Some photos

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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday. It
was a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful. Trying
to hang with these guys took it out of me on a couple of climbs but I
hung on as best I could.

You trying to hang? What, were you riding with Superman and his relatives
or something?

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Not much time to make a RR at the moment, but
here's some photos (with some other unrelated shots at the beginning and
end - you can ignore those):

<http://mattb.net/pics.aspx?gal=2005-07-03%20(MTBing%20and%20ballooning%20wi
th%20family)>

Nice.

Greg

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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday. It
was a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful. Trying
to hang with these guys took it out of me on a couple of climbs but I
hung on as best I could.

You trying to hang? What, were you riding with Superman and his relatives
or something?

Pretty much.
The group of four on the road climb were the lead group. They are: a pro
Norba racer with some significant wins under his belt who's more into
adventure racing these days (but still getting paid to ride a lot),
another Norba pro with a lot of top 5 finishes in significant races who
just got back from a few months of pro road racing in Spain, another
adventure racer who was a Norba expert racer and training buddy of the
first two, and finally a guy who drives one of those all yellow Mavic
cars with all the bikes and wheels in big races (he going to Le Tour
soon) - so he's not a pro rider, but he gets out more than I do and
rides with a lot of fast people.
So while I'm dying to just keep them in view, they are telling jokes,
riding wheelies, and flicking rocks at each other with their front wheels.
I was the weekend warrior of that group and it was painfully obvious. I
had to snap those two photos to prove I was actually ahead of them at
some point, even though they let me pass.
Those are my excuses and I'm sticking to them!

Matt

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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday. It was
a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful. Trying to hang
with these guys took it out of me on a couple of climbs but I hung on as
best I could. Not much time to make a RR at the moment, but here's some
photos (with some other unrelated shots at the beginning and end - you can
ignore those):

<http://mattb.net/pics.aspx?gal=2005-07-03%20(MTBing%20and%20ballooning%20with%20family)>
or
http://tinyurl.com/8zchl

Matt

Beautiful!

CG

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"MattB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday.
It was a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful.
Trying to hang with these guys took it out of me on a couple of
climbs but I hung on as best I could.

You trying to hang? What, were you riding with Superman and his
relatives or something?

Yeah, no [censored]. If Matt's just hanging on (which I don't believe), then
I'd've waved 'em on after about 14 feet.

Slow but unskilled, BS

and I'm trying to set up a ride with Matt....masochist that I am.
Maybe he'll have a cold again like the last time I rode with
him....crossing fingers.

Gary

Bill Sornson said:

G.T. said:

"MattB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday.
It was a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful.
Trying to hang with these guys took it out of me on a couple of
climbs but I hung on as best I could.

You trying to hang? What, were you riding with Superman and his
relatives or something?

Yeah, no [censored]. If Matt's just hanging on (which I don't believe), then
I'd've waved 'em on after about 14 feet.

Slow but unskilled, BS

Whatever...

G.T. said:

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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday. It
was a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful. Trying
to hang with these guys took it out of me on a couple of climbs but I
hung on as best I could.

You trying to hang? What, were you riding with Superman and his relatives
or something?

G-Spot is filled with very fast riders and Matt seems to know all of
the most maniacal.

JD

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I rode Flag-Bear-Deadman's with a fun (and fast!) group on Saturday.

It

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was a fun uneventful ride and the day was perfect and beautiful.

Trying

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to hang with these guys took it out of me on a couple of climbs but I
hung on as best I could.

You trying to hang? What, were you riding with Superman and his

relatives

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or something?

G-Spot is filled with very fast riders and Matt seems to know all of
the most maniacal.

True dat. And I can understand why the area attracts the likes of those
types.

Greg