A couple more.....

I stole these from Lucas. He makes my feeble attempt at photography look silly.

Cranksgiving

May I have your attention please........

I don't have time at the moment to post pictures of the Goathead Cranksgiving, but I would like to announce that all gas stations within a 4 mile radius of Bike Masters are currently out of peanut-butter and jelly. Please stay tuned for updates.

Sunday at L&C

A chill in the air, leaves on the trail, hills, setting sun, Goatheads on their bikes...

November Pics

November Surprise

The last month of fall is starting with some great weather. I decided to take full advantage of this and got two days of mtn. biking in. First off, Tranquility was great. They T.H.O.R. people of that trail put in a nice re-route. Lately in Omaha it seems like every re-route has some how made the trail easier. Lumpy put it best describing the new route, "you could actually get hurt". Again, great job Tranquility T.H.O.R. members. J.A. and I did a lap and met up with Lumpy for lap two. A-train where were you?
Yesterday, the wife and I hit Manawa. I forgot that we gained an hour of sleep, but lost an hour of light. We hit the trail at about 4:45 and that was almost too late. Some of the TTF sections that had been lost to the flooding have been replaced. Great job trail dudes (i.e. T.H.O.R.). My wife really does prefer Manawa to Swanson (something about hills). She also learned the art of the bail out. While attempting the TTF bridge (lack of a better term), she got stuck and began to fall. While starting to fall she flung herself over her bike and landed on two feet and still held on to her bike. I am not sure how she did that, but it was impressive.
Next up Cranksgiving. The Goatheads plan on sending a contigent and they hope to see you there.

Red, Orange and White

I Rode Tranquility today. Lots of Joggers out there. I guess it's cool that more people are using the trail, but it probably isn't the safest scenario.
Weather is perfect and trail conditions are good.
Omaha is red and Orange right now and the saddle of a mountain bike is a good place to observe it from.
A new technical section has been added at the top of the big climb. It is short, but fun. The first couple of times through are a little bit white knuckle.
Anybody up for a group ride Saturday Afternoon?

Vertigo

This is the feeling I get being a Goathead


the blind freehand helico paragliding acro from Ruben Lippuner on Vimeo.

Tuuuuurtle

That's funny, I saw one too...

This little guy was crossing the West Papio at the Pacific Street underpass on Saturday.

Watching out for Nature

I was riding the other day and saw this little friendly turtle guy in the middle of the road, so I picked him up and moved him to a safe spot:

Manawa - Taco Ride

I got fixed

After riding the Soho for about 6 months I finally flipped my hub and made it a fixed gear bike. I rode to High Gear last night and Grace today. Amazingly I only forgot twice that I couldn't coast. Not sure what I think about the whole fixed gear craze. It wasn't as hard as I thought, but I am not sure what the big thrill is. I'll probably keep it like this for awhile and see if the craze grows on me.
On another note, I think this was the coldest day I have ridden to work. It was 43 when I left home. I am guessing in about a month we will be praying for it to be that warm.
I don't know how or when but the Goatheads need one more group ride this season. Actually we just need one group ride period.

More 7 Oaks pictures

7 Oaks

After not traveling East for a couple years, Lumpy and I rode 7 Oaks this weekend. Iowa received lots of rain this summer (maybe you heard about it), so a couple sections of the trail washed away. I am not sure if their repairs are IMBA certified, BUT they are fun. Now, having never been to Sugar Bottom I can't argue with MOD. However, I have to believe 7 oaks can give it a run for the title of "best trail in Iowa".
Oh and check out Lumpy's double decker fire.

Sorry, no little people...

...But I took a couple new guys out to Tranquility on Sunday.

(One's new to the area, the other's new to biking)

Good times were had.

Code for Free Song!

I rode Saturday Friday and realized how out of shape I've become. The biking scene has been less than climactic for me for a number of reasons this season. So to celebrate, I'm giving something away!


Pizza Hut convinced me to feed 4 kids for $1 for some "from Hunger to Hope" thing, and as a reward I got a code for a free Mariah Carey song. I'm so excited!!!!! I have enough room on my Zune, but since I'm an official T.H.O.R. member I'm obligated to give back to the community.

Here is the code for the song "Love Story" - first come, first serve!

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Claim at this web site: http://www.fromhungertohope.com/

Just post back saying thanks and three sentences about how Mariah Carey changed your life.

Cinnamon-Bacon Roll

It's been 2 weeks since I've been on a trail, so the only contributions I can make to this blog are bacon related posts........ I present, The Cinnamon-Bacon Roll.



Link

Next up . . . Whistler

So, my wife finally let me buy her a mtn. bike. While I don't think she wants to enter the Psycowpath series anytime soon, she did have at Manawa yesterday.

Crappy phone pics from the Stop to Stop ride

Speed Vest

Brady Clark and Mykle Hansen created a vest that lets bicycle riders show off how fast they’re pedaling:

How does the vest work?
In a nutshell, it uses a sensor on your wheel to send a signal to a microcontroller that then turns the numbers on and off on the vest.

Why did you invent this?
Have you ever outpaced cars and been honked at? Had a car almost wipe you out while making a turn? The Speed Vest was invented because we were curious to know if putting more information in front of drivers might change their awareness of bicyclists. That, and we suspect a lot of people don’t realize that an average person can bike 10-15 mph (15-25 km/h).

Here's a link with a video

Stop To Stop Update

It's still on for this Friday night, with a small change from what I posted earlier. Instead of meeting at the UNO clocktower, we're meeting at the intersection of Keystone Trail and Pacific. We'll probably be in the Khol's parking lot. The plan is to depart for Wing Stop at 6:30.
Save yourself from a life of regret.....be there.

A question we all must ask ourselves....

I could survive for 1 minute, 25 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Created by Bunk Beds Pedia

Stop to Stop Ride

PLUS

= Stop to Stop Ride

Friday, September 19th could end up being the day that changes your life forever. It'll be the day you first realize that donuts and wings can be eaten in tandem as long as you included a bike ride in between.
Come join some Goatheads for the Stop to Stop ride. Wing stop is located at 120th and Blondo. Donut Stop is located at 13th and Pierce. If you'd like to join us, you can hook up at any point depending on where you live. The tentative plan is to meet at the UNO clock tower Friday night at 6:30. We'll head west and get to Wing Stop around 7. We'll ingest a small mountain of tiny fried bird wings before we head to Donut Stop. I'm thinking it'll probably be around 9 before we start cramming eclairs in our pie holes.
If that doesn't sound like a good time to you, then we won't get along......ever.

Press Release:

I would like to take this opportunity to announce to all of my loyal fans and to the media that as of September 9th I am officially out of retirement. I will return to professional mountain biking for the 2009 season. This is in part due to my strong showing at the Dakota 5-0 and also due to my love of fame and fortune. At the moment, I'm tentatively planning on doing 5 Psycowpath races next season and I'm open to the possibility of competing in the State Championship Race. I have already taken steps to re-enroll in the U.S. Anti-Doping agency. I plan to post results for all blood work here at MTBGoatheads.com in an attempt at complete transparency. I sincerely hope to regain the trust of the American people.

Thank you for your continued support!
-Lumpy