What is all this fixed gear nonsense….

Bike mag has let me down. This is not the first time but I am more disappointed than ever. I feel like the parent of a 13 tear old pregnant girl.

Why you ask? Today I received this months copy of the magazine and right on the cover in all it’s stupidity reads.. “fixed gear mtn bikes?” I mean why waste the paper? Do they want jack ass trend whores building one this week. Swaring by the zen like feel of zooming through rock gardens with a fixed gear mountain bike? I can hear it now…”It’s like I am one with bike”.

Look. Fixed gear bikes are for riding on paved areas… City streets.. velodromes.. roller rinks.. living rooms. Basements. warehouses.. Not effin mtn bike trails. I almost feel bikemag had needed some shock and awe and they found it with this worthless article. If anything it brought attention to a few more pothead frame builders with a weak grasp on the sport.

Worst part? The editors choise to almost sound as if he learned from it.. or became enlightened from the new way his bike felt. Oh boy. what a crock of shit.

Want to open your eyes????!!?? Stop riding fuckin XC trails on downhill bikes. Imagine what it would be like to ride a XC trail on hardtail XC bike again. Would you even dare to wear lycra???

Disappointed…

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Deciding whether or not to participate in the Mt Washingon hill climb is turning out to be a harder decision that I thought. This past year I had a spot on the list. I let it go…. said I wouldn’t have the time to train. New job and all. Now I feel like I want to, well sometimes. I did manage to ride up the hill at a decent time. However it was not an official time. No name in the records book. But who cares about that shit anyway? I did it after all…

This image reminds of how much I suffered the first day I went to test my legs and lungs on hill comparible to Mt Wash. I suffered so bad at mile 4 I didn’t go for the secind run up with my friends. All I remember was sucking the cold wet air in the whole way up. Wishing it would stop drizzling long enough to warm up.

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Dave Wiens article on NY Times website.

After beating Armstrong in the Leadville 100 Wiens gains recognition from a major media outlet. Best part is, it is more about Wiens than Armstrong.

On a recent weekday morning here 7,700 feet up in the Rocky Mountains, with his wife already at work, David Wiens fed and packed up his three sons and cajoled them to get out the door to school, prepared for some volunteer work and hoped to maybe squeeze in an hourlong bike ride before rushing off to pick up the children in the afternoon.

A day later, Wiens, a 44-year-old Denver native, will be catching passes for his flag football team. And soon, when the snow hits, he will stop riding altogether until spring. Instead, he will ski most days, when he is not playing on his recreational league hockey team.

“I try to make fitness part of everyday life,” Wiens said. Like his wife, the Olympic bronze medalist Susan DeMattei, Wiens was a professional mountain biker until he retired from the circuit four years ago. Now he races just a few times a year to stay in shape.

“But I make it fit our family life,” he added. “That’s what’s most important to me.”
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