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Old 10-04-11, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by MJH2
Well, I was just informed we didn't win the team title. Upon recount, we lost to a team that seems to be scared to upgrade guys out of cat 4, and employed suspicious tactics. Hooray for them.

Aham, you closed the season off on a high note. winter training will be that much easier. I'm with you... Love the fling!
If I remember correctly, there was this lawyer type dude in a BH kit that told me and it was passed on, not to hand out the award just yet. Suspicious tactics? You mean like locking up the brakes on the front to make everyone check up while they send a couple guys off the front? I have a brand new gp4000s with a really large flat spot because of them dicks. You would think once would be enough, but it wasn't, they decided to do that **** again on the crest of the hill right past start/finish on the bell lap. Because of that I dropped my chain. Seems shifting and locking up the brakes don't work to well.

I will say though that this Fall Fling was a lot of fun. I had a lot of respect for BH riders, but after riding wheel-to-wheel for 2 weekends straight made me respect them even more. Very clean riders and if they make a mistake they are quick to apologize and get back to working together. On this past Saturday we (ABD & BH) were working together fairly well for pretty much the entire race. ABD did have one sketchy youngster that not only scared the **** out of us ABD riders but I know made a few BH'ers pucker up a bit as well. ABD & BH, the only 2 teams pointing out any type of hazards during the race. Well done.

Also PSIMET rocked the house. Aaron kicked some ass, and congrats on that dude. Also we had a bad accident on Saturday and Tim Speciale showed just how good of a dude he really is. He stuck right there with the severely injured rider while he was injured himself. Thanks Tim, even though I am pissed you didn't give me one of those big chocolate donut things you were chomping on while you were leaving.

Speaking of the injured rider, here is a bit of an update. He was placed into a medically induced coma and went through surgery where they removed a large section of his skull to relieve the pressure on his brain. They did x-rays and it looks like there were no neck or spine injuries. ABD has been in touch with both CDH & the rider's wife and she is saying that he is responding to the tests that they do. The first day it wasn't looking good on survival, but today it looks like he should pull through. Of course he still has a long road ahead of him and hopefully no complications arise. ABD just asks that everyone keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Thanks everyone for coming out. It was a blast, and it is cool to see that Farrell wants to do this team thing at every race. I think we need to come up with a championship belt that the winning team holds on to until they lose it
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