Comments on: Torrance

By: OCS

OCS — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:53:28 +0000

That’s f..ked….Hope the replacement works out…

By: Dear Crabby

Dear Crabby — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:18:42 +0000

Frame replacement would be great!
Hopefully the Samoan can get a “Brain Replacement”!

By: gtingley

gtingley — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:07:22 +0000

Mitch! holy! I did not hear about that, bum deal for certain. I hope they do a crash replacement on it.

By: JH

JH — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:58:03 +0000

I could not even respond to your e-mail Miitch…. I felt really bad that the bike is gone.

By: Mitch Porche

Mitch Porche — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:11:28 +0000

Terrifying…that’s all that I can say. “Gangsta Crit”. Everytime I tried to form a break I was chased down by a Samoan in a skin-suit. When I came back to the pack I had to fight the urge to plow through cones with the rest of the knuckleheads.

For those of you that are old enough to be able to race 35+, what a breath of fresh air. Single file, fast, organized breaks and real tactics. I was suffering and really enjoying myself until…..a Samoan in a skin-suit ran into me in a 2 man break (yeah…that’s just me and him). Slammed into me diving into a corner and cracked my new SL2 into 2 pieces.

By: Ted Willard

Ted Willard — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:06:14 +0000

This was by far the worst Cat 3 field we’ve had all year as far as bike handling and willingness to ride fast (read: safe).

If you stuck around to watch the pro12, you know what I mean, the pack was strung out and turned the .5 miles into a paved velodrome.

What is it about the races in LA and Long Beach area that bring out lots of juniors and guys you never see elsewhere (most are in less than appropriate form, too)?

Are these guys that ride the track for fun and do the occasional crit?

It is strange when you recognize half the field and don’t even recognize the team names of the other half.

By: OCS

OCS — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:11:23 +0000

Jan,

I got jacked up as well. This crit sucks. The pavement was so rough I’m going to need skin graphs on my ass. It’s too short, and with no hill like anthill it’s just a bs hackfest where everyone can hang on. Lame.

I have never seen so many peckerheads sprinting for some f..king CVS body spray in my life.

By: Scar Collector

Scar Collector — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:41:54 +0000

You’re the fourth person, including me, within the last 10 days to banish the HRM and watt meter (mines a “what?” meter) from their bike.

Is this a trend? Or is it the SoCal season that starts with the hardest race and peters out into a beautiful summer of one race a weekend?

We are so backwards here. Why are we going ape shit over industrial park crits in the rain in Jan/Feb and then having one race weekends already in April and May? We should be riding into shape in Dec/Jan/Feb, not killing ourselves to be in shape for Boulevard and then being bored in August (ten weekend days, three races in SoCal and one in Vegas).

Yeah, it’s time to ditch the HRM, the PowerCrap, the training diary, the diet and the self-induced pressure. I’m throwing on a tux next weekend, drinking myself into a stupor and turning up the AC so when I wake up hungover, I can get over it by watching college football off the DVR like it’s January 1 all over again….except this time I won’t be RIDING MY DAMNED BIKE!!!