Bear Perrin
Mike and Co.
It was a great race!! Very well done. It definately tested me as a rider.
Great job
Bear
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Plews"
To: ;
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Test Of Endurance 50 and Clif Bar
NWsinglespeedChampionships wrap up
> Lots of hard work, Mike and company. We do appreciate it. Good luck next
> year. Hopefully the sun will shine on you!
>
> Evan
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Ron and Dorothy Strasser"
> To: "Mike Ripley" ,
> CC: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Test Of Endurance 50 and Clif Bar
> NWsinglespeedChampionships wrap up
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:35:29 -0700
>
> Mike/All,
> A well organized event with great support (although a tow rope up some of
> the slimed upslopes would have been great on the 2nd lap). It was tough
> for
> this old coot, but I had some fun!!! That Burrito was VERY TASTY. Way to
> go all and WAY TO GO DARYL, most folks your age were sitting at hope
> drinking beer on the sofa. Thanks team S&M for your personalized support!
> For those of you that have not done this... I say give it a try next year.
> ron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Ripley"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:03 AM
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] Test Of Endurance 50 and Clif Bar NW
> singlespeedChampionships wrap up
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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