Have a superduper All Hallow's Eve Cyclonauts! Here's Helen Wheels en route to dominating at the Motet show (all Madonna covers!) on Saturday night! I think the shot-ski might have rejuvenated the ol' liver as we rocked out until 2am with hundreds of our closest ghouls and mummies! Sunday...not so pretty...

Scary!

Warm up those elbows ladies! It's gonna be a bloody night!

Left attacker Ro Chambo

There's no Halloween like Halloween with Patrick and David, er I mean Daytona BeOch and Mona Lot. Pregame liquoring at the Rio...

Windsprints!

Helen Wheels forward attackers Ro Chambo, Daytona BeOch and Aunt Flow

Happy Halloween!

Dumping! I guess we can hang up the bikes for a spell and focus on our Pong skills...bring it on!

Never fails! Return from 75 degree sunny days in Fruita and get hit with 18" of snow (and still coming down!). Chainsaw and Highroller were just about the only fools to commute in from the Ned area this morning, passing 2 RTD busses stuck in the Canyon as well as experiencing a near-ugly coming thru the Narrows. Some lugnut delivery truck spinning uphill at about a 45 degree angle to the lines threatened to shut off both lanes, I tap the breaks, skid and stall the truck simultaneously. Uh oh. About 30 feet to go and I straightline it with some serious wrenching (no power steering all of a sudden) squeeze thru the gap as the delivery truck straightens it back out and kick start the Toyota back into action...fun! Today's not going to get any more exciting than those three seconds so if you need me I'll be napping under my desk...

Huge props to everyone who survived the trip out to Fruita for the Farva 2006 extravaganza! Gotta pay the piper but the journey was more than worth it with stellar, splitter weather, a prime camp spot, rats, Foreigner, shot-ski, target-shooting, hot showers, frisbee, Jaeger, roaring campfire, s'mores, new friends, old bikes, Joe's, a budding Farva dynasty, bike vids, stock-tank diving, suicidal raccoons, sarcastic waitresses, Kessel Run in top nick, Reese's PB Cups and many more miles and smiles than you can shake a stick at!! Thanks all!

Let's roll!

Cheese-O from the blimp-cam

Work it Crossbowmaker!

Step at the start of the descent on Prime Cut

and the finale...

The Dirty Nurse tiptoes thru the tulips on Frontside on one of her first ever mountain bike rides! Great work sis!

Top Shelf coming in hot on a second helping of the Kessel Run...welcome to Fruita Step!

Ole! Do not look at her boobs, do not look at her boobs... Good eats and happy people at Guadalajara replenish the spirit in time for the big Farva ceremonies

Some serious balloting going down, as Dash tries to sneak a peak at Cheese-O's paper...

Feliz cumpleanos goat-fucker!

Farva-time! Can't touch this! Stalwarts break in the shot-ski as the awards ceremony heats up... Dash! Stop tongueing the shot glass!

Uno walked away with the One Liner 'O the Year, Chainsaw took ROTY, Dash another Whitesnake to go with his NBBBC Cup plaque and Highroller limped off with a Trainwreck and the coveted Gay Johnson Cup...excellent work everyone!

No brainer for (and with) the Trainwreck "award".

Golden D'oh! went to the collective idiocy of Tickler 3...come on kiss the D'oh!

Do I smell a dynasty brewing?

Bike smorgasborg! Crew ran everything from high-zoot Yetis and Special Eds to hardtail singlespeeds to vintage 80's Fats to a 95' Trek 930 with rear rack proving once again that it's not the bike but the rider, which leaves me screwed on either count.

Let's ride! Mary's-Horsetheif for Team VertiWheeze while hardier Cyclonauts rode only a pitiful amount further...I blame, the Shot-ski!

Top-Shelf and Bacon rolling proud on the increasingly tech sections of lower Horsetheif...nice work Ryans!

bIKE cLUB Farva 2006 squadron...throw your hand in the air say hey!

Birthday boy and the Crossbowmaker lead the charge under splitter skies and perfect temps. Coulda done with a few less people but the cat's out of the bag now, probably no return to the early Vegetarian days...

Hammer-gals rolling up out of Horsetheif

Horsetheif!

Hard fought feed-off ends in brotherly love, well, maybe respect at least... Wait aren't these two the skinniest people there? What?

How 'bout them smoke-burgers eh? Mucho kudos to all and sundry who made the trek, took the Shot-Ski in two hands and threw down for Farvas 06...probably our best ever (what with limited male nudity)! Best 5 seconds of riding I've ever seen in person courtesy of B-rad is up here www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vtBawEbJqg

Farva 2006 mutha-scratcher! Grind thru Hump Day Cyclonauts and prepare for a real hump this weekend as we roll up, up and over to our sacred calving grounds in the sagebrush lands of extreme western CO. Can you afford to miss out? Can you afford to live the rest of your life with only 1 kidney? Do you really want to find out? Friday 1:30 caravan depart from Boulder, rendevous point will only be divulged at the last minute so keep your radio handy! Over.

Matt & the mountains

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Odd, this strip of snow. There isn't much to be seen anywhere else.

Dash on the Manmade

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Yes, we skiied yesterday!

Harvest Moon

If you were up early Saturday, like Rose, Sean, Bobbi and I were, you may have seen the moon setting behind the Flatirons. Stunning!



High above the Platte River on the Colorado Trail, Sean takes a moment to reflect...or is he just trying to avoid listening to the girls talk about their "female issues"??



Bobbi, Rose and Sean taking a break before the 4 mile descent



So, maybe we got rained out of White Rim today, but we still got out and enjoyed a perfect Fall day closer to home. Rose checks out the view at Mile 18.



The cool-down through Waterton Canyon. Total mileage: 36



Later that day, I racked up some bonus miles on a warm, bright, moonlight ride around Standley Lake in West-sinister!

Morning light on the Green River. 0855 hrs. Will email a full report later. 

Dash with his new trail friends. 0811 hrs. 

Cheese-O feeling fresh at 0900 hrs.