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My Aegis is perfect

or, rather, any bicycle is perfect. i was reminded of this fact after a mega-stressful day.

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or, rather, any bicycle is perfect. i was reminded of this fact after a mega-stressful day. a day during which i sobbed on the phone not only to my parents but to two of my best friends. the misery knew no bounds...all because of m-fing accounting 117. i am developing a loathing for the class.
so i escaped around 6, and headed out for 3 hours of bliss on my bike. i rode up hill after hill after hill, seeing nary a car (8 total). i rode past willow lake and whiskey springs, up fish lake road to highway 140. then i turned around and kept the throttle on. the sun was setting, my wattage was kickin, my heart rate telling me it's ready to tear it up during july. i was listening to ray lamontagne on the shuffle (thanks, kat, for introducing me to his music), and as "jolene" wound down, i sat up in the night air, feeling the moon rise at my back, and let the wind take me home. look mom, no worries and no hands.this place (southern oregon) is so magical. so serene. so unspoiled. i am saddened by its economic strife. by the limited opportunities for its native sons to carve out a living among its hills. by the paving over of its fertile soil to make way for another parking lot to hold the throngs flocking to the big box low-price leader.
but rather than just bitch and moan, i think we can do something about it. something small...yet every little bit helps. stay tuned...
yet another illustration of the beauty of my home state: the scene below is looking off the deck of our house, after an evening rainstorm. magnifique, no?
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Coffee Good for Tasty Causes

From Norrene, Team Rubicon!
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Hi K-Man Viewers

Portland Roasting Coffee Company has donated 125 bags, 12ox whole been coffee bags to us, to sell, to help send riders to Nationals and the Olympic Training center to train.

The bags will go for $10 each and all the money is tax deductable too! If you want to buy a bag or two or three, or four (I promise NOT to drink it all) give David or I a call at

503-806-5305 (David)
503-806-2215 (norrene)
or email at trubicon@comcast.net

We will also be at Mt. Tabor tomorrow (Sunday)and will have the coffee with us, just look for the bright orange tent.

The Portland Roasting Company has been roasting beans in Portland for the last 10 years and they're one of the Rose City’s original micro-roasters.

Stop by the Portand Roasting company, buy a cup, give it a try and them come buy a bag of special Team Rubicon Blend - please!

Portland Roasting
340 SE 7th Ave
Portland, OR 97214

503.236.7378

6/15 Afternoon Update

Velonews carries the postponement news.
Cyclingnews.com covers both Tyler Farrar's excellent comeback and the Cascade Classic postponement.
Basso draws 2 year suspension til October 2008.

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Cascade Classic Postpones Women's Race

PRESS RELEASE

Cascade Cycling Classic Postpones Women’s Race Until 2008

In what has been one of the toughest decisions in recent history for the organizers of the Cascade Cycling Classic a decision was made this week to postpone the women’s Pro 1-2 race until 2008. A conflict with scheduling has forced this difficult decision as this year’s Cascade Cycling Classic competes for the same time slot as the USA Cycling Elite National Championships in Seven Springs Pennsylvania. “We are just heart broken about this situation,” says Chad Sperry this year’s race director for Cascade. “Last fall I sat down with the owners of the event, Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation (MBSEF), and we had decided to take the women’s race to a whole new level adding an additional stage and boosting the prize purse. We were so excited about 2007 and then the schedule for Nats came out this last winter and we saw the scheduling conflict for the elite women and it was incredibly demoralizing”. The USA Cycling National Road Festival women’s elite time trial falls on Friday July 13th and the road race on Monday July 16th. With this event being a huge focus for every pro women’s team and nearly every elite team in the country it has left little to no competitors available to race elsewhere. “We would have made the decision to postpone the event earlier but we wanted to make absolutely sure the field would not be going to be there. We were hoping that there would still be a fair number of women riders not attending nationals but in recent weeks it has become very clear that nationals is the highest priority on the women’s U.S. racing calendar” says Sperry.

It is important to note that 2008 will see the women’s race back bigger and better than ever as MBSEF has made the commitment to make the Cascade Cycling Classic one of the premier women’s races in the country. “Though we are very disappointed as to what has transpired this year we are already in the works planning next year’s event for the women” says Sperry. “We have talked with USA Cycling and they have assured us that we have their support for next year and there will not be another scheduling conflict with elite nationals”. So stay tuned in early 2008 to some exciting new changes to the women’s race and an even bigger and better event than ever.

With nationals still a couple months away for the pro men, their race looks to be another very exciting event. Last year saw a battle of epic proportion as a hard charging Chris Wherry from Toyota United picked up a time bonus on the last stage to beat Jeff Louder from Health Net by less than a second. Chris and Toyota will be back to defend their title and will again have a tremendous fight on there hands as Cascade looks to be the decisive race for this year’s hotly contested NRC series. Look for Health Net, Toyota United, Navigators, and Priority Health to all bring their top squads as the NRC men’s individual and team standings are still anyone’s for the taking. “We are super excited at the pro men’s field this year,” says Sperry. “We have not seen the NRC men’s individual or team standings this close to call in year’s”. With Cascade being on the tail end of the NRC series you can count on some very hard racing by the top teams in the U.S. as they try to collect every series point they can get. It is looking like another epic battle shaping up in the Oregon Cascades. For info on the race or to follow results be sure to check us out on the web at http://www.cascade-classic.org.

Chad Sperry
Race Director
Cascade Cycling Classic
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K-Man is totally bummed for the women, but understands the decision.