whats up with riderreido

riderreido of aspen col showing his big mountain skiing skills dont stop with arking big turns. Nope, with that beefy beak and that action - world of opportunites await. Riderreido plans on refining the mouth action on his uphill sideways grimaces on unsuspecting italian riders in bergamo this weekend. Riderreido loves a good sammie.

noshow and albinolatino - engine room for gimondi

The ranch takes to the road this weekend for the season opener in bergamo. Pre race chatter has the riderEasy-E as the favorite to carry the the squad. Known more as riderFreetime these past 4 months - easy-E has regained his early 2007 form by putting considerable miles in his legs and following a strict bean diet. On the eve of his re-location to Zurich - easy-E will be bobbing and weaving and causing general havoc for all that choose to suck his wheel. Riderreido will surely slug it out for late race glory - but the smart money has the sinewy argentine crossing first. RiderNoshow will pull riderPitts for 97% of the race with ridercali nipping both at the line. Ranch fans will ask - well what about riderturbo (baby stuff), riderhowe (newborn baby stuff), rider crespo(have another taco), riderchichi (lady friend stuff), and riderZinni (broken bike stuff).
The general mood and level of fitness has yet to be tested as richmond hill - all 10 meters of it - and lapping regents park - will have the nay sayers - saying nay. The ranch will also be without family and lady friend support which could result in a saturday night carbo-load turning into just one more beer. Good clean fun.

tom pitts rider and skier

RiderPitts of edmonton alberta, ski's a line which we at ranchcycling are unable to write about for fear of knuckleheaded scandies stealing what we have come to know as our secret stash. Safe it say - it is in switzerland - it is a resort with a mere 2 lifts. And when it snows - there is no better place to get fresh tree´d steep exposures. Will Hovey where are you.

and you thought skiing was just an offseason sport

One glance at the boy from the wilds of manitoba and it is realized that canadian strong legged riders dominate in the mountains on demand. So while the rest of you winter base milers were trying to maintain some sort of focus in the thumping beats of a spin class - have a gander at how the boys from the great white north spent their mornings in verbier. The line riderhowe is skiing is a 10 minute traverse along an open bowl in bruson - upon which you dip down to ski a consistent fall line of tree shots for 1,000m. The exit funnels into thicker pines which u just have to be patient with - and a 5 min logging road brings you back on piste. We call this at the ranch casual cross training.

Long road to Paris

In a stellar effort by Cali, the man leaves his warm shared bed at 7am Sat. morning for a cool 45 minute train ride and 3 hour tour of the Chilterns (along with one special jaunt down the A404) to support his fellow Ranch rider Noshow. Huge effort and much appreciated. (NB - Noshow did supply the peanut butter and banana breakfast sandwiches.)

Sunday Morning

Me, Myself and my Cristallo.... (no Ipod this week)....
Perfect morning, cold but very sunny... Left home at 10:00 AM rode down to Richmond Park.. Four laps.. Amazing morning.. I won..

ranch in action