Time to try it out!

YOU'RE THUNDERING DOWN a muddy descent, weaving around trees and dodging rocks, when all of a sudden The Log From Hell looms in your path. You have a fraction of a second to:-- Lock up the binders, slalom to a halt and bellow profanities while you slowly dismount, pick up your bike and clamber over.-- Try a bunny-hop that may send you sailing over the log -- but could land you in the ER.-- Smoothly dismount at speed and hurdle the log in a single bound, leaping back onto the saddle and speeding off like Zorro in pursuit of a bandito -- without shifting out of the big ring.
This is cyclo-cross." (Patrick O'Grady ? Cyclo-cross 101 - Mad Dog Media)


Hank made some PVC jumps. (fun) and so far they are in a bag waiting to be tested out. It cost him less than 20 bucks to make them! I watched him use some of his fancy power tools to construct the proper dimensions. He made them in no time flat. But it was a bit messy with the white flaky bits of debris on the driveway. But they work successfully and set up in no time at all! You can load them in a back pack ( big back pack) and can cart them to your favorite place and set them up and practice.

http://www.bikeman.com/thepit/crossbarriers.htm


get this:::
How to dismount. I got this from some peak performance site.

1) Put the right leg BETWEEN the left leg (still clipped in) and the bike frame.
(((ok. I can do that. ... at 5-10 mph. )))

And
2) Put the right hand on the BACK of the bike (either on the seat, or the top tube, close to the seat post).
These two elements will MAKE your dismount.

hahahahaaaaahahahaa LET GO OF THE HANDLE BARS? STILL MOVING?? On one foot???
yeah. this makes you dismount...............


IT MAKES YOU CRASH!!!!!!!!!!! OK???????
IT makes you CRASH.
Hank does it this way. I CAN"T do it. IT IS NOT NATURAL.


whine

ok . first Bandit Race!!! This saturday ! 9 am. At the SHoefactory Park off of 59 and the highway there on SHoe Factory road. Bring Mosquito Repellant!

Here is the link::

http://www.harperride.net/stories/banditx/banditx_091507.htm

disclaimer::::

This is a word of mouth event.
No frills cross racing for the fanatic.
One race, all abilities, free
Not sanctioned by anyone, not a UCI event
Maybe some prizes, maybe not
No complaining because no one will listen.
Tell your cross buddies because it won't be listed on any race website.
You can't call anyone because there is no one to call.

:)