Rim Nordic Race Update From Roger

hi chris,

This past sunday was another grueling long race at a real mountain bike course ,and i wanted to let you know that your racers are the best!!! We had a great attendance and its great to be on a team where everybody pitches in and helps out each other. Not only are they getting ready for their race they are mingling and networking and talking up our Great sponsors and their awesome products they have let us use!!! Always thanks to Kenda and their wide variety of specialty tires, Sigma for telling us how far we gone and when we are going to have a heart attack, Xepedo for put the power to the ground and letting us unclip in time during bail-outs, HydraPack for keep us cool, and M-factor for the shirts on our backs!!! I know this is the short list on sponsors but I'm at work and have to keep this report short...

first on the agenda, the super niner couple Michael Darter and Heidi Volpe, this was there last race of this season and I wanted to thank them both for the support and for earning the team all those awesome trinket medals this year!!! They are getting married and will be spending the rest of the season getting ready for their wedding and wrestling in their underwear during the honeymoon...

Rim Nordic / Cal State race 7/15/07

M.D. turned the fastest time of the day for our team 2:34:32 for three laps giving us a 5th place finish in expert class 40-44. Michael was back on a new BackBone Blue niner and was ripping it up. Just to give you an idea of how tough a field he was in, the 1st place finisher in his category got the second fastest time off all the racers that day including pro and semi-pro field... Nice finish on the season Darter Man!!!

Heidi Volpe-Darter (V.D.) :) gave us a 1st place medal again in expert 40-49, she did 2 laps in a mere 2:04:10... she says she owes it all to long hours at work, healthy foods and training for upcoming honeymoon...

Vanessa Humic took second place in another xterra challenge 3 laps expert 19-29 3:24:38. Wow she must really love riding that mtn bike??? Nothing spells fun like going at race pace for 3 1/2 hours... Vanessa had a nasty fall off the cliff at the end of the race and decided to do rock climbing for awhile before getting back on the bike and finishing... she just crazy and all mine hands off SHo-AIr goons

Brant Hutton expert 30-34 stole 1st place with a 3 lap 2:34:36. I asked him how he can achieve such feats??? He said a fine tuned training schedule of going to the O.C. fair eating funnel cakes, and chasing them down with Red Bull/Vodkas followed by drunken dancing and girl chasin...

Vegas Bob expert 30-34 started out of the gate like a mad man and was en-route for a great finish, but the course and the heat proved to be the victor that day... Vegas swears a pox and revenge on the mountain and will be training hard for their next battle...

Randy Rush sport 40-44 2 laps 2:08:08 earned us a middle of the pack finish in a steroid packed field of 25 riders, nice job randy. He promises next race to stop jumping off his bike and playing the dirt, but he still a kid at heart...

James Cross sport 40-44 2 laps 1:43:05 4th place... rock that niner JAIME !!! Just for the record james was on time, bike ready and at the start line ready to go, you make me so proud, little james is all grown up now ....

also special mention to Matthew Tome beginner jr 13-14 3rd place !!! and thanks to Vicki Tome for help in the feed zone handing out water bottles and cheers!!!

yours truly Roger H.