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I am trying to raise some funds for Mical's season abroad so will be doing T-shirts sporatically through the winter and spring. Right now i have light pink "Fixies are Lame" shirts for 20bux each. email me at reganpringle@gmail.com if you would like one, or more then one. i have mediums and larges left and they are a hanes no label shirt.

There are 4 brave souls on the misty, rainy Friday night. Clay, Tony, first timer Kenyon and myself. Haldor had a shoe malfunction so he was out this eve. shoe malfunction def: 1. When you forget the shoes that attach to your pedals. Heading down esquimalt road to the Cairn and I hear Clay Ask " Guess what I forgot?" Well being as he had delivered the 15 PBR and had one at the shop I was surprised to hear that it was his road PBR he had forgotten,hmmph. Kids these days, no focus. Soooo, after a pit stop at another beer store we head into Highrock Park. A few twist and turns and a near wheely drop wipe out my part ( thank god for long limbs ) and we start to head out to View Royal. Heading across the tracks.....most of us on our wheels. Kenyon had a little issue with timing and the sound of lycra and aluminium across wet pavement echoed in my head from the left. All is good so we carry on. The trails past Thriftys were surprisingly muddy, like grab your wheel and send you t...

Friday night comes this week with a little panic this week then others, as the shop was a little quieter then weeks past. This means we actually had time to get ready. Just 2 combatants on this full moon evening: Scotty, Clay and Myself. Mitch had sold his cross bike about 2 hours prior to the ride so no PBR'S for him. A downer to be sure but the high to that is that Pro City DH star Dave Pfaffenberger was the proud new owner of said cross bike so we have another man to introduce to beer flavored suffering. We decieded to shoot the goose out to Mt. Doug to check out some of the shoulder trails that in the day are way to busy to try and ride. We stopped for a PBR and after a lot of grunting, climbing, and even some bike shouldered running we were at our destination. Half way up to trails that are fast, swoopy and full of sneaky rocks and roots waiting to grab your wheel and ruin your buzz. The problem is that all that fast dh means you have to climb back up. This climb was fire r...

So a small crowd on this balmy Friday eve. Just 4 of us: Clay, Jamie C. and Tony decided to venture out. With a quick brake pad install and detour to appropriate the PBR we were on our way. I may have been a little overdressed for this evenings activities with the temperature hovering around 11. yes, that's +11. Same route in a different order this week. Everyone hung on well, no real incidents. Clay had a slow motion, not really a bail, more of a fall over, on the bridge up to Goldstream Ave. No harm done though. Then a brisk pace set back home and another PBR stop along the way. Very fun ride, may mix up the trail network next week, keep everyone guessing. Then over the trestle the group splits and Jamie and I look at the new 18% grade bike path connector that no leisure cyclist could ever really use and a meandering coast down Catherine to scoop up the truck, when i notice a dog behind a truck looking at us. No big deal so I look over my shoulder and hear Jamie yell " Look ...

Thank god I had no HR monitor!!! Garmin

I thought this was pretty fun as Mical has never seen them either. Star Wars Kinda

So I have decided to try and organize a fun Friday night ride on the cross bikes. The Friday Night Lights ride. We got a nice turn out for the 1st official ride. No rain and a little brisk. We went out the goose to do a lap around Thetis Lake which was in mint condition. One minor mechanical with Clay's SS as the chain slipped under his massive power. A lap of the lake followed by a PBR piknik break in the park. Wellsy peeled off leaving 5 so we made our way to Royal Roads to enjoy some sweet single track, all be it tech rooty singletrack, but sweet none the less. After that its another short sprint down The Goose, with a short stop at OBB Westshore to replenish or frosty beverage supply. THX Dan and Chris. The off to Nixon Trail which goes around Langford Lake and is fast and flowy. There are a few bridges on this trail, and they do get pretty slippery, as Hal and Clay found out. I was up front and it sounded like a Dodge Dart running a Hyundai in the guardrail. Hal ended up a li...