Secret training for Brown Phat IV

Sun's out, guns still covered! But at least the sun's out. I'm desert-bound shortly for camp Brown Phat IV, and then the annual Steamboat April migration to Highline SP outside Fruita so now is the time for some smooth dirt road ramblin' and late, late base-miles accumulation. By 'cross season I should be relatively fit (God, I hope so). "Relatively" being the operative word...

Not JUST a flashback

We're getting the band back together! You're there, I'm here, she's over yonder but so what, bIKE cLUB is just a frame of mind, and an eons old breeding program true, but mostly a frame of mind so if you live to ride, ride to live or love to rove hunt 'n peck up your true tales of terror and share the wealth here!  Punctuation, and clothing, optional.  Peace. Out.

We'll always have one arm to hold you with!

The other stays busy taking perfect, perfect I tell you, photos of bIKE cLUB misadventures around the globe.  It was seven years to the day that we launched this little bIKE cLUB blog and over 10 since this group coalesced from dust and gas, much like the birth of  new star, or the dust bunnies that even now lurk under Sean's bed, and now seems as good a time as any to close this chapter and move on to NEW adventures in mysterious lands that time forgot, or perhaps right around the corner.  This site will live on in perpetuity, or until the Blogger mainframe crashes, but I'll be moving on to some other virtual home tbd, or possibly as a player to be named later, to exercise my meagre creative urges.  If there are photos or stories you love it wouldn't hurt to cut n' paste to your own hard drive. Thanks so much for all the miles and all the smiles friends and we'll see you out there, soon we hope!

Murmuration

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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...

Famous visitors in the Boat for the Pro Challenge

September = Cyclocross

Hi cLUB,

The Chesaux Cup will make it's debut this year at the Boulder Cyclocross Series...

Check out the write up here, http://www.withoutlimits.co/#!__br-cyclocross---valmont-bike-park/series-points/vstc19=chesaux-cup, and if you feel like rallying, go ahead and race, I dare you :o)

The Cup will be like the 'Stanley Cup' or the 'FARVAS' for that matter, and it will be returned every year. I hope to see you at Valmont Bike Park on September 17th!

Happy Labor Day Guys,

Loni

Not Trout