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Rider:

THE_PIRATE member offline

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Location:

Pole Station, Antarctica

Club Affiliation:

Texas Pro Health Racing Team

Road Category:

Category 3

CX Category:

Category 2

Member Since:

December 2003

5 Year Distance Chart

2024 Miles Traveled:

2024 Rank:

currently unranked

Lifetime Odometer:

97,179 miles

History:

I am the one in the picture on the right in the white "IN LANCE WE TRUST" t-shirt.

Cycling since 1995. Mostly road with a little hard tail. I usually try to get in 10,000 miles a year.(yeah I am single) The best "stress therapy" out there. Also helps me burn off the "effects" of the Mojitos that I like to drink.
I am very luck to get to train with the group that I do. I ride quite a bit solo but when we group train (Sat, Sun, and 1 night a week) we ride it as though it is a raod race and have a take no prisoners attitude. I also have the privledge of training with John Morstead (former British Jr National Champion). He pushes me like no one else can do. Claim to fame: In August (yes the hottest time of the year here) five of us left down town Houston at 4:00am to ride what was then called the 2C3 ride. It is a 238 mile, 1 day ride around Galveston Bay via down town Houston. We finished at 6:23pm. 14 hours and 23 minutes was total time counting stops. When we started out in the morning the temp. was 84 degrees, at one point it was 113 degrees. It was also a sunny day with typical gulf coast winds of 7 to 15mph. I never had a beer as cold as the one I drank when I got off of the bike. Four out of the five of us also rode 65 miles the next day.

I also this year on Sept 16, 2007 won the Mt Locke hill climb (it is the l'Alpe d'Huez of Texas). It is 1.5 miles of sheer hell with an average grade of 17%. It hits 21% in several places. I rode my Litespeed Liege with a 39/53 front and a 12/27 rear gears riding on one of my sets of Reynolds Stratus DV Carbons. I rode the 1.5 miles in 8:10 beating my closest competition by 7 seconds.

My other love is road racing cars and have had sponsorship from a Chevy dealer for 20 years, I have driven in everything from vintage racing to SCCA Trans Am to IMSA. I love vintage racing the most, and own a real 1967 Yenko that I race here in the south that has been a race car since day 1. For 2007, I am going to back my miles off a little and do about 1100 miles per month. I want to race the race car about 10 weekends this year and spend more time with my incredible girlfriend. I have plenty of support from her as she is also a rider and races inline skates.

bike journal rankings:
2004 #74 7,957 miles
2005 #49 9,177 miles average speed 20.49 mph
2006 #15 14,171 miles average speed 20.62 mph
2007 #24 13,406 miles average speed 21.12 mph
2008 #29 13,393 miles average speed 21.68 mph

Bicycles

	2010 Specialized Stumpjumper Carbon Hardtail XC 29er Mtn bike
	Description: My Team bike selection for 2010. A sweet Specialized Stumpjumper Expert Carbon 29er. Upgraded the bars to carbon Monkeylite and a few other items. Lifetime Odometer: 135.1 miles

	2008 Cannondale System Six Road bike
	Description: Rental From Las Vegas Cyclery-58cm-Not a bad bike. It did the job. I will stick to my Dura Ace. Don't really care for the SRAM components Lifetime Odometer: 99.7 miles

	2008 Specialized Transition Pro Time Trial Road bike
	Description: My new Team TT bike from Specialized for Team Texas Pro Health. Specialized FACT 7r N'Aero tube shaping, triple monocoque construction, compact aero geometry, vertical seat adjustment, OS BB Full Dura Ace with carbon cranks, S- Works stem, and ZIPP bars. I train on it with a set of my Reynolds Stratus DV all carbon clinchers and have the Zipp disc and 404 tubular front for TT's On July 22 I did the same modification as I did to the Vortex TDF. I installed a new Dura Ace 7800 crankset with 165mm cranks and 54/39 chain ring combination. I also installed a new Chris King BB. This combo rocks!! Lifetime Odometer: 2,088.6 miles

	2004 Litespeed VORTEX TDF LTD #57 Road bike
	Description: In 2004 Litespeed built 100 Vortex bikes to honor the 100th anniversay of the Tour de France. This bike is a 57cm and is also serial #57. It still retains all of it's special TDF components. Litespeed Vortex � 2004 Limited Edition (Only 100 made) Frame: 57 cm 6AL-4V Titanium Shifters: Dura-Ace 10 speed Front Derailleur: Dura Ace 10 speed Rear Derailleur: Dura-Ace 10 speed Crankset: Dura-Ace 10 speed 39-53T 175mm crank length Cassette: Dura-Ace 10 speed 11/21 Brakes: Dura-Ace 10 speed Headset: Cane Creek Wheels: Mavic Ksyrium SL Tour de France Commemorative Limited Edition (Serial numbered set with one yellow spoke)set 926 Bar and Stem: ITM Millenium Super One R Carbon Seat Post: ITM Millenium Super One R Carbon Fork: Reynolds Ouzo Pro Integrated Carbon Original MSRP: $7,500 http://www.litespeed.com/bikes/vortex_tdf.aspx As of June 5th, 2010 I put in a new Chris King BB and a new set of 165mm Dura Ace 7800 cranks with a 54/39 ring combination. It rocks even better now !!!new chain and DA 11/21 too Lifetime Odometer: 28,586.9 miles

	2001 Litespeed Palmares Road bike
	Description: Litespeed Palmares 57cm, completely Ti-Dyed. The bike is known as the "ghetto cruiser" and also "fag bike" among friends. The reason for the nicknames is the bike was completely Ti-dyed by One Off Titanium. (www.titaniumarts.com). All titanium parts on this bike are dyed. Frame was custom ordered with a few slight geometry changes. 17.1 # @57cm It has a full SRP ti bolt kit that is ti-dyed. The ti stem, King bottle cages, seat post and Chris King cassette lock ring are also ti-dyed. Easton carbon bars. FSA Team Issue carbon cranks with Speedplay X2 pedals. Dura Ace 9 speed triple. It rides on a custom set of Reynolds Stratus DV clinchers with 16F and 24R spokes. Maxxis Columbiere tires (what else). I now only ride it on "special occasions". One very fast bitchin bike. Lifetime Odometer: 26,843.8 miles

	2001 Kestrel EX40 Time Trial Road bike
	Lifetime Odometer: 554.4 miles

	2000 Litespeed LIEGE Road bike
	Description: 57cm Lightspeed Liege. My backup bike but I ride it most all of the time. Dura Ace 9 speed. Ti seat post and stem. Easton carbon bars. FSA carbon cranks with Speedplay X2 pedals.17.2 #'s with the CORIMA AERO HP's Clinchers. The Corima's typically stay on the bike full time and is my "training wheelset". I am addicted to deep V aero carbon wheels. They are the stiffest wheels going, and the bike goes where you point it in the corners at any speed. It is like the bike is on rails and you can run 160-170 psi. 17.1 #'s with my race wheels REYNOLDS DV STRATUS Clincher wheelset (regular 20 spoke). 17.3#'s with Mavic Ksyrium TDF "gold spoke" wheelset for when I go to west Texas and ride on a lot of rough roads with too many cattle guards to count. Lifetime Odometer: 32,724.1 miles

	1995 McMahon 325 Hardtail XC Mountain bike
	Description: A former Team McMahon pro team bike raced by Gunther Kuhn. The bike was raced on the Pro circuit all over the west coast and Hawaii during the 1995 and 1996 season. The frame was actually made by Litespeed for Mcmahon. The frame is Ti-Dyed. It has a very rare inverted Halston ti fork. Mcmahon brakes, ti Longhorn bars, ti seatpost, Topline cranks, XTR 9 speed. The bike also has McMahon brakes; rear-Power Link, front-Linear Decelerator. It will outstop any bike with V-brakes and most with disk brakes.Wheelset is Chris King hubs with black magic spokes to Velocity Aeroheat rims with Maxxis rubber. The bike weighs in at 21 pounds. Lots of purple (the "in" colour for 1995) Lifetime Odometer: 6,549.0 miles

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