Friday – Sainte Anne World Cup
It’s about 10:30pm on Friday night and I’m a bit knackered. Not sure why really. Even though I didn’t get in until about 2am this morning I was still able to sleep in a bit and get caught up.
Not a whole lot happened today. There was downhill practice, which seemed to go all right for the boys. It sounds like they opened up the top a bit, which means it’s a bit faster. So far so good with the weather, which doesn’t mean s#*$! in Sainte-Anne because it could pour at any minute. It was pretty windy today though.
Other than that I spent most of my day either at the pits hanging out with the guys or on the phone searching for my bike. I think I called about 5 different times today, but the last guy was the best. After being on the phone with him for about 15 minutes he puts me on hold. He then comes back and asks me if it’s a bike. So now I’m all stoked thinking he found it. He then says, “well miss what I can do for you is give you $100 dollars so that you can go rent a bike.” HAHA!! I think I may have actually had a bit of a chuckle when he said that. I then said, “While I appreciate the gesture…ummm…riding a rental bike isn’t going to cut it sir.” I then explained that it was a World Cup event and that my bike was a fairly pricey bike that was built specifically for events like this. Seriously that was the quote of the day. Then I started thinking how funny it would be to roll up on a rented Giant with old cantilever brakes! So after explaining that to him they still had no idea where my bike was. Sweet.
So that leads me into today’s practice. I ended up riding Amiel’s full-suspension Trance. His bike felt the closest to what I ride except it’s the next size up with longer cranks; different gearing, longer travel front suspension, and the brakes were backwards. So we switched up the bars to shorter ones and swapped the brakes. I even left his sweet water bottle holder on the bike in case I felt a bit parched during practice. So right now it’s crossed fingers that it shows up tomorrow because it’s qualifying time.
Today’s practice was fun. I just took it lightly and played a bit on the bike. The track is fun and fast like usual in Sainte-Anne. The new set of triples out of the second turn were new and completely fun. They also threw in a full on 180 turn right after that so I have a feeling there could be some take out action going on. The only other real place to maybe make a pass is in the slow S-turn down towards the bottom. So we’ll see.
Anyway, I’m tired and off to bed.
Cheers!
Not a whole lot happened today. There was downhill practice, which seemed to go all right for the boys. It sounds like they opened up the top a bit, which means it’s a bit faster. So far so good with the weather, which doesn’t mean s#*$! in Sainte-Anne because it could pour at any minute. It was pretty windy today though.
Other than that I spent most of my day either at the pits hanging out with the guys or on the phone searching for my bike. I think I called about 5 different times today, but the last guy was the best. After being on the phone with him for about 15 minutes he puts me on hold. He then comes back and asks me if it’s a bike. So now I’m all stoked thinking he found it. He then says, “well miss what I can do for you is give you $100 dollars so that you can go rent a bike.” HAHA!! I think I may have actually had a bit of a chuckle when he said that. I then said, “While I appreciate the gesture…ummm…riding a rental bike isn’t going to cut it sir.” I then explained that it was a World Cup event and that my bike was a fairly pricey bike that was built specifically for events like this. Seriously that was the quote of the day. Then I started thinking how funny it would be to roll up on a rented Giant with old cantilever brakes! So after explaining that to him they still had no idea where my bike was. Sweet.
So that leads me into today’s practice. I ended up riding Amiel’s full-suspension Trance. His bike felt the closest to what I ride except it’s the next size up with longer cranks; different gearing, longer travel front suspension, and the brakes were backwards. So we switched up the bars to shorter ones and swapped the brakes. I even left his sweet water bottle holder on the bike in case I felt a bit parched during practice. So right now it’s crossed fingers that it shows up tomorrow because it’s qualifying time.
Today’s practice was fun. I just took it lightly and played a bit on the bike. The track is fun and fast like usual in Sainte-Anne. The new set of triples out of the second turn were new and completely fun. They also threw in a full on 180 turn right after that so I have a feeling there could be some take out action going on. The only other real place to maybe make a pass is in the slow S-turn down towards the bottom. So we’ll see.
Anyway, I’m tired and off to bed.
Cheers!
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