tnr minutes

the ugly weather did not prevail!

the impaler, g, tenacious v and the secretary met at g's, rode to expresso junction and met cousin adam and craig. the riding was tentative in pace certainly, but good times were had. we were met by juan eppstein and kk at the klubhouse. a fine turnout.

various topics unrelated to bikes were discussed... in particular, after we had cousin adam recount the matter of his pursuit of street justice, we talked about crazy people for a long time. seems most of us have had experiences with folks struggling to keep their stick on the ice.

we heard the continuing saga of juan eppstein's toe. diligent readers will recall that he showed up at the 24hrs of Coen sans bike... because he'd messed up his toe at soccer that day. the common wisdom, "even if it's broken, they won't do anything about it" prevailed. another stroke against common wisdom. when he finally went to the medical establishment two or more weeks later, it was discovered that the fracture was longitudinal (split like a bad weiner, as Brad put it) and that they would have pinned it immediately because it's not together. well, it well never be together again. not only is he still wearing a walking cast, he's looking at a fat toe with decreased mobility for the long term. there you have it for common wisdom.

a brief biking note: cousin adam mentioned that he's been doing a few road oriented rides with the road racing coordinator who is a colleague of his. the sweetest jersey in the world will see a number of road races this year he claims (no he hasn't signed up yet, but the intention is there). this brings our number to eight, and now we're covering more disciplines. the blackness is oozing.

ok, now i need to go find more fixed gear videos for mike g. (who's a fine fellow, by the way, but somehow is choosing to take a particular brand of bike hype fairly personally... I would maintain it's pretty tough to ride any bike without being labeled these days.)