sean melcher enters the scene-

www.seanmelcher.blogspot.com

got out for an hour and a half barry miller style recovery ride today.

tomorrow 3ish hours.

I leave you with this.

hairspray, and goats.

Went to camp this past weekend. so here it comes. post-ripped on andy this weekend quite a bit. chris busted down the door 2 times once while andy was dropping two the other while andy was showering.
These kids are strong. Chris is 17 and scored a 3rd at cherry blossom and andy is 16 and racked in a win there. Andy also takes the verbal beating like a champ. Plus he likes reallly nice girls. like kelly.

heres the tally for most of saturday's ride. not a ton of miles but the last 25 had 10 sprints. gah.the bikes in front of the room.

andy pooping

fraysees pink bus.

Whats hot...
Finally figuring out the college thing
Ep deal on easton bars and stems
birthday

Whats not...
traveling sans bike
flooded road training rides
no tuesday ride

mama knows best.

edit: jimmy caspers crash was disgusting

I give him a 4 days to get pulled over

ehh I take that back, ill probably hear the pullover story on our ride thurs.

done.

pictures from central park 4/8

shots are by marco at www.nyvelocity.com
good stuff

Lots has been dropping lately.

New homies on the blog scene.

lemony entered the other day

www.damnkleeb.blogspot.com

hes got his own skateboards goin on august skateboards, im gonna get one.

I think they will be on ebay soon. 25 bucks with grip and graphics thats kickin

Zane is reppin too, lemme see what his address is... www.zaned91.blogspot.com

So far I have like 7 races in this year. Considering last year I started my season in June thats seven more races than last year.

Today was Central Park. I have never been a fan of the course becuase Ive been dropped there several times. guh guh. Things didnt go down like that though. Heres the motion picture--

First lap went off fast, I sat like 3rd wheel and let my legs get warmed up. The crap in my legs spun out and I felt pretty good. Second lap a move went off and Joe Mcwilliams went with it. that group took some time on the field, Marino and Myself sat on front with the guys from Merrill Lynch worked out nicely. Third lap rolled around(get it) and Joe's group stopped doing work, he was pissed and they got brought back. Then another group went, 4 guys, Merrill Lynch had a guy so they put the whole team upfront. Then I attacked and started to chase with this other guy to get one of us in the break, didnt work, we were reeled in. Finally the group of 4 guys stayed away, merrill lynch guy was there, they sat on the front and the race ended fighting for 6th. guh guh.

Sandy hook went down on Saturday and I didn't do so hot. Chris, I will allow you to think of some excuses for me.

yea so I procrastinated this post hoping for pics from the race this moring but, no dice.

tomorrow it is

done.

IM CHRIS HANSEN????

Today I raced prospect park. I raced the 3/4 field and there were so many attacks. Mariellos Pizza would put off like 3 or 4 attacks a lap. Each time up the hill it would just be guy off the front after guy. That was the first three laps or so, my legs felt good, not great but good enough to race on. Then like 4 laps through or so I decided to float back and check out the scene back there. Dan from Princeton Review was back there and I figured he would be a freaking incredible wheel if it came down to a field sprint. Chilled off the back with him waiting for the field sprint, did some chatting and talked some tactics. Those laps went fast and it seemed like my legs didnt even feel them. Checked my Heart rate monitor and I was chillin at like 150-160 Bpm right on the back of the field. I was really happy with that actually considering ive been sick lately. I can feel my legs are getting adjusted to having like 20 more lbs on my frame so when i get leg speed back my heart will be super happy.

The new bike felt freaking incredible as well. I rode training wheels but it was still super stiff and responsive. The CAAD 9 is much different from the spec. I feel like when im out of the saddle the wheels are locked to the ground. The spec. on the other hand would be all freaking over the place, hopping from little bump tot little bump. The new bike feels really reponsive uphill to. Im not gonna lie Im mega pumped.

Todays view...

And another shot.

So good at telling a race story I for got the end, Dan from princeton review made a move in the field sprint that I couldnt match so I get a big FIF

recovery ride and run tomorrow?? who is down?

Done.

I got another flat today. Sweet. I dont flat for like 2 years on the road, then I flat like about 6 times in the last month. Again, sweet. Got in about an Hour and 45 min on the cross bike then finished up with a 20 minute run. Did some sprint intervals on the bike and called it a day.

Tomorrow I will finish up the new bike, iron out some fit details and cable stretch to get ready to race on sunday. Pictures when I solve the whole memory card not working becuase of a magnetic experience the other day thing.

Scott El and Jim are all scouting paris-roubaix this week with Magnus Backstedt. Insane.

Yesterday, I suited up the cross bike with some road tires and got out for a ride on the road, instead of just riding cross as I have been lately. The Road Bike is almost done but I just need to find time to cut the steerer between riding and schoolwork.

I think my camera may have exploded, well not my camera. The camera takes pictures and works and such but it wont upload any pictures to my computer, bummer. When I figure it out i think there are some people who are looking for pictures of the Caad 9 and I will post pictures.

Otherwise keep reppin master P and the thug life

Done.

Im not going to comment on this near month long stretch ive gone without and update, but the pictures are getting backed up on my camera so here it goes.

Went for a ride today with scott http://scotteffinjackson.blogspot.com hes back from banner elk till tomorrow night when he goes to copenhagen, thats right copenhagen, Denmark. He will be in belgium with el and jim for the next few months riding for the cycling center.

In preparation for his departure and adaptation to european culture he has adopted this...

Not a typical american mullet, but a mullet typical of the european peloton. when asked about how you describe this to the barber scott said, (not a direct quote by any means) "I just hold up a picture of filippo pozzato" ha.

So the ride... we did a mendham lake road ride ish thing. scott blew up my legs on all the climbs twas interesting.

Scott and I recieved a stern public address from officer curtis on layfayette for riding two by two and impedeing the flow of traffic(him)

we are praying for race legs sometime soon.

I flatted

i have terrible posture.

and as usual didnt have a pump. turned out to be like 40 somesing mile and like 2 and a half hours.

oh and this

mmmm done.

woah I havent posted in awhile

durr, well i have a big post typed out from sitting in the car on the way to boston

but this is what i gots for now.

ordered these shoes in all black at foot locker in boston

this is what they sent me

dank

another post, much bigger to follw.

done.

I dunno whats going on with the blogger but I dont have any editing tools, the whole bar above where im typing is blank.

ohh wait nevermind, I fixed it. Im the man, hahahh.

Here is my bike during my ride saturday, basically it went to shit in like 10 min, slush and ice and salt all over the roads and everything was wet. Got in two and a halfish hours, for it being 17degrees im not to mad. Went to the gym today.

prolly play some pond hockey tomorrow.

new bike soon??

all good stuff.

done.

^ jo meng

this past wed/thurs I road tripped up to Geneva NY with my ma, most of the trip was spent doing exactly this, driving behind a tractor trailor that carried cooking coals for 5 hours. pimpin'

Saw Hobart college, twas cool, the whole campus is on senaca lake and it looked like there were some nice mountain bike trails.

Mclane...

Necessary for every co-pilot-

• Ipod
• directions
• map, when accidents force you off the interstate.
  

Agulcuturismo. si o no?

in case anybody from jersey hasnt seen this stuff yet this year, here you go.

plus after the trip i was jonesin' for some pad thai and some spring rolls. mmmmmmm

thats it.

done.

Went out for a cross ride today, little over an hour. im trying to go alittle easy for the next few days becuase I think I might be getting sick. ehh ohh. Today it was about 26degrees not to bad but I dressed heavily so I mos def wasnt cold. some pictars.

Durrrrrrrr

After seeing Jamey Driscoll riding the sand at worlds, I felt it would be important for me to work on my sand riding skills for worlds 20?? --ha.

Heres the closest thing we have to a sand pit

whatever, Im going to visit Hobart College tomorrow. They have a mountain team so well see how I like that. Never raced mountain before. Ill be gone till...ehhhh, wednesday night.

Long road ride this weekend? anyone?

EDIT: im also thinking about getting protional items, stickers, matchbooks, visors and golf club head covers that read "www.daviddoubleDdevine.blogspot.com" talk to me if you want dibbs.

done.

the 99cent Arizona iced tea is extremely important to me.

went to Cvs got my Arizona iced tea Sullivan got toilet paper for his family, cute.

saw Jordan shredding the counter, he gave me a small paper doll that he gives to customers, he cuts them out of the coupon circular and its in the shape of a person, it reads, "find the jade money by the next full moon"

the man himself

went to Nash watched some pond hockey

went to quick check and scored this smorgasbord for a mere 5dollars large

peanut cookies, peanut coffee(2) and one black and white cookie--separate but equal.

gregor always mocks the blog, but he doesnt know the numbers I put up, also I think hell be pumped when he finds out/ remembers that he made the blog

keeep your grill clean

and always remember who is driving the spaceship

listen to these guys....http://www.doghousefans.com
weekdays 9-12
funny ish.

have a snowcone

done.

Been doing exams lately and riding/gyming it up a bunch

wednesday I go to senaca NY to go see Hobart college

should be fun, who knows

last night I went to lizzles basketball game> to julians show>to macdonalds to pork face.

While at mcdonalds we saw these two guys manolo y ruiz who were driving a white van with all sorts of wierd shite in the back

so manolo y ruiz didnt understand through our broken spanish that it was drive thru only.

apparently they thought drive thru was drive away, who knows but they didnt get any food.

but i was pretty glad to finally meet two people who fit my mental description of manolo y ruiz

cycling.tv is where its at right now, for me atleast.

pictar from last night

mmmk so post.

lots of riding as of late, well not just riding but going to the gym as well. Some time on the stationary bike and lifting and such. It seems to be working pretty well for me.

I got out for like 2 hours after school yesterday and managed to flat twice which was kind of a bummer, this makes 4 flats on the road and 3 flats on the cross bike for 2007. In 2006 I had a much different year 3 flats total, one shitting around riding in the glass covered rain gutter and two where I walked out to bike in the morning and my back tire was flat. Which brings me to my next point, i have never flatted a front tire. Moral of the story, free continental gatorskins are the best tires around. Enough flat talk.

12 or so hours on the bike since monday which I'm pretty pumped on, looking to to about an hour and a half on the trainer today, then get out on the road tomorrow. If so I will post some pics.

done.

will post later about getting romped on at the cross race today.
after tonight.