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Going Long and Hard.
- Thread starter Steve Vai
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The Kalmyk
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Heading down to the in laws yesterday I saw Gil and a couple of folks I didn't know. My guess is they were pre riding the Ron Anderson Special.
They were on 539 which I suggest you find someone to team up with at that section (sketch meter at 10). The more the merry. Cars can clip 65-70mph on that Road.
They were on 539 which I suggest you find someone to team up with at that section (sketch meter at 10). The more the merry. Cars can clip 65-70mph on that Road.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Bridgeton. Formally the infamous Beacon Cross home of the amphitheatre of pain.
Now I know why it didn't even show up in my searches. It's 2.5hrs away!
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Worth every second of the drive. Probably the only good course in the NJ Cup now that they've all been watered down into grass crits.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
In those pics I'm running an old PowerTap wheelset with Tufo Clincher Tubulars? Holy fuck I don't even remember doing that.
Any old skool peeps remember Clincher Tubulars? Seems like a really good idea that I'm kinda surprised never took off.
The season after this is when I experimented with tubeless, which didn't exist. Didn't get very far before making the jump to Tubulars. Now it would seem tubeless is an obvious way to go. More than likely explains the drop in wheelsets I have to glue per season. In 2012ish I was doing over 100 a season, now it's a dozen or so, and generally the oldskool racers. Weird?
Any old skool peeps remember Clincher Tubulars? Seems like a really good idea that I'm kinda surprised never took off.
The season after this is when I experimented with tubeless, which didn't exist. Didn't get very far before making the jump to Tubulars. Now it would seem tubeless is an obvious way to go. More than likely explains the drop in wheelsets I have to glue per season. In 2012ish I was doing over 100 a season, now it's a dozen or so, and generally the oldskool racers. Weird?
Bridgeton is far.
Good to know...
Really... I was gonna bag this on in favor of Town Hall the day before, just because of drive time.
Good to know...
I was considering Town Hall.
Oh, that's a quandry. Town Hall is GREAT. So was Bridgeton. Only did it the last year of it's existence, but it was a blast. The beach is a lil bit of NECX, the amphitheater is monumentally hard, and ripping on hard-pack sand does all kinds of crazy things to your handling. Plenty of drifting. VS Town Hall, with it's great organization, heart-stopping hill, and subsequent downhill, rollicking course and closeness...
Just do both. It's CX, it's not supposed to make sense.
Is Bridgeton the same venue as "Independence CX" from a few years ago?
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
For the team. There's no CX leadership in our club so I'm playing more of the Mr Miyagi role than Daniel. And, I just happen to be the fastest Cat1 in the club so the younglings can learn a thing or 3 chasing me around.
Town Hall is an awesome loop.