Well we had to wait for a giant RV to get towed out of a rut, but we got a nice spot near the trail at the edge of 24 hour town right where the trail comes into town.

John and I had a decent drive out with a stop for shredding, as usual, @ Bootleg Canyon. Did a nice loop on the back side of the peak. Not sure what the trails are called, but there’s some GNAR shit there. After doing nothing but skiing for the last two months, my bike handling was craptastic.

The weather is kickass. Gonna be an awesome race. If anyone can get down here, we still technically have two open spots…
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Did a practice lap today. I’ll add race laps to this same map if you want to see how slow I ride during an actual race. This is from the Google Tracks app for Android.

Be sure to bid on this KICKASS print to support The Strip!

-M

Well our 4 man contingent has been whittled down to two. This will be my third year, LowCO2′s 2nd and Team Bacon Strip’s 4th or 5th showing straight. (Japhy Rider will have to verify that).

As LowCO2 and I roll south to Arizona today, take a look over here at this Ebay Auction for an original Photo print by our own Restless Ape, AKA Barrett Donovan: Landscape Photographer.

Barrett is a really good landscape photographer. This last year he switched over to digital, but this is one from his old Pentax 645n on Fuji Velvia 50 film. It’s a pretty stunning image from really a stunning morning @ Thousand Island Lake near Mammoth CA. The wind was HOWLING over the sierra crest and the clouds looked about as ominous as I’ve ever seen.

As with the last auction featured here, proceeds of this sale go to 1) compensate the artist and 2) fund the hosting of this website. Any excess funds will go towards getting us more stickers, patches and MAYBE even some socks. Barrett looked into Sock Guy socks and we have to get like 10 dozen pairs as a minimum order. So if there’s enough interest in a Bacon themed cycling sock, let me know…

Thanks for reading! Look for updates here as the race progresses. Please consider bidding on this print and tell all your friends.

Thanks!

-M