Staying alive

Photo source: Pezcyclingnews.com

Oscar Freire took Milan-San Remo in a sprint. The guy is either in the mix or touches the floor and puts himself out for the season. I think this is like his 4th comeback from a season ending injury in his career. Check out the race report at one of your favorite cycling news sites. The gist that I got was that there was a whole lot of carnage and mayhem in this one!

Yep, that's a sheared carbon fork. Photo Source: Pezcyclingnews.com

A big shout out to our favorite cycling restauranteur, Chuck Luddeke, as today was his first day in Spain for a week of road riding and training. Hopefully, he is at a nice bar right now recovering from a beautiful ride!

Got this from Kevin at the World Police and Firemen's Games in Adelaide, Australia:

well, there are not any unfit cops or firemen here is about all i can say. so far i've done a time trial the fastest i've ever done and finished ouside the top five. yesterday's hillclimb was 4.3km up an 8.2% grade, pretty f''in steep. i did it at nearly 17mph, and again, just outside the top five. but i have only been beaten by one guy who isn't an actual professional racer, so i don't feel too bad. in tomorrow's mtb race there's a pro who races for trek whose been in europe and won the shenandoah mountain 100 (a 100 mile mtb race) oh, and he's chris eatough's training partner. i train with my imaginary friend and won a spelling bee in sixth grade. but it's cold and pouring rain so i hope i can do something, spanish dudes absolutely cannot ride in the rain i found out today. wish me luck. on an interesting note: a three time mr. universe is a london cop, how cool is that? not the size of cop most people are used to. i tried to send a picture of this monstrosity, but it did not work. his forearm muscles are bigger than my thighs.

No word from our Luna Cycles war correspondent, Double Down Dave Brown, but I'm sure he is up in the air prepared to drop some love on army soldiers out in Afghanistan. And on that note: Iran taking 15 British soldiers hostage today sure doesn't bode well for peace in the middle east any time soon...

Well, the shop has been crazy all week. Really crazy. Good crazy. I hope this warm weather has brought a rise in our fortune and that this week bodes well for our season. I gotta be straight with you on one thing, the bike business ain't easy! A couple of big reminders: Cycle to Serve metric century on May 12th (you don't want to miss this one!) and the Aquatic Center MTB trail maintenance day next saturday, the 31st at 10am. The more people we can get out there, the more support we can get from the city and the parks and rec dept. to expand the existing trail network in town. Imagine having a full blown mtn. bike trail network in town!