And Yet Still, It Lives . . .

16 02 2009

Wait.  I-I'm only a dolphin, ma'am.

 

First created in 1991, tubes replaced in ’94 and repainted, stolen in ’95, recovered in ’96, tubes artfully filled in (i.e. 3M Bondo) and repainted the same year, then off a car at ridiculous speeds, rebuilt, unbuilt, and ready to go around one more time:  the Landshark Dirtshark.  It’s apocalypse ’91, revisited.  Or with P.E. still in mind, this time around (just like the last time ’round), the revolution will be un-motorized.

Wow, that’s almost too agit-prop, one-skinny-jean-leg-rolled-up, poorly-pieced-together-”track”-bike, urban-edgy- white-kid sounding, for me to even believe I wrote it down.

Still true, though . . .

DAJ

P.S.  Mark your calendars:  the Have a Hart Cyclocross Class has laid claim to 11.Oct.2009.  Swap meet, skills clinic, and all-around fun scheduled for the day before.  I’ll be getting a site up on the .com soon.  In the meantime, set your training calendars to anaerobic endurance; you’ll need it!  DAJ





Twilight of the . . .

20 01 2009

Government Property Always Looks Prettier at Night . . .

Without further delay, I present the first patently cycling-related post of this blog (photos of Ro-Ro on his Skuut notwithstanding):

I walked all over the land I hope to use for a cyclocross race–really, event weekend–this coming fall.  The photo above gives a beauty-shot peek of the locale at dusk.  Purty, ain’t it?  Brutal, though, describes any course laid out here:  up, really up, down, really down, camber, zig-zag, labyrinth, and maybe a custom bridge so the course can figure 8.

Sigh, it can’t happen soon enough . . . let’s hope it all continues to fall into place.

DAJ








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