Monday, November 9, 2009 at 9:13AM 
Click the image above to go to the SSCXWC gallery.250 riders on single speed bikes passing through Thunderdome.
We could say more but words seem so inadequate to the task.
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 9:07AM 
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Well, wasn’t that a weird day -- even by Cross Crusade standards?
Deep mud making everyone look like they ride for the same team: Mud People.
Costumes coming out again, giving some folks a chance to pull out a left over from last week’s Halloween race in Astoria.
Multiple start lines for the Single Speed Crazy Cross World Slapstickships.
Human barriers hanging from the Thunder Dome.
A marching band finding refuge from the rain under the Shimano tent.
A rock band channeling Black Sabbath (no chickens were harmed in the making of this music).
One of the best (and tallest) cyclocross riders in the country decides to run with a dog, rather than ride a bike, in the the SSCCWS - see above.
And all the while, car racing bumps and whines in the background, reminding us that even though we're all out having fun and getting tired and burning calories, there's a lot of motorheading still going on in America.
That beer waiting for us at home felt a little tame after all that. But welcome, too.
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 4:24AM | in News, Photos of the Week 
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:01AM | in Photos of the Week 
Click on the image above to go to the faces gallery.Alas, we won't ever get to see these faces again, at least not as they were on Sunday - with the exception of the blow up doll.
So we thought it worth a mid-week posting just to freeze these faces in web-bound history.
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 8:36PM 
Click on the image above to go to the Astoria Sunday gallery.Not a huge deal but we were surprised by the number of men dressed as women. It's tough to join such a parade, without planning. And we didn't plan.
So it goes.
What a blast of a day.
