Archive for June, 2007

The Fools Gold Mtb Races & Festival

Friday, June 29th, 2007

The route has been posted! Check it out on the 55nine Performance blog.

I had hoped for two separate loops, but the Forest Service put the kibosh on that idea….at least for this year. I’m going to try to cut through the bureaucratic tape to get some more single track opened up for mtb’ers [...]

More Cowbell…pictures

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

There are bunch from Namrita, Misty @ Vassago, Chris Baker from Charlotte in my gallery.
Chris also put together this video of all of his pictures:

The bloggersphere is abound with Cowbell reports as well:
Arliegh
Namrita
Jeremy Arnold
Extra Tomato
And if you haven’t heard Dicky was the Santa Cruz Hellride contestant number 4 this past weekend.
Eddie O

07 Cowbell Challenge Report

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

9:00 AM: Our, Namrita & I, pit crew is hard at it. Brandon is making some adjustments to Namrita’s Vassago before installing a drive train on my Kona King Kikapu. Tracey is working on list of what each of us want to eat/drink and when. Lisa was busy arranging the pit area [...]

Just in from the Cowbell Challenge

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I took second this weekend at the Cowbell. It was hot as expected and the new course rocked. Namrita kicked single-speed butt again with a second place herself.
Nat Ross never showed (…I hear he is scared of me), but Rob & Brandon from Cannondale/Bear Naked made things rough from the start. Brandon [...]

I’m out

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

We are off to Charlotte for the Cowbell Challenge. I’m not sure if I’ll have a chance to post again, so check the Cowbell site for results. In the mean time check out the info about the Fool’s Gold event in Aug. You don’t want to miss this one. The route [...]

Turnin Up the Heat

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Woohoo….it’s going to be sunny and 90* for the Cowbell this weekend! Why am I excited by this? Because I race very well in the heat. I’ve been training in the heat of the day for weeks with the anticipation of a scorcher at the Cowbell and mother nature seems to be [...]

GDR Updates

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

The Great Divide Race is in full swing. This little jaunt across a chunk of North America is a self support epic race of no less than 2500 miles through some very rouged mountains. You can listen the racers personal accounts at MTBCast.com which is podcasting the racers check point messages. This [...]

More Cowbell

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Preparation for the Cowbell 12 Hour in Charlotte is in full swing. Hotels are being booked, support is being recruited, and my Hei Hei needs some love as I have been riding the heck out of it the last 3 weeks.
I’ve even been doing my road rides on it because the position [...]

Quick Update

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’m finally getting caught up here at home after 6 weeks of racing, then directing the BURN 24 Hour, then a little jaunt to MI to see the inlaws…during all of that I fit about 50 bikes.
55nine is doing quite well with many of the racers fit during the first part of the [...]

Oh yeah,…

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I almost forgot about this moment. This is the current homepage shot at the BURN Energy Drinks site.
Eddie O