TWO DAYS TILL HAWAII BITCHES!!!!!

I am so ready for a vacay, althought he chitlins will be with us it will still be fun in the sun. I finally got the new 66 in the dirt yesterday for a couple laps at manawa. I really am diggin that fork even though i really haven't used it yet, i am sure a couple trips to the ski resorts this summer will definately be ok!! Went to commute this morning and thought my left pedal on the dew felt kinda off, then about 63 rd st it came loose. So i pulled over and went to put it back in, well it wouldn't stay it was still loose. one footed back home loaded it up and took the jeep to work. Looked at it and all the freaking threads in the crank or pretty much smooth. stupid cheap truvative cranks, don't beleive they can be rethreaded so i am going to have find some new cranks for it. Although it will all be saved for the fact i won't have to buy gas for the car most of the summer!!!

Remember when skinny hilt could do this stuff!!!

What do you fellas think of this ride? It is a new fetish discipline. I was looking at getting a specialzed rockhopper and then this caught my eye. for about the same price it has manitou r7 comp fork compared to the rock shox tora, xt rear der compared to deore, avid bbdb5 brakes compared to shimano's cable discs and pivit rims(never heard of them). The safe and logical is the specialized but this company seemed to be pretty good from their website, and i would have to order it. although none else around would have one like it.

So Jess had been keeping her v-day present to me a secret for months now and on mon it finally came! Two bleacher seats for opening day at Wrigley! We flew out first thing in the morning when i got home from work, into Midway. Then from there hopped on the train to Addison St. home of the Cubs. We got to Wrigley about 11 and went to get some food and a couple beers. Went into the game about 45 min before game time and it was packed already. As you could probably guess the Cubbies lost and it was cold. It actually snowed pretty good for about 10-15 min during the game. Afterwards we hung out a lil while and went to State St. for a couple stores she wanted to go to. Then flew home about 8:45 that nite, to go sleep in my nice warm bed(and i had to work in the morn). All in all it was a great day, and for future reference, if going to go to a Cubs game the bleachers are definately the way to go. I had been their a few times before and sat in the reserved seats, but the bleachers were a drunken party and riled up crowd.

MIA? Well this week started off good. Monday made my first commute to work for the year, it was a lil chilly (and D i don't want to hear it from you) but felt good and then tues it got freaking cold, so that was it for riding to work this week. Haven't hit any dirt yet this spring was looking to go for a urban ride sat morn if anyone is interested, have to go relatively early we have jess' family easter on sat, down at the cabin which should be nice and warm!! Getting pretty excited leaving for hawaii in two weeks!! Although i keep praying the kids will be good on the plane. Just looking forward to hangin out on the beach with no worries, getting some sun and i might even have myself some umbrella drinks!! Work has been pretty busy during the day and slept through the nite which is pretty cool, had a small house fire yesterday. Peoples furnace decide to go up in flames, lucky somone was home. We got there pretty fast to keep it in one room, with really minimal damage.Well that is all i got for now.