Well I was never one for Christmas, BUT I’m willing to bet that today’s events would rival the feeling a child feels on that day in late December . . . (more…)

Finally got my helmet cam up and running. Took a little video of my wicked pissah ride last week on the Superfly.

Human Superfly from thom parsons on Vimeo.

The original 29er zealot, Mr. Fisher, was in Connecticut this past weekend at the Trek of Connecticut grand opening. While there he squeezed in a ride. Per usual, Gary makes a solid wardrobe  choice.

As always the mtb season takes forever to get here.  I have been faithfully plugging away at the pedals and having a blast doing it.  The dirt is just starting to thaw and dry out which means miles of carbon fiber fun will be had on the Superfly SS.  I feel great on the bike, and have been logging more miles than last spring without any knee meet tree type of problems.  I should have a lot of fun at Yankee Springs TT.  Just for fun I decided to enter a road TT, aerobars and the like are kind of foreign to me, but after playing with a buddies TT bike for a few hours this week I decided to give it a shot.  I ended up first in my age group and 2nd overall for a surprising result.  I also caught wind of a dominating performance from fellow 29er crew, the Simonster, in Barry Roubaix yesterday.  It’s an honor to share the jersey with all of you for another year.  Now its back to being patient…sort of.

Hello all,

It is frustrating for me to see a lot of you riding your bike all year long or so.  In the town of Quebec, there’s still snow everywhere.  I did this winter some x-country skiing and snowshoeing but now it is enough and I am ready to ride my bike outside.  No more rollers or spinning session!!  I will confront the cold.  This weekend was very good to ride with a temperature of 50 f.  It was my first  ride 2009 outside and I saw many cyclists riding like me.

Some weeks ago, to keep my competition instinct, I team up with a friend to do a Pentathlon ( winter bike- running – x-country skiing – speed skating and snowshoeing).  It was very interesting.  It is big annual winter classic and more than 1000 peoples was there to participate in the beautiful Quebec City downtown.

We were very happy to finish 2^nd for our first participation but when the official results came out, we had a penalty of 3min because we missed 1 lap of the 19 laps of speed skating.  We finally finished 4^th because of that.  Anyway, this race was a pure pleasure with a great atmosphere.

I expect to ride my superfly  in about 1 month.

Happy trails.