i posted some whining about a training ride last week here.  roy came through in the comments with considerably fewer complaints and a nice picture of his bike after a rainy morning ride amidst the cherry blossom effluent.  picture is below.  notice anything?

all sorts of cherry blossoms build up on the down tube, bottom bracket area and all over the little ring which appears to have been completely unused.  not a cherry blossom to be seen on the big ring.  roy lives in the big ring and we applaud him for it.  go get it roy.

also, another allotment of respect for mike bradbury after the comments by mitch.  i still have not seen the seaford results but lots of people were talking about it down at hains point.  sounds like a hard race.  congratulations to everyone who went down and gave it 100% for themselves or for their team.