Uh, I might be the last one to find out about these things, but I just stumbbled onto Yacht Rock. Pretty funny stuff. It was on channel 101, like House of Cosby’s. I guess Channel 101’s demographic was the Jason Yen crowd. Actually some to think of it, Channel 101’s shows all just used stuff they didn’t get copyright permission for and then rocked it. They could claim parady, but I digress. If you would like to see Hall and Oats tell Kenny Loggins he’s a Pussy, kick back and relax with Hollywood steve. There’s 10 episodes or so. Just youtube “Yacht Rock episode 1″ if the below thing doesn’t work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U&feature=related
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Man, there seems to be a shortage of pictures on the blog lately. UM has become filled with useful information about unions and a resource in general. So I will try to deviate the blog form seriousness by talking about being gay on a bike. Some of you might know that I race track bikes and by some of you, I mean Dan. It’s like Nascar but you’re on a bike and it’s like the Tour De France but the races lasts for 5 minutes instead of 3 fucking weeks. Overall, it’s a lot more exciting than road racing. There are crashes, stategy, and it’s pretty fun if I don’t say myself. But what’s weird is that everyone is wearing spandex/lycra. When I first started riding, I swore I’d never be a spandex/special shoe wearing, leg shaving bike dude. But if you want to be competetive in this sport you have to do those things. I haven’t started shaving my legs yet but I’m close.
Just look at this picture here. Everyone’s package is all squished and everything. Make your own joke about David Lee Roth and 80’s spandex here.
In order to win one of the numerous types of races, one needs to draft. This is important because the drag that happens from breaking the air/wind in front of you is something like Surface area*velocity squared. So if you are drafting someone, your surface area will be reduced dramatically and you will have more energy left at the end of the race and can zoom around to win. In the left picture, I’m not doing a very goo djob of drafting, but the guy was trying to break away.
Also, track racing is very different from road racing. In road racing, you see guys all weighing in at about 120 lbs. and basically look like twigs. In track racing people start to look like line backers. The reason is that if you want to win in track, you’ve got to be a pretty good sprinter. Just look at this dude Jared. He’s a great track racer as well as an incredible road racer. It looks like he wants to wrestle you in this picture. I don’t mean WWF stle, but greco roman style and break your neck in the process.
This guy got in a wreck 2 years back and got the front digit of his index finger chopped off because it got caught between the chain and the chainring. He’s pretty freaking tough.
This was more a self promotion post, but whatever, I’m bored.
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