Posting to Immaculate Contraptions may be the only thing that has been less active than my cycling life since I started work as a full-time hospice chaplain.  But no more.  The training schedule has been updated, and the motivation to get back on track physically and mentally couldn’t be higher.  So away we go, off on a new round of cycling adventures!

Stay tuned, and of course, don’t forget to:  Ride smart, stay safe, have fun!

Sincerely,

DJcontraption

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

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