2009 Orbea Onix TDF

 

White and Black

Got it exaclty a year ago

Full Ultegra SL components

I am 5'7" fits me perfect

Comes with Cateye Strada Double Wireless CC-RD400DW

1,174 miles on bike

Bike started off with Shimano RS-20 rims but got replaced by Orbea due to spokes breaking and now has RS-30's.

 

See attached picture

 

Please email me at kirk_stewart3@yahoo.com with any questions.

 

 

 

 

 

I am looking for a tri bike for a friend. He is 5'11". Please email me
if you have one for sale. Thank you.

Josh L. Sullivan

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep
moving." Albert Einstein.

GT Alum. 56cm road bike, Ultegra9 drive train, 105 brakes.  Lots of miles but in
great shape and recently reconditioned.  Asking price $700.  Call 601-573-4165
if interested.  Jeff G.

This for a friend of mine. Please reply to Connie Murray at 601-807-4557
or email her at coconnormurray@...

             Giant TCR-C3

             Medium Frame

             Full Carbon Fiber

             Blue

             Speed Pedals

             Computer

             Cost:  $1,800

             Asking price:  $1,100

             I think it only has 200-300 miles on it.  So it's
essentially
new and it has been serviced.



>>> Tom Old Dog <tomcoo@...> 11/10/2009 2:06:03 pm >>>


Pro-Cycling News: Jens Voigt Remembers the Berlin WallA Fall, and a
Rise
Twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Jens Voigt traces
his path from communist Germany to the summit of professional cycling.
Jens Voigt
© James Startt


For some it was the "shot heard around the world." For German cyclist
Jens Voigt it came as a knock on the door. "I was sitting in my little
dormitory room doing my homework when some friends came by and said,
'The Wall is down. We can walk to the other side.'"

Just a high school teenager in the elite East German sports schooling
system, Voigt would soon understand that his world was about to change
in a very big way as the gates of the infamous Berlin suddenly opened on
November 9, 1989 and his countrymen flooded toward West Berlin to check
out the realities of capitalist Western Germany that awaited them.

At first there was culture shock.

"We drove down in this little East German car but as we approached the
gate we saw this sea of people flowing like a river through the gate,"
Voigt told Bicycling today after dropping off his children at a local
school in the western part of Berlin where he now lives.

"The sweets!" he exclaims as he ponders his first memories of life in
the West. "It was like we saw on TV. I mean growing up we never starved,
but we would die for a Mars Bar. And suddenly there were more sweets
than I'd eaten in my whole life in some little store!"

But like many East Germans, success in the West did not always come
easily. While many of his colleagues--stars like Erik Zabel, Jan Ullrich
and Andreas Kloeden--settled quickly in the burgeoning German Telekom
team, Voigt struggled to make it into the professional ranks.

"I still had to finish high school," Voigt remembers. "So I was still
removed from the Western contacts." Not even winning the amateur World
Cup standing in 1994 helped and it was only in 1997, nearly eight years
after the collapse of the Berlin Wall that Voigt finally signed his
first professional contract with the fledgling ZVVZ-Australian Institute
of Sport team. And while the team folded shortly after, Voigt managed to
transfer to the French GAN team where his professional career really
began.

"I'll never forget when Jens first showed up for the team training camp
with his long hair and a backpack," Roger Legeay, his team manager at
GAN remembered recently. "But at the end of the '97 season I was looking
at the world ranking and I said to myself, who is this Voigt guy? I mean
nobody had heard of him and he was riding on this small team, but he
earned enough points in his first year to be around the top 50 overall
in the world!"

Today Legeay, who chaperoned stars like Greg LeMond, Stuart O'Grady and
Thor Hushovd to some of their great successes, affirms that Voigt
remains one of his proudest finds.

"Guys looked at me and asked, 'what are you the new mechanic?' and I
was like, 'no I'm trying to be a professional bike racer," Voigt recalls
with a laugh.

Voigt's attacking style and happy-go-lucky demeanor quickly made him
one of professional cycling's most popular figures in the sport. Along
the way he also has picked up more than 50 victories, including stages
in the Tour de France and a spell in yellow jersey.

Today, the 38-year old veteran remains a fixture at the world's best
races as he captains the mighty Saxo Bank team.

And it was in this role that Voigt garnered international attention
this summer when he horrifically crashed as the Tour de France raced
through the Alps. Covering a breakaway, his bike mysteriously slid out
from him when he hit a bump on the descent to Bourg Saint Maurice.

His Tour was over, but once mended, he quickly extended his contract
through the 2010 season and says that he could easily add one more year
after that. "I'll be 40 by then and it might be time to stop," he
laughs.

And while many Berliners focused on celebrating the 20th anniversary of
the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, Voigt marked the day by
taking his first official bike ride to prepare for the 2010 season.

Today Voigt looks back to his upbringing in communist Germany with
balanced nostalgia. While he clearly embraces modern Germany, he also
acknowledges certain qualities of the land where he grew up. "You know I
say, and in my deep heart I believe, that my generation really benefited
most from the two Germanys," he says. "For children, East Germany was a
very safe place. There was no theft and we didn't even have to lock our
doors. We had free health care. I also benefited from this profound
sports education system. In addition to training, we had lessons in
sports science at a very young age. And then the Wall came down and I
was able to turn my passion into a passion."

For Voigt the work ethic he learned in the national sports school
remains one of his most lasting lessons as a professional in Western
Europe. "You know we used to say that the real work is done in the
winter because once the racing starts its to late to get a good base.
And that is what helps me today. Some guys start training at Christmas.
Not me, I start in mid-November. I mean come on I'm 38. I'm not getting
any better. But I can slow down the aging process."
Have a good day :-)


Tom Cooksey old dog

If you have not received your clothing or would like to buy something,
please email!

Josh L. Sullivan

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep
moving." Albert Einstein.

The link takes you to a very compelling tale that screams for each cyclist to
give your bike the once-over, before you ride.
___________________________________________________
http://presspubs.com/articles/2009/11/18/white_bear_press/sports/doc4b01a977aeb3\
b503778150.txt

Area tennis coach recovering from bike accident injuries

by John Sanny
Contributing Writer
Published:
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:42 PM CST
Editor's note: Longtime White Bear Lake girls tennis coach John Sanny, who lives
in Shoreview, writes here about his recent bicycle accident. Sanny also coaches
the mens and womens tennis teams at Northwestern College in Arden Hills.

Art Kistler is a Christian from Crossroads Church in Woodbury. Believe it or
not, Art is a performer on Elvis Theme Cruises as an Elvis Impersonator with
Royal Caribbean Cruises (see www.ElvisTributeArtist.com or www.A1Elvis.com).

In effect, Elvis saved my life! Laying there for a longer period of time, I
could have bled to death.

He was driving west on 5th Street in Minneapolis (behind and just north of
Ridder Arena and Baseline Center) when he saw a person lying on the road,
looking like he had crashed while pedaling east on that same road. The time was
7:27 a.m. on Sept. 10.

What he saw startled him, for I was lying on the road in a big pool of blood
about 14 inches in diameter.  He "hit the breaks" immediately in the fast lane
and put on his emergency flashers, and called 911. That was before I regained
what appeared to be a state of consciousness.

One of the vehicles that stopped was a University Sign Shop crew truck.  Art
asked them for rags and he used them to cover up the puddles of blood and teeth,
to get them out of sight because he feared that if I saw that it would add to my
trauma.  (He was right — it would have). Art then talked to me in as calm a
voice as he could muster, and explained that help was on the way, and carefully
used gauze to gently swab the left side of my head and face. He couldn't really
tell where I was injured. There was too much blood, and so he praised God that
the EMTs showed up as quickly as they did.

I kept saying, "My teeth, my teeth, what happened?" Of course, I remember none
of that.

Art told me that the front wheel of my bike was jammed up inside the front fork,
and he said that it looked like I had only a split second before I hit the
pavement with my face.  Indeed, there were only cuts and scrapes on the back of
my hands, and none on the front of my palms which would have indicated that I
had time to brace myself. The public data listed on the police report says the
"quick release" on the front tire appeared to have loosened and the tire fell
off.

I ended up staying at the Hennepin County Medical Center for five days and was
in surgery that first day for longer than five hours.  I have four permanent
titanium plates in my face holding together the broken facial bones, especially
the one that go across the front of the face.  My upper lip was cut all the way
through to my nose, requiring four layers of stitches.  The nerves that go down
my face have been damaged, and I have no feeling in my teeth, gums, nose,
cheeks, and upper lip area.  I often cannot tell when my nose is running.  I
cannot feel my wife's kiss.  My face feels like someone else's when I touch it. 
I cannot feel my toothbrush inside my mouth when I brush.  Doctors say that
nerves grow back slowly and that this may take some time.  I lost five teeth at
their roots, and have now received temporary teeth retainers.  Later will come
my teeth implants that will be permanent.  But first I will need bone graft
surgery for my upper jaw so that there is enough bone to drill for posts.  Then
the drilling of the posts, which have to heal, and then my new teeth will come
in.

In the meantime, I taught my four classes at the University of Minnesota on
Sept. 29, without my five front teeth, quite a sight to behold.  (Now I teach
with retainers).  But at least the jaw wires were out so that I could talk.  The
stitches near my eyelid, on my nose bridge area, and upper lip have now been
removed.  Stitches inside my mouth are still there but dissolvable.  My wounds
are healing, but scars remain on my nose bridge area, left eye, and especially
on my upper lip.  That area will need steroids to break up the hardened scar
tissue.  The scar under my nose is quite jagged.  My jaw was wired shut for two
weeks, and I lost almost 15 pounds during this time.  When I turn over in bed at
night to face another direction, my head starts spinning and I feel dizzy.

I thank my Lord every day that I was not brain damaged, nor did I break my neck
and risk paralysis.  Both are very real probabilities in accidents such as
these.

Grace and peace to you all.  I love you all very much!

Group Ride this Saturday. Ride from Ridgeland Old Craft Center thru the country
to Canton Square for some beignets and coffee. This will be a "group social"
ride, "no one left behind" rule will be in effect. It's winter time so we ain't
racing. Mileage will be about 40ish for one group and 55ish for the longer
group. We will only split up after we stop for beignets. You're responsible for
buying your own beignets and your own safety.

A response confirming you're riding would be nice to give the shop a heads up if
we are a big group. By showing up you acknowledge the rules set forth.

Rich

Join us at 8:00 am (I know it's early and cold) at the Baptist
Healthplex for an 50 mile south Hinds county loop at about a 20 mph
average.

Sent from my iPhone

Josh Sullivan, Jennifer Hutchinson and Irwin Koenig (at least) will be meeting
Saturday morning to LEAVE by 7:30 am, riding from First Baptist Church, Byram to
Magee, traveling the back roads from Byram to Florence, Star, Braxton, D'Lo and
Mendenhall to get to Magee. There are lots of choices for a quick, light lunch,
then we'll be returning by the same route. The plan is to be back between 3 and
4 pm, before we lose light and temperature. Come join us!
Here's a link to the route on MapMyRide:

http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/ms/byram/887124914938997778