Bicycle Safety Clinic For The Local Scouts Troop.

Over the weekend, the team had the honor of performing a Bicycle Rodeo (as we call it here in the north) for the local Cub Scouts in Lancaster, PA. This was to instruct the youth of today on proper helmet wearing, bicycle maintenance and repairs; along with a skills course for everyone to navigate. A big thanks goes out to Sean Mealey, Chris Sherdel (photography and team guy), Mike Allison and Will Mahler for making sure everyone was riding safe and a bit wiser after the event.

Here are some photos capturing the activities that went down. 

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Enjoy!

Having our sights on the first race of 2012.

This has been a mild winter in terms of snow fall. The rain hasn't been too bad either but the days with 30-45mph wind gusts have limited some of our outings on the skinny tires, depending on our geographic locations. I know Lancaster has been Chicago windy and Iowa flat for me this winter. The latter part of this is due to relocating the family to eastern Lancaster County and now residing further away from my usual training grounds along the Susquehanna River. 

I figured the December-February months would have been used for scouting out new roads to train upon but as I mentioned above, massive gusts have made days on the road bike more than sketchy for my 6'5"-self. Fingers crossed March is milder.

The team kits should be arriving in a week or two so to say that they will be icing on the cake would be an understatement. In the meantime, the guys have been working on the base miles, either indoor or on the mountain bike, shielded in the woods from the winter winds. Some are scrambling to put together the new steed for the season in hopes of using our first race in the dirt, The Marysville Relay, as the ultimate primer for fitness and riding gear.

Enter the Marysville Relay, I'm excited to have a go at it. I've only done mountain bike races as a solo, one event, non-relay type. This event utilizes either a 4 man team or a 2 man team/duo. I figure this is a good time to try my hand at Duo for this season opener. Chris Sherdel, fellow 'cross team racer, will be joining me to form one of the two Duo teams for the relay. We have four hours to crank out as many laps in that four hour period. I feel this will call for some constant shoveling of coals into the fire as my old friend Cinco would say.

Here's Sherdel and his recap of the 2011 cyclo-cross season.

2011 Keystone Velo Racing CX Season Recap- Owen Brenneman

Mike B's son Owen had a tremendous 'cross season, racing against guys mostly 4-5 years older than him. With a, 'never say die' riding style and an overall body weight of a fifth of Jack, Owen was an inspiration to us older cats racing every Sunday.

Owen offers up simple his simple yet concise goals for next year during his 2011 recap of the MABRA Super8 cx season.

2011 Keystone Velo Racing CX Season Recap- Mike Brenneman

I met Mike for the first time a couple of years ago, through mutual friends at a Social Distortion show. It seems we have traveled similar paths and circles yet never crossed paths at a younger age. Now we're crossing bikes on the same team. (Yeah, that was corny.) 

Mike's son Owen races with us too, in the Junior field. It's been a good family affair I've enjoyed watching between the two of them.

2011 Keystone Velo Racing CX Season Recap- Shane McCready

I ran into Shane this summer at the Wednesday Worlds. It was one of those deals where he joined the team, sent a message to me on Facebook stating he'd see me at the training race and I never realized who he was until the evening was over and everyone was back at the parking lot regrouping. Basically, I remember his jersey the laps, marked him and left him. If I knew then what I know now, I would have worked with him throughout the laps.

Enough yammering, here's Shane's take on the 2011 season!

The look of new

Look for the new Nuts About Granola/Keystone Velo Kit coming to a venue near you. I have "QR code" fever and are giving it a try on the new kit. Its possible that it wont work but willing to be one of the first to give it a try.

2011 Keystone Velo Racing CX Season Recap.

The bulk of the sponsors have put pen to paper and the new kit design for 2012 has been firmed up. Somewhere along all the excitement, I pushed the recap videos I shot of the guys, to the bottom of my messenger bag.

Well for one easy installment of $59.99 Vimeo Plus is born for our use. I've whipped the videos over to the site and will be punching them into this blog throughout this week. Sort of the only time I feel I'll be able to do a VOD.

Soooo, here's our Video of the Day. Starting things off with our team director, Sean Mealey.