California Bicycle Racing (CBR)

I raced the 35+ and thought that most of the Masters food chain/elite would be at the other event...but I was wrong. All the guys that race better than me were there, so my place in the upper end of the masters food chain would be yet again delayed. McMahon won, Mark Scott, Anthony Morrow, Dan Reback, Jeff Prinz, Jeff Padget, and others gave a good show.

There was this racer from Helens who wanted to squeeze into this little space, bumping bars with me in the process...and if there's one thing I don't like it's some dreamer trying to aggressively advance a few inches in 40th position right before a chicane. Being touched and pushed around in the top-5 is status quo, but not in the pack fodder where nothing counts. I finished 22nd...prolly out of 22 finishers.

The Redlands crew did an excellent job of promoting the event, and I thank Brian McCulloch, Mark Love, and Scott Welsh for having invited me to this event. I like the downtown, I like the crowds, and I like the peeps that promote this race.

BTW....I heard that at the other event, some asshole Cat. 5 decided to commit battery upon another racer by taking off his shoe and hitting another racer in the face with the metal cleat...nice. This isn't the WWF or returning home from NASCAR & the wife ain't got dinner on the table-so she "fell" again; it's a hobby. Tough guys can go Cagefight or apply at the UFC. It was a Cat 5 race! This little bitch didn't have enuff ballz to hit him with his own fist...Fancypants took off his stiletto pump & hit him with that!