change is like saddle position.....

Well as many of you know... well you might, I have made some drastic changes as of late.

First and Foremost, the biggest and most drastic! I am moving home - no longer attending Indiana University. Planning on attending Heartland - complete my associates and then transfer to ISU

"Oh Chris Why?!" (say it out loud!)

Well After a year and half here, I have come to the realization that I don't belong here... Sure I do well academically - I got all A's, excelled in all of my classes - Go every day, do all the homework, do all the reading... so it is definitely not an academia issue.

The thing that drove this the most is that socially I am failing. I have tried being everyone's friend, probably looked a little desperate on some occasions, but I really tried - calling, texting, facebooking, IM'ing, face to face. I guess people weren't interested. I don't really know, I mean I think I am pretty likable. Tried fitting in with the bike racing guys.... guess I missed that gravy train. Tried the frat thing... LAME!! Tried finding my own group... EPIC FAIL!! Tried being BFF's with the guys at the shop... they are all older, I get that. I guess the biggest limiter is my lack of desire to get hammered/high/etc. I guess that is a major aspect of college.... Not mine. Too much riding on school, training, my life in general. So after all that, I think it's time I go home, get back to my friends, my family, the girlfriend. So all in all its not like I didn't try, I just felt like a QB with a team full of receivers with no hands....Doesn't matter how hard I try, the team can't seem to get it.

I guess my biggest thing is that like when I did get a chance to be with certain people... all they did was text, call... etc. Yet they couldn't seem to figure out their phones when it came to me... maybe I am overeacting but just frusterating.

Sure the riding is great here and I will miss collegiate racing. But I got a lot of things to look forward to. Racing with Get a Grip, havin' a girlfriend within 15 minutes (going to be strange the first night I don't have to spend on the phone). Having time tested friends. Being close to family - This is kind of important right now. I feel like I have really shirked the grandparents out of opportunities to see me. I feel horrible, because they, like my parents have always been there with nothing to offer but unconditional love... What more can you ask for?

But how this relates to the title? Change is like saddle position... You know when it's wrong, you try changing it, and you will continue to do so until it's right... and only you know when it's right , no one else can tell you that.

ALRIGHT!!! I think you get the idea no more sappiness

Exciting times are coming.

Have to get a new fork for the addict. Something ate through the clear coat and put a hole in the carbon fiber.... REALLY SWEET! Oh well, I sold those wheels for a reason. But mark my words, this is the last Scott I own.... Been on the phone about ten times and still haven't gotten this problem resolved... You call specialized, etc you get about 5 people diving to answer your phone call... Like I totally respect the product, great stuff can't beat the stiffness but man waiting two days to find out if they have the fork I need... DAMN thats annoying... considering selling the addict once the fork is fixed and getting an SL2 or something like that. Maybe a GaG team bike (if they happened to get extras).

Been working with Jonathan "Chip" Gray to get sponsorship stuff together for Get a Grip. We are making some headway. Talk about a great guy, overall just really friendly and fun to chat up.

Thanksgiving is coming.. That means Jameson (Jamie) and I are going to Buffalo, NY... WOOT WOOT! going to meet her dad, and the rest of her family. Hopefully check out his muscle cars, go snowmobiling, and Four wheeling.... Too bad there is probably going to be a ton of snow down. Will be nice to get away from the bike for a little bit. If it's not there... I can't ride it.

I have no focus right now... I need an apartment

Hopefully Scott calls back tomorrow.......will be pissed if they don't

Need to type a paper.

Later on

More time to train.... more time to blog

Well it has been an exciting week... and it's only Tuesday.

Had a pretty good weekend:

Saturday - went out to Brown County - solo - and shredded the country side for 3.5 hours. It was pretty chilly, but once I got into the woods it warmed up and blocked the wind. Overall just a gray day due to cloud coverage. It is getting pretty cool out there, all the leaves have fallen so it is super easy to lose the trail and get off the trail. Oh well, makes for interesting rides. The leaves also make it pretty slick - loading the suspension into a corner and then coming out, the rear end has a tendency to kick out and not go where you need it to go. I felt kinda awesome - drifting stuff. Chicks dig it. Came home, studied a bit, slept a lot. Word. I will try to grab some pictures of the beautiful country side next time I go, but for now this will suffice.

Sunday - Got up, it was even colder than saturday... LAME. I had to take on the road. 4 hours of pavement pounding. Went out for a short noodle, where I was almost wrecked - couple of lady riders decided that randomly turning around in front of me was a good idea. They saw my coming, for some reason moved to the left - so I could pass right? Don't know what the logic was there, so I kinda went left - you know like I live in America, right? Well I get past the british bicyclist and am about to pass her compadre in front of her, when suddenly U-turn Yolanda made her debut. With my impecable (bahahah) handling skills, I did a little dodge dip duck dive and dodging, and kept the new rig upright. Came back from my ride to meet up with Chris and Kirk so finish off my four hours. Well Chris decided that 3 hours at tempo was not for him, instead we were going to do intervals.... EW! Fortunately nothing major, but definitely a good preview of what kind of power I have available. Looking positive, but it's way too early to make that kind of statement. I think the weight lifting has definitely helped. But we will see where all that goes. But we were fortunate enough to get rained, snowed and winded on... IT WAS wicked awesome. But came home, studied and slept.

For some reason - maybe the weather, maybe I am just tired - I have been sleeping a lot. Grab the comforter from the bed, turn on the discovery channel and hit the couch. It is epic. Usually just an hour or so but enough to feel quite refreshed.

But, the biggest news is....... (HOLD YOUR BREATH)













I got on to get a grip racing for the next year. WHAT WHAT!! I am so pumpt! Raced all last summer with/against them. Super cool guys that acutally race. What's that A racing team that RACES? CRAZY IDEA I KNOW! But I got the call monday night from chad saying he passed on my information to chip and like 15 minutes later, got a holler from Chip. DUDE I am soo excited! Lot of stress taken off of me - some of you knew I was trying to put together a team - nice to have everything taken off of me... JUST RACE my BICYCLE! Dude I can't wait. Should be a good racing season, get my early season racing done with IU, and the kentuckiana series to beef up and be a BAMF for these guys.

Plus I'll look cute in that kit... DUH


Alright well ladies and gentlemen, that's it, my latest updates. Riding the fixie today. You know the anti-shift party.

Take care

Time for a post

Happy Birthday Jamie (November 10) if you know her, give her a hug for me and wish her happy birfdays

Well life is starting to slow down, so I figured it is time for a post, to let all of those who read this know I am still alive.

Driscoll - Sorry I never got back to you. Just so much typing to do and so little time. But I really appreciate your interest and I will do my best to cover all my bases through the glob.

The last weeks of the regular person's cycling season, I attempted to rack up as many hours as possible at the job so as to keep my head above water for the next few months. See, I got laid off until January due to a lull in sales. But come January, I am hoping that I can get some hours and begin wrenching on little 5 bikes and do stuff like that. So, that has kept my free time pretty devoured.

Been flipping a lot of product recently, sold the time trial bike, traded the CR1 for some cosmic carbones, and plan to flip those pretty shortly to hopefully the same guy who bought the TT rig. Then hopefully I will get to build my own wheels ; dura-ace or ultegra hubs to a DT swiss RR 240 or a mavic open pro. We shall see. Use those as back up wheels, then flip the mountain bike and get some nasty race wheels. Can be stressful, at times, but more times than not, it's a lot of fun.

Newest Toy of the Day -

I GOT A SCOTT ADDICT R4.... OH LOWERED!!!!

you want to talk about a nasty frameset. SO LIGHT. SO reponsive... SO STIFF. Beats the crap out of you though. I'll deal with that to have the lightest frame mass produced frame on the market right now.

Say it, it is disgusting.


But at the same time. I need to hawk some stuff... shamelessly

I have in my hands and ready to ship

A set of sub 1000 mile cosmic carbone SL's perfectly true and ready to make you go faster

Also, I have a Kona Queen Anne Frame only, Velo Bella Team edition, blue and pink 56 cm.

Want something? Speak up.

Training is starting to ramp up. Kinda makes me excited. Gonna get my skinny trim on. Can't wait to be racing again. I need to be able to look forward to something every weekend, cause right now, homework just doesn't cut it.

Oh well, I need to get back to the books and the ebay, to sell some stuff.

Adios mi amigos,

more to come when the racing season kicks it up

Chris