Man, that sucks. Mine lists me as an employee on their FB page, follows me on Twitter, ordered bigger bikes and shoes so I could go down, and is offering me Felt bikes at their cost. Funny part is I haven't even been there yet. I just met the guy that runs it and we hit it off really well.

I'm a bit behind the spindles so I could afford some fore adjustment.

On topic. Today I: raced the MASH SF Twin Peaks TT. Since my bike had a brake on it, I was forced to race the road bike category (complete with some Cat 3 -> 1 dudes). No big deal.

I placed 4th road [lol] in the qualifying ally cat. http://app.strava.com/rides/7593622 - started my garmin a bit into the ride.

Since I made qualifying I got do do the actual Twin Peaks race. I placed 6th road [lolagain] http://app.strava.com/rides/7593623

Random pics:

Gettin' ready

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Garret's sweet ass steed:

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At the end. I'm ****ing spent.

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All in all, a fantastic day on the bike. I'm stoked on smashing roadies.

tell me about it. their dates for it are all 2011, so if it's anything like last year I won't have another shot to get certified until mid June :( I know those MFers see my post and it's not like I can pout and take my bike to the [invisible] other velodrome in town. yours sounds awesome.

though I will be there next weekend to watch a dude ride on it 24 hours straight for some cause (which cause fails me atm) - so maybe face to face will get some answers.

props on rockin roadies, but you should took off the brake on won the fixed category.

just saiyan.

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Mash is so silly. There, I said it. :innocent:

our last alley cat had 3 categories, fixed-brakeless: 7 stops, fixed-brake: 8 stops, gears: 9 stops.

if there were only 2, putting him with the road guys is probably the fairest of the options, especially in SF

I think they should have just done 3 categories, would that have been so much harder?

You killed it today, big ups! Had I known it was an alleycat I probably would have came ready and competed, though I probably wouldn't have fared too well anyway :p

^
+1.

nice ridin'.

these types of events are attracting more and more elite level riders within the USAC sanctioned system.

that's a great result.

Nope! I agree.

Awesome job btw, Jandro

Today I got to play reverse Tetris with 100 bikes stuffed into a big Uhaul truck, on overtime.

Haha... dude in the background in blue was brushing his teeth with one of the free water bottles right around 11:30am. Looked hella hung over. Poor guy.

Congrats on your placements. I thought they'd be handing out a prize for the qualifiers 1-3...

Super bummed I could not participate in this race...

Today I gave the Free Spirit frame a quick wipe down, thus ensuring plenty of rain this week.

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Did a little flying tonight, breathed in some cool rain washed air, and hit it hard enough to bring on the hurt... after I swapped the stem and re-wrapped the bars the shake down ride on the new road bike was absolutely perfect.

Have not felt this good on a bike in months.

Plan to get up early and ride my old training loop and by the time that is done will be able to swing by and pick up a proper road block and some new boots for the bike... thought I had an 11-25 here but can't find it in all the clutter that is my shop.

MASH has their reputation to consider, whether you agree with it or not. It definitely would not have been fair for me to be in the fixed category. Maybe for the ally cat - there weren't THAT many hills. For the TT though, I definitely should have been in with the roadies; some of the hills were down right terrifying, even with a brake. I could smell my brake pads. A lot of dudes just got off the bike and ran down/up. Case in point: http://app.strava.com/rides/7593623#z809|959 Just look at that elevation chart! Hahaha.

The reason you are seeing so many elite level racers come out to these events: if you win a cat 2 criterium, you get some strawberries, a 24oz. of IPA, and a pat on the back. First prize in the road cat was 300$ and a bunch of swag from event sponsors. I'd come out and smash, too. Chris Phipps came out and dominated like last year. It was pretty awe-inspiring.

Also: THANKS, DUDES! It really was a fantastic day on the bike. SOOO much fun with some really awesome people/riders. A ton of Wolfpack Hustle LA guys made the trip up - it was great to meet them. They are all really stoked on the SF chapter and want to come ride with us really soon.

Day job pro: bike parking 4 feet from my desk. U-locked off the ground to a rail so the drops can hang over the rail and be as out of the way as possible.
Day job con: Occasional noob tats from standing too close to the bike to lock it to the rail. Today i have twinsies. Yay!

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Time to clean that chain ring / chain!

dont make it too easy to get a black spoke card

Don't worry. Our rides are anything but easy and John is taking all his queues on that sort of stuff from Roadblock, himself. We're on our 14th week and just barely started handing out stickers to the core group (dudes that show up every week, rain or shine) haha.

it sucks, I was planning on to attend Wolfpack again but now I work 5-10pm on mondays on the complete opposite side of the city

Bummer man :( Time to find a new job! :p

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It came with a poor replacement rear wheel with a 5 speed freewheel. I will have to change that for him since his GPX accushift is 6/7 compatible. It has an Ambrosio front wheel though. I gave him my vinyl Turbo because it would mean to let him ride on the "Velo" saddle that was on it.

There are some paint scruffs but the guy made some attempt at covering them. My brother got it $240, maybe too much because of the wheel and paint, but he will be happy with it. So, TODAY I: replaced a cable and the rear shifter to a Shimano Light Action so that he can stay with indexed shifting. After getting it all working I went up some of the steep hills by my apartment. This thing is stiff with my 200lb ass standing and pushing on the pedals.

Today I should be studying. But I don't want to. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU finals.

story of my life