Hey All... Had a great race in Maine today. Felt really strong and fast...no tech problems. The course was four 4.5 mile loops of very technical terrain...a lot of people sidelined by this one. Thanks to all my friends and family that came out to support me today....Dad thanks sooo much for the bottles...you get the job buddy!!
Little bit of a problem in the end...the race officals put me down as not finishing the race. I guess the idiot offical at the finish didn't record my # correctly (5 is a tough one) so they recorded me as a DNF. But after some stupid discussion; they had a mystery person coming in at 1hr 54min.(2mins off from my computer)....so that placed me in about 8th place out of about 17 racers in my class. Not bad...but it was just frustrating to end the day this way.
We got some video from the race as well and I hope to have that up soon...

Next Race is this weekend....the Clifford Park Assault in Biddeford Maine. Should be a great race if I don't have any tech problems. Last year I placed 1st so I'm looking forward to doing well again this year. Keep you posted

Murphy wins the Thursday nite ECV Spank'om ride two weeks in a row.........I'm never letting go of the rooster trophy now!!

Not a good day for Fuel Racing....3 miles into the race I blew my rear tire. Typically you can just throw in a tube and keep going...but for some reason we put rim strips in my rims when installing my tubeless system. (big mistake..??) So I was unable to get the valve out to throw in a tube.
I was having a great race otherwise... worked my way up to 3rd before the blow out...and I was feeling strong.
That's racing I guess.....will be in the shop this week making sure this problem doesn't happen again.

Murphy brings home a win at the Thursday nite ECV Spank'om ride......The Salem Cycle crew was Rockin' it all night. I think there was a group of about 15 or 20 riders tonight. Good to get the Rooster trophy out of the hands of ECV for the week. We'll see if we can hold onto it next week. ???

2nd Race of the EFTA NECS Series this weekend in Sterling, Conn. ...feeling pretty strong right now ...let's hope I can carry it into the weekend. From what I hear the course is suppose to be pretty technical...I'm ready.