Lesson 1

Lesson 1: Don't put Mtn. Dew in your water bottle for the Speed Ride....or really any ride. This may seem like a good idea as you are heading out the door, fulfilling your need for an extreme energy sustenance for riding. What you really are heading for is a gooey imminent doom. Not only, will it fill your mouth with a thick sugary coating, but it will also end up making your bike, hands, and general existence sticky.

In other news, I built up my road bike today with brand new SRAM Force, afforded by selling odd parts that I have obtained throughout the years. My first impression is overly positive. I really like the ergonomics, shift action, and the 10 speediness. It is a huge difference from the 9 speed 105, which did her job well, but was starting to get a really mushy shift action.

Death to all but metal.

Season Goals

While limping home after a hard crash in Shingletown last Thursday, I churned over quite a few pseudo-philosophical debates. At first, I contemplated the differences between jam and jelly, and whether or not each enhanced the overall experience of my sandwich. However, my lack of preservative knowledge quickly shifted my line of thought to topics more suited to my strengths, and I settled on the inevitable question for every endurance athlete:  Why am I doing this?


Ah, the dreaded question. Why do we put in hour after hour on the saddle? Throw ourselves over, and sometimes onto, jagged rocks? Race until our chests collapse from strain? The reasons vary from person to person, though no answer ever seems truly complete.

Despite the complexity of the question, we here at TBS Inc. Racing believe to have stumbled upon the universal answer for the universal question. We do it to be like these guys:



Discovered via All Hail the Black Market. Read more about Ritte Van Vlaanderen.

Personally, I would have gone with the salmon. But then again, I'm not a pro (yet...).

I am still drafting my own goals for this season- which I will post on my fancy Bio page once complete - but I have confidence that more than a few people already finalized a few major targets for this season. For me, the first and primary goal is finishing the Trans-Sylvania Epic, though I will construct a more specific goal for it as the race nears. But, if you dare, share with us some of your own goals. Top 5s? Upgrades? Get Denny to stop listening to bad metal? Fix the spelling error on your team blog's banner (I'm getting to it, I swear...)? Let us know!

Theme Song

So, to help things get kicked off for the season I think we need a theme song. Here are some starting points, but I think this may be a several month review process.

Horrible power metal?



Horrible thrash?



Hipster Dj Dubbed Hip-Hop?



Fuzz?

It's a start..

So here's to the awkward first post. We're starting a blog. We'll probably talk about racing, training, riding and general shenanigans. Tim will probably talk about new music, and I'll try and keep the fly fishing posts to a minimum since this is a cycling blog.