Category Archives: BBW lab

Get Busy Filing or Get Busy Dying (or) The Build List

Posted on October 13, 2009 by mbudd

TweetActually, there were options on my plate this past weekend besides getting my shop organized & cutting some tubes for the growing backlog of  Budd Bike Works frames on order or facing the reaper, namely racing.  Though, it would have been grossly … Continue reading →

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Who Else Thinks a Cyclo Cross Race Like This Would Be Fun?

Posted on October 8, 2009 by mbudd

TweetModel it on the way motor races are formatted with time trials on the first day to establish start position for riders except on a longer circuit than the traditional 2 mile cyclo cross course or maybe even a point … Continue reading →

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Monday Mayham (or) Maybe I’m not Racing Hard Enough Sunday

Posted on October 6, 2009 by mbudd

TweetThe 45 minutes I’ve been spending doing my best to hustle on cross courses on Sundays  from NH-VT-and Back to MA seem to me to be an end to a means of motivating Monday rides that are much more a … Continue reading →

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Good Eats and Good Sleep make for a Good Start in Gloucester

Posted on October 5, 2009 by mbudd

TweetNot having your arrival at a race a test of your mettle more arduous than the 45 minutes that follows the start makes for a much better feeling at the line even if you are looking at the back of … Continue reading →

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Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad

Posted on October 4, 2009 by mbudd

TweetIts almost embarrassing how much my folks have given me throughout my childhood, through my prolonged adolescence (my generation pushed back the definition to 26 years old in this country), and continuing into my fits and starts at adulthood. Love, … Continue reading →

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VT-(or) Is Racing a limitation to the enjoyment of riding a cyclo-cross bicycle?

Posted on September 28, 2009 by mbudd

TweetSunday Racing-Rain, starting in last place, just ride the damn bike, have fun, forget that you can’t really afford this weekend and move the work schedule to go on unmarshalled and free of admission ride on monday. Not being in … Continue reading →

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Thanks to Quad Cycles for giving me something to do today

Posted on September 13, 2009 by mbudd

TweetThe original plan had been to race, the original plan didn’t include me running out of gas in the giant staircase I was driving through a deluge on saturday and shelling out for a proper half tank to get me … Continue reading →

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Racing

Posted on September 12, 2009 by mbudd

TweetI never did get out on my planned friday cross ride and instead spent the afternoon in the basement with a box of fresh parts to get a bike in order for the season ahead. That done it’s going to … Continue reading →

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The Pain of Success

Posted on September 6, 2009 by mbudd

TweetTh e debilitating leg cramp that just coursed up my left hamstring and threatened to turn into the dreaded double by cramping the quadricepts or calf as well as I stretched it are as sure evidence as any that BBW … Continue reading →

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Labor of Love

Posted on September 6, 2009 by mbudd

Tweetgetting caffinated and carbohydrated to take a test ride on the personal off road frame that I just finally finished after over a month in the jig and the drawing board.  I can’t wait to get some pics that actually … Continue reading →

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