So, these ******* whack-job Oklahoma guys lost their minds. There was some creative heckling at the CX race over the weekend, but nothing was offensive or inappropriate that I heard, and I worked about half the time chasing tape. Regardless, a parent/racer believed one comment was inappropriate toward one of his children, which he did not hear and no one can substantiate, and now he's formally complained to USAC, wants USAC to pull sanctioning of our series and race licenses of the alleged hecklers included. The race prior he was upset because he was hover-parenting and made fun of by other adults, but felt the comments were directed at his child, so he whined about it on Facebook endlessly.

It looks like people may lose licenses over it and so far the claims are unsubstantiated.

Update: The two complaints noted to USAC were that people from Oklahoma desired to marry the goat on the course and a sign making-fun of the father regarding the prior race. Additionally, his wife complained about someone heckling a friend on the Novo Nordisk tear regarding his body's inability to produce insulin.

 

 

A great read, though the start of the article is a little slow. A friend in OKC does Rapha Travel, it's hard, not easy stuff.
https://www.1843magazine.com/feature...d-winding-road

 

I have a growing fascination with fondos, sportived and stupid hard training camp/vacations with riding buddies. This past uear I traveled around the western US doing several epic hard grinder events. It has been my bliss. Two more I am going to try in 2017:

Swiss Epic | Swiss Epic
Haute Route

I have almost zero interest in actual road racing these days.

 

Ever consider the Breck Epic?

 

I know. I only want to race in CX, nothing else. I still want to ride on the road, but no racing there. I'm not really sure why I don't want to race on the road, but I know exactly why I want to race in CX.

 

Behold, cycling excellence:

 

LTR100 is the day before the Breck Epic. I haven't done LTR100 yet. Bucket list. In the lottery. Tough to get in. If I don't get in to LTR100, which I should know by January 15, I'll try to register for the Breck.

Breck Epic is very anti establishment. LTR has become a big money, highly publicized "establishment" event. I venture to guess that the date conflict is not an accident. Pay about the same fee and get six days of racing with virtually no rules, no dopers allowed. LTR100 is chock full of riders either currently serving or past dopers, including a few overall winners.

 

That was the main appeal to me. You should put BCBR on your bucket list if it's not already.

 

You can't tell someone to put something on their bucket list, that is the whole point. You decide what matters to your soul, not someboy else's.

 

Look at this ****-heap:

 

poverty tap

 

Sons, are DT-Swiss ratchet axles the path to glory for the mountain bike? The Bontrager rear keeps coming loose.

Also, both sets of my road skewers are bent to **** from travel, is it dumb to buy DT Swiss ratchet skewers to replace them?

 

not sure about the dt's, but I do know the bontragers are garbage- they stick out too far and eventually break off on rocks or during a crash. I replaced mine with an allen head skewer that is much slimmer- doesn't loosen up either.

 

Are the bontrager's external cam? I had to go with internal cam shimano's on my trek. All my external cams slipped. This is with skewers but same may apply to thru axles.

 

yes- external cam and a shitty one at that

 

Fiddin-a buy X1 shifter, GX 1x11 RD, Shimano 11-42 cassette for $275. Had a ******* miserable road bike ride today, time to take a break.

 

I blew out my factory Marzocchi Bomber on a singletrack ride in Ohio right before I moved. After looking into rebuilds vs used upgrades, I knew I wanted to upgrade. I procrastinated long enough that they finally grew tired of me complaining about riding my hardtail with the front locked out all the time.
So Sonny and Emilio chipped in and bought me a new leftover factory surplus clearance fork as a Christmas gift. Absolutely blew me away. Thanks fellas!

Fox Float 32 iCD. Electric Climb and Descent control. No full lockout as the climb mode still has a blowoff, which is awesome.


My old Marz fork was 5lb. Fox is 3.6.
The swap dropped my 2010 Giant XTC2 down into the 24lb range. Schwing.




Today was my first real ride on it. It was amazeballs. Like having Xidas on my mountain bike. That exact same first impression.

 

Awesome gift, super-cool fork. California Miata Crew is best crew.

 

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Wife just purchased a new synapse disc and a kickr. I can drop the old MTB on the Kickr, but there's a decent chance that I'll be scouring craigslist for a road bike in Feb/March time frame.