlebars the other day while riding on the bike path at 5 mph! (and I've been riding my bike well over 30 years now) With all it's good and the bad, all it's highs and it's lows .... welcome to the sport! ;)
Hipcycler
06-17-07, 08:17 AM
Sounds like you had fun overall. There's no shortage of races out there, hopefully you can pick and choose those which will satisfy your thirst for the speed and thrill for racing, plus give you a zone of safety that makes you comfortable.
.....dead on JW. I think you hit the nail on the head there for me.
Now...
To complete Bill's take on the crash and the injuries and all that, and why Psimet and BFNIC'ers won't like what he told me!
First of all, there the guy is in post-op surgical nylon socks yet, on crutches, pin and plate in his hip from two weeks ago and I swear he could have gotten on a bike and beaten me still....great shape....great guy.
From our chat--
His knee is screwed up now due to the hip injury, but it will come back with therapy. He hopes to be on a bike soon, and was already in quite the pain on a trainer....Jesus....anyway....the Trek 100 crash....
As you may know it came on a downhill in the rain.
Lead guy flatted and went down. The rest of the lead group (this was not the group that Lance was in...he was right up front and pulled out at some point due to the wet conditions....so this was a group that started right behind LA's) had no place to go....everyone piled up going down. Bill said it happened so fast that he never touched the brakes, just pointed the bike and crashed.
He said the group was going too fast for conditions as well, and warnings to slow were not listened to.
His quote went something like this:
"Well, a lot of these guys come up from Illinois where it's real flat and they have no clue how to get down a hill the right way."
John Wilke
06-17-07, 09:59 AM
That's a shame. When there's a big group, in the early part of a ride (race), s### happens. Even the Pro's can crash on downhills.
Psimet2001
06-17-07, 10:47 AM
"Well, a lot of these guys come up from Illinois where it's real flat and they have no clue how to get down a hill the right way."
That's so true. Thank god I learned how to ride in a hilly area in my teens. I did have to go to WI to see that most people in this area can NOT descend well at all. They are all over the place - can't hold a line - and ride their brakes the whole way down.
The HHH had lots of those people so I can sympathize with Bill.....
"Well, a lot of these guys come up from Illinois where it's real flat and they have no clue how to get down a hill the right way."
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Yep, sounds like Bill.
That's also the explaination that I heard a lot too.
The organizers ended up making eveyone dismount and walk down the hill for that reason.
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