We came, we saw… we got RAD as hell!  As a cross racer, the Cincy3 UCI weekend is something that you look forward to all year.   How often do you get a chance to rip it up in the morning, then spend the afternoon heckling the pros while they flat out destroy the course that nearly killed you a few hours earlier?  For me, the UCI weekend was my first exposure to the mayhem and madness known as cyclocross.  I watched on the sidelines of Harbin Park as JamesO got as rad as he could manage at time.  With a double sand pit, technical off-camber, and a blazing downhill… I was hooked.   That was 4 years ago.

Fast forward to 2011.  Team Hungry is raging strong, breaking hearts, and robbing fools on the cross course.    After the dust bowl races of … Read More »

I ended up 38th out of 62 riders and I was able to finish the entire race without getting pulled.

The course had crazy frozen ruts that would instantly throw me into the tape at random. I’m pretty sure I broke at least 8 stakes during the race.

Surprisingly, i only went down once as a deep Rut threw me into a cloth barrier under the green monster and the solid stake holding it up grabbed my front wheel threw me to the ground.

To top the frozen ruts off, there was a coating of ice like slime on the rest of the course which caused me to unclip several times to keep upright.

My front wheel must’ve not been attached too well because it was shaking. Or, the ruts knocked it out. I’m not sure. I did have to stop on the ‘green … Read More »

It’s winter, it’s getting colder around the Midwest. Pass 2 hours of your time with a le Tour “Living in Hell” video: