that's a beautiful story about cyclocrossing ingenuity, featuring goodhearted
Canadians who know how to appreciate fine & simple things. Next time you start
pissmoaning about traveling to Albany to race I'll treat you to a special
Southhampton pit stick experience

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----- Original Message -----
From: myles romanow
To: mabsbs@yahoogroups.com ; necyclocross@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: [necyclocross] Re: [mabsbs] pit bikes/side note..


On a second note... Story from Canadian cross nats
'05...

So I make the trip up, with pit bike posistioned for
optimal roof rack mileage.. In any event, arrive at
the homestead, and discover much to my dismay that the
pit stick is still speared into my lawn in
Southampton, where I placed it directly next to my car
so there was no way I could forget it... duh. I
quickly fashion one of my old childhood hockey sticks
into a pit stick, I mean, what else you gonna use in
Canada.. Right? right.

So at the race, I've got the pitter set up, in a
horrible pit, but set up none the less.. First off,
the marshal tried to bounce me, cause I'm not using
the walmart issue bike rack that's stuffed waay at the
back of the pit.. I convince them that this does not
pose an iminent threat to anyones well being and
continue on my merry way warming up. Couple of laps
later I swing by the pit, and ther eis this huge crowd
gathered.. I figure someone is like dead or getting
cpr, so like any other idiot New Yorker, I look in..

Sure enough there's like 10 idiots herded around my
rig, checking out.. the stick.

"Ho look dere, e cut a notch in it eh? Olds it right
up like dat on e angle! Dats a beauty eh?"

Sigh.. and people wonder why I left.

Myles

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