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Some pictures from the weekend near Mt. St. Helens
Until Dave figures out how to post to this blog here are some pictures I took at Lewis River trail (my second favorite after Mc Kenzie) and Ape Canyon
Ciao
Paol0
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High Cascades 24HR
What is harder, hotter, longer, dustier and a shorter drive than the 24 hour race in Spokane? Well, the High Cascades 24hr race in Bend. We all had high hopes that this was going to be just as much of a party as the Spokane race. No such luck. With less people and a tougher course, it was close to being a suffer-fest.
Holmberg, Eric, Damon and Rob got 8th place in the 4 person open. Good job guys.
Wynne’s team which included FnF friends Dara, Denise and Juntu took second in the 4 person womens cat. Way to go!
And finally, Justin Demallie pulled more than his weight to get us into second place in the Open Duo cat.
-davide
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Italian island
Great downhill on the wall
I spent a week of vacation on the island of Pantelleria, in the very south of Italy, practically north Africa, from the house we could see Tunisia.
My mom told me about a new shop that was renting bikes and that has started to promote MTB on the island. From what my mom told me they were pretty advanced, they asked if I wanted one or two suspensions, they asked the size and if I would bring my own pedals and they offered the GPS track of the trails. I asked for the two suspensions and a map since I don’t have a GPS. I got a Scott Spark 60 (I thought it was the top of the line..), helmet, pump and several tubes for 5 days for 80 Euro!
The trails were a blast, unfortunately they go from easy to impossible in 10 feet, the best ones are old donkey trails, some from roman time, where the animals have smoothed the lava rocks. Not much flat the island is an old volcano, and some of the dirt roads are basically a wide singletrack, it is very dry so most of the plants have thorns, I flatted 5 times, luckily I always made it home and than the tire went flat. The best riding is at the top of the mountain, there is a small forest with some nice smooth singletracks. The bike performed well, it has a bar mounted double lock of the suspension that works well and it was nice to ride a “modern” bike for a change. The tires (Rocket Ron) were a bit light and skinny for the rocks and thorns and they would have not lasted another week.
Ciao
Paolo
Technical dowhill
Riding near the water
The ghost signs, the sun has deleted the information
The new signs, these were everywhere on some trails, even when there was not a trail junction, weird
Tight squeeze
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When in China…..
Around the lake
- Bike path around the lake
I am in China for a week to visit factories and suppliers, I was kind of worried that like last year when I spent the month of May in Korea I would get sick of riding the crappy stationary bike after 2 hours and not exercise at all. But luckily I found out that they rent bikes at the Hotel and that there is a great bike path that goes around this big lake..
I got 2 hours in the first day with a women’s crappy mtb and 20 psi in the knobby tires and 1 1/2 hours the second day on the “black” bike, not sure if it was more money but at list had some more pressure. It sure beats the bikes in the gym…
Ciao
Paolo
black bike and signage
Chinese singletrack
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Hornings = Mud
You woulda thought it was a cross race. Mud mud mud. And with the confusion of how many laps we were supposed to do, it was a brutal race.
Johnny P finished 7th in Cat 2 Men 19-34 – way to go!!!
davide finished 14th in Cat 2 Men 45-54
No other Filth and Fury racers showed up, which demonstrates their intelligence.
Next up, Mudslinger.
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2011 Races #1 and #2
The racing season has started!
Johnny Perlman officially started this year’s pain with the Banana Belt 1 out at Hagg Lake on March 6. After being postponed for a week due to snow on the road, the race got underway in excellent weather conditions. JohnnyP was racing Cat 5 this time and hung with the peloton for all but the last few miles. He was about a minute behind first place. Results here.
My first race was Echo Red-to-Red, the first of 10 races in the Oregon XC series races. Sadly, my second ever DNF was due to a blown deraileur. (FYI, my first DNF was at my very first MTB race at Capital Forest in 2008. Deraileur that time too.) But, the weather was nice, the course was good, and the company was great. Hanging with Rebecca Rusch and chatting with Sue Butler was fun. It was worth the three hour drive. Results here. Next up, Hornings!
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Hagg Lake Group Ride
So this happened a few weekends back now but it was such an adventure it still deserved a little recognition. With the race season starting in a couple weeks some team members wanted to get some miles in their legs and get a preview of the Banana Belt course around Hagg lake. The only problem was that, from downtown, that’d make for a full century of a ride. That’s a little too much for February. We took a look at the map, came up with an interesting plan and organized the Filthies. Justin, Mark and Johnny would start out from downtown, pick up Tony and Darien on the other side of the hills and all ride out to McMinnville to pick up Davide.
The night before the ride the temperature dropped and the hills got some snow but that didn’t stop us from starting the ride by climbing up to Skyline.
This would turn out to be a mistake. After riding for a while on the wet pavement we noticed a vinegar smell on our gloves from the de-icer. Getting further North on Skyline we began to hit several (literally) shady spots until we finally hit a patch of black ice that took Mark and Johnny out.
Shaken up a bit, we continued on and hit several more spots where the ice was so bad we had to walk.
By now we were a little fed up and decided to take Cornelius Pass road instead of back roads. This route also turned out to be pretty damn scary because the drivers were less than friendly and we had put up with getting buzzed, yelled at, having to ride on the muddy shoulder and almost getting squished by trucks.
We finally met up with Darien and Tony who invited us back to his house to get patched up (and checked out).
45,000BTUs later the ride started to get a little better so we picked up Davide and made it to the lake.
We did a lap of the lake and happened to run into Justin’s friend Justin Finn and we all rode back to McMinnville where we stocked up on calories at McMenamins. One of us had the genius idea of riding with a fanny pack so he was able to change into a clean vintage wool jersey that matched his saddle from 1924 and quill stem.
To avoid hitting the century mark we hopped on the MAX in Beaverton and headed home after a great ride and a pretty decent adventure.
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SUNDAY MTB ride
Were you guys scared of looking at this the whole time…..
Spike rear
Or to have this behind you….
Spike front
Scappoose was very good, challanging and a bit slippery in sections, wet roots.
I hope next time to have some company.
Ciao
Paolo
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