Mike Ripley
Hey,
Thanks to all of you for making the dry friday and wet by Sunday
edition of the 3rd T.O.E 50 and 1st Singlespeed championships. The
drizzle let up for the start at 9am and 100 geared bikes and 28
sinlgespeeds made the trek Mass start for 50 miles and 7500 ft of
mountain bike adventure. With the course record at 3:47 by erik
tonkin in 2006 and a dry course this edition in the rain proved
slower by 15-30 minutes with one exception---Capitol Subaru's Evan
Plews who came in at 3:55 to claim 1st overall and the only person
under 4 hrs. In the team event it was a stacked Capitol Subaru #1
Team taking on S&M (The 2006 TEam Champions) Team S & M was
represented by Team Captain and NOT racing Erik Tonkin. Erik Chose
his Teams wisely, and had Team S&M the "past" and Team S&M the
"Future" Time went by and at just over 4 hrs riders came in Mud
soaked and worked over-----and as time went by Team S&M "The Future"
led by Luke Pennington beat Capitol Subaru 16:52 (4 riders) to
Capitol's 17:01(4 riders)----9 minutes of combined time. Tim Butler
and Sue Butler prevailed over max and Allison paulus in the Couples
competition and Sue Butler(5:04) came within 2 minutes of the course
record (5:02) for the Women. In the masters 40+ team comp
bicycleattorney.com came away with the win----even with Martin Baker
riding half Blind for a lap.
Singlespeeds
Geoff Huber (Pauls Bicycle Way of Life)-------King of the Northwest
followed closely by BC Ness (Nastro) Dave rieter won the SS only
Raffle and a Black and pink desalvo 18 inch SS frame along with
Walter Sorenson who won the redline Monocog. This event will be back
again and thanks to all the top SS Oregonians for showing up. Next
year we need a few ladies to show their stuff. Great Job 40+ champion
warren rice also (Web cyclery)
Special Thanks to Starker Forests for the use of the land---they are
a very special and unique land owner who values responsible
recreation. Clif Bar and Cyclotopia for there involvement in making
racing happen. Thule for the sweet racks and Desalvo, redline,
Cytomax, Deschutes Brewey, Cannondale for the Caffiine 29er frame,
elete, Specialized(awesome tires and support all year long), Arrow
racing, Squirrels Tavern, Christa for riderresearch.com for all the
mountain feed bags, Lyn for the massage that each rider had and to
the Blodgett Cafe for allowing camping and the scrubjays for the
bluegrass music Saturday night. I hope everyone mad it home safley
and to all you Seattle, spokane and riders from out of state thanks
for coming to Oregon and Testing yourself.
results monday evening and I will resort for OBRA classes so e-mail
me if I miss something-----
Time to rest a bit for us all.
P.S------Daryl Alosa (revolution cycles finished after all of you
guys left 8:53:09-----or close to that----way to stick with it
Daryl----AWESOME! and to those who did not finish I will see you
again next year.
Mike, Andi and family and Team Collins