Crash & Burn

Came across this video shot by Edison back in 1899. That guy was damn good…

Wet roads + downhill + highspeed =

I took away these lovely souvenirs from todays IF Road Ride at the Bicycle Escape. Worst part was I was on Tom’s custom IF when it happened. Luckily the bike came away unscathed with the exception of some scraped up bar tape. The crash ocurred when myself , Mehdi and Matt Bracken (IF Pres) were descending a tad too fast on todays ride.

I’m beginning to think I need a new nickname. I’m tired of Grumpy-J and well my bodies getting somewhat tired of living up to Crashmore.

On the bright side I figure how often does one get the chance to wreck when riding with the likes of Matt Bracken? I’ll do a full ride report tomorow.

Saturday night was the IF night at my local Shop The Bicycle Escape. Tom and Danniel held a kick ass event at the shop Satuday night where special guest Matt Bracken (President Of IF) spoke a bit about his company and the industry as a whole. Matt had a ton of great insight to share and was amazingly passionate about both IF and bikes in general. I must admit I now want an IF hard tale more than ever. Matt also had a few IF bikes to show off during the evening. Among them was his personal custom XS which sports a solid gold head badge and the prototype reynolds 953 road bike.

It was a great night of fun at the local bike shop. I consider myself lucky to have such a cool shop just a few minutes away.
I took a bunch of photos which you can find here.

Thanks to my buddy Mike, who is always there to document our finer moments on the bike I have a clip of the wreck that caused the bruise documented earlier. So here allow my moment of pain to bring you a moment of entertainment

I know Karrie is gonna enjoy this one…

I found myself on the ground on more than one ocasion during this past weekends ride at the Watershed. I really have a Love/Hate relationship with that trail system.  I’ve had some of my best and worst days up on that mountain. My right leg has been a little sore since Saturday. Tonight when getting into the shower I noticed why. I haven’t had a bruise this good since my hand surgery.