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Show VOLUME 10 NUMBER 3 COLLECTIONS JUNE 2002 SSPCSER I 152B353 SHELVED I CYCLING UTAH. BY I TITLE. I U. of U. I Harriott Library 5 JUNE 2 W2 utah E O 5 s 3 Q3 fee SI I Summer Fun '. Calendar Hut Touring From Telluride to Moat The Sly Fox Experience . /, • Results • Weber ratnu 5- WlileOPass ^ Tjour of Canyonlands cycling utah. com JUNE 2002 Ironman Triathlon to be held in Provo Provo, Utah - The inaugural Ironman Utah Triathlon is set to take place on Saturday, June 8 in Provo and neighboring Utah County. More than 1800 of the world's fittest athletes from 25 different countries will battle it out for 17 grueling hours as they attempt to complete a 2.4 mile swim, 112- mile bike and a full 26.2- mile marathon before finishing at the BYU Track and Field Complex. Utah County and Provo will play host to the event, with the swim taking place in Utah Lake, and the bike and run in and around Utah County. The bike section stretche from Mona Lake to Vivian Park. Athletes will be competing for a $ 50,000 pro purse, as well as 80 qualifying spots for the 2002 Ironman World Championships being held in Kona, Hawaii in October. Provo, Lake Placid, N. Y., Madison, Wise, and Panama City, Florida are the only Ironman Triathlon s being in the continental United States. For more information on the Ironman Utah Triathlon, visit www. ironmanutah. com Cover Photo: Eric Jones leads Cris Fox and the Men's Pro Field at 5- Mile Pass Photo: Robert Truelsen Top: East Canyon Race winner Ryan Littlefield powers the break. Photo: Chuck Collins Bottom: Got Wheels? Bike Art at the Bike Bonanza by Jason Bultman. Photo: Dave litis ^ Bingljam Cyclery^ Financing available through RC Wllley Sizing Does Ma tter! Don't: J u s t Buy a f r a m e o f f t h e w a l l , y e t o ne t h a t r e a l l y f i t s w i t h t h e S e r o t t a S i z e Cycle. S a l t L a k e 137D 5. 21DD E. 5B3- 194D O g d e n 3239 Washington Blvd. 399- 49B1 S a n d y BODE. 1D51D ( 1D5th5.) 571- 44BD S u n s e t 2317 No. Main B25- B532 P r o v o IB7 WestCenter 374- 9B9D L a y t o n 110 No. Mam 546- 3159 www. binghamcyclery. com 100 Riders rode along with Mayor Rocky Anderson on The Mayor's Bike to Work Day in Salt Lake City. The Mayor is on the right being interviewed. Photo: Pat Dierks, UTA Trophies, prizes, leader's jerseys & $ 3900 cash! Phil Meador GATEGHFY UCA points series race! Stage Race July 6- 7, 2002 • Pocatello, Idaho USCF Permit 2002- 000524 Truckerville Time Trial. 8 a. m Saturday 10 miles, flat Holt Arena Criterium, 2 p. m. Saturday: 1 km, technical course with slight hill ( fun course!) Marsh Valley Road Race, 8 a. m Sunday: 17.5 mile rolling loop with good to fair pavement and little traffic Awards party, 12: 30 p. m. Sunday Co- sponsored by: PDWER^ PECH EKECVRIC POCRW IDAHO For more information contact Rob Van Kirk at 208- 282- 2503 or vankrobe@ isu. edu. Visit our website: www. idahocycling. com Fl IDAHO CYCLING ENTHUSIASTS © 2002 cycling utah cycling utah P. O. Box 57980 Murray, UT 84157- 0980 www. cyclingutah. com You can reach us by phone: ( 801) 268- 2652 Our Fax number: ( 801) 263- 1010 David R. Ward, Publisher Robert L. Truelsen, Executive Editor Email: dward@ cyclingutah. com Email: btrue@ cyclingutah. com Dave litis, Editor & Advertising ( 801) 268- 2652 Email: dave@ cyclingutah. com Contributors: Greg Overton, Thomas Cooke, Neal Skorpen, Gregg Bromka, Ben Simonson, Jacob Thatcher, Bill Harris, Brooks Stevenson, Charles Pekow, Chris Watkins, Geoff Ellis, Action Shots, Chuck Collins cycling Utah is published eight times a year beginning in March and continuing monthly through October. Annual Subscription rate: $ 7 Postage paid in Murray, UT Editorial contributions are welcome. Please included a stamped, self-addressed envelope to return unused material. Submission of articles and accompanying artwork to cycling utah is the author's warranty that the material is in no way an infringement upon the rights of others and that the material may be published without additional approval. Permission is required to reprint any of the contents of this publication. JUNE 2002 cycling utah. com TUESDAY NIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The Sly Fox Experience By Thomas Cooke A few weeks ago, I was on the starting line of the Tuesday Night Worlds ( that's the Tuesday night Rocky Mountain Raceway criterium for those of you who do not partake). Cris Fox rolled up next to me on the front row, and immediately my heart rate shot up a few beats. The reason being a few weeks before, Cris had attacked from the gun and went on to win the race. A bike racer with my years of experience usually does not worry about that sort of move. The first racer to attack in this sort of race usually draws laughs from the more experienced racers, since we all know the pack will reel him in easily. But this is Sly we are talking about. And he pulled it off. " Hey T. C., why don't you write your next story about me?" said Sly, as we were waiting for the official to start the race. I wasn't thinking about the next topic for my column right then and there. The thoughts going through my head were more along the lines of " is he going to go hard right from the gun? If so ( which was most likely), should I roll the dice and go with him?" My hesitation came from my knowledge of bike racing tactics which told me the stunt Sly pulled in the previous race rarely works once, let alone twice. It was a fluke as rare as lightning striking in the same place twice. Sly is, after all, a mountain biker. No offense. But generally speaking there is a cliche that mountain bikers who foray into road racing know how to go really hard, they just don't know when to go really hard. Sly has been around here for a long time, a fixture in the Utah mountain bike racing scene. In 1991, Sly raced to a 2nd place finish in the Junior World Championships in Italy. We are talking some serious " back in the day" here. Some seasons have treated Sly better than others, but since I have known him ( since about 1993) he always comes out to race, whether he has good legs or not. The first year I gave mountain bike racing a serious attempt, Sly won something like 25 races. Not a good year to start out in the Expert ranks. One year, he raced the Big Bear, California NORBA Finals event on a Saturday morning, then hitchhiked back to Utah so he could race the Alta mountain bike race the next day. My wife and I picked him up on 1- 15 somewhere outside of Photo: Nichole Wangsgaard Fillmore at about 2 a. m. He was standing in the median, waving his wheels at anyone going by with a bike rack on their roof. The problem was, we had been on the road for three weeks and had no room for another passenger. After partially disassembling his bike and doing some creative repacking, we hollowed out a space in the back of our Cherokee that might have been sufficient for a medium sized dog. It was plenty for Sly. When I asked him why he was trying to get back for the Alta race, he said, " I need the money". So why not go with Sly if he were to attack from the gun again? And why not write a story about Cris Fox ( a. k. a. Sly, Firefox, Beavis, etc.). The last time I had followed Sly anywhere was on a night lap of the 24 Hours of Moab, and bad things happened. We were waiting in the staging area together at some dark hour of the night. His team was winning the Pro division. For us to be going out at the same time meant his team was already a full lap ahead of mine. As demoralizing as that was, I still had to laugh every time I looked at Sly's home made head lamp; basically an aluminum tube wrapped with wads of duct tape with a bunch of wires running down his back to a giant battery that made his jersey pocket sag down to his butt. Sure enough, our teammates came in to finish their laps at roughly the same time. Sly stayed on my wheel for a little while as we raced up the sandy road, letting me set the tempo while saving precious minutes of battery time. When he finally turned his head lamp on and took the lead, I couldn't believe the wattage that thing was kicking out. I followed him as long as I could, until we took an " alternative line" down a sketchy descent that resulted in a trip over the bars and a broken frame for me. He went on to rum a night lap that was faster than most of everyone else's day laps. Back to Tuesday night at the RMR. The gun went off and Sly clipped into his pedals faster than anyone, a skill critical in mountain bike racing but usually not so important in road racing. I clipped in quickly as well and in no time the two of us established a gap on the field by the first turn. At the second turn I looked back and saw the whole field strung out single file, and I thought to myself better to be up here than back there. It looked like misery. Guys were coming unglued trying to chase us down. Sly was driving it so hard I couldn't even take a pull. It was short lived, though. Lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice ( at least in the Tuesday night criteriums). What was left of the field eventually caught us, and man, they were pissed. There was an onslaught of attacks and counter- attacks that resulted in the winning breakaway of five or six riders. I managed to be in the breakaway, so my tactic paid off, although I can't honestly call it a tactic. As for Sly, he didn't win that night, for obvious reasons, but it sure would have made a great story if he had. Editor's note: Thomas is a category 1 road racer and sales rep. in the bike industry. Easier than your roof rack. Loading a bike on the bus is as easy as one, two, three- and about that fast. Even first- timers can do it in 10- seconds or less. If you're not taking your bike on the bus, you're missing some great riding opportunities. Give it a try. 1 - 888- RIDE- UTA U T A www. rideuta. com cycling utah. com JUNE 2002 ADVOCACY A Report from Weber Pathways CYCLOTOON By Geoff Ellis Weber Pathways is a private, non- profit organization based in Ogden, Utah. Our mission is " to promote, plan and preserve a coherent network of non- motorized public pathways in Weber County." Founded in 1995, our organization comprises a volunteer board of 25 trustees, plus a paid executive director and hundreds of other volunteers and friends from Weber County communities. The pathways we are helping to create encompass a broad range of non- motorized uses, including biking, hiking, horseback riding, and winter sports. We also prepared and advocated an on- street bike route plan that was implemented by Ogden City two years ago. Weber Pathways is less of a hands- on trail- building organization than a trails advocacy organization. We have found that construction is the easy part; most of the work is in the planning and negotiations necessary to create a place for the trails to go! Our current projects include the creation of a master plan for pathways in Ogden Valley, a beautiful but fast- developing mountain valley on the eastern side of the Wasatch Range. Our goal is for the plan to be adopted as part of the county's general plan for the area, so that safe pathway routes and access to traditional recreation sites will be part of official development standards, just as highways, parking lots, and other " improvements" are today. We know that the automobile will always be the primary mode of transportation here, but we don't believe that it should be the only possible mode of transportation. We are also working with six Weber County communities to complete the Centennial Trail, a 27- mile loop that will include the Bonneville Shoreline Trail on the foothills east of Ogden plus the Ogden River Parkway and the Weber River Parkway. The project is challenging not only because of the number of players involved but also because of its scope: We envi- BY NEAU SKORPEN sion not just an asphalt pathway along the rivers, but a corridor of protected riparian forest and wetlands, the enhancement of aquatic habitat and fishing access, and opportunities for kayaking and canoeing. About 10 miles of the Centennial Trail have been completed to date, mostly within the city of Ogden. Sites we still hope to save include a large pond that could serve as a town fishery and floodwater retention site, and a stretch of the river where some rare natural hybrid cottonwood trees grow. These trees, associated with an unusual abundance of insect and bird species, were once found all along the Wasatch Front but have been destroyed by development and stream alterations in most places. A significant project nearing completion is our rails- to- trails project in northwest Weber County, near Plain City. The Little Mountain Branch Railroad was built by the Union Pacific in 1971 to compete with the Southern Pacific hauling salt and other minerals from the Great Salt Lake. Traversing farmland and wetlands, including the Harold Crane Waterfowl Management Area, the railroad corridor passes through some of the best waterfowl and shorebird habitat in the state and offers a panoramic view of the Wasatch Range to the east. Got Fast Race Wheels? 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We were able to purchase the 10- mile corridor from the railroad and arrange for its eventual ownership by the county and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Improvements are being made this spring to smooth out the trail surface, install gates and fencing, and create two trail-heads. The corridor will be opened to the public and dedicated as the Little Mountain Rail Trail on National Trails Day, June 1, 2002. Utah's second rails- to- trails conversion, it will be a great trail for mountain biking and equestrian use, especially during the cooler months. Most of Weber Pathways funding comes from private This summer, make your mark! Jo* l > Mateo* US Sobetyat fie US 150 Bfte Tour on Junt 22 • 23.2002 n Cache VaDty. Utah) Routt* art designed for an tkril tevels to everyone may participate! Last year Utah's Best Dam US 150 BAe Tour drew more than 1.200 riders Whether you are out to MM a personal fitness goal or just wart to help ( he fight aoamst multiple sclerosis, the US 1 Mrs sure to be an experience you w* never forget Cad the Utah Suit Chapter at 1- 000- flGHT US or vart us online at www. fi9rKms11tah. ofg 0 KOKMU. Murmi ScuaosB sucnTv grants and donations, although we work in partnership with several governmental agencies. It is amazing to me to think of our growth from a group of seven individuals a few years ago to Northern Utah's largest trail advocacy organization today. Last year we were honored by the state as " Utah's Organizational Public Health Hero" for our work in creating places where people can walk or bike safely, and thus improve their health. We have published a trail map, which is available to the public free of charge, and more information can be found on our website, www. weberpath-ways. org, or by contacting us at ( 801) 393- 2304 or P. O. Box 972, Ogden, UT 84401. - Geoff Ellis is the Executive Director of Weber Pathways € anyen fj- e d a I C up 5 8 3 - 6 2 8 I r t s - a m . c o m Women's Cycling Apparel We have the largest selection of women's cycling apparel on the web. Choose from top brands including: Canari, Castelli, DeFeet, Giordana, InSport, HIND, Louis Garneau, Primal Wear, Sugoi, SHEBEEST, Terry, ZOIC, Zoot and more! www. Team Estrogen . com JUNE 2002 cycling utah. com COACH'S CORNER Consistency and Choice By Bill Harris It seems like just yesterday that the Olympics were in our back yard. But the fact is we are nearly to the mid point of the competitive cycling season. While watching the world's best winter athletes we probably all set some pretty lofty goals for our cycling season. For some it may be to win the State Road Race, for others it may be to complete your first century ride. Whatever your goals, while the snow was on the ground hopefully you took the time to map out a plan to reach them. The question now is: have you already veered from the path? Or, have you stayed the course? Achievements and accomplishments in cycling do not happen accidentally. They are the result of consistent, daily action towards your cycling goals. This consistent action will move you from where you are today, to where you want to be and to accomplish more than you though possible. Ultimately, whether you reach your cycling goals or not, is up to you. Fortunately, at birth you are given your greatest power to achieve these goals - the power to choose. Every moment offers you a choice: to exercise this power by setting and holding a direction or to veer form the path. Every choice counts! There are no insignificant choices, no neutral actions. Even the smallest gesture has a consequence, leading you toward or away from you goals. Success is the intentional, pre- meditated use of choice and decision. Unless you choose - with certainty - what it is you want, you accept table scraps by default! You are born with great capabilities, but you will not achieve your potential until you call upon yourself to fulfill it. As you work towards your goals make the right choices that keep you on track. Some choices you may encounter: • To do my workout or not? • To eat this or to eat that? • To go to bed or stay awake? • To drink this or drink that? • To do my workout or somebody else's? • To do all my intervals or just a few? • To do all my workout time or shorten it up? These are just a few of the choices you may encounter. We all know which choices to make. The question is " will you make it?" Bill Harris has coached regional, national, Olympic and World Champions in three different sports. To contact Bill about his cycling coaching services send e- mail to yelojersey@ aol. com 15% OCT BIKE PARTS IF YOU SHOW YOUR HAMBURGER KNEE. BIKES WITHOUT KICKSTANDS 702 THIRD AVE 533- 8671 Bike Commuter Killed Late on May 12, 34 year- old David Vara of Ogden was hit while commuting on his bicycle to his job at a local grocery store. Lt. David Tarran of the Ogden Police Department reported that Vara was apparently struck by a 1983 gray BMW in a hit- and- run accident on Monroe Street near 16th Street in Ogden. He was taken to McKay- Dee Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The police have a suspect, but as of May 17, no charges have been filed. New Salt Lake City Bike Map The Salt Lake City Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee and the Mayor's Office have released the 2002 version of the Salt Lake City Bikeways Map. The map contains updated bike route information for Salt Lake City as well as other useful information. Copies of the map are available at Fishers, Bingham's, Guthrie Bicycle, Wasatch Touring, and Bicycle Center as well at the City/ County Building and the SLC Transportation Division at 349 South 200 East, Suite 450.. The map can also be viewed online at: www. slcgov. com/ transporta-tion/ BicycleTraffic/ map. htm Salt Lake to Host UCI ' Cross Race USA Cycling has announced a schedule of 18 races that have been submitted to the UCI for consideration in the 2002 international calendar. Salt Lake City will be the host of the Redline Cup on November 23rd. The race series culminates with the national championships on December 13- 14. For more details and updates, visit www. utahcyclocross. com. 700 East Input Needed UDOT is working on a plan for 700 East between 9400 S. and 12300 S. This is a well traveled for recreational cyclists. Cyclists can voice their concerns by visiting www. 700eastproject. com or by calling Eileen Ringnalda at 904- 4000 or Evelyn Tuddenham at 975- 4900. Big Cottonwood Hill Climb Help To Heal Foundation, Inc., a charitable non- profit organization that promotes athletic events to fund cancer research, will be presenting the Porcupine Big Cottonwood Hill Climb on Saturday, June 29th, 2002. This year's proceeds will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Help to Heal will be working with volunteers from Team in Training. " Not since the 1960s, when at its peak Big Cottonwood Canyon June 29th Mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. ^ this event benefits: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society events were attracting top cyclists from as far as California, have there been staged cycling events in this canyon", said Gary Bywater, a past Category 1 racer and current Category 1 national official. Bywater noted that the last event was in 1972. Set up for both elite and recreational cyclists, the 13- mile climb will begin at the Porcupine Pub and finish at Solitude Mountain Resort. For more information, call Mark Walton at ( 801) 364- 3511. 2002 HP Women's Challenge This year's HP Women's Challenge will take place from Saturday, June 15th, 2002 to Sunday, June 23rd, 2002. This marks the nineteenth year for the invitational stage race, which features Elite women racers from around the world. This year's course includes an Individual Time Trial, Criterium, and 7 Road Stages. The total race distance is 542 miles ( 867km) with course altitudes ranging from 2,000 feet ( 609.6 meters) to 7,800 feet ( 2,377 meters). The total climb exceeds 11,000 feet ( 3,400 meters). The HP Women's Challenge is conducted in accordance with 2002 UCI regulations and is held under a USA Cycling permit. This year's prize list is $ 75,000 in cash. For more information call ( 208) 672- 7223 or visit www. womenschallenge. com. START LOCATION Porcupine Pub & Grill 3698 East 7000 South TWO START TIMES: 7: 30 am Cycling Enthusiast 9: 00 am USCF License Riders 100% of proceeds to fund cancer research and assist in patient treatment For more information and online registration go to: www. sportsbaseonline. com or call Help to Heal Foundation at 801.364.3511 GE Elfun A Community of Volunteers Founding Sponsor ^€ s. C O N T E N D E R • A l t LABI CITV, UTAH Title Sponsor Solitude Minim Inm Zenzoeys Diqital Copy Network cycling utah. com JUNE 2002 Route 211 Something Happened on the Way Here by Greg Overton I've been around cycling more than twenty years now. Not counting childhood when we'd remove the chrome fenders and banana seats on our Stingrays and the like, put on knobby tires and ride them through the woods of north Georgia. Kind of like BMX bikes, but ridden in a mountain bike sort of way. But the past twenty years or so have been centered around racing, road racing specifically, and the daily toil of bike shops. I was thinking about images of those twenty years, from the old days on a Motobecane borrowed from a cousin who'd gotten past the " ten speed" craze of the seventies, to my ride to work last week with my buds. There are a few snapshots that play in my mind when conversation or circumstances open the mental scrapbook, so I thought I'd throw some of them down on paper. Apologies to my pals who are right now rolling their eyes at the thought of hearing them again. I saw Bernard Hinault, five time Tour de France winner and legend, ride the downtown Denver Tivoli Criterium stage in the Coors Classic in the pouring rain, bombing through a turn with his rear wheel taking a decidedly wider line than his front, teeth clenched, rear tire skidding, just to stay on the wheel in front of him and keep from crashing. Bemie, as Bob Roll affectionately called him, surely had nothing to prove to anyone, especially the cat. 1 rider in front of him. He could have sat up, paraded around for an hour, signed some autographs, and called it a tremendous career. I remember thinking at the time, " this guy wants to win this race, and he'll do anything to get it." Did he win? Naw, Davis Phinney won, I think, but Bernie sure didn't give it to him. I think it was at that same " Thrilla in Boulder" that I suddenly became less afraid that my bike was going to get scratched or otherwise damaged. After the race, I wandered through the team cars to find, in horror, that the Euros just piled their bikes in a heap! I mean, these are the legendary bikes of Sammontana Bianchi, La Vie Claire, System U, etc., Tour winning bikes! Bikes we saw in Winning magazine, and dreamed of, and they're literally piled up beside the team car without regard. After that I started leaning my bike against walls, letting it fall - well laying it over - on the ground, you know, treating it like the big boys did! The sight of all those bikes piled up like a bunch of thrift store slag comes to mind every time I console a brokenhearted customer who just got a nick in the paint of his new bike. One of the coolest things I've seen, and it came out better on television later, was a stage finish of the Coors Classic where the final rum before the finish was a wide, fast 90 degree turn that the riders absolutely flew through while jockeying for sprinting position. Steve Bauer, great Canadian rider, great sprinter, takes his shot at inside position, and loses. He crashes across the turn, I mean bike out in front of him, he's on his hip sliding across the road, hands dragging behind, and his metal watch band is throwing sparks from scraping the road for about five feet behind him. It looked awesome. Somebody out there has to have a photo of that moment. Steve was okay, but the watch, ehem, lost a bunch of time onGC. Copeland's Sports cfel C E N T E R • Professional Service • Low Price Guarantee • Financing Available** NEW cannondaie m* Y:> i FtpX HOFFMAN BMX 4801 NORTH UNIVERSITY THE SHOPS AT RIVERWOODS, PROVO • ( 8 0 1 ) 8 5 2 - 2 1 6 0 Closed Sunday " See store for details. ** On Approved Credit. See store for details. CopelandSports. There were other crashes, like the one in the downtown Boulder criterium, where in a fast left hand comer with a lovely dip in it, a rider a couple spots ahead of me cooked the turn, became airborne, and found the " No Parking" sign with his shoulder, whirling like a Frisbee to the ground. He hit the sign post just about a foot above the stack of hay bails in front of it ( they were placed there in case of a crash). Both rider and sign were seriously bent out of shape. The pace immediately slowed, and stayed that way until someone forgot what we'd just seen, and launched off the front. I never forgot, though. The other one that sticks with me was in the Bannock Criterium, downtown Denver, when the cat. 4 and cat. 3 crowd were split into two groups apiece, each comprised of 125 riders ( there was no cat. 5 at the time). In those days, even the cats. 1,2 and pro group was usually over a hundred riders. In a group that size, on a twisty course, you do not want to be on the outside in the turns because if someone on the inside swerves or even fidgets, just like a rumor, it's much worse when it gets out to you. The cat. 4 race was a typical " who can go the hardest till they throw up" sprint, and we watched the group nervously swerve on a tight turn, and the swerve moved outward. A young rider on the outside was forced into the curb at about a 45 degree angle. I'll leave you with your own image of the outcome as he " endoed" over the curb, and flew toward the accompanying sidewalk chin first, while still holding the handlebar at about waist level. It's not a pleasant one, but it's an image that has stuck with me since. I reached 64 mph on my trusty Basso, descending Loveland Pass, before helmets, on old sew ups. I was stupid. But it was exhilarating. I have children now, and I think about that descent and others like it, and I think about chipmunks crossing the road, snow melting across the road, and rocks, even pebbles. I won't do that again, ever. Oh yeah, I also think of the guy, and I hope you're healthy and well wherever you are, who hit a cow descending Payson Canyon a few years ago. Gotta keep a heads- up for open range grazing. Here's hoping the cow is well ( done) also. I had an employee at a bike shop who was always crashing - not just bikes, but cars, scooters, himself while rock climbing. You get the picture. I won't mention his name, but it sounds a lot like Dan. He goes for a snowy January ride on the Provo Canyon bike path on his mountain bike. Can't leave well enough alone, though, and decides to ride off the path on some trails, which happen to include a side slope to the river about twenty feet below. You see this coming, right? Luckily he didn't drown, fished his bike out, and made it back to the shop ( a couple miles), but we had to thaw his clothes, which were frozen to the skin, with the shop's heat gun ( used for removing decals from frames). We did this while he sat on the bike because his pants were frozen to the seat. I hope his Mom doesn't read Route 211. Another friend, actually my employer at the time at a bike shop, is taking his new custom bike out for the first time on our group ride. There are about twenty people on the ride. We left the shop at 5: 30pm, so traffic is heavy on Orem's State Street. We're stopped by a red light, and he starts to do his famous trackstand. To do a trackstand, you have to move the front wheel from side to side occasionally to keep your balance while standing still on the bike. But if your stem isn't tightened.... well, you fall over. Hard. At the head of a group of waiting bikes and riders. On a very crowded multi- lane street. And twenty of your closest friends, along with half the population of Utah County laugh uncontrollably. Uh, except me, the loyal employee, of course. Right! I'm glad funny stuff never happened to me on a bike. Well, there was the time I was SURE that I heard the bell signaling one lap to go in a criterium. I was in front by a bit, rode like a Banshee to protect my lead, and crossed the line with arms raised. Ah, victory is Glorious!... Everyone in the crowd laughed, and I was passed by every single rider in the group. I think those who had dropped out of the race for various reasons got back on their bikes to pass me! Guys who had crashed. Guys with flat tires. I finished dead last, and was brought to the podium by the announcer, for what I thought would be the much- deserved correction of this error. No, it was " What were you thinking? There was one lap to go still." Then there was the first time I rode on a velodrome. It was in Colorado Springs. You know, you can go really fast on a track bike, but after a hard, fast sprint, unlike a road bike, you can't sit up and coast down, cool hands- on- hips style. The crash lasted for about twenty feet. That's a concrete track, too I never liked track racing. C\ i>/ j #* \ L v K^ f ^^^ j ^ p ^ ^ ^ B^~ ^^^ SWF trie WB at y WiCKCD \ Fast SPUDS!! AP0S. Net DSL iS / UP to iox paster tHani a 56K Mooeivi V ao> NIT * j d g W& GALL NOW anio Get your PHV * b* m FREEI 801.532.2767 or toll free 877.423. aros info@ aros. net Offer expires December 31,2002. Some limitations apply. Residential customers only. A £ S..&. \,. JUNE 2002 cycling utah. com Letter to the Editor Critical Mass Embarrasing My family and I attended the Critical Mass ride on the last Friday in April. This has been billed as a casual ride around downtown to make drivers more aware of cyclists. However, it should be billed as an attempt to make drivers more ticked off at cyclists. Few participants rode on the left-hand side of the road. In fact, some rode along the yellow line or even in oncoming traffic lanes. We were on a four or five lane road, and the cyclists were taking up the entire width of the road. Needless to say, we left the group after about two blocks, embarrassed to been seen with such an inconsiderate group of people. If the goal is to make drivers more aware and respectful of cyclists, then we need to show our respect for the drivers as well. - Emily Allen What's on your mind? Send your feedback and letters to the editor to: dave@ cyclingutah. com TOURS AND TRAVEH gUo/ Tours Road Riding Mountain Biking Training Camps S'dvtv City NewM. ex. ico c » u for i* fo: SOS~ S34~ 2493 Maps! = Adventure Cycling! 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