WOW A RECENT BLOG POST

Everyone is probably totally amazed that there is actually something new on my blog. Who knows if I'll ever update it again though. A lot of things have been going on since last summer, I work at The Italian Place, which resulted in some weight gain. So I raced in Saint George and SUCKED (4th place out of 5). But it motivated me to get back into a prime condition to race. I'm determined to move up to Sport/Expert 16-18 by at least the Soldier Hollow race I think. I've been riding a lot every day, and I'm already feeling faster than in St. George, but it's never good enough. That's why I always have to ride faster duh. Hence the name of my freaking blog. Bettys trail was kind of good today for the first time up it this year, but still a little muddy in spots, and at the top, there's no where else to go, so I had to just turn around... It was still a decently good ride though. I went from my house, to the race course to Bettys, to down Bettys, to down the race course, to up and down the race course, and finally back to my house. Just to sum everything up. Hey and call me if you wanna come with me on a ride, because no one could go today, and I had to go alone.

OH YA I GOT A NEW BIKE. Gary Fisher Superfly, nothing but the best.

YAY!

I finally had a good solid race today. I pushed hard, and pulled out in first. I really think some of the reason that I could go so fast, is the tires that I was running. I had just put a Maxxis Maxxlite 1.9 on the rear, 325 grams. I think the low rolling resistance won the race for me. My front tire was just a Ritchey something or other, it's just ok. I think I'm going to get some of these Schwalbe tires. They look WAY cool. I'm thinking about a Furious Fred 2.0 in the rear (semi-slick) and a Racing Ralph 2.1 for the front. These tires are ridiculously light. The Fred weighs 295 grams, and the Ralph weighs 460 grams. They should get even better grip than the tires that I'm running right now.

I should be getting my bike transformed with all the new parts before Deer Valley race, I will post some pictures of it now, and then later I will put up some pictures with all the new parts on it. I'm not sure what kind of terrain Deer Valley is, I hope I can get away with my Maxxlite tires, because I won't have the other tires that soon.

Bad Bad Crash

Now, back onto the subject of biking. NEW STUFF!

I have a bunch of stuff that I am doing do my bike right now instead of getting that Van Dessel. The best upgrade I'm doing is the fork. The new fork is called a Marzocchi Corsa SL World Cup, with remote lock out. Take a look at this picture of it... 

Off the subject of biking...

CHECK THESE OUT... I AM BUYING THEM FOR SURE REAL SOON!!!!!!!! They call them Wakeskis, absolutely amazing.

YAY!!!

SCHOOL IS ALMOST OVER!!! I'm so ready to get out of this nonsense and roam free. Summer time is so chill. I'm ready to go biking a lot more everyday too. On that note,

I think I will be getting a bike rack for my dinky little car, so I can bike other places besides everything off of the BST. I like to head up to Sundance and bike, or South Fork, to big springs. This winter I skied at Park City, and apparently my season pass works for lift served mountain biking in the summer. I wonder if it's any good. I really like going down the lift at Sundance, so it should be fun to try that. I'll post some more stuff with information about PC biking... Everyone feel free to comment on some posts, just for fun.

Peace.

Some New Stuff...

Wow, I didn't get to go on a real ride yesterday, because I was way overloaded with homework. I'm kinda mad about that... All I did was do some hard laps up and down this hill near my house. I need to get FASTER for this next ICUP race! I need to get better than sixth place this time. I did so horrible at the Showdown at 5 mile pass.

I'm really considering moving on to a 29er. Heres the picture of the bike that I'm looking at now.

I can get this thing built up to around 22 pounds... It should be pretty sweet. My bike right now weighs about 20 pounds. Its a 2007 Fuji Mount Fuji SL. I really like the bike, and it has sweet components, but it's just really awkward for me going down steep stuff. I think if I got a 29er that weighs pretty light, I could be a lot more comfortable and I could be faster. See everyone at the race at Soldier Hollow on Saturday.