Crossapalooza!

Nice form!  Not the vaguely pear shape, the cx technique...of course a photo can't convey the sense of a lack of speed I was displaying in this section

Short sleeves!  Thanks to Sean, Matty, Dub, Beckett, Gust, Miki, Jason, Jen, Trout and others for all the cheering and cowbell wrangling!  Great to see some of the bIKE clUB die hards getting their 'cross on

Highroller, almost looking like he knows what he's doing

Hey, somebody dropped a penny right here.  Ignore Fernando "Crab" Escartin running style and focus instead on perfect, perfect! I tell you, carrying technique.  When you're moving this slowly you can focus on the little things...

Steamboat Springs cyclocrossers are on the prowl!

Great to see Scott, Miki, Amanda and Uncle Sean after the beat down Highroller endured at the Blue Sky CX at Xilinx

Next day Chainsaw came out to play as well, 16th at Monarch CX!

Yay, hardly any barf!

Xilinx, you can suck it.  Actually fun course and Highroller managed to make it all the way around, several times...47th place on the day

Next day though the long deep sand run played to my strengths (not) and I managed to improve to, 47th place. Oh.  Monarch, you can suck it too.

Maybe I should cut back on these tender moments with Trout

For more pounding of the tender bits like this

Busy week for the SSSS Chapter of bIKE cLUB

1st we moved out of the Love Shack via about 8 van trips cross town to our new digs at 2916 West End Ave.  Why?  Because now we have a fire pit in the back yard again!

Then, as is our wont, we immediately took off on a trip without unpacking.  Colorado Monument Canyon Rim Trail on a stellar fall day

Fruita Book Cliffs in the distance

Independence Monument and Los Alfords compete for the grandeur, we win!

Then camping at the River Park in town.  Hot Tomato for dinner and Starvin' Arvin"s for b-fast = easy peasy, lemon-squeezy

Then out to ol' 18 Rd, where we paid the guard-spider to watch the dog while we hit Kessel Run en famile!  Trout has now officially ridden Fruita singletrack and bIKE cLUB 2.0 has been launched...

Trout did 3 laps on Kessel before Chainsaw got out on a Western Zip-Frontside-Joe's classic

Highroller did the same at 18 Rd, including CLEANING the climb on Zippety and then both Alford parentus, riding at the same time, hot-lapped Highline Rez...fun!

In over our heads, as always, and loving it!  That them thar is how we roll

Ouch!

Yikes, at least we don't have to deal with these on our open space...