I’ve finally got my cyclocross bike together.  For those who aren’t familiar, at first glance it looks like a road bike, but there are several important differences. The frame geometry is slightly different to provide more clearance between the wheels and the frame. The bike uses mountain bike pedals (in this case a variation on [...]

This weekend was Eugene Celebration Stage race, a 3-day, 4-stage race including a hill climb prologue, road race, individual time trial, and criterium. The 3 mile mile prologue climb up MacBeth was my old stomping grounds, and I set a new personal best of 12:00 flat up the climb (old record was 12:41) to finish [...]

This last weekend I found myself out of cell phone range for the entire weekend, and it was great! It was Hanson family camp weekend, the big annual camping get-together of my mom’s side of the family. There are a lot of us. My aunt and uncle own a large plot on the Umpqua river, [...]

A few more pictures: From John Rudoff From Thumbprint Racing From Ironclad From Pat Malach And some Videos – including some clips of me off the front in the first move I made off the front earlier in the race: 2009 Portland Twilight Criterium from Robert Holler on Vimeo. Portland Twilight Criterium #1, 8.7.09 from [...]

I don’t even know where to start.  This race was something else. First, I have to say the the Portland Twilight Criterium is everything it’s cracked up to be, and then some.  Technical corners, fast racing, rough roads, and crashes galore.  It was one of those races where your rear wheel feels like it’s in [...]

I went with an impulse decision and signed up for the Portland Twilight Criterium taking place next Friday evening. 45 minutes of tight corners, narrow roads, fast racing, big crowds downtown (the Pearl) Portland, and a huge purse to encourage people to ride harder. I’ll be racing with Derek and Robin from Team O, and [...]

My blog is a leading indicator of my overall emotional state. That’s something I’ve noticed about myself – I write much better when I’m feeling passionate, accompanied by positive or negative emotions.  I also feel inspired to write more under those circumstances – in that way the name of the blog is very fitting.  I [...]

I laughed when I saw this ad on Facebook today: Cyclers, huh?  You’d do well with your spammy ads if you actually took the time to learn the terminology. I’ve spent lots of time recently hanging out with “cyclers” who also happen to be good friends.  On Sunday I went to spectate and photograph the [...]

Goodbye, incredibly annoying creak.  I guess I should have come to this conclusion a while ago, but my bottom bracket was shot.  I finally isolated the bottom bracket as the only possible source of the noise – and it was bad noise.  I’m not sure why I let it go so long, as it drove [...]

Everything and nothing new to update on.  Life is work, play, and bike racing.  Most of the play is, not surprisingly, bike racing.  I’ve raced a ton this year.  I go into every weekend thinking “oh, I’ll just take this weekend off from racing” only to find myself halfway across the state flying down the [...]