Highlights and Lowlights

Yakov Smirnov, who was also Jean Reno's stunt double in "The Professional" after this weeekend's World Cup race...
First of all, for those of you locals who didn't show up for yesterday's showing of "Beauty And The Bike" and "Contested Streets", you missed two excellent documentaries. Lots of beautiful images in the first film and lots of knowledge dropping in the second one. For those of you who didn't show up for the Tour De Cure ride on Saturday, you missed out. Lots of hammer dropping from Hawleyites Joshie and Jose and Rachael from PCC. Well done lads.

A modest headtube length espied on this Moots (thanks Rachael)....Is Jose rocking a WOOL Storck jersey? Odelay!For those of you who missed out on PMBAR, lots of good tales from one of the best mountain bike races in the known universe. Here's perennial baller Rich's wrap-up, his partner's horrible post race debacle, Hawley chum Toby's partner's write-up, Jonathan's trenchant synopsis and a random write-up with a different perspective. Hopefully Brado was there capturing the suffering in digital image glory. And finally for those of you who have not been to Lexington Avenue Brewey in Asheville, the future is here and it's called The Dyson Hand Dryer and ROASTED BEET SLICES!!! Holy moley. The Blog's head is still spinning from the lack of bike riding while soooo much riding was going on this weekend...