thanks for the comments

disk wheel - yes, Paul Curley (multi nat champion - 'cross mostly, but he wins things like Somerville too). He went down hard in that crash. The wheel is a cover - not sure how it survived. I don't remember the last time I saw him crash but it's not in the last decade - therefore if he went down, I knew it was bad on that side of the course.

crash - a lot of guys went down - someone behind me hit the 55 gal drum (garbage can) that I just missed - and it went flying into the air (!). Guy was okay though. All because a guy switched left on the right curb. I looked at the clip on my TV - the guy in second moved left, the guy on his left had to move, went into Curley, Curley went into the guy in front of me, Curley and the guy to his right went down hard. Then everyone piled into them.

new britain - second race this year is second Sunday in July. will have more money usually but no championships. but you can race there

course - no, but it's the park called Walnut Hill Park in New Britain, CT - next to the New Britain General Hospital - perhaps 20 vertical feet gain on the "hill". maybe 30. not a lot but I used to get dropped on it lol.

grass surfing - I did the same thing there a few times over the years. What you don't see is the stairway going up the hill - and the guardrail for it. No one's hit it but a lot of people have just missed it, me included.

The flower bed bunny hop is amazing - the curb is probably 9-10 inches tall. I can bunny hop moderately well but in the heat of a race, to bunny hop that, well, that was impressive.

cdr