Tonight I got a preview of The Cut Grass Farms Cross Race. For all you crossers out there put it on your season to do list. Its going to be fun with a capital U! Sweet dirt double track, a brutally fast grass section, & a fast paved section. Plus its almost 100% spectator viewable. So if you don't race you need to @ least come out & watch.
Tonight I attempted to follow along on a fast paced dirt road ride with Super G(riding EmDogs old crosser) Hulk Hogan, & the ever elusive Skippy(who was packed for an expedition length ride). Hogan has some great dirt roads near his house. After a little paved section to spin up the legs the hammer was dropped on a fairly smooth dirt road section. It didn't take long for Super G to take over where he left off the road season, making me chase for dear life. Poor Skippy carrying 50 pounds of supplies got dropped like a porn star on her 3rd week, used & abused. He did manage to catch back on after I dropped my chain. Having no respect for his elders he gave me some verbal abuse has he sped by.
We had to pick up a pretty good road climb to get to the next dirt road. Super G has learned to climb. I set a pretty good tempo, I thought. About 3/4 of the way up here comes Super G & the Hulk flying by. I ran out of gear with a 38x12 spinning frantically to stay on their wheels. From there we dropped on to a freshly graded dirt path where things got a little out of control. Sliding all over the place speeding out of control. Hogan hooked a big ole rock & flatted. Luckily Skippy had a mobile bike shop in his camelback so we were good to go.
I was calling my bike the Green Machine, but after today I think I'll call it the Lead Sled. It goes down hill with some serious weight induced inertia. So all you boys with sub 21 lb cross bikes watch out.
What I didn't tell you as I sped by was that all that bulk in my Camelbak was actually a chain keeper and an outer chainguard. But you probably wouldn't have been interested in that.
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