09.17.05 - another day in life of a goat

hello all.

just wrapped up a 5.5 hour ride - 3 hours of it in whistler like rain/cold conditions. thank you mother nature for recreating the horrible conditions i experienced at whistler. i enjoyed it so.

i did run into two guys. one teammate of brett davis whom was deciding to get a cross bike and is a cat 4 on the road. he does mostly road stuff. kind of funny though, he was talking on and on about his racing. first time in a long while somebody hasn't asked me about my season, so it was kind of refreshing to hear another rider so excited about his own racing.

the other guy i run into all the time on the trail - jeff. sold him some egg beaters i wasn't using as i am selling off a ton o' stuff. need to raise some fundage for some new moots frames i am ordering up. one cross, one compact road. more details on that later.

other than that, not too much happening here. trying to stay fresh for georgia coming up in october, so my little break at interbike will be a nice couple of days off. though, i may get to ride out there as i have a buddy that rep's for NIKE and he may hook me up with a bike for a couple of days.

ooh - speaking of which, somebody asked me about places to ride out in vegas. only place i ever rode was bootleg canyon - where interbike has their dirt demo days. do a google search and you should find it - pretty nice place to ride. really dry and the rocks are sharp.... believe me, i can tell you first hand. really fun stuff to ride, but be careful! it's the type of trail you are flying on and then the next second you are flying in the air and landing on some really sharp rocks. just bring plenty of water - that place is hot! and if you go into town and take your first right (from what i believe) is the local yocal bike shop. VERY nice guys - can't remember the name of the shop, but when i was out there last i busted up a wheel and they gave me one to ride for a couple of days at NO CHARGE. check them out. oh.. and they also had some super sweet old school anodized kooka like cranks (dang, can't remember the name of that company that had those cranks with the replaceable inner spider) in there - about 6 pair. you ebay'ers would of been going nutz for them.

gotta run - jennifer and the folks are on their way. mexican tonight, oh yes.

sologoat out.