....yea and.

so mr bush is giving his speach rite now. he is saying how we have found these great things that will prevent terrorism in the US. not that i dont think that it is good that we have stopped terror plots, but he completely neglected to mention the fact that we didnt find any weapons of mass destruction, which is ...what ....why we went to war? "to get the weapons of mass destruction out of those damn terrorists hands"?. well...that didnt work and look where we are now. there werent any weapons, and we're in a war that we shouldnt be in, all to get oil. we're in somebody else's country and messing with their stuff. but we're america and we have to right to go out and stir up your shit if we want to.

here is a poem that i got in history class this year on september 11th. i think it puts the world into a good perspective. its not just us that endured something bad. there are other countries, places and people who have had equal and far worse things happen to them, but they go un noticed.

http://www.intraa.org/blog/lorisir/911remembered

ps. i also find it strange, yet very cliche not suprising, that to look better and more people friendly, that laura bush is sitting next to an injured us soldier.

hey

Yea, so long time no post. What have I been up to lately? I've been building a bike for my friend George with Keaton. Its a steel lugged Trek that Keaton got from his grandpa. We've got some nice parts from b-works. The green powdercoating is sick and its turning into quite a sweet bike. Its gonna be a singlespeed with moustache bars. I've been really motivated lately to finish my specialized jumping bike, which means a lot of money and parts that I dont have. Namely disc brakes, disc compat wheels a ss crank and a new tensioner. Today we rode outside, it was 30 on my back porch when I left at 8:55. My fingers were pretty much numb from the start and then the numbness moved into my palms and then into my wrists. We stopped at a gas station about 15 miles in and I turned around. It was pretty dissapointing because I havent ridden outside in like 2 or 3 weeks and my legs felt great. We had a few good sprints. I took the two that were actually contested and one that wasnt. We had a full lane sprint with I think everyone but Rok going. Mike T pulled off, then Austin and then I edged Keaton out by about a foot. It was interesting riding because it was my first time riding my 52x14 outside and also my first time riding in jr gears since before gateway. Usually in regular gears I can get up to 33+ mph fairly easy in a sprint, but today most of our sprints stayed under 30, more around 26-28. I think that I used to be able to get up to 31 at least in a sprint. I think the excess clothing, cold weather, and cold joints had a lot to do with the slow sprint speeds all around. Hopefully everyone had a good ride after I left. Going to the city museum tonite. Oh, the other day I was watching tv and I stumbled across that tv-movie on Lifetime that Austin, Keaton, the Fick and I watched in Iowa. The one where the girls infect like a whole school with syphillis, or the "big s". Pretty humerous movie.

heres an interesting "reply" to the song "vans" by The Pack.
WARNING!! this is a pretty profane song, If you regularly listen to unedited rap then its not bad but if not than listen at your own discretion. give it like 30 seconds to hear the song start.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BEw5wT45sPY

happy new year...i guess.

So it's new years day. I honestly think that new years is the biggest bs of a holiday. Its not really anything to celebrate but everyone takes it as an excuse to party, which is cool with me. I went down to a friend's house in the CWE. We chilled out and played some "Scene-it TV" which I sucked at. I didnt answer a question rite after my first question. We drank some sparkling cider at midnight and watched the worst display of hosting a tv show we'd all ever seen on FOX. It was bad. If you saw then you know what im spittin. I went to the gym today and got in a better workout than I expected. It was like an open house thing today at the y from 11-3, their only hours today, and i went at about 2:15. It was real crowded, probly due to new years resolutions and free t-shirts. The old people dont like when you do 6 sets on the leg extensions when the "legal" limit of the y is one set of 20. Needless to say I was able to get all my work done at the gym. I came home and made a good grilled cheese on the panini maker and zoned out on the couch for about 2 hours watching the discovery channel. I am going over to a family friends house for ribs tonite with my brother and his kids. should be nice. In other news I was let go yesterday by the trek store. Not a huge suprise to me as I hadn't really worked in around 5 months, and even when I did work in the summer it was a sparse few hours here and there. It was just time to cut back employees and I understand, I was already about to start the search for a new job. Chris was really sympathetic and sorry that he had to let me go as I was one of the first people there, even offering to write any letters of recommendation I may need. I think the thing that I'll miss the most is not really like selling people stuff, cause I liked bieng in the mechanic area anyway, but hanging out with the people at the shop and the sweet discounts. I truly enjoyed spending hours on a dead day at the shop when I didnt have school and going in and just shooting the breeze with katie, derek, steven, jess greg, gary and chris about any random topic. But as tightly knit as the st louis biking community is, I dont think I'll be too out of touch with everybody, and it should still be comfortable, and not akward going into the shop. I thank everyone at trek for not only paying me to have fun for the last two-odd years but for bieng cool people, and I think I've learned alot about the biking industry and the working life from working there. peace.

...

"hollister kills babies"

whats hananin.

So, I'll start with, I guess, friday. Friday i got my off day on and took the day off. I was feelin it in my legs and i was also really exhausted from a week that started fast and moved into the longest week ever. Went ice skating at steinberg in fopo on friday night with my peeps, it was awesome. saturday we went out to greensfelder to ride. I'm still not really sure why we drove all the way out there. It was an ok ride, except for like the 8 miles on Hwy 100. That wasnt cool. I liked the scenic roads with like no traffic at times, but i still like knowing where I am when im riding. Didn't really bonk on saturday, cause i took Dan's email seriously, and ate before i went riding. In adition to the eggs and toast before i had a douce of clif bars and a bag of shot bloks, and i was good to go. Mike T impressed me with his prowress, ha ha funny word, on the climbs. there were a few where he got dropped but there were also a few where i looked over my shoulder and was quite suprised to see him rite there. Rok and Chris turned back about 2 hours in due to exhaustion i guess. Probebly my favorite climb of all was up to hidden valley, we finished "all down hill" from there. My final time was 3:11, and 50 miles. Today i went down to school after watching some 2005 tour on dvd, a great time passer, and worked on the yearbook. then i went to starbux and fais mes devoirs d'anglais. I just cooked up some chicken-lime fajitas for my family and neighbor. School is off after wed....YEAHH.

ps. when i switched templates my links got deleted, if anyone knows how to fix this help me, hopefully i havent offended anyone by not including a link to their blog. sorry.

weekend recap

So...I did alot of riding this weekend, about 90-100 miles for sat and sun combined. Saturday was a solid 3.5 hours and 55 miles of pain. I didn't eat enough and was feeling "jelly" all over. Got home and ate 3 eggs and 8 pieces of toast. Somewhat filled. I went to the team partay on saturday night, quite strange. Was more of a friends of our "Sponsor" maplewood bike. we basically just chilled and shot the breeze and listned to the band from hell. They were "new age" apparently, but they caused us all pain, and were so loud that yo had to scream to talk to someone a foot away. Austin bought a tt bike, he got a pretty phat deal on it, almost as good as i can get. Sunday was a good ride with some incidents. Keaton flatted and then we had a run in w/ a park ranger. you can read about that on austins blog as well. Had a good breakfast afterwards at first watch, new tradition on sunday rides. In other news, I have finally put in a really satisfying week of training. I have gone 6/7 days as of today in the last week. I am really enjoying the lifting, the running "not so much"-borat. Why I only went 6/7 days was due to my need for getting my bike fit last night. I had never really had it fit, just kind of eyeballed it. Greg at my shop, Trek Store of St. Louis, did a bangup job. I needed to move my seat almost 3 inches forward. we moved it up afap (as far as possible) on the stock bontrager post. not enough. that brings me to my shiniest new accessory.



thomson elite seatpost with zero setback.. we still had to move the seat up pretty far on that one. just finished up a california pizza kitchen bar-b-q pizza, and now i have to go do a drawing for drawing class "my favorite place to sit", i find it fitting to do my bike seat no?

SNOW FREAKING DAY!!!!!

YEEEE HAWWWW SNOW DAYYY!!!!. woo hoo. as of 8:56 me austin and pretty much everybody else except mike t is off. To the gym early and maybe get my bike refit.



i dont know what this video is, it just came up when i searched: SNOW

Busiest

So. for a real post finally, and a template change. Yea new colors woo hoo. So we rode today. We rode from starbucks to high ridge and the covered bridge route after that, although im not quite sure how much of it we actually did. Before the ride we were all asked to leave the ben franklin/starbucks/chinese place parking lot, by the ben franklin guy who said it was their "busiest day of the year". Basically only john caldwell was the only one that talked to the guy and he informed all of us, except rusty. rusty was almost all set to go and then the goof ball came bounding out of ben franklin and repremanded him. It appeared, from across the road, to get very heated and we were all expecting a fight. the man convinced rusty to move to our side of the road, but not before calling the popo.



The police arrived on our side after rusty. They basically didnt really know why rusty couldnt park there either if he was gonna go get something from starbucks. Anyways we rode and it was hard but fun. People in jeffco need to learn how to keep their dogs in thier yards. we had 3 or 4 dogs start to chase us. One made some amazing bounds through a fence. Tomoro we ride ill-side style, in collinsville. I found these people when i google image searched collinsville. Illinois never ceases to suprise me in a good way.



peace.

So its been alot of videos lately

I've decided that this will be my last video addition for a while to my blog. I am leaving you w/ two funny ones.

CHOCO-CHOCO-CHIP!!



Condams.



girls copying the previous video, almost funnyier.

got my vans on but they look like sneakers.

the white guy busts some dope dance moves. This has reaffirmed my desire to buy some vans.

Will It Blend?/David Blane

heres a clip that i found. Kinda random, but cool. look at the otherones, golf ball is cool too.




david blane spoof, its really funny when he looks at the camera..WARNING: BAD LANGUAGE..

Borat here we come.

The team is going to see borat post riding on sunday. Turner has been talking shit on the message board about going to see it. heres the best clip from the dumbest show on tv, andy milonakis.

In Awe

Wow, i didnt know that this could be done on a scooter. Having recently dug the old scooter out to cruise the streets of webster with keaton and george like badasses, i give them mad props. Yet somehow its quite funny too.

not quite sure.

im not quite sure how i feel about this video...appalled? wierded out? in love?

bored on youtube.

actually laughed out loud at this one a little bit



nerd destroys some asian kid.



walk it out battle



walkin it out some more



sorry to bore you..

How's the hole? I see you're keeping it clean...

So, whats up. This past weekend we had a junior meeting thing. We talked and mike listened. Not too much went down. I, like austin, dont see anything major changing. I think we might just be more coordinated as a team. I think that the proposed camp in texas was interesting but i dont really know how beneficial it would be physically. I see it bieng a more team bonding experience. As most of the older juniors, austin logan mike t and myself, are on training plans from coaches, it wouldnt really benefit us training wise i dont think. But i still think it'd be fun. The team forum on the message board has been so busy lately. Almost too busy...?... I'm getting race wheels for my birthday, either mavic ksyrium es, or bonty race x lite. My birthday is november 5th so i expect cool gifts from errbody. I kid i kid. Anyways i hope the cards pull one out tonite in the downpoor that might happen. we're riding sunday, come ride too.

ps the title is from a Kyle Cease routine. He is a comedian that sounds alot like dane in his style. look him up on youtube. here is a quick video.

what cha got ta drink in tha fridge???

#4 in all of Kazakhstan/very nice how much?

Hey Blog,
I havent talked in a while..Im sitting here on wednesday(however you spell it) night with no homework waiting for the project runway finale to start in 30 minutes, watching laguna beach re runs. Yea i live an exciting life. I'll give a basic recap of the last three weeks of my life. Mikes wedding was fun. I got the crowd leanin and rockin and our team gave him a good amount of quality advice. I have been riding sundays and thats about it. I started real training for next season yesterday with a 30 minute run. My knees hurt, not the IT band pain that i had, but impact pain. It wasnt very fun and im not regretting quitting xc at all. I missed figure drawing yesterday because of an extra math session with my tutor. This weekend i am riding fixed on saturday and group ride on sunday. Dan wants me to have 2 brakes so i have to go get that figured out apres l'ecole a vendredi. I think i might just rock one front brake because thats all anybody really rides around here, at least for the time bieng cause i'd need to find another long reach brake caliper. I also need to find some pedals, im thinking of getting like 105 pedals so i can use my nikes, and also theyd be a better platform than speedplays for riding in regular shoes. anyways thats it, im out...i leave you with this...you'll get the title if you watch these...

Mike is getting married this weekend....

I dont really remember what i was going to post about. Umm...just alot of things going on rite now. Im already sick of the off season. I really want to get back to racing. I was kind of disappoiinted with the end of my season, or after i got back from riding in colorado. Schools been challenging so far, "WHO PUT TOLD YOU TO PUT THE BALM ON?!?!"(sorry im watching seinfeld.). I really enjoy drawing class, and really enjoyed my first trip to figure drawing last week. I have decided that i think i want to study some sort of art or design in college.....umm we're riding this sunday out to ellisville again...itss gonna be tight i liked the ride last weekend...peace.

whats up/punkass

ummm mike b's batchelor party ride was fun...but we rode too far...so much for a more simbolical ride...last weekend we hit up high ridge also..it was very cool. this weekend we almost got killed by some punkass that was freaking street racing his piece of crap audi. It was quite humbling. Didnt ride sunday cause i got sick saturday night.. not fun stuff.. heres that photo of vino from 2005 that i've been bragging about fa eva eva



heres one of the man himself..



wow..this guy must have got his shoes from someone really cool..




A pic of two great riders...karpets and rasmussen



all pics taken by me.

Marc Jacobs

These shoes are pretty cool...as is anything made by marc jacobs.

http://www.joshspear.com/item/marc-jacobs-vans/