Nice riding this weekend... Hope you got out!

Took some pics of Krug while out

Man I love Single Speed

Red Bridge
One of the creek crossings

Yes, there is a bit of climbing out at Krug. The fellas cut everythign nicely though, nothing is straight up. There is only one climib I have not been able to do thus far. Still you can do it with gears I bet.

View from the top, great view pic does not do it justice

Pine forrest

One of the bench cut climbs

little gully thats a bitch to climb when going backwards. Came close once.

Saw someone with out of town plates when I was leaving, nice to see people coming in to ride out there. Hope you enjoyed it.

Long weekend....

Any one riding this weekend?
Sat? Sun? Mon?

Sat. a.m. ride

Thanks for the Satruday ride fellas.. Was fun. Had some new faces out there, which is always nice to see..
Hoppe is still fast as ever, even when his "legs feel dead".. Whatever man!

The HIGHLIGHT of the day was of course, Randy (aka hippy) doing a 5 second endo over his handlebars into the creek bed!!!

So, picture this, a 275 pound man balancing on the front of this 29er wheel for a second or two trying to figure out if he is going...

1. Over the handlebars
2. Over to the side
3. Maintaining his balance and coming back down with his rear wheel..

Well the creekbed had a choke hold on his front tire so it was not going anywhere and over the bars he went. Funniest thing I have seen in a looooooong time!!

More pics from Sat, RIM

The St. Joe RIM crew..

I think you will reconginze the three knuckelheads on the left. DCrook, CHoppey, RTracy (hippy).

JP and company on the right. Crook got them on the last lap in the middle of a crazy downpour.
Your laptimes were crazy good and consisitent.

Me on the right, pretty pumped, its my first potium EVER.... I did pass the number 4 guy in the last 30 yards to get it. I think he was changing out his water bottle or some s#!t. Owe well, he passed me while I was putting air in my front tire. Should have been paying attention...
I don't care, I am taking it!!!! Thought I heard Chariots of fire?????? ;)

Crook and I for the start.. Kinda glad I did some trial running this past month.

Pic of Hoppey. I am sure going like a bat out of hell..

Crook on a log crossing.

Me, same crossing, somehow don't look as graceful... Anyway...

I think this is Crook, but not sure...

Thats all I could find on heartlands website. Hippy, I can't believe I could not find one damn picture of you out there...

http://www.heartlandrace.com/

For race results, pics, etc...........

These guys at heartland put on the best races hands down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pics from Crowder last Saturday

double mohawk for Jason

Craig is ready to rock while Dave is just bein pretty

Dave in the mandetory walk zone

Jason and Dave doin the run at the Lemans start

Just feelin the pre-race pressure Randy/Jason/Craig/Dave

Krug... Getting Buff!

Just a few pics of Krug from this morning along with one of the guilty ones responsible for the
for getting the trails to this point. Randy and David have been de-nubbing and raking trash in several of the trails near the parking area. I got started on a little bench cutting and blowing off what had been weedeated. All of the trails above the waterfall along with the bridges trail have been blown so far. Hoping to get the entire trail blown this week which will really cut down on the flat tires. After weedeating and blowing things are really starting to look buff.

GPS - New Krug Loop

Here's a gps image of the new Krug loop.
Garmin puts it at 6.56 miles

RIDE KRUG!!

Everyone needs to get out and try the "new" Krug! I rode the entire loop today, it was soft but still fun. We need to get everyone out to enjoy the fruits of a few peoples labor! CH, RT, DC and any others who have put time in at Krug, "THANK YOU"!
Everyone needs to get out and try the "new" Krug! (did I already mention that?) The sooner we get these trails packed down the more people are going to love it and ride it.

CH,
If you were riding today, I hope you enjoyed the web free trails! I ate a bunch of the little furry creepy crawlies for you.

Krug, RIP & Tour of MO

OK, I fully intended to boycott the blog (take my ball and go home) because of the verbal abuse that I was taking about this whole weed-eating fiasco... After all, I am a sensitive fellow ;)_
Well, I did take a bit of an excursion out to Krug over the weekend to kill some time (avoid panting my house) and HOLY CRAP!!! If I was feeling a bit guilty for not putting my time behind a power-tool lately before I saw what all has been done, I sure as hell feel guilty now...
I was dumbfounded by the amount of work that has been done over there, you can't really comprehend it until you get out there and ride it... Awesome!!!!
I particularly like the creek crossings! It flows great, can't Wait to feel the burn while flying through there when there is some hard packed singletrack...
I did get a bit mixed up on top of the park around the "pine tree forest" area, so I never quite made it out where I was supposed to. But anyway, I just wanted to say bravo, nicely done, it looks wonderful...

On another note, RIP (Rapture in Misery) is August 15th, and will be here before you know it. I suggest getting as much saddle time in right now.. Its better to kick your own ass before the race than during! Which will probably be the case anyway, just a suggestion...

Owe, also, for those of you that care, the Tour of Missouri is back ON!!!

One more thing, Ed, I hear the kids bike races were awesome!!

The ToM is an economic boon to the state and our cities...it would be sad to lose it. For those interested, please read the letter below from the Lt. Gov.


Friends,

By now, some of you may have heard rumors regarding Gov. Nixon freezing state funds for the 2009 Tour of Missouri. I would like to share with you the details that we currently have:

On Wednesday, at the close of business, I was informed by the Division of Tourism that the money set aside for the Tour of Missouri was frozen by Gov. Nixon's administration. The state's commitment for the 2009 Tour of Missouri was $1.5 million. Without these funds, which are available and approved by the Tourism Commission, the Tour of Missouri will cease to exist.

At this time, I have requested a special meeting of the Missouri Tourism Commission to evaluate our options and decide what our next step should be.

As you know, we are very close to putting the final touches on the race this year. Our sponsors have invested and we are on track with our fundraising goals. Teams from across the world, the same teams now racing in the Tour de France, have been invited to our state, and communities across Missouri are making great preparations for the race. Contracts have been signed by the state, cities, sponsors and vendors and cutting this funding will leave the state susceptible to wasteful litigation.

Right now, I am urging cycling fans across our great state, and around the world to contact Gov. Jay Nixon at 573-751-3222and tell him to release the funding for the largest sporting event ever held in our state.

I am grateful for the supporters, sponsors, volunteers and spectators who in the past two years have helped generate nearly $60 million in economic impact for our state, and brought over 800,000 visitors to the race.

With your help, I truly believe we can ensure the survival and success of the 2009 Tour of Missouri.

Sincerely,
PeterKinder
PETER D. KINDER
Lt. Governor, Chairman of the Missouri Tourism Commission

Call Gov. Jay Nixon at 573-751-3222 and tell him to save our race!

Kids Tour of St. Joseph

For anyone willing to help and/or bring your kids out to ride, the first Stage of the Kids Tour is this Saturday (July 11) at Hyde Park. Registration starts at 9, rides start at 10:00. All participants receive an award medal and there will be drawings for prizes. The course consists primarily of one loop around the entire sidewalk path.

We'd love to see as much support and presence as possible from the local biking community. Volunteer work will consist mainly of course marshals around the sidewalk throughout the park. Thus most volunteers will be free to leave after the kids finish their rides... likely around 11:00.

Call me (816) 271-4671 if you'd like more info or visit the City's website at www.stjoemo.info
Thanks gang.

THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY!!!!!

Randy, David and I are planning to do some more weedeating at Krug this Saturday morning from about 6 am to around 10 am. If we could get three more people to help out, we could work in three tandems of two and really get through a good amount of trail. Should be nice and cool in the morning.
Please post a comment on this blog if you can help out.
Thanks,
CH

In the flippen 80’s, can you believe it?

Got back from the lake on Sunday, completely panning on doing absolutely nothing.. Damn, its absolutely perfect outside.. Cant waist a day like this, got the ok from the boss, aka. Wife, and out the door!
The trials are great! I pity anyone who did not get their A$$ out there to enjoy it (insert countless remarks about how your all dehydrated from weedeeting here).. Looks like its supposed to be this way all week.. Take advantage man, take advantage. Yes, spiders are coming out, but don’t be a bloody wanker!

Thank you fellas! (Hippy, Crook) for your work, as always, yes I am a lazy loser and we are ALL lucky to have you guys out there working. Hoppy too, if he does not intend to say in Mexico..

Thanks for weedeating!

When the hell is Lansen coming back, we miss your posts dude!?!?

Tired of that post.....

Better get out and ride before the spiders come out... Then its you first through the trail...
Its hot as hell, but the trails are nice right now..

More on Krug

More weedeating at Krug was done this week. Randy and Lance made it through the newly re-routed shorter switchbacks that now tie into the new outlet of the tree house trail. They also made it further down the trail to the new connection to the center trail that runs parrallel to the old climb that tops out at the boulders. This trail then comes back down that same hill and re-crossess the rode and ties into the remaining lower section of the trail that ends at the waterfall. This has all been weed eated now and can be ridden (although some benchcutting still needs to be done) Randy also spent several hours cutting back the majorly over grown section of this existing trail about a hundred yards or so before the waterfall.
The new loop will not cross the creek anymore by the waterfall but will instead run parallel to the creek, bypass the old start of the bridges trail and also bypass the old start of the red bridge trail before it takes off to the right on the new bottom switchback trail. This trail will tie into the remaining switchbacks that make their way to the top of the hill. All of these switchbacks have been extended in length where they used to tie into old downhill trail. After these switchbacks finally come out on the upper portion of the hill, the trail will meander back down and re-cross the old down hill trail twice and eventually pop out onto the old red bridge trail. The red bridge trail will terminate at the end of the old bridges trail which will now become the start of the bridges trail. The bridges trail will come out at the top of the old washed out climbs above the waterfall where this will all tie into the re-routed trails in the pine forest area.
Right now the new loop can be ridden all the way to the waterfall as weedeating has been completed to this point. Technically the switchbacks after this section can also be ridden as I spent several nights last week "rough" weedeating these from bottom to top and back down to the red bridge trail to kind of re-layout the trail as the new switchback tie ins had become extremely overgrown from this winters rough cutting and were difficult to see. These sections still need to be finish weedeated but at least we can now tell where the trail is going.
If you have a little additional time after say riding the GSC, pop on over to Krug and ride some of the new stuff. Really need to start getting some traffic on it to get things firmed up.
CH

Krug Progress Update

On Sunday Randy, Dave and I weedeated the new trail head section on the north side of the back parking lot at Krug. We then went over and hit the new section of trail that goes around the open field and back up the south side of the parking lot and eventually makes its way over to the gravel downhill by the animal pens. This trail ties into the old trail that (for those of you that remember) used to have the log jump on it and eventually ties into the tree house trail.
Tonight I went back and re-rough cut in an additional switchback trail to rectify what we lost due to the "misplacement" of the boulders. This portion of the trail contains several short switchbacks and is now ready to be weedeated. Once this is done it will tie together the trailhead section and the section to the south so that we can at least start riding these sections to get over to the treehouse trail. This is pretty much all new trail so it will be pretty soft to start but should firm up fairly quickly if we can get people to come up and start riding it.
Also, as was written in a previous post, the new trails above the waterfall have been weedeated and can be ridden also.
Still lots of work to be done but we are making progress.
CH

Landahl

Well guys sorry I didn't make it out this weekend for trailwork. I already had plans to meet my brother and do some out of town riding. Thought I would post some photos for those of u interested in riding at Landahl. The trails are great, just a little muddy in certain sections. I'm all for the adoption of trails as mentioned before. We need to have a group meeting sometime to intiate this process. Any suggestions?

the weedeating continues...

I'm gonna hit the girlscout camp sat morning early and try to finish it up. Anyone else up for it? I have 2 extra heavyduty husqy trimmers, string, gas, etc... The earlier we start the earlier we'll be done. I'll be out around 6:30 am.

Another thing, it has been suggested multi times to assign sections of trail to a certain person. If they get weedy, then it is the assigned's responsibility to gwet em into shape. If you want to be a part of this, please comment below and we'll get together and divvy out areas. The trail fairy is getting tired and needs our help.

Remember: if you have time to ride, you have time to help with the maintainence of where you ride. The trail hippie

Krug Progress

Just wanted to post a few pics of the new stuff on the back side of Krug. Weedeating has been done on the new re-route of the rooted out "long climb" section and also through the new switchback sections in the pine forest area. Made it to the last switchback at the bottom of this section when I sheared the head attachment bolt in the new trimmer (guess I should have bought the Stihl!) Still have alot to do up there but if your curious you can go ride this new section (although it could stand to be hit with a blower). Also heard what sounded like another trimmer going somewhere up there when I was leaving. That's awesome if someone was up there working on some of the other sections too! Should be a blast when we get it all completed!

CH

Krug & Gen....

Got a sneek peek at what Krug is going to look like when finished. Hoppy took Randy and I out to see what it looks like after a little weed eatin lovin, and let me tell you its going to be a blast when it gets up and going...

Weather can't get any better for riding! Trails are very nice... Thanks for all the hard work fellas...

Planning on a little ride Wed. eve if anyone is intersted: think Hoppy and maybe Lansen are in..

GCS/ Brownie Trails

Well Randy and I have put a good dent into GSC. I worked today on GSC and completed Brownie trail with loppers and trimming as well. The trails are perfect despite all the rain we got. I have included a few pics of how it looked after all the hard work. I might get out Sunday for a ride/tree trimming ride.

a coupla riddles and some (new?) info

For all you Midwesterners out there...what's knee high by the 4th of July? That's right, it's corn. Now, what the #$%%$# is knee high now? That's right...the stinging nettles!

Now for the helpful stuff. The bike shop has moved to the Kirkpatrick building down at 7th and Francis or thereabouts. This is important knowledge because all of the powertools for our trailbuilding and maintainence that have been bought with donations are just sitting at said bikeshop. There is string for the trimmers and oil for the 2 stroke stuff. If you have your own stuff, great. If not, this stuff is for our use.

I look at it as if you have time to ride, you have time to do a little maintainence on the trails. The trail fairies that come out at night and do the work are getting tired. Give em a hand! hippie

THANKS!!!

Just wanted to thank everyone who has been helping out with the weedeating.
Looks like "Tundra Twins" (Randy and Brian) were out on the GSC and Brownie today. The trails are really shaping up nicely. Appreciate all the effort guys.
CH

Monday eve ride...

Headed out with the speedy twins, Lansen and Hoppy. Good lord, I tell you they are from Norwegian Cross-country stock (Two of you are probably going to get that)… Anyway, it was a wonderful eve of riding and the trails are sweeeeeeet!

Saw a ton of new faces out there, which is down right awesome.. Hey, fellas (maybe a lady or so too), on this site, don’t be bashful now, I know we don’t hear from ya much… I know the Trail-Hippy is kinda scary at first, but he aint nothing but a big ole teddy bear…

Crowder

Randy, Hoppy, Lansen and I (Jason) had some good riding out at Crowder (well, kinda). Apparently, being the geniuses we are it rained quite a bit more up in Trenton than it did down here, as it was slow goings virtually the entire time. Had to walk the bikes quite a bit.
Some parts as you can see were very wet..

Its such a nice trail system, it would have been nice if it were dry. Did I mention it was reaaaly muddy?
Some of us enjoyed the mud more than others!

Well we did not drive all that way for nothing, so we did get a couple of good hours of riding in, felt it a bit today.. Towards the end of the ride, we found some dryish riding, all and all it was still a blast...

Look, its not only me that Randy has to fix!! Here he is taking care of Mr. Speedy aka Hoppy…

Crowder - This Saturday (May 9)

Who's all up for the trip to Crowder this Saturday that RT was asking about?
Leave St. Joe around 8:00 am?

Thursday riding and stuff

Mr. Crook and myself had a most excellent ride on the Corby trails and both Girlscout trails yesterday. A month of surfing has NOT helped my cycling fitness. I coughed hard once and Crook got a piece of lung stuck on his Oakleys. Andy Clements had the poles delivered to Krug. He also said he can get a bobcat to drag what we want where, but just maybe on a Friday afternoon. We need to know what we want where, have it cut and ready, and they will do the dragging. The nettles are already getting tall on North, as witnessed by my itching legs today. Weedeating is in our near future. Howsabout a Crowder trip on May 9th? That's a Sat I think. They have real showers and shitters for those of you with tender bums.Peace

Utility Poles for Krug

There is now a big pile of utility poles up at Krug. It will no doubt take some serious manpower and perhaps a 4x4 quad to get them into the trails. Fun...

Bone Bender

Race ON!
The Bone Bender 3/6 hour is running rain or shine. The awesome Smithville Trail Crew is prepping the course today and hoping the rain stays south as predicted right now. We may get some precipitation, but we will be running the race either way. We've got 70+ registered racers so we will probably see the field swell to well over 125 by race time.

Good luck to everyone who is going!!! Wish I could be with ya.

Someone please post how it went when you get back.. Smooth is fast! Or so I have been told anyway..

Good Riding...

It was a great day to ride.. Headed out with Brad and Brian. All the trails looking are looking good…

Saw JSpell out there and heard that Don was out somewhere also… I know there were more, sorry if I missed you on here.

Looks like there is no rain forecasted till Sat… Good luck to everyone racing this weekend…

Also, got a update from Randy in Florida… He is working out hard surfing, will be in fine shape when he gets back.. Sent a pic.. Is that a lawn chair and speedo's?

Hope you got a ride in this weekend..

Looks like its going to be wet this week…

Saturday was perfect; Jim, Brad and I got a good ride in. Well, at least Jim and I did, we think Brad had the brown bottle flu. Did all 4 trails and they are in pretty good shape.
Back side if Girlscout has some wet spots but other than that the riding was nice.

Thought I would put a pic in here for those of you who have not been out.. Just a little reminder..

This is called a singletrack... Say it with me... Seeienglle traaack...

I am getting pretty pumped, spring is going to be here soon... The hill by the tennis courts on Corby S. is pretty tough right now, its soft and rutted out.. But at least when your out of breath cussing yourself because your not in shape, you have time to take a pic.

Where is Robert Frost aka. Lansen the poet biker when you need him?

All of you going this weekend, good luck, 2 1/2 hours kicked my ass.

ride on monday race soon

Well is it going to snow any more? that darn global warming. Jp wants to get together for a mtb ride monday night or urban ride if the trails are too wet or snowy. We need a head count for the Bone bender race on the 18th, just post here. Jp has a new blog with team info on it www.jpcyclingstillrollingalong.blogspot.com check it out.

Utility Pole Update

I met with KCP&L regarding donation of old utility poles. The available supply is less than stellar as far as length of poles and the donation is in the hands of their legal dept for now.
If I understood correctly, their regular clean up contractor was already given the green light to pick up the entire supply, thus if the donation isn't approved quickly, there may not be any poles available.

Regarding lengths, there are a couple poles perhaps in the 24ft range and maybe a few more around the 16ft we needed, but otherwise most of the stock is less than 8ft... or much shorter. In other words, our wish list of 28 poles at least 16ft in length won't be happening anytime soon as far as KCP&L availability. I do appreciate the consideration they're making. I hope to hear back soon.

I suggest that the mtb group start searching for alternative sources or materials.

jerseys are in

JP sent the jerseys up to the shop and they are ready to pick up. The bone bender in coming up soon April 18th. JP wants to get together soon for a team ride and maybe a BBQ at my house or Greg's back yard. I'll keep everyone posted.

Nice day for a ride!

Today after work? Any takers?

54th Street - Tuesday @ 7pm

Thought since Randy was leaving town for a month it would be good to get together before he left.
We'll be meeting at 54th Street around 7:00 pm (ladies welcome too)
Be there if you can
CH

Racing & Driving, kinda sucks...

OK, I checked both (FT) Fat Tire Series and (PS) Psycowpath Series and here are upcoming races that are four hours or less drive time.
April 4th – (PS) Maskentine, Norfolk NE (4 hrs away)
April 19th – (FT) Le Tour de Tick, Neosho MO (3hrs)
May 2nd – (PS) River City Shootout, Bellevue NE (2hrs)
May 9th – (PS) Battle Royale, Platt River NE (????)
May 23rd – (PS) Lewis and Clark, Council Bluffs IA (2hrs)

Howsabout a work day at Krug if the race cancels?

You have the time off, the weather isn't suitable for much else, and I want to see a couple others try to keep up with Dave and his big Stihl saw running wide open. Jason and I fell behind the last time we cleaned up behind Dave. He was apparently on a mission, and succeeded quite well at keeping our a$$es busy! Let's do 3-4 hours, then get Jason to buy us lunch and beer somewhere...in fact, let's insist on it. 8am in the back of Krug on 2nd street.
the letsgetrdun hippie

Bone Bender

This is off their site:

“We have received a lot of emails regarding current course conditions for this weekends Bone Bender 3/6 Hour MTB Odyssey. Currently the trails at Smithville Lake are closed due to recent snow fall and rains. We are watching the weather closely and hoping that any more rain stays away giving the trails time enough to dry for Saturday's event. In the event that we have to postpone the event to April 18th, 2009, we will make that final call by this Wednesday.”

need more info for bone bender & demo bikes

Jp needs shirt sizes and ages for everyone racing so we can get everyone signed up right. Marin and maybe Haro are sending us demo bikes to race at the bone bender. Marin is sending a Med. and Lrg. Mt. Vision and Haro maybe a Sonics. These are great modles for endurance racing.

Fat Tire Series

No not BradBob's belly, the other fat tire...

http://www.midwestfattireseries.com/raceinfo

Can anyone help me....

Hey MTB bros.! Does anyone have a 68 x 108 ISIS bottom bracket? I just want to use it to see if that is the size I need for my new ride! I dont want to order one and not be able to use it! Your help is greatly appreciated, c u on the trails soon! BradBoB

Sunbrige

If your looking to ride, Sunbrige is dry. There is no since in tearing up the Corby’s if there is a dry place to ride in town.

jerseys bone bender and other stuff

This is a reminder from JP about jerseys. Kelly, Greg, Randy and maybe Lansen have paid so please disregard if you have paid.
Shawn,

I have not received money for the following jersey orders:

Russ Dog

Greg ?

Kelly M.

Jason

Nick

Mike Ratcliff

Randy T.

Larry

Lansen

Total of 9 at $35.00 each = $315.00

They hit the account for the remainder of what was owed on the 15th, this means the kits will be in SOON!! That is great news!

I will be in St. Joe on Wed., can run by the shop around noon. Pick up the rest of the $$ and look at the calendar for a team meeting, kit hand out? We can also discuss posting a Bonebender race deadline, so that I can submit a list of racers, categories and a team check for the race??

Later,

JP

Here is another from JP. Lansen any chance of getting JP posting power.

Shawn,

Could you please post this below?

BoneBender!!!

Anyone on the team who is planning to race the Bone Bender on March 14th at Smithville Lake, please post to this blog. I will need your name and category that you will be racing. I would like to contact the promoter next by Friday Feb. 27th with a team head count. I guess I would need your name, first and last, age group, category, etc. This is one of the team sponsored races, so entry is paid for by our generous sponsors. It is much easier to write one check for the team, than reimburse everyone individually. If you have already registered no problem, I will issue you a check at the race.

Jersey's will be in, hopefully, by the first week of March. What I would like to do, is have a meeting at Force of Nature on Monday Night March 9th to hand out jerseys and have our first team meeting. Time will be determined, but we could try to do a ride and then the meeting, since daylight savings will begin on March 8th? Just a thought?

I am looking forward to riding and racing with you all in 2009! New daddy duties have kept me from riding much the last 3 weeks, but I plan on living on the bike a lot starting this weekend! Time to get ready for 2009!!

See you all soon!

JP

P.S. Let's take some of that stimulus money and ask the parks department for money to provide a bike patrol on the trails for the weekends. That would kick some people off there horses and out of the trails??

Horses & Motorcycles @ Krug!

This past Saturday while hiking with family, a couple on horses passed us going up the hill south of waterfall & tearing it up.  I asked them if they were supposed to be there and the man said they could.  Also saw fresh motorcycle tracks in the same area.  Nothing worst for groomed trails than the destructive power of horse hoofs or irresponsible motor heads spinning out their rear wheels.

This is the first sign of horses in the years I've been playing back there.  If indeed horses are allowed and this is only the first of more horse & motorcycle outings to come, we can say goodbye to descent mtb riding and ya guys might as well stop all the current hard work on relocating trails.  Cause as Lansen and I got to experience first hand about a year ago in Waubonsie SP, the trails will turn to shitt... literally!

Bridges for Krug

KCP&L (T&D) has indicated the potential for donation of utility poles for trail bridges. I'm working with them on the details as far as the "red tape" is concerned, but I would like to know how many bridges and what spans you're looking at, so we'll know how many poles to ask for. I believe it would be in everyone's best interest to follow the specs set out in the engineered plans contained on the IMBA site. KCP&L needs specifics to provide a level of comfort from the liability side of things.

Please let me know if someone has already made other arrangements for bridge materials, so I can disregard if that is the case. The local plant manager is a relative, so I asked him to check on it for me.

jerseys

Jp texted me and let me know the jerseys ship to him march 2nd, just in time for warmer weather.

Buttons, anyone? Beuhler...Beuhler

Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. High near 60F.

I do think a ride sounds quite nice tomorrow...
After work? Anyone?

70 Degrees! Did you ride today?

Did anyone make it out to the trails today? I worked, so I missed the fun. How were the trails?
Anyone riding in the morning? (early or?)

Heartland Racing: Good Times Tour

After the suggestion of hosting a Heartland MTB tour up here, I thought I would just shoot them over an email for the hell of it.
So, now if you read below is a done deal(ish), we need to start figuring out when would be the best time to do it.
I emailed her back saying that early spring would not work as Krug will not be ready.
Our local hippy rednecks need to build 132 bridges to make all the trail cutting work!!!!

On another note, we actually had a decent turnout Sat doing trail work freezing our bojangles off.. Of course Hip and Hop leading the way.....

Let me know your thoughts and I can get back to her.......


Subject: RE: Heartland Racing: Good Times Tour

Jason,
Sounds good! When would you like to host one?
Cheers,
Amber

From: Jason Douglas [mailto:jdouglas@nmsskc.org]Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 11:59 AMTo: Amber ChambersSubject: Heartland Racing: Good Times Tour
This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.heartlandrace.com from:Jason Douglas

We would love to host one up here in St. Joseph! We are re-routing Krug Park right now and built a new trail system last winter. Once that is finished we are going to have three seperate trail systems. All of which you can ride to.

Let's do the Polar Bear Plunge

It's at Lake Contrary on Feb 7th at 2pm. Ya gotta raise 50 bucks. This may be where a clydesdale has the advantage! Come on you sissy boys and girls, let's do it! If I can ride my fat a$$ up the hills, you skinny people can come and play in the H2O with me.
The frostbitten hippie

Trail Work - Saturday AM - Krug

Meeting at the top of Krug for more you know what....
Saturday - 8:00 AM
Chainsaws, loppers, rakes, etc
Please post if you can help
Thanks,
CH

March 14th!! Its on...Hopefully...

Registration is Open
Registration is now open for the Bone Bender 3/6 Hour MTB Odyssey.Visit the Registration link on the right or go to Sports Base Online.Free event t-shirt and ticket for some sweet SWAG with each entry.

conformation and finalizing jerseys from JP

Shawn,

St. Joe Team Order

Here is the list for the team order from the blog:

Scott (Pool Dude) Med.

Jim Spellman XL

Brad Bob Lg.

Russ Dog XL.

Kyle Lg

Adam XL.

Greg Lg

Ian Sm.

Kelly M. Med.

Savanna xs

Nick XL

Greg Med.

Shawn F. Med.

Jason XL

Derrick XL

Emma XL

Lansen lg.

David C. XL.

Craig Lg

Larry XL

Randy T. XXL

Mike Ratcliff XL

Outside St. Joe

JP Lg. x 2

Eric XLg

Jeff S. XXL

Bob Locke Lg.

Bill Mc. XL

Gary M. Lg.

I have ordered 2 S. / 2 Med. / 2 Lg. and 2 XL jerseys in case we have some new members or someone who needs another jersey. We can do another order mid year if we need to or if the demand is high?

That makes 28 team members, not a bad start!

Please get your jersey checks to Shawn ASAP or Mail to me ASAP. I will be by to get the money from Shawn over this next weekend or early next week. I am submitting the order Tomorrow a.m.

Later,

JP

HOLY CRAP, what a turnout!

23 outta 26 team members came and worked on the trails Sunday morn. I tried to get a pic with the phone but it just wouldn't capture the whole scene. Yep, everyone was there but...YOU! the a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words hippie.

Trailwork Sunday, any of you 25 team members?

Sunday morning trailwork anyone? Sat is out for me, as we are doing a last xmas dinner Sat noon. Come and pray with a chainsaw in your hand! The woods-are-my-church hippie

jerseys, race team, I need your size

This is a e-mail from JP Shores about the race team and jerseys. Speak now or forever hold you peace. I have the following people down for these size jerseys, let me know soon if I haven't included/excluded you or got your size wrong.

Craig L
Larry XL
Randy XXL
Mike Ratcliff XL
Nick XL
Greg M
Shawn M
Derick Boos?
Emma Boos?
Kyle Boos?
Dave Crook?
Brad Bob?
Dr. Adam?

Any one else?

Shawn,

Could you please e-mail me names and sizes for the jerseys. I will probably order some extra size large and a couple xl in case we get some additional riders to join as the season gets closer. The cost of the jerseys will be $35.00 for the first jersey, if anyone wants a second jersey it will be reg. cost of $45.00.

Bib shorts and regular shorts are also available. I will need to check on the cost of those items? We are saving some of the money for entry fee's to some select local races in the area for 2009. I would say that the first 3/6 hr. race in Smithville would be a team race and anyone who can race, there entry or any two person team for the 3/6 hr. race will be covered as long as they are on the team. Requirements are to purchase a jersey.

I would like to get all of this together and place the final order by the end of the week. The products will be her within 8 weeks of the final order. If you want to collect the checks and then just write me one check that is fine, we will just need a list of names and sizes to place the order.

Thanks!

JP

This costs so please don't stiff us if you say you want a jersey. Paying for that one 3/6 race is the jersey's cost alone. Please let me know soon!!!!!

The Corby Night Life

Juston and I took a brief stroll Wednesday night.

My limited experience on the the trails is evident in the attached photos.

Took a couple of turns too fast and of course couldn't resist the opportunity for some trials.
Juston faired a bit better with only a minor mishap while passing under a low tree limb.

Trail Work This Saturday - Krug

How about a trail work day this coming Saturday? I'd like to meet up at the top of Krug around 8:00 am.
Hoping to get the middle switchbacks and the new extensions to the existing switchbacks rough cut along with possibly the new tie in trail leading out of the existing switchbacks back down to the old red bridge trail. I hope to have all of the final flagging completed this week so we should have plenty to work on.
On Saturday I flagged the new upper switchback section that eliminates the "Brokeneck Bob" trail and re-routed the washed out parts of the two remaining outer trails. Kind of broke my heart to do away with the washed out rooted sections but we really had no choice. The new upper section through the pine forest is going to be really fun though and will also add some pretty good length to the trail.
I have tried my absolute best to lay out the new sections with singlespeeders in mind. My goal is to have the entire loop completely singlespeed rideable in at least one direction.
I plan to map out (gps) the entire loop once the rough cutting is done to to determine actual length but at this point I'm hoping for a good 6 plus miles.
It looks to be cold on Saturday so bundle up!
Please let me know if you can make it up to help.
Thanks,
CH