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Just a few pics to show you the long waited Lefty adapter for my fork, and my new second hand frame; a Specialized Stumpjumper FSR alu from ’07.

It’ll be assembled on Saturday in it’s semi final setup :)

Hereby follows the races and event I am planning to participate in for this season. Obviously, changes will happen, but the main goals are still the same, despite the Epstein-Barr viral infection and almost three months of sickness – A raise to the DCU B-class for MTB racing…

March 2.  Holstebro Vintercup
March 15. – 24.  France MTB trip
April 6.   DCU: Ghost Bikes XCO, UCI E3, Post cup # 1
April 27.   DCU: MCV XC, Post cup # 2
May 1.   DCU: Sif-Cykling XC
May 7.   GhostCup Skaderborg/SMTBK
June 1.   DCU: VCK XC, Post cup # 3
June 8.   DCU: DMK XC, Post cup # 4
June 11.  GhostCup Århus/ÅMK
June 29.  DCU: ÅMK XC
July 20.  DCU: DM XCO, Cycling Nord
July 30.  GhostCup Vejle/MCV
August 1.  GhostCup Grenå/GrenåCC (Urban)
August 13.  GhostCup Silkeborg/SIF
August 17.  DCU: RC1910 XC, Post cup # 5
August 20.  GhostCup Aalborg/Cycling Nord
August 24.  DCU: MCV XC
August 27.  GhostCup Århus/Aarhus1900 MTB
September 6. – 7. Cube Bikes 24 - 24H MTB (12H solo?)
September 14.  DCU: ÅMK DM MX
September 21.  DCU: SIF Cycling MX

The minimum goal is to ride all the DCU Post Cup races, and I would love if I can manage to get to ride all of the DCU XC races as well. The remaining ones are “nice to haves” and should be possible.

See you all at this years excellent MTB race season.

Med solen skinnende fra en næsten skyfri himmel, 9 grader og en frisk brise var det lige vejr til de korte rør i Silkeborg i dag. Det var jeg så den eneste der syntes, men tror til gengæld de fleste gerne ville bytte shorts da vi kom i gang med løbet, for der var dælme varmt ude på ruten. (more…)

I was trying to look up a joke about workshops and men – preferably a dirty one. However, for some odd reason I didn’t really succeed. It was supposed to be the opening for this post, however, I guess this manages almost equally fine. Allow me to present to you, my excellent and fabulous workshop.

It’s a rare occasion that I would even go as far as using that word. However, I do suspect that for all us guys who fancy doing something with a spanner and screwing another thing in with a hammer, it’s a big day when they get their first own workshop.

The guy who owns my flat, Erik, had fixed up this sweet room in the basement for me to work on the bikes in. This is what it looked like before I moved in:

No, I am not pregnant even though it’s impossible to see anything from the scan. However, the ultrasonic scan shows my spleen. And it’s just excellent - it’s just shrunk to the size where I am allowed to do stupid things again. Or, well, maybe not stupid, but within the limits and all that. And it all really doesn’t matter, because all I could hear the doctor saying (that would be my dad), was that I am allowed to go riding in the woods again. Yay! - And more importantly, I can join the lads on the annual mountain biking trip to France. :)

As the weather was absolutely fantastic today and I had been SO GOOD at getting my work done, I once again took a trip outside on a real bike and everything. Once again it was on the single speeder I took a scouting trip on the some of the more flat terrain around the lakes and streams just outside my door.

As always, I have a profound belief in my own abilities to overcome any obstacle. Even though I don’t have a hope in hell, to get just a third of the way. So obviously I felt good enough to start back at work two weeks ago. Part time, for sure, but still, I had something to do. The first week was alright, two days at Bang&Olufsen and three short days at the office in Silkeborg. Last week though, three long days at Bang&Olufsen and a early morning sales meeting in Vejle and a heap of hours in the car took it’s toll. And I could still feel it yesterday as I went to Struer once again. So even though I am four kilos up, I still needed 15 hours of sleep last night… – I’m not quite there at the finish line just yet :)

Yesterday I was out riding for the first time after I fell ill. And it was just fantastic. I rode my single-speed - rigid-fork Trek 8500 bike (which was originally built as a winter mountain bike with lots of cool parts – that was, until it got nicked. As I found the bike again, most of the parts were stolen. However, the frame was still there so there you go; a good reason for trying out a single-speed bike for urban riding and grocery shopping. – I can’t wait to get proper out again.