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dennisbike — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:51:42 +0000

photo Posting from the new phone.

Iron Hill Race…

dennisbike — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:13:59 +0000

Aw crap. I don’t want to miss the Iron Hill Race this w/end. But, I’m older, wiser, smarter then to brake my back up doing an MTB race in my nearly recovered condition. But awwww, I want to do this race….crap!

IH has always been the place that I tested myself and my ride. I learned almost everything about MTB’ing that I can do by figuring it out there. I’ve taken people to IH to help them ride trails fast. IH was always the roughest place in town. Short and compact, if you missed a technical section once we would come back to it soon enough. Many people lost their fear of riding hard there.

My first rides, FSVS training rides, with Monty McNeil, Patton, Reuther, some others (mind slip) and some beginners like me. I had converted a SanTropez steel road bike to knobbies and track bars. It was just the top of the hill back then and they called it Cross Practice. The first race series (November-ish) was labeled as such. Trails were added over the years and Mountain Bikes came into fashion, meaning affordable. Toe clips, flat bars cut short, shocks were elbows and knees, some wore track cleats with spikes drilled in the toes. Aaaa, life was simpler back then.

Trails were added. 896 downhill first. Took us around the bottem and then along I-95 coming up the washed out old road, some called it the washed out creek trail. This was around the time shocks started showing up on sponsored riders bikes. After bombing the washout trail 5-7 times your hands stayed permanently curled to bar shape. Bryan Patton said to me after one of these races…”We have to get some shocks.” You could catch riders w/shocks on the climbs/flats, but following on that downhill was on a wing and a prayer.

I quit riding for awhile, but for about once or twice at month at Iron Hill. Three years after getting back in (to cycling) I won one there after flatting the previous year. Ranks top 1 or 2 of all time for me.

Iron Hill is My Race. I’ll miss it a lot this year… I got it next year though!…jus sayin’

denS

Bike Line FairHill pictures

dennisbike — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:37:26 +0000

Click the photo for the pic’s

(ain’t the internets fun)

denS

I am Broken but getting better

dennisbike — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:34:39 +0000

Three weeks after my accident I am healing up well. XRays yesterday confirm that all breaks are basicly mended except T7 vertabrea, which still shows some signs of fracture.

Recap of injuries: 3-6(depends who you talk too)non-displaced rib fractures,Bruised lungs,mild concussion,fractures to T3 thru 6 with compression fracture to T7.

Back brace for 3 more weeks, then PT.

Here are some pictures from my field trip to the crash site. Click for a larger image (don’t X out or you will lose page,back arrow out).

Cover Shot

dennisbike — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:46:18 +0000

keeper20091keeper2009Liberty Sports Magazine given a little love my way again (Nov/Dec edition). Glad to help out the Jeb with a photo nod (Jan/Feb edition) too.

Velodrome Story (has it been 2 yr’s already)

dennisbike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:47:02 +0000

The story that never dies and it shouldn’t. Seems that a story like this gets heavy press @ every 2 yr’s. A Velodrome in our area, I mean immediate area. Sure there’s T/Town,2 hr’s north but…
read on here: Philly com article
Go Dave Go. I’m in if I don’t get too old and achy first.

denS

Facebook. Getting social

dennisbike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:48:21 +0000

Just a shorty to try out an FB blog app. Joined Facebook 2 wks ago. Trying to integrate my Dennisbike world into it….or is the the other way round?
denS

Another infrequent post

dennisbike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:09:43 +0000

Day off from work. Needed a rest, so lounging at home today. Played in the tomato patch and garden until I sweat-ed out completely. Now watching the DVR’d Tour de France…great TV commercial: “…strip down to your underwear, open the car door at 45mph and jump out.That’s what it’s like to crash in a bike race.” !! exactly !!

Sweet.

In the run for a M.A.S.S. Master II championship, gotta become a hill climber by Sept 21 Bear Creek race. With the cancellation of Nottingham STXC I will now have to WIN the Bear Creek STXC to hold on the that series win…maybe my opponent win not show up…actully I’d rather to race him for it.

Some aches and delayed recovery starting to show from the MTB season racing/training, managing it and aiming for a strong Cross Season. Have to miss the weekend opener of the MAC to finish the MASS series with the wins above………3 more races MTB and then on to Cross! Ye Ha!!!

Blog already…’geez’

dennisbike — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:28:42 +0000

Ok. So, looking at my www.PBase.com/denS gallery site the other night…..Lots there. 500+ galleries/18000+ images…Holy Crap!

On the gallery cover for Fair Hill MTB Race 2003 is this photo:

Just sayin’. I got a lot of pictures.

(Documenting the local scene for 6 years)

denS

STXC, or how I spent my day at another STXC

dennisbike — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:25:01 +0000

Two Short Track races down and still not much going on. Was talking with the MASS’ter about the state of STXC in the MASS…and… Gotta be part of an established event. Since the 1′st 2 have been sorely attended I wonder weather a stand alone event is just a mistake for the promoter…Congrat’s to the ones that are taking it on though.

Example: You live 1 1/2 hr’s away….for a 1/2 hr $25 ride…. = poor attendance. (So a nice way to rack up some Ind’y and team points… Hey, if you’re in the game. Play it, Yo).

So as part of a multi-race event, it works, right? You’re already there. OK, so if we are going to do good STXC’n then somehow, add it in. It aint’a work’n as a stand alone.

Not a gripe…just sayin………………….

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