Paris-Roubaix Contest

It's time for the classics. The 2008 Paris-Roubaix takes place on Sunday April 13th 2008.

To make it a little more interesting, why not include some wagers...

$10 entry fee. 100% of the entry fees go to the Jason Lapierre Scholarship fund at the UofC. The winner of the contest gets a tax receipt for the full amount of the total entry fees (winner takes all!). The winner also gets EXTREME boasting rights.

Contest details:

1. Simple... pick 5 riders, any order. (it doesn't matter the order of your riders, if they finish in the top 5, you get the points).
2. Email your picks to dukyle at yahoo.ca

Point allocation:
1st 50 points
2nd 40 points
3rd 30 points
4th 20 points
5th 10 points

Sum the points together for your total.

Entry deadline is noon April 12th.

Please leave a note to show your interest. This contest is open to everyone.

Who's music ?

We had some pretty distinct types of music presented to us over the last 7 months. I think it was awesome having such a diverse array of genres presented to us.

Let's have a poll as to who liked what the most..... vote or comment in the comments

Trev and Dan's Music

Mandy and Kim's Music

Alex's Music

Rick's Music

Rob and Ryan's Music

Sophia's Music

Need four rider's ATTENTION !!

Rob Lukacs, Mark Shand, Amy Michel, and Steven Boyd

You guys forgot to include a photocopy of your birth certificate or passport with your application! You only have to do this once.

Here is what you need to do:

1.) Scan your birth certificate or passport and email it to monica@albertabicycle.ab.ca

OR

2.) Photocopy your birth certificate or passport and fax it to (780) 427-6438

Until you do this, they can't process your application and you are uninsured!!

As for the rest of you, our licenses have been placed in the mail today.

Crankmaster races

Does anyone know whether we have to get a Crankmaster's secondary license to do their races?

Or, if we have an ABA license, can we just pay the $5 race fee?

Good Ole Country Time

Howdy Yall,

It's the spin class you've all been waiting for.

Bring your cowboy hats and belt buckles as the 'A-train' brings a rowdy helping of country hits for your listening pleasure.

For tonight's shindig we will have a few big gear sets and a few hill climbs to get the legs and heart pumping.

See ya at 6:30pm and don't be late. YEE HAW!!!

[Edit by Trev] Alex, is it going to be mostly music from this guy?

Dan's Barbeque

Hey everyone,

Some details regarding the barbeque. I was thinking about having a theme for the event. To celebrate the summer of mega concerts and good racing, I was thinking that everyone should wear really cool concert shirts, wife beaters or ripped jeans. I'm kidding. I am pretty excited that I am going to see Megadeth and Iron Maiden within a month of each other though!

Menu is to be burgers and smokies, I will have salads and all the fixings. some chips and other snack stuff as well.

My address is 33 Arbour Stone Rise NW, phone is 366-6119. I'm not as savy with the computer so I wasn't able to put a map in here, and my wife is nagging me to help with breakfast!

Everyone is invited and bring your kids. If you have any special diet requirements please let me know in advance. The night is still April 5th and start coming at 4:30-5:00.

Thanks,

Slayer Dan

Milan San Remo

I would just like to point out that I can tell the future and I believe I even predicted he would go with 3km left.

Sat. group ride.

The plan is to drive out to Cochrane and meet in Mitford Park at 11am. We will ride up Grand Valley road to the TT courses and GPS the second one, as that still is required. The ride will be a steady effort with no sprinting, as we got our week's worth of sprinting today :)

Leave a comment if you can come so we know to wait for you at the parking lot.

Trev

Survey

Hey guys,

I'm creating a series of ads marketing bakeware towards athletic men for a school project. I need to do a bit of market research so I created a quick (and super fun) survey. If you have a couple couple seconds, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Tegan's awesome baking survey

Thanks!

Friday Riding

Well, the weather is looking good, so the riding should be great.

A small group is heading out from the Mac's on old Banff Coach Road (at the west edge of the city) at 10:30am. The plan is to meander out through Brag Creek and a bit beyond for roughly 4 hrs of riding. The pace shouldn't be too hot (avg 30kph or so), so all are welcome.

Rumor has it Trev's 14lb Cervelo Soloist SL is making an appearance.

It's always good to be able to laugh at ourselves.

This is all in fun remember.

Here is great description of 'Triathletes' by BikeSnobNYC:

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Triathletes with cars love to advertise their perverse inclinations on their vehicles, and the "Swim Run Bike" sticker is one of the more popular ways they do it. I suspect I must have some form of dyslexia though, because all I see is "Dork Dork Dork." Generally though it's unnecessary for them to display their proclivities in bumper sticker form since it's pretty obvious when a vehicle belongs to a triathlete. It's usually some kind of "sporty" dork-tastic SUV, and it's usually got either a trunk rack or one of those roof racks that clamp the bike on the downtube because they don't know how to take their front wheels off. Or if they're hardcore they're driving an Isuzu IronMan, the car that looks like it might burrow itself somewhere in your unmentionables.

Let's be honest--triathletes are creepy. There's just something wishy-washy about the way they flirt awkwardly with three disciplines. They're like David Bowie's sexuality, or like people who grew up in multiple countries and who can speak three languages, yet they speak each one poorly and with an untraceable accent. "Swim Bike Run?" "Avoid Avoid Avoid."

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Beef . . Beer . . Buddies

April 5th

Mark it on your calendar, an evening of good times awaits.

Details coming to a Blog near you!


*For the vegetarians, that steak is 100% tofu

Cat 5 Team Ride #2 Tonight

Team,

Tonight is the scheduled second ride for us. Last week we had some tough wind and reduced light. We were able to leave the parking lot at Walmart and head towards Burma Road then road west to Woodland road and headed home on the 1A. If there are no objections we could do the same tonight.

Please leave a comment or email Dan if you are able to attend, the plan is to leave the lot by 7:05pm and get a good hour in of drafting practice and some pace line riding.

Dan

Race Calendar

Rob has included a great resource for us to the right of this post. It will show all the upcoming ST events / races / clinics / and scheduled training rides for us. Right now we have loaded up all the races.

As a club, we are going to 'target' several races over the season that it would be awesome most of the club could make it to. There is nothing like racing as a team, and considering our awesome roster, this is your opportunity.

Here are our target races, write them into your calender and get pumped:

BiciSport Omnium (Apr. 26,27)
Velocity Stage Race (May 3,4)
Pigeon Lake Road Race (May 31)
Banff Stage Race (June 21,22)
Canmore ITT provincials (Aug. 10)
Road Provincials (Aug. 30)
Provincial TTT (Sept. 13)
Norquay HillClimb (Sept. 14)

Of course, a lot of us will be going in a lot more races, but these are the 'target' races where we, as a club, will try to show up and assert our team dominance.