Racing....

I am going to try racing, my first real crack at racing.... As a brief update, the soupie is a fat kid. Immediately, all 5 of you at home are going aw soupie your not fat, NO. STOP, it is different. My friend krystina is a "Fat Kid" as well and she probably weighs 120 pounds or something.

I may have been an actual fat kid for most of my life, but now I (and krystina as well) am strictly a Glutton, with a minor case of Sloth. Racing or being fast in general, has never really been my forte` until i started eating vegetarian/vegan. Combining this with fast music and a supposedly active lifestyle has allowed me to shed those pounds and consider racing, at which I am Doomed. Now 3 of you at home are going, aw soupie what does that matter your fine. NO. Stop, this shows on a miniature level that I lack the Discipline to even consider structuring my life around serving sizes let alone ride times and heart rates.

The TRM/TOP race squad was out in almost full force sunday at Bavington and i don't think i have the Cajones to do this. This might take hard work! Something I do not deal well with. I have been getting increasingly more and more interested in Cyclocross racing, So much that i would consider racing at the oval this summer to get into shape for it. In addition to this, Laura (Mike's unentertainable/"hot" wife ) wanted to know/thought I was interested in doing the wilderness 101 with her. In addition to the previous addition, Jim Ruffing wants someone to go to the Burn 24 Hour Challenge in NC with him and ride duo (if anyone on the internet is interested riding with Jim in NC call the shop 412-343-6885).

I hate to show my cycling weakness on the internet, where I must be the Internet Cycling Overlord Admin Czar, but I do not know the second thing about racing ( I will admit, I probably know the first things). So perhaps, to pad the pages of our blog while Mike and Adam are busy trying to run stores, I will Document Weird Gadgets and other doo-dads and goobli gobs, and stuffs from training....

Worth a Shot i guess....More to come after I wolf down this pile of breadsticks from the pizza company.

My two Cents

Well, I guess it is beeter to be last to post than to never start...so here goes (bare with me, I'm a little new to sharing).

Hi Everyone in Cyberspace, I'm Mike

I would like to share a little about myself. I am a bike geek in every sense of the word. When I am not working at a bike shop, I am reading about cycling on the internet, or I am talking about cycling with co-workers and friends, and if that doesn't work out then I plan building bikes in my head. I even have a special Excel spreadsheet that I can use and save it to view later.

now that I have shed a little light on the true geek within, I decided to build the craziest bike I could this past fall. A quick trip to the garage netted me enough parts to build a Single Speed Cyclocross bike. I ordered a Surly Cross Check and added a collection of Campy Record parts, a vintage set of WTB dirt drops, and a most riduculous set of deep disk carbon wheels. To make a long story short I ended up with a bike where the frame cost as much as the brake set and the wheel cost twice as much as the rest of the bike.

Yesterday i took insane to a whole new level when I switched out the WTB 700 x 32 tires for a new set of Bonty 29 x 1.8 mountain tires. I created Frankenstein's monster truck! I am planning on riding circles around Soupie at Bavington this weekend (don't tell Soupie). I hope to have some picutes up soon, as soon as I figure out how the he double hockey sticks how to do it.

I'm out, later kids

well, well, well...
a blOg for me to contriBute to? wowZers! i am gonNa spill my brAin juice all over this screen for those who wish to lap up said spillAge of verBage. good tiMes i hOpe...
i lOve to ride bikes, tAlk bikes and wOrk on bikes. roAd, trAil, rAil-trAil, whAtever. bikeing = aweSome for blOOmy.

come see us at the shop. come ride with us on the trails (just ask us when and where). contribute whenever you'd like in any way you would like.
as i say lately... read. ride. repeat.

overandOut
bloomy

Not to be a jerk or nothing.

I have recieved my nevegals, I am going to rail through corners and run everyone over. I am rather excited. The maiden voyage will be at Bavington on sunday if all goes correctly. The Mythos have served me....well.... well i guess. I recieved them on sale and I got a year out of them...not the best wet tire. That is all about to change, California has not been stoked on the Nevegals, but the east coast (home of varying riding conditions day to day) has been pretty stoked about this tire. The "Old Folks" have been running Michelin Hot S tires and many of them are switching to these.

In addition to being a jerk about new toys,

We are the 29er superstore of the south hills. We have Kenda Nevegalls 29 x 2.1's coming in today on transfer. This will continue to add to our selection of 29er tires, as we also have more bontrager Jones acx tires on the way, and the selection of WTBs and Michelins in stock currently. On top of the 5-8 29ers we keep in stock at all times.

There after a merciless plug, pimping such quality material goods, I can retire from the blog for a day. We have made some progress. Adam has posted, and we have upgraded to the New Blogger Powered by Google, and it only took us a half an hour.

New Pics

Require webhosting, so i will do that here.


BEHOLD YOUR INTERNET BICYCLE OVERLORD SOUPIE!!!


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Maybe I have to much power on this thing right now....

Here it is...it happened.

Now I just need something to say. Hopefully Adam recieves my notification email. He has lots to say. Rick got sent an email, he doesnt say much of anything, and if he does, it is innappropriate. First line of business is changing my profile picture. Either way, here goes nothing, again....