The C.C.R. bike scene

If you disagree with my statement let us know!

It seems as though, with the Cofidis squad out and the Astana team out and the yellow jersey being torn off "the Rasmainian devils" back, you can't help but wonder if they're not all doping. Rasmussen passed 14 tests and was still booted! Have the riders found a way to "pre-dope" for the tour and still pass tests? (Is that what Ras was doing in Italy instead of Mexico?) And if they have, what about Lance? Did he use this "outlawed American substance" that Rasmussen tried to get through his old MTB connection? Are the tests falling behind the cheaters?! Do you even care? Are we to far from the peloton to even comment?

This race was WET!!! The pro's race was stopped with 13 to go due to lightning. By the time the pros wrapped it up the cat 3 4 race started at 5:15ish. It was fast and pouring!! The flood gates opened up 10 laps in and 5-7 guys quit on the spot. Dillon was hurtin' and Chris B. did a crazy solo bridge up to the break and placed 4th! Not bad for a Field full of cat 3's. It rained all day. Not fun.

Anthem puts on a good race with strong support and competition! Joe, Chris and Dillon were the soldiers on the front line for Epic Velo. The day was hotter then a Saudi Arabians camel's hump! The riders were eager to go and the pace proved fast. The heat and fatigue soon set in and people were crashing on straights for no reason at all.

CRASH COUNT

1.) a nasty crash into the 2nd corner 3-5? went down. It happened behind the E.V. guys
2.) a crash on the back straight in the hot hot heat. Dillon was caught up in that one, didn't go down but had to stop
3.) A crash on the chicane making Chris B. jump the curb and grind into the guard rail! He stayed up but the peloton rode away.
4.) Last lap, back straight again. Riders getting tired and the pace was last lap hectic so some contact was made between two guys and they went down hard! Dillon, again using his Mtb skills to narrowly miss this, his 4th close call of the weekend!

Joe K. not getting involved in said crash #4 took 3rd place! Good job placing on the podium and staying upright guys!

You know how in Gran Touismo fro ps2 they have 15 tracks but they list 30 cuz you can hit em all backwards??? That was like today, the Hartford crit people decided to run this race backwards to make us feel like it was something new. And it was. New and treacherous! The race was fine for the first 19 laps! surges and rests, head-winds and fast sections. But then final lap bell rings and people start acting stupid! Dillon managed to stay up front for the whole race and not work to much giving him a good shot at top five. But as always in the very last corner of the very last lap two guys tangled up directly in front of Dillon (as in, the guy Dillon was drafting was the one to go down) and He had to jam on the breaks then sprint like mad to save any placing. 13th was the result.