Levi and Trent Hit Brasstown

 

Georgia Trip - Day 2

 

This Week: Tour de Georgia

Coming up this week is the Tour de Georgia. There are a couple of interesting videos on You Tube, including a video of Jittery Joe's trying to get used to the Road Atlanta course for the Team Time Trial.



Also, some highlights from last year's Tour...

Photos of Greg's Catastrophic Carbon Collision

Saw Greg today, who is in pretty decent spirits considering. He had his "bike" with him, though I am sure it doesn't officially qualify as a bike any longer. There was some review of the crash scene and believe it or not there is a dent in the base of the guard rail where Greg's carbon frame hit the post. An engineer somewhere needs to do a calculation of the amount of force that something made of carbon needs to impart on some thing made of thick, solid steel to put a dent in it.

Long Lay Off and Crazy Days

What a crazy string of days. Last week I got sick while Betsy and the kids were out of town and this week I end up working 14-17 hours a day to recover from some incredibly bad items at work.

While I was out doing these exciting items, Fasig decided to join Goat on the DL. In Greg's own words:

"On tonight's hill ride Jim and I were having a discussion of how we don't descend very well and how Gary could go down Varner without breaking. So as I was descending (and braking) I thought to myself, well I'm braking so I'm going slower then Gary was...which was absolutely STUPID!!! Nonetheless, that's what happened and as I was
thinking that I looked up to see a corner and thought, it certainly must bend, then seeing that &($^ it's almost a 45 degree turn. Damn, must break fast. Hit the breaks and the rear locked and jumped to the right. Thus had to let off to reapply pressure...not enough time. Guard rail quickly approaching, damn I feel like Brad I hope he's okay, *&^%) get down and down I went.

The bike wrapped itself around the guard rail support and broke into 2 pieces. I am extremely happy as the bike took the majority of the impact."

Photo of the bike after impact: