Garmin and Crank Brothers Customer Service

If you are on the mailing list for the icup email list, a few weeks ago you may have seen an email announcing that a garmin 705 had been found after the Draper race. Oh, and it had been run over by a car.

Well, that was my garmin. I must have left it on top of my car when I drove away. BRILLIANT!!!!

As it turns out, I was lucky to retrieve it. Garmin was very cool when I called them. Even though it was out of warranty, for a very small fee, they replaced my Garmin.

In the same week, I broke a wing coming down dry canyon on my Crank Brothers Candy 4ti pedals. Crank Brothers repaired the pedals at no charge--even without a sales receipt.

Credit where credit is due. Impressive customer service.

Farewell Brad....Hello Brats!

Although you may think I only talk about food, I do ride my bike.

Brad's farewell ride was held last night. Good sized group to say adios to Mr. Carborocket before he moves to Chicago.

The ride was a blast, but the food afterwords was perfect. Aside from being strong cyclists, these guys can make some awesome food.

• Homemade Guacamole by Elden
• Brats by Elden
• Homemade bread by Kenny
• Homemade cookies from Mark's wife Rachel

Thanks to Elden for hosting the party at his house. Video forthcoming.

Recovery Food

No, that isn't a science experiment gone wrong. Everything about that is right. Next time your looking for a some lunch or dinner in Utah County, stop in at Bailey's Restaurant & Patio (535 N. State Street Orem--Shared space w/ Juice & Java). The sandwiches are awesome, but the hard boiled eggs are the best ever. I prefer the spicy eggs over the sweet eggs. I enjoy them so much, I had John make me up a whole jar. For a laugh, pay attention to John's filing system. Sandwich recommendations: Bailey's Best, Tuna Melt w/ the sweet peppers, Pastrami.

Bike riding has been fairly thin lately. I have been backpacking w/ the varsity scouts. We hiked in to Pittsburgh lake and across the GWT to Forrest Lake. Still plenty of snow up high.

AF Canyon morning ride / video

Nice ride up AF this morning. It was one of the mornings where the weatherman was wrong in my favor. He had said it would be 40--thankfully he was wrong.

A short video of the ride - you'll understand why Kris has his shoes off at the summit.

AF Morning Ride 6-11-10 from atomicmiles on Vimeo.

Moose Goo and Poo

Next week I'm going with the varsity scouts on a backpacking trip from Snowbird back to Lindon via the great western trail. I've been testing the dehydrated foods (all homemade) that I'll be eating on the trip. I decided to whip up a batch of Moose Goo - A high calorie goop that will be my lunch on the trail.

2 parts corn flour (not corn meal)

2 parts honey

1 part peanut butter

I modified the moose goo by adding 1 part nutella thus changing it from moose goo to moose poo. While it doesn't measure up to an apple fritter, it is actually quite tasty and would be an excellent on-the-go food for rawrod or Lotoja.

New Pavement

I love new pavement. It just feels fast.

I rode up the alpine loop - provo side - during lunch today and ran into a crew repaving above Sundance. After waiting for a few minutes, the flagman let the line of cars continue on up the road. I only made it about 20 feet before I flipped around to get back on the old pavement. The new asphalt was sticking to my tires.

I love new pavement, but not immediately after it has been put down.

Dry Canyon Damage

I went for a morning ride. When I came across the dry canyon parking lot, I saw this.

This is the junction of the shoreline trail and the dry canyon trail, just east of the stairs. Massive amounts of water have come down. My guess is someone broke the pipe. Every single retention pond in the neighborhood below was filled to the top this morning.

Draper ICUP Video

ICUP Draper 5-31-10 from atomicmiles on Vimeo.

Draper ICUP short report

(Pic pinched from Karl)

I'll summarize a bit of the race and let the video tell the rest of the story.

I really enjoyed the course. I saw quite a few that had wrecked or talked of the length being hard, but every person I spoke with gave 2 thumbs up on the course. Other than the one long climb, all the rest of the climbing came in short bursts.

First lap was a bottleneck for quite a while. It was much better once we hit climb on the dirt road. It was fun to do battle with Brannen all throughout the race. He unfortunately had a spill on the final lap.

I was filming the finish standing next to the organizer of these races - Ed. Our conversation was something like this:

Me: "Have the singlespeeders finished yet"

Ed: "I don't think so..... Did I have them do 3 laps?.... Wow.... Painful.... I just had them do the same amount of laps from last year."

Ended up 5th. I was happy with my race. Brannen and I had no idea how many were in front of us.