2011 Darkhorse 40

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Excellent race by Maddawg and Darkhorse yet again! I’ll update this soon, real job keeping me very busy. Pictures are currently uploading at 9pm on race day, hopefully they are done by midnight. But here is the link to the pictures. Please note that during lap 1 I had some location and technical problems and I missed some riders, during lap 2 I had some serious hardware issues which caused me to miss another batch of riders. Hopefully I got at least one good shot of each rider, but I fear there are riders I missed, my apologies if I did.

Pictures:

http://gtluke.smugmug.com/Biking/2011-Darkhorse-40

 

2011 Bearscat 50

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Beautiful day for a 50 mile suck fest in Wawayanda! Congrats to everyone that finished and to those that tried. Quite an accomplishment. I only took pictures on the 1st lap, but did so in 2 locations. On the 2nd location at some point my lens malfunctioned and while trying to fix it I missed a handful of riders. Too much mud still left over from the Stewart races, and one of the switches was jammed.

Here’s all the pictures:

http://gtluke.smugmug.com/Biking/2011-Bearscat-50

There were some riders who got DQ’s for missing a turn. For those that I caught there is a gallery of free pictures for you. Hopefully it makes you feel better, I missed a turn out there too just trying to find my photo spot.

Here’s Woody. He’s completely retarded, as in Single Speed and full rigid.

2011 Stewart Super Six Pack by MBTNJ

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Congratulations to Norm and crew for their first racing going so swimmingly. Truly a flawless execution. Bonus for having sandwiches and diet coke delivered to me in the woods!

Follow the discussions of the event over here:

http://www.mtbnj.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=19

All the pictures on my site are here:

http://gtluke.smugmug.com/Biking/2011-Stewart-Super-Six-Pack

And here’s Jim, I was all excited to see Jim back on a mountain bike, but he crashed and burned. Check out the blood on his right side. Valiant effort in a return to knobby tires though.

2011 Singlespeed-a-polooza

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Wow, wet, mud.
The afternoon was a beautiful day though. Great race, despite the mud and water everyone was having a fantastic time.
I got soaked from head to toe getting the pictures on the 2nd lap. Enjoy!
(Note!: As of 6:20am Monday, about 98% of the pictures are uploaded.
100% of prologue is done though
Check back in a few hours for an update)
http://gtluke.smugmug.com/Biking/2011-Singlespeed-a-polooza

2011 Vegas Day 1

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Back to Vegas, again.
Here’s an awesome link of all the photos geoencoded on a map, sweet!
http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=15378908_viQgt

This time because my wife wanted to meet up with a bunch of her coworkers. Of course I’ll use this opportunity to ride the awesome trails in the surrounding area. Being the cheap bastard that I always am, I packed up my bike in a “luggage” sized box again. This time thought I’m bringing my Trek Fuel EX 69er.
Yes, Trek made this bike, and I seriously doubt anyone has ever seen another one. I LOOOVE the geometry, but the cheapness of this bike is kind of annoying. Wish there was a high end version of this bike.
Anyway, it was a struggle but I did get it in the box. I took the rear triangle and handlebars and put them in my regular carry on for better fit and for weight. Carrying that box sucks so I put everything light and big in it and put the heavy stuff in my carry on that has wheels. I’m surprised that the TSA said nothing about the chain, hydraulic brakes, cable shifters and derailures, and crankshaft with rings.
Here are some pictures of the bike going in the box.

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