Prean San Ol

"Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure
A massing treasure why scrape and save?
Why look so canny at every penny?
You'll take no money within the grave
Landlords and gentry with all their plenty
Must still go empty where e'er they're bound
So to my thinking we'd best be drinking
Our glasses clinking and round and round...

So, lads and lasses, because life passes
Come fill your glasses for another round."

-The Tossers

This Just In

Drinking tap water is not a crime.

Using all the plastic required to produce and drink bottled water is.

What the hell has Ryder been up to?

He went to see the Christmas Train in Rialto with Great Grandma Joyce and the rest of SSR (South Side Rialto).

He's been playing with his giant train table that I stayed up building until after midnight on Christmas Eve.

He soldiered on through the flu to participate in his school Christmas Program. The rest of the kids were green with envy over Ryder's argyle sweater.

He and Sala have been doing some pretty serious bonding.

And while I was out pedaling my bike, Ryder learned how to pedal his. Now, that's about all he wants to do. Sounds vaguely familiar.

Sooner or later, you knew it was coming

My goals for 2008. In bullet point form! What now Trevor?

• Get a unicycle so I can chase Ryder on his tricycle in the backyard
• Be nicer to people who don't ride bikes
• Buy a new filter for my humidifier since the current filter is moldy
• Floss the bottom row of my teeth more often
• Put together my jigsaw puzzle of dogs celebrating the 4th of July
• Drink more wine
• Watch more movies so I have a freaking idea of what everyone is talking about
• Watch more meaningful movies so everyone has no idea what I'm freaking talking about
• Learn to cut my own hair so I save 10 bucks a month
• Plant a tree
• Watch the Packers win the Super Bowl
• Go to a NFL game, but not one in Oakland, Pittsburg, Denver, Philly, San Diego, St. Louis, or New York
• Run at least once a week to build up my bone density since I'm getting old
• Ride in Moab
• Read some books that aren't about the history of punk rock
• Read more books to Ryder
• Be more consistent in my consumption of ice cream
• Learn how to spell better (not to be confused with learn how to spell the word better)
• Go to the beach and get in the ocean more than once a summer
• Stretch when I get off the bike instead of before I go to bed
• Kick more ass
• Take more names
• Send Mike my Power Tap files on a regular basis
• Do more rides on my own
• Take more pictures
• Leave more footprints
• Make more lists

Surprise, Surprise

Kelly Slater is on the cover of the February issue of Outside Magazine. Again.

Now that just leaves Lance Armstrong, Laird Hamilton, Jack Johnson, Ed Viesturs, Ben Harper & Eddy Vedder for months March thru December. I wonder in what order?

And I wonder which issue will claim Tucson as a great place to live? Again.

Give me a break.

I got this text

It said: "Are you still alive?"

I replied: "No, I'm not still alive. I'm texting you from the afterlife. The group rides here are phenomenal."

And now the sender of this text is mad because, I was a smartass when answering a concerned question. I told this person that he'd know if I was dead because I've willed him what's left of my collection of stems. Unfortunately my collection of stems ain't what it used to be because I've already given most of them to this person. The irony.

I wonder what kind of comment this person will leave?

Meanwhile at the Orange Show Race Track

We did a little time trial testing. I did a little riding and a little forgetting my TT helmet and Max Performance Mike did a little filming. After a warm-up, 40 hot laps, & a cool down, here's what we came up with:

I have good knee angle.

My hip is open correctly.

My position just sucks. I've seen flatter backs in a retirement home.

Mike says I need to rotate my pelvis to flatten my back and get my glutes more involved. As is, my crappy position is causing me to loose up to 25% of my power. It's bad enough that my horrible hip flexability prevents me from doing the splits on the balance beam and during my floor routine.