Vegas airport

I think its important that every so often you stop and think of all the things that you do to make your partner's life easier...

this is the actual spot where the rubber hits the road when you love somebody...

what do you do to help them achieve their goals?... what do you do and what do you give of yourself in order that your partner can either become or continue to be the person that they want to be?...

this isn't little things... its big things...

in the end this is what makes a relationship special and and this is what makes the difference between a boyfreind or a girlfreind and a true life partner...

think about it... maybe you do nothing, maybe you do a lot...

maybe you never thought of it that way...

ok people...

some of you are getting a little out of hand... i dont wanna hear from stolen underground operatives every time i mention danny pate telling me about blood spinners and chris wherry...

i dont wanna hear from uninformed idiots telling me i am this or that and i did this or that... and blah blah blah acting like you know me when you dont know what the hell you are talking about...

i dont wanna hear about kicking anybody's ass and a bunch of crap you wont do...

i dont wanna hear about what you like to do in your spare time when your mom isnt looking...

i am so close to just going to registered users only because a few of you people just aint got no sense at all when it comes to my blog...

i get a lot of mail asking me why i let knuckleheads post on here... i am wondering that also.. i probably know half you guys!... so cut it out...

no comments allowed.. see, now how much fun is that?... get a grip folks...

if you go to the home depot center site there still is no info on track nats... those guys are LAME... i bet i do more promo by having it listed on my site in the races that i'll do than USA CYCLING and the ADT Center do...

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more matt!

this is an article in a VA paper about our boy matt... somebody flunked PR 101... guess who?...

bonus song

bonus song- ohio players... this is a pretty heavily sampled song

new song of the day... lord kossity...

ok...

the carney video is killing my bandwidth again.. so i took it off... that guy
took him out.. it was wrong.. forget about it... see
it here... this is on fixedgearfever.com.. and you have to register as a user...

The band

Ok... While i was at superweek bahati called me up and said that him and ma records were at this guy's house and that there was a kit and some guitars and some amps... And he asked me if i wanted to go play....

So i got up in the van and drove over to where he was near the stadium and i walked up to the house and went into the basement where this guy damian had this whole recording studio set up and he was playing guitar with bahati on the drums and billy innes on the bass...

So then i kicked billy off and got up in there and we started rockin out... And we decided that we were going to make a band... And we switched bahati over to front man and went for some bahati linkin park with jonas carney on the drums... We had the bike racer (current and retired) band going full tilt there for a while... It was pretty good... I have to get the photos and there was a bit recorded too... I think its a silly thing with bahati saying any old thing on the mic... But its in mixdown right now and i will put up the mp3 as soon as i get it...

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I am gonna write a book...

Some of my best moments and most print worthy blatherings have been right here in this ugly black van over the past 4 years...

the mcguire team bought the old ofoto van... They took the stickers off but you can still read the writing because tbis van is really dirty... And it stinks in here... The guys that keep it at their house never wash it... Its all splattered with dirt and mud...

Yeah... So back to my book...

I am going to cover a lot of stuff... But i will spend a lot of time on dating and courtship... And then a lot of the things that i have learned from other people like dom perras and jon hamblen...

This website is gettong boring to me because i would like to complain a lot more than what i have been doing... So i think i will be getting a bit more negative...

like i might just not do a blog anymore... It sort of sucks...

i havent said anything good in a while...

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tour of holy hill GPS data

old news.. but its here now...

Day off

Today is day off then i will hit it hard the next 4 days... Try to get another win... Ride as hard as i can...

Tonite is all thw way up near greenbay and i wouldnt get back till late late...

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Lakefront Road Race...

it went ok... My goal was to score points for the overall since the road races are double... There is 7000 for the top 20 so i wanted move into the first ten while i could... I did that but i was only 11th... I felt very strong... I should have been in the group that arrived for 3rd... Leiswyn went accros s to them with 2 to go and i was following him and mccook when they attacked up the hill... But i was near the back of the group and they went from the front... I saw them go from the bottom after a left turn and i hadnt even started the turn myself... So as soon as i had clear road i went around but as the hill (called snake hill) bent around a few times it blocked the road off and i couldnt get by... So that was that... On the last lap i ended up riding clear alone for 11th...
Henderson rode a big ride to win... It was pretty good... And J.Al went really well also to be 4th... Roman kilun is out here now and was the bubble boy in 26th... The first guy to not get paid...

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Superweek Photos

superweek photos are here.. this is a link to a pool of photos that luke posted in some comments.. i thought i should move it up front so that people will find it easier...

This is jackson's phone... Its a p910a something... And it sucks... Not as good as a treo... He got it to try to one up me.... See he got a sidekick (like the one for highschool kids)... But then I busted out with the treo 650 and he had to hide his little thing... So now he thinks he has some cool phone.. But it aint a treo...

Jackson checks my site 20 times a day... And he posts as "i hate you" and some other stuff... I crashed his team's house and I am staying for dinner and he is pissed...

KARL MENZIES KICKED OUT OF THE USA FOR LIFE

menzies was ejected from the country today in a "loser goes home forever match" with myself... Menzies is one of the worst trash talkers there is.. Worse even than me...

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...

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photos

I am doing a story about superweek for ROAD magazine.. I have been taking a lot of photos of stuff going on.. But i can always use more... If anybody has good photos of whatever thats related and you wouldnt mind sharing send them to me!... I will make sure you get a photo credit... Thanks... Erik@eriksaunders.com

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Dave mccook and dan schmatz both did me a big favor to help devon vigus and i get a win last night... They didnt have to help... So it feels really good when other riders you respect are willing to volunteer to help you win... Thanks...

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Cytomax has a trans-am car

I am watching speed and they have toronto gp trans-am... Thr cytomax jag just pulled a sick pass to move into second with a few laps to go...

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ok, that was yesterday...

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TDF live

Yeah... I missed it...

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Finally Victor Ayala is leaving...

That guy has been really out of control lately with the heckling... Tonite was his last race... See ya...

too bad he leaves before i can get a chance to do a rider profile on him... Funny guy that Beektor...

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Live TDF commentary

If i can get up to watch any tour stages i think i will blog some lame comments... Like mystery science theatre 2000...

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I think i will be hosting an unnoficial menzies fan site... Send me photos... Scroll down for the e mail link..

And also i think i will do a daily rider profile beginning with billy innes...

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Eigth place

Today i took it a little too far and pantsed a guy... I thought he qas gonna knock me out for a second... And like an hour later i realized that i was wrong... I was a little high on being a jokester at the time and then i lost my inhibition...

Yeah... It was real bad... I am like 30 years old and i am pretty immature at times... I need to grow up...

30 guys lapped the feild and i didnt really want to do it but i didnt quite have the choice... I was pretty good and would liked to have not had to deal with the feild... J.Al was 10th...

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Horner in the tour...

how about that?... you have got to risk losing in order to win they say... i would like to have seen him win in front of chavenel...

Menzies can't ride a bike

He came by to heckle me after we led out nobody -AGAIN-... He rides by slow and close while i am stopped in the middle of the finish stretch talking to J.Al and goes "nice try" in a kind of nice but kind of smug way... And then when he makes it around me he does this real slow 180 and dumps it on his hip like a lame beginner... And of course i roll up over him and point in his face and yell "thats what you get!... Thats what you get, see?!... For tryin to be smart!"... God doesnt like it when you heckle me and this is proof of that... So let this be a lesson to you all... Only i can heckle people... Karl asks me after he gets up with a smile "nobody saw that right?"... Uh... Yeah... They may not have seen it if i hadnt screamed "thats what you get!"... But then everyone turned around and saw you balled up on your ass...

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Shorewood

This is day 2 of botched leadouts... Yesterday we embarrased ourselves in the whitnall park race... Today we were leading out bahati and it was going really well... I had it drilled out on the backstretch with the intention to give the last turn to jason allen who bring bahati... So i juiced jellybelly and got into the second to last proper turn and through the chicane before the last turn... Allen was there ready to take it in but there was no bahati!... He had been there on the back stretch but i dont know what happened because i couldnt find him after the race... I think he was hiding... But i have to say that finally i feel like the form is here in time for brewers hill tomorrow... I will be riding for a result for myself there... Today i really surprised myself with how fast i was able to ride... Devon vigus was again super...

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Broke a deraileur cable...

I dont maintain my equipment... Jose Alcala is gonna put a new cable on my bike and i will get it from him tomorrow before the race... Thanks Campagnolo tech support...

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I can tell when jackson stewart posts anonymously.... Some other dudes i cant tell... But that doesnt matter, cuz i only care if jackson posts or not...

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2nd place... Again....

Dammit... I cant really think too much about it... I just sucked pretty much... I like to think of myself as a guy who can come through and be counted upon when it really matters... Thats hard to do when you have a leadout like i had and you get killed...

Devon and rahsaan and allen did come through... They had some guys to sweep up and the kept it really clean all the way to the final turns... The job got done on their end for sure....

i have said always that there are so many things to go wrong in a race... And the further you get the less time they all have to happen in... So in the final the clock ticks and it all seems to happen at once... And you get this whole catastrophic failure...

There were a lot of little things to happen within the span of 50 meters... All that stuff adds up and then the wheels just fall off...

If i were a bit stronger and faster it wouldnt have mattered... And thats what makes it difficult... Its the same as getting dropped- not strong enough... Didnt win- not strong enough... Sure things happen that influence you in a race... But horsepower cures all ills...

I am better... No sores anymore... I can ride normal... But its still not really clicking for me in a big way...

If you only win when you are the strongest then you might not ever win anything... Today i did what i could... And i will keep trying and not wait to go for it only when i am finally on a good day... We will see...

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All the cool guys start in the back...

Ok?...

And i warm up by setting up a lawn chair from costco and either complaining or trash talking passers by...

Then i get on my bike and stink up the whole joint...

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Day 2

Went better... I didnt suck as bad... But i am very slow right now... No speed at all and i am not confifent to attack hard... I can go ok at AT but its feeling harder than it should...

Did a lot of hard riding for not much money... Normal i guess...

I lanced my saddle sore with a safety pin last night... A lot of blood came out... First time for that... Today it still wasnt right... But it was better... I still am not really comfy...

And uh... Nothing else i dont think...

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Day one

This was the worst day i have had on the bike in 4 years... No kiding... I was worthless and it hurt so bad that at one point i just had to groan in pain.... I had a saddle sore that wouldnt all ow ne sit right in my seat and that made my back hurt really bad... I had to sit up and press on it to try to massage it out a bit... And i couldnt get around the turns and i let huge gaps open and then i would have close them... And there was a hill...

So i just said to myself that it was going to suck and be hard and that was just the way it was... To go hard i had to really go really hard and i was paying for every effort... But they were efforts to not get dropped instead efforts to race the race...

So we missed out on the break because we all sucked that bad... But this is superweek and everyone knows that you can make more money in primes than for whatever they pay for the placings... So i led out jason allen for all the primes i could and we made over a grand... It was hard... But i had to just suck it up... We didnt talk about it at all... The bell would ring and then i would go... And then jason would get the money.... Easy...

I decided i was going to race every day....

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SUPERWEEK

i am going tomorrow to superweek.. daily updates and photos to follow...

ok.. that carney video put me over bandwidth...

wefunkradio.com check that out... its pretty cool... but they talk alot it seems.. but do some cool music... you can listen streaming.. a lot of funk and hip hop.. and break-beat style grooves...