Merican Radness Vs. Pro GRT Stop #1

This last weekend team memebrs Jake and myself went over to race the first stop of the Pro GRT series and it was one hell of a race.

I Got Broke...

As you can see Guy with Upside down forks must of been to busy listening to Nickleback on his walkman or something because he sure didn't pull over when i asked to get by 6 corners ago. There was 30 sec. gaps and i caught you on a 3:00 min. course. Go back to Cat 2.

I would like to Thank Kyle Thomas for being Merican! He yelled at me though a megaphone even when I was crashing. And I would also like to thank Charlie from Team Robot for yelling at mr. upside fork.

Wow dont know what else to say.... I now have 2 broken fingers from my brake lever breaking off and I am off the bike for 6 weeks.

Jake also broke him self off. He gets MRI results back this week.

In good news is a will be behind the wheel of the daytona 257 u-haul so everyone will get to the top in a timely fashion.

that is all i can type with one hand.... I'm out.

Don't Drink The Water In New Zealand!

This ones from Little Jake.

Milk a horse

My favorite restaurant

Tucked in

Handlebars.

Merican Radness would just like to remind everyone that if you where suppose to "lay down" while riding a bike, Bikes would be specd with sheets and a pillow. Also handlebars come flat for a reason why do people love bolting more things to them (armrests, bar ends) Handlebars would come like that if it was actually a good position to ride in.



Good things on this bike are -
XT cranks

Bad things on this bike are -
Areobars
Carbon forks
Carbon Bottle cage
Road saddle

Its a mountain bike, keep it that way



The same guy also thought his road rides where Rad enough to film by a handlebar mounted camera. I like road riding but i cant ever think of a time when i would love to re-live it on tape. And that camera is going to shake so much, the video should be wonderful.

Run/Bike

This is how you combine your run time and bike time together in the tri and destroy your crotch at the same time

Armrests VS. ET

In my short racing career I have learned that if you wanna win cat. 2 you have to do more than coast, see I got 3rd two times and 2 x 3 = 6th so I got 6th. Today we are going to explore two popular ways to go faster on the mountain bikes.

1. ET (pedal in the air like Woms)
At first glance ET is pretty rad the flying thru the air and glowing fingers are pretty rad, the downside is the type of people "ETing" attracts





2. Armrests (the Coeur d Alene way)
The armrests create what appears to be a very comfortable yet extremely fast position, known technically as the "lay down position". The downside to the armrests looks to be the attire and lack of safety gear, e.g. mullet, no shirt, no helmet and spandex. To comfortably and safely win a mountain race in the armrest position requires you to be in peak physical condition.





In the end the armrests appear to be the way to go especially because the next race will be in Coeur d Alene so not only will you fit in with the locals but you will be extremely comfortable.

This is the setup to win the Daytona 257





Your armrest specialist and lifetime MR member,
Rob

Merican Radness Doesn't Mess Around!

This is just a friendly reminder that we here at Merican Radness dont mess around.

We are not like this man who takes his fish on walks



We are like this elephant that kills crocodiles and then swings them around in the air




Yeah we are that Kick Ass

These things are Pretty Kickass.

All Out Productions has a trailer out for there new movie. It might have everything that is rad about mountian biking pushed into 1:40. Check it out you wont be mad.



Sram is also giving Shimano a run for there money. Check it - http://nsmb.com/3605-sram-fishing/


There is now a Carbon Nomad.



Straitline just released the next best thing in Mountian biking -



Its been a pretty rad week in Mountain Bike land. Hope you guys enjoy!

Josh and Merican Radness...

We here at Merican Radness have people asking us all the time to be on the team. My email inbox is full of resumes of people who think they can cut it. I also have people asking if this guy named Josh turf-shad from Wheel Sport East is on Merican Radness, so i decide i would just clear it up once and for all...





We took a look at his Riding, Merican-ness, and Radness. They all where at pretty good levels but the problem with Josh is he recently tried turning Left and broke his wrist. This is not something we could over look. We at Merican Radness love left turns, we try to never turn right.....

So to sum it up. No Josh is not on the team. maybe when he learns to turn left he will be but until then we dont want him.

Love Woms and the rest of Merican Radness