Raleigh Misceo Week One

Had a few half commutes this week on the "Black Stallion" for a total of 82.24 miles. Though I will continue to commute the 24.24 miles each way, I feel the Misceo would be a better 10-15 mile each way commuter. The bike has perform flawlessly, with the exception of my fender vibrating loose, but I suppose that is a installation error.

When life gives you lemons, get a new bike

I've had a incredibly shitty month, so to make up for it in material things, I got a new bike. Like my mood it is all black. This is actually a project I've work towards for a few weeks and it just happened to happen at the end or beginning of a dark point in my life depending on how you look at it. Anyways, meet the "Black Stallion" it's a 2011 Raleigh Misceo.





Today was my first ride in on it, so far,so good. Over the next few weeks I'll go over how the bike performs.

First Race of 2011...Fail. Easter Egg Hunt...Win!

Raced at Vulture's Knob on 4.30.11 at their spring kick-off event. Though I didn't do the greatest, it was fun, and I got to race my new Salsa El Mariachi. Since it was the weekend after Easter, they had a Easter Egg hunt during the race, and since I wasn't counting on winning, I figured I would do my best at finding the eggs. On the course were 7 eggs, that would be turned in at the end of the race for prizes, and if you got the egg with the number 1 on it, you had to drink what they called "Dr. Knob's Concoction". 2 miles in on my first lap, I got a stuffed rabbit with a egg taped to it, which I had to ride with for the remaining 12 miles. On my second lap, I collected the evil egg number 1. I finished the race 6 out of 7 finishers, which helped me coin our new race team motto, " We don't always finish last, but we always try our hardest to".

At the award ceremony, I claimed my prizes. For my random egg I won a Peep basket with some Chamois Butt'r gifts.



And for Egg # 1 I had to drink a really nasty drink that I'm not allowed to tell all the ingredients, but it had Monster Energy Drink, whiskey, and 2 raw eggs. For drinking it and holding it down, I won $50.00! My first money winnings at a race! Even if I didn't keep it down, it would have been glorious, because I had just had a Chipotle burrito and 3 PBR's!



This photo was from Brandon, who left before my big moment of drinking the drink.