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Win a trip to the Tour De France, plus more…..

Dale — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:34:21 +0000

I am finally break my couple month posting silence to bring you the readers(all three of you) a deal that is too good to pass by with out me spreading the word. First I will lay down a little background so things make better sense on why I care in the first place. For a about a year now I have been following the posts on a website called www.fatcyclist.com written by a man named Elden that both made me laugh and brought tears to my eyes. To understand fully what I mean read these posts and you will know a little a bit background about Elden and his family. That post was from 2007 I also had to read a little in the past to get the full affect now onto the heart wrenching section of the site. Elden and his wife Susan through all of the sadness and hard times opened his life to the world he continued to post even though at the worst of times in his life. Along the way he started to raise money for theLiveStrong foundation to fight cancer and raise money he with the help of others all over the country has raised more than $500,000+. Other people started to take notice and more money rolled in. He has done great things in the wake of the sadness of his wife passing away. If you have some time check out www.fatcyclist.com and do a search for Susan and read many of his post that are both touch and inspiring in how strong people can be and what greatness can come in the wake of such sadness.

Now on to the more upbeat section of this post, sorry if the last part was a downer but I had to lay the ground work. How this all start was that Elden posted a joking letter to Johan Bruyneel the head cheese of the new RadioShack cycling team about how he could ride for them and would like a chance. I am pretty sure Elden thought that was as far as it was going to go, until Johan Bruyneel more or less called out Elden on a post that Johan wrote on his own blog. Offer him up a chance to try out for the team when the training begins next week in Arizona. Now not only did he called out Elden but he challenged him to see how good he really has become at raising money, Elden has to raise $10,000 dollars for both Livestrong and The World bicycle relief to be able to join the team in Arizona. Now Elden is not just asking for you to give money. When you donate you will also being entering for you chance to win one of two great bikes, hell maybe even both if you are that damn lucky and enter both contests. One is a 2010 Gary Fisher Superfly geared, top of the line everything. The second bike he is giving away only happens if he raise $25,000 dollars for both of the charities. It is a bike he could actually get from the Team RadioShack signed by the whole team, yes he is giving up a bike he could keep. It is a 2010 Trek Madone 6-series with Sram red components which will be signed by Team Radio Shack, including Lance Armstrong. This is how the contest work, you get your name in the drawing once for every five dollars you give to Livestrong, fifty bucks equals 10 chances to win, simple enough. Livestrong equals Gary Fischer bike, World Bicycle Relief equals Trek, if you want a chance at both you will have to throw five bucks at each contest. He also has some great second and third prizes that you can read about here and also enter to win one or both bikes.

Normally I don’t push constest or donations you all know that but this is too good to pass up, plus I sure would like to see him and get to read about his ride with team Radio Shack.

UPDATED 12/8/09 Elden has met his goal of $25k but now Johan Bruynaal has upped the goal again to $50,000 and a trip to the Tour De France if he meets it. And yes you are enter to win a trip to the TDF no matter which fund you give too. Seriously this is too good not to drop five bucks to especially if you figure out your odds, they are pretty good.

Bike Week June 14th thru June 20th

Dale — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:38:04 +0000

I am here to tell you about this coming weeks biking activities, and it looks like a good week. Epic Sports along with Bismarck parks and rec is putting a full week a bike related events on in the area. It all starts on Sunday with the Bismarck triathlon, Monday is a an easy ride along the river. Tuesday should be a good day to go and check out the bike Polo that is being held at 7pm at the Sertoma Soccer complex behind the old Green Mill building. Wednesday is the day to scrounge up all of your old bikes parts and head up to Epic Sports for a bike parts swap. They will also be giving away hot dogs, plus everything in the store is on sale from 12 to 8. Friday is the start to the Race to Sunset on Saturday with a Time trial competition along with a slow race. Make sure to stop by one of these events to show your support for biking in Bismarck. I am attach the bike week poster for you to check out.

Chainlove.com my New Found Crack!

Dale — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:28:24 +0000

I am not positive who I can thank for this latest crack like habit. I am thinking it had something to do with Frank and Chad but who was the first pusher I am not sure. For any of you who know me know I attended an Ebay anonymous meeting a few years back for that habit. I am a deal junkie and these sites have sprung up some bad habits once again. I will have to get used to seeing the UPS guy again. Now the gist of the sites one new deal every half and hour you normally can only buy one item per IP address so keep you ebay reselling dreams to yourself. They also claim to watch ebay and ban you if you try such tactics. Have fun and check back often there are some good deals on some quality items no bargain basement nashbar items on the sites.

www.chainlove.com – bicycle related items
www.bonktown.com – bicycle related items
www.Brociety.com – snowboard related items
www.steepandcheap.com – outdoor related items
www.tramdock.com – more winter items and outdoor

Out of hibernation

Dale — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:52:34 +0000

Yes I am still alive. I have just come to the conclusion mountain biking during North Dakota’s winters are pretty boring so what is the use. I will be posting more soon about the group rides that are on deck for this year.

Tyler’s blog

Dale — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:33:06 +0000

If you get a minute check out Tyler’sblog (the best bike mechanic in town). It’s bike related of course.

Giant Trance XO recieved

Dale — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I got my grubby paws on a new Giant Trance XO, expect a full review coming soon. A big thanks to Barry for allowing my fat ass to beat up this awesome ride.

First videos released

Dale — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:10:40 +0000

I have to give my friend Jayme credit. It takes a big person to put videos and pictures on the internet of yourself. Especially when these videos or pictures may not portray you in the most flattering manner sometimes. But I guess to really be able to laugh you must first learn to laugh at yourself.

Where is this all leading up to? The release of the first videos on the website! These are videos of Jayme and I when I joined him for the last three days his Lewis and Clark Tour. I rode with him from Pierre, SD to Bismarck. Now all of these videos are actually started by Jayme and he usually says with no warning “your thoughts” or “a few words for the camera” which totally catches me off guard and I pretty much have nothing to say and look like and idiot. As my friends and family can attest this is not the norm. I am usually fairly quick on my feet but when the camera gets shoved in my face my mind all of a sudden goes blank. I am hopeful that when I am the one instigating the film I will plan out some of my thoughts ahead of time.

But for better or worse the age of video clips on Mountainbikingx.com has arrived. With camera in hand it is now my turn to torture my riding partners, including Jayme. The helmet camera has been purchased and all the do-dads to go with it. Expect to see the Maah Daah Hey like you have never seen it before., probably with my head being used to take soil samples. I sure hope the helmet camera is tough.

Let the embarrassment begin.

It’s alive!

Dale — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:31:25 +0000

Mountainbikingx.com is still in existence. New things are on the way. First I hope to get all the links working again for all the people who still check it out, all four of you. Thanks Jayme, Andrew, A.J., and Jodi.

The Photos and Videos are being redone so that won’t be much on that page for a while. I am in the works of using a new gallery software to make things faster and easier for me to load photos. The pages, when done, should be simpler to find your way around.

Also in the works are plans to acquire a helmet cam, once winter breaks its hold you can expect to see riding film of the Maah Daah Hey plus other trails around ND. With the new purchase of the Garmin Edge 205 GPS you can expect to see a GPS Course of the Maah Daah Hey overlaid on a map. The kind of map is still up in the air, maybe a Google earth map or something similar.

The design you see here will hopefully have a fairly short lived shelf life also, I am finally going to dig into a close to 800 page book and get to know the full ins and outs of the Dreamweaver MX program I use. I hope by doing this I will learn to provide the best pages I can both for my use and for your viewing. I will update this page or the next version of this page with the things that half changed or things I have added. For the sake of keeping things in order I am branding this version MTBX 5.0 do I really know this is version 5.0 no but it is my best guess and from now on my starting point.

New Things are on the way finally!

Editor in Chief

Dale