Centurion Blog

http://www.bikeabout.net/Centurion/home.html

Above is a link to a "pseudo" blog that Greg and I put together to promote my Centurion attempt. I presented at Trek World to the national Mountain Bike brand manager. Hopefully there will be more to come from this, stay tuned....

"Easy" trails in Wisconsin

Trek put us up in some pretty decent digs for Trek World 2010. This was the view from the hotel room window of Lake Mendota.
For the most part the roadies get all the cool colors this year. With the new Project One program you can get pretty much any color you want, as long as it goes on a Trek Madone.

Above is one of the coil versions of the new Scratch 7" freeride bike. (what is up with the name?)

This will hopefully be my new bike for the coming year as long as my Fuel EX sells. Should be a 7" version of my most favorite bike, the Remedy.

Below is the most fun 29er I have ridden to date, the Rumblefish. It handles well and the new 36 tooth cog in the back makes it a pretty good climber.

After riding a Scratch and a Rumblefish, Brady, one of the Trek engineers I know, talked me into taking out the new carbon fiber Remedy. It's about 3/4 of a pound lighter than my Remedy and the new rear shock works really well. I was feeling pretty good on it, despite the crappy stock tires, the long stem, the brakes on the wrong side, and no gravity dropper to get the seat out of my way. The Trek trails are not what I would call technical, and last year I made quite a bit of fun of the people coming out of the woods bloody and with broken collar bones. Well, this year they added a few new trail features, one being this dirt jump/step up/step off combo pictured below.

Well, the stock tire wrinkled on take off, I made it up onto the upper most part of the wooden structure, and then stepped into thin air. I did one full rotation, landed on some of the logs and then the bike landed on me. I, of course, was not wearing any body armor because the trails in Wisconsin are "easy." I now have two badly swolen and lacerated shins and a black and blue elbow. Now i get to roadbike for the next week or so until the swelling goes down! DANG!

Need a little boost....

I found this link on the Velo News website. http://www.cellsciences.com/content/p-detail.asp?rowid=6800 I found it at the bottom of the page for "Di Luca's B sample positive" http://www.velonews.com/article/96439/di-luca-s-b-samples-positive Hmmm?

Apparently it's not that hard to get performance enhancing drugs! For only $300 I can juice my-self up and go kick ass out at Lunch Loops. Maybe I will dope up for the next Throwdown and give Ryan and Dwayne a run for their money! I guess since Throwdown isn't UCI sanctioned we could all get juiced, just to see how fast we can ride Holy Cross! Yea Baby!

(Velo News Editor responded to my letter with this response)


Hello Landon,
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A different kind of Anniversary...

Last night I went out with my buddy's Brad and Keith. We climbed up Eagles Wing and down Holy Cross trail. Earlier in the day I had noticed that it was only 78 degrees at lunch time, so it was a rare day indeed for this desert. The evening was even better!

The day had been hard, we sold a lot of bikes, but felt hammered from being a "man down" in the shop. Keith stopped by at the end and asked me to go riding. I almost said no, because I was so burnt from the day, but I relented. I'm glad I did, because if I had looked at the calendar I would have realized that I had to ride! It was August 8th! I always ride on that day in celebration of overcoming injury.

Five years ago yesterday I felt a stinging pain in my lower back, and then fire down the sciatic nerve of my right leg. It was the start of the worst year of my life. A year that would leave me physically and mentally changed forever.

My girl is in the midst of her worst year. She's 10 months into it. She may not be able to open the milk carton for breakfast, or hold onto a handlebar, but she is so much stronger than I was. She just keeps on keepin on, knowing for a fact that it will be over sometime soon, always faithful that she too will ride again, just like she always told me that i would. She was right. She always is.