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ThNR & AWBF

Thursday Night Ride - on.  

ABES Winter Bike Festival - on.  Saturday, 3:00 - ABES Headquarters - BYO Dogfest.

If you need more details, see you Thursday (or let me know).

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Items to discuss…ABES winter bike festival, Franklin and the Operation Muerto challenge, Steven has registered for the Salsa Oremageddon – 224 days early, David likes to sign up for bike rides, and will we see the return of Loren B or is he the wham, bam thank-you ABES sort of guy.  We’ll find out these and other wonderful, Brilliant Stories at the ThNR.

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Yup

See you Dycks at 8

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Thursday night ride is on.  Plenty to talk about this week: Paul and Albert can share their Actif Epica report, I enjoyed 12 hours of 24 Hours of Winter with the FGBC, David has a new boyfriend, upcoming 24 hours of Falcon Lake teams, and Franky and his fam drove to some cool adventures last weekend...

see you at 8

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Dwight N recently saw this in Calgary...

A sweet benefit of cycling as transportation is the deluxe parking.  I love riding my bike to the front door, jumping off and walking right in.  Rock star parking.  I especially love that in Altona we can do it without locking up.  How f'n awesome is that!  These are the good old days.

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Dan, Albert and I scouted out the creek tonight and it was de-luxe.  Let's give it a go on Thursday and see if Franky can make it out of town this week or he'll have to take another brisk walk.  Good luck buddy!

See ya'll at 8.

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RIP Abe Vigoda.  For realsies this time. 

Frankie says the creek is prime.  Let's check it out.  See you at 8.

ThNR - laaate post

Less this..

More this...

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ThNR - update

Post ride goodness will be at the barn.

See you at 8 to share Bowie stories.

ThNR - Draft Night

Our beloved barn is unavailable this week, so we'll adjourn to the bar to prepare for Foggy Friday.

See you at 8.

ABES Spring Ride 2016

The next ABES Spring Ride will take place June 10 - 12 at Falcon lake.  Mark your calendars, take a vacation day, plan to call in sick, start mentioning it to your girlfriend and/or wife, and make the ABES spring ride a reality.   

ThNR – has anybody been on the creek these days?  See you at 8.

Donating Bikes

The Sustainable Energy class is going to spend a couple of day fixing up bikes to donate to the Syrian refugees who will be arriving in Altona soon.  We are still looking for more bikes and parts as well as bike trailers.  If you have any to donate please drop them off at Miller at the hut at the south end of the school or email me to find out where to drop them off.

Thanks,
Gavin

ThNR - Alternative Clubhouse

Unless a better offer finds its way online, we'll be forced out of the barn and back to the bar this week.

Who's up for a ride?

Reminder: We meet at 144 Poplar Drive.

See you at 8.

ThNR - ABES Headquarters 2.0

I really want to cycle on the creek but I’m not sure it’s ready.  Paul and Gavin have both been on the ice, with mixed results.  I’d like to try it soon but I’m also scared so...I’ll let peer pressure be my guide. 

ThNR will henceforth commence at 144 Poplar Drive.  See yawl at 8.

ThNR - ABES Headquarters is Moving

This will be the last ThNR where we meet at the only ABES Headquarters site we've ever known.  So many of our hopes, dreams and cigarettes have been shared (and gone up in smoke) on that driveway.

Sigh.

Not to fret - the wheels will keep on rolling next week.

See you at 8.

ThNR - Change of Venue

The ABES BARn has been reserved this Thursday which means we'll return to our old haunt and visit the new owners of the hotel bar.

See you at 8.

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Oui, oui mon ami

Best of MB CX 2015

Is Manitoba cyclocross the best or what?  Spending a day at a park, racing bikes with family and friends, it's the best!  So many good times.  Some of my favourite moments of the season include: the cx nationals weekend – so much good racing/people/beer/weather it was ridiculous, Trevor K's moustache is so magnificent it too is ridiculous, our double-header weekend had the good time vibes of a church picnic (without the churchy bits), Dark cross had the best course they’ve ever strung together, finishing a race with 5 ABES in a row was a fun race within the race, The Hinterlands Who's Who video, Jason using his inner Hulk to rip his handlebars off his bike (he’s soo angry), Paul finally winning a race against Huebner made PK's year, Dead Horse poutine (it tastes better than it sounds), not crashing, DNF’ing and/or DFL’ing at Crosstastic - for a change, not going to Portage, not being the race director, Oliver's sprint win and flaming barriers at dark cross, and my two races at the forks were greasy and fun.  The following is a collection of my best cross memories of 2015…

Best power couple – Danick and Oliver showed their redonkulous supremacy this year – holy crap these guys are fast and fun to watch.

Best new rivalry – the odd couple: Charlene V Sonia.  Lanky Charlene looks pained as Petite Sonia grins.  The rivalry grew more intense every week.

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Best results that are true’ish - Joanne can now claim that she is a two time national cyclocross champion, winning last years Friday night open race and this years Sunday open race.  She won't mention the impressive results, but I like to.  Joanne, “You’re simply the best!” Tina Turner.

Best Shutterbugs - Dallas took pictures for a couple of days of racing and produced over 5000 pictures proving he’s as prolific with a camera as he is at heckling, talking, running, everything.  That guys motor is always on, and we love it.  If you have a week to kill, check out his pics on Facebook.  Greg McNeill whooped and yelled for people to show their stuff at nationals and the results are pretty cool.  Unforch, my stuff includes wheezing and gently rolling over the berm – not exactly highlight material.  Newcomer Andrew Rempel took a bunch of impressive aerial photos and videos in Rocktona that are hellacool, but it was rock and roll Rod Codwell who took pictures every week so he gets the top marks.  My only complaint is the Rod should be in a different race so I could see more pictures of me (don't judge).  Cheryl on the other hand loved the C race coverage.  Thanks to anybody that shared race pictures - it's greatly appreciated.

Best heckle moment – Tie: the double ABES mooning of racers at Nationals, yelling “bridge the gap”, and Paul Krahn crashing because he was distracted when his family gave him sass at Dark Cross.

GARBAGE PICKER!

Most entertaining rider - Ari Robinson – this dude is a rock star!  Racing to podium finishes, jumping and spinning over (flaming) barriers, hopping up stairs and doing wheelies up hills with one hand off the bike.

Ari crossed the finish line riding backwards on one wheel - like a boss.

Best It’s-not-a-bet-if-you-know-you’re-going-to-win bet - Altona V Stinkler – the most local riders at their respective cross race meant the losers donned the others jersey at Nationals.  Peter, Phil and Bob were good sports and looked great in green.  

It is easy being green.

Best course feature - sure I’m biased but for me it was the double meat grinder – According to my assumptions, this is a cyclocross world debut – seriously, prove me wrong.  The big mo-fo flyover at Nationals was super dope but Franklins integrated whirligig design messed with your mind.

The best cx moment of the year (and probably ever) - Lady of the lake, Cindy Brown loses control and rides her bike down the hill and into the water in Altona, falls in soaking herself.  Then sopping wet, she runs up the hill and races 2.5 more laps to take 2^nd place.  Amazing.  It never occurred to me that somebody might do any of that.  Mind - blown.  Right f'n on!  Cindy, you are the best!

Eeeaaaaaasy

Honourable mention goes Anna who continue to inspire and impress cx fans by sprinting to a 5^th place finish in Morden.  How amazing was that?!

So many good people and good times. 

Gavin "fake phone number" Faurschou

I know i'm missing a boatload of goodness - If you remember other notable high/lowlights?  Post it for giggles.  JS

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The weather is very Vancouvery these days.  Maybe biking will brighten my spirits - that or the Jets beating the Senators.  Maybe biking after the Jets game?  

See you at 8.