good times

this weekend brought halloween, friends, bartending, luther soccer alumni weekend, partying, riding, and a mohawk. saturday's alumni soccer game took all of about 10 minutes to remind me why i've finally retired. at least i made it through without injury and i'm starting to walk a little more normal. scotty crashed for the weekend and we got in a good ride on sunday before he took off. monday brought adam and an older trek 4500. he showed up early and we started tearing into his bike immediately. the rigid fork didn't work out but he's now rockin a single speed, riding pretty well and showing lots of potential for someone who basically just started riding. oh, and he's completely sold on single and 29's. still sorting stuff out after the move back from phoenix, he'll probably be crushing a new jabber by this spring. we got in a couple long rides before it was time for him to head out on tuesday. somehow his trip up here coincided with mid 70's and absolutely gorgeous trail conditions. icing on the cake...i realized that when i hit that tree in the night race my jen green vassago headbadge went missing (yes, it was put on with jb weld). over a week after the race i went to where i thought i had crashed and in full needle-in-a-haystack style i found the headbadge buried in a pile of leaves after searching for less than 2 minutes. sounds like a reason to party. or at least lunch and a beer at t-bock's before heading to the bar for work. hope everybody enjoyed the weather cause its time for booties and tights...and time for me to try out my new pearl izumi barrier winter boots. mmmmm...warm.....

a quick stop for some post-crash adjustments

what a day to ride...

adam doing his thing in palisades

yeah, i let him have a couple minutes on the jabber...pretty sure that's all it took