Thursday, July 17, 2008

Misc. Stuff

A few random things

mini race report
I raced at bensenville yesterday and it didn't go so well. The heat combined with my ability to always get gapped out of turn 3 combined to get me dropped after 40min so i pulled out. pretty disappointing since that was my only superweek race this year.

tour de france commentary
After waking up and seeing the news of ricco's expulsion from the tour it became apparent to me why they decided to have no time bonus's at the tour this year. It sure makes it easier to reshuffle the standing without having to recalculate time bonuses. i wouldn't expect to see time bonuses back for quite some time.


Get well Jim!
Jim Scott, the same Jim Scott who so kindly lent me a wheel at Wood Dale, was injured on tuesday but thankfully he's going to be ok. Get well soon buddy. Congrats on 3rd!!! For SW to say that there wasn't anybody within 20' of you is insane. The same thing happened at the finish of the 30+ race on wed. they had removed the barriers so the rider was able to keep upright.
I won't even get started on the saftey issues that seem to always come up during superweek every year. maybe that'll be another post sometime.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry about Bensenville.
Superweek has always been about money, and they only play lip service to safety. Until we all stop giving them our money they won't care what the race courses look like. The old Bensenville course was a deathtrap, doesn't sound like the new one was much better.

Jim Scott said...

Thanks Ron... Keep pushing the pedals... Jim