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Woke up this morning a year older. Crap one year closer, and one year left 'till I'm a masters, when I said I would try racing again. Maybe I should take up trials.

The Tour of California Prologue stage was a lot of fun. I got to help out Ric at the FSA booth. It was a lot of fun talking with people about the new products they are offering and the Jumpsuit was cool.



A very busy day, I didn’t get to see the race at all but I saw a lot of cool bikes and the weenie dog count was at 3



While I was over at Paul’s yesterday I got a call from Jen whom I meet at the Tour, she asked me to build up a custom Grognard Cross frame she won at the 24 hours of Cool last year. She stopped by last night with her husband Scott so I could check out the frame and help her pick out her components. It’s mostly going to be an FSA build with a CK head set and Shimano shifting and brakes. The frame is a work of art with an awesome paint job, we’re going to have to get a Pro to Photog this one.

And it looks like my first roadie gig will be with the Webcor Builders Women’s Cycling Team at the Sequoia Cycling Classic next month. I’m really excited to be working with this team. They are not only the NRC #1 ranked women’s team in 2007, and the only UCI-registered Women’s team in North America in 2008, but a really great group of ladies. Working at the Bicycle Outfitter I get to see Karen, Christine, Katheryn, and Beverley often, it’s nice (and a little intimidating) to know I’ll be working with a team of this caliber.

I’m just going to enjoy the rest of my birthday off before the work starts tomorrow.

The Off Season

'Cross is over time to relax... right?

well, here's a Photo Dump to recap the last week or so...

Cali was using the powers of the Puppy Dog Eyes to try to trick dad out of some treats. Of course it worked...


The boys are in town for the big race.


Their bikes suffer from TSA "love" just like the rest of us. Rock's boss maybe jerking around in the media but his riders are pro, Michael was cool and patent when I was working on his bike and very thankful when I finished. It was really cool that we had the parts in stock and could get him rolling with just a quick pit stop.


Michelle and I have been doing more training with the Pups.


Brock got a new toy and asked me do the build. These new Santa Cruz's are building up really nice, the crew over there has deffinatly steped it up. This one is going to be sick, All XTR with a DT Swiss wheel set, CK and Thompson. Brock is going to swap out the tires for something a little more NorCal Cross Coutry, this monster will be flying at the local Simi Pro races this MTB Season.


Super Wisco sets off on a V-Day delivery.


I'm building the most expensive bike I've done so far...


Oh No there goes Ergomo...


And, Michelle put her V-Day present to use




I'll be helping out FSA with their booth at Sunday's Prologue Expo. I'll try to get a few photos, and find out more about Ric's wooden rims. yummm wooden rims...

playing with new toys.

Michelle and I splurged a little yesterday and got iPhone's, so I'm playing around seeing if I can do a blog post on this thing.

Still having a little trouble uploading photos from the phone but typing is hella easy

Blury photos of Tex & Cali soon... I hope