6-21-08

Riders,
If you don't mind, I think I'll sit this one out....for others of you wanting to ride, come join those who chose to ride this Saturday... the group has a wheels up time at 0800 from the parking lot of New Springs... for those who may need an organized metric, you should check out the Bee Buzzin' Tour in Greenwood, SC....

And we have a bike for sale... here are the facts...

For Sale
2006 Litespeed Siena 51cm
Great road bike with amazing speed! Retails for over $4000.00 I am sad to see her go but need to sell. Post a comment and I'll hook up the seller and the buyer...for more pictures or answer questions. Asking $1800.Real Design carbon fork 170mm crank, 53/39 Truvative Rouleur Full Shimano Ultegra 6600 STI Groupset Mavic MA3 rims laced to Ultegra 10spd hubs, Vittoria Rubino Pro/Diamante tires 12x27 cassette Serfas Terrazo saddle Thompson 31.8 seatpost ITM Mantis stem, 10cm Bontrager bars, 43 outside-to-outside Geometry: Top-tube: 51cm Seat-tube: 45.5/ 47 to top of collar 96cm wheelbase

Thanks to Big Dave for the following translation of last weeks ride report.... It's nice to have an SVR rider who can spin such a story...

“I want to thank my pit crew, the guys in the shop and my wife Debbie. We had a good bike today and I feel like the number 31 Accelerade, Zipp Wheels, Carolina Triathlon , P2C Cervelo had a chance to get into victory lane today. We always enjoy coming to this ride and the folks here in Anderson are a good group of people. I’m not sure exactly what happened out there, but from what I could tell, we were running full tilt down the back stretch. I was running 5th and gettin’ a good push from the 88, Dave Bartoski. The number 9 Cervelo of Fred Tolly got a run on the 24 of Brooks Keys. He got up there beside him and made it two wide going down the straightaway. Then the Number 20 of Tony Catalfomo got a run on Tolly and took the air off his rear tire, getting him loose. Fred made a good effort but couldn’t hang onto it and spun out pushing Brooks into the apron. Next thing I know, Tony’s sliding across the pavement, the number 99 of Bob Ashby gets collected and I have nowhere to go.. And as I go around, the 88 is flying over top of me. All I can say is thanks to the crew here for reacting quickly and averting the rest of the riders from getting involved. It took a while before I felt ok enough to put down my window net so I went to the infield care center. Andrea Storie did a great job of making sure I was ok and a special thanks to the number 42 of Renalto Honfi, number 5 Russ Lott and the 2 of Steve Pugh. They’re all great riders stood by my side. No hard feelings towards the number 9 team. He’s a standup guy and has even brought some stuff to my garage to help me repair my engine. It’s just a shame that we had such a great race going this morning and a racing incident had to happen and wad up a bunch of good bikes. Thanks to the race directors for instituting these safer helmets. It probably saved my life. I’ll probably miss qualifying on Tuesday night but hope to be back out on the track within the next few weeks.”

In all seriousness, I'm glad everyone is ok and thanks to everyone who pitched in to help out. It's great to know that we are surrounded by a good group of people. Thanks!

Here's a email reply from our international rider, Renato..... and I echo his remarks!!!

"Hello everybody I am glad to know that everyone is good after have fallen.

It happens, it is just the way it is!!!

It happened with me some time ago and may be happen again, but in the end the day it is what make us feel a live. I still prefer stay on the bike riding even having chance to fall than stayin home afraid to live. See you guys riding"

Mike "I'll Be Back" Madden