Here are some more pictures. Don took these with his awesome DSLR camera.
Thanks Don

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11th out of 25!  Whew!

I’m not sure how I did but I had fun.
Don has pictures too and I have a video If I can get it to upload.

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I stripped the CrossCheck down to bare bones race minimum.

No more CrossTop levers. Ritchey WCS Stem, Bontrager X lite Bar.

No more front shifter.

Single Chainring. 44t 3/32 BMX ring. I have a chainring guard on
its way in the mail. The old 48T ring is there as a place holder.

Campagnolo Record Rear Deraileur I scored for $10 […]

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Get out there and vote. If you choose not to vote please do not
complain about anything that happens in the next 4 years.

I’m nursing a nagging back and shoulder muscle strain from the
cyclocross race so I decided to ride to work to try to work some
of the pain out.
So on the way to work this […]

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Well I didn’t puke like everybody said I would. I actuall did quite well for my first race EVER. Thats right my first bike race ever!
Tires were low.

Fernie gave me some advice about the mudhole on the course
in-between sips of coors light.

First trip across the barriers ever!!

I made up some ground on a few people […]

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Saturday was the 2008 Solvang Prelude Metric Century (62 miles).
Don myself and my dad left on Friday afternoon for Solvang.
The rest of the group left Friday night late.

Saturday morning 7am Start

Don and I at the top of the first hill.

Farm Country

“I can ride my bike with no handlebars…. no handlebars….. ”

Pit stop on Highway 154 […]

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1. Being able to ride your bike in October.
Yesterday was a beautiful day to ride bikes.

2. Roadside Fruit Stands
I left for my ride on an empty stomach and was ravenously
hungry on the way back home. I decided to stop for a fresh
from the field peach.

That peach was awesome. A perfect, no waste cycling snack.
No wrapper […]

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Cant hide that SURLY box.

Nicely packed in the box

Wrapped in that crazy plastic wrap that sticks to nothing but itself
like welded steel. Thanks Surly for packing my baby up so well.

It took me longer to get it out of the plastic than to put it together.

“Fatties Fit Fine” refers to the large amount of tire […]

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Sunday was the first day of the Homegrown Cyclocross Series.
Don and I participated in the Fresno Cycling Club’s Annual Halloween Ride out to Lost Lake and on the way back stopped in at the Cross Race to check it out. http://www.ccorc.com/06/

I saw alot of local bike buddies from various shops, and a few other bike […]

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So it turns out that Rubber Soul, Stevens and most of the bike shops in the country cannot get a 2008 Surly Cross Check. They don’t exist on the shelf. The 2009’s come out in a few months. Google begs to differ. Full Cycles in Oregon has Cross Checks in Stock.
I really wanted to buy […]

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