It's Time To RAIL - So Get On THe Horse!!!!!!!!

Just three races left and Harrell's Team rider Jamie "Jan" Hyatt is on a roll. Two WINS in two races Jan is going for number three this weekend - so get on the horse J and give 'em hell!
Plus Clint Harshaw took top spot in the Sport 40+ - Good Luck this weekend fellows!

Bank of North Carolina Short Track MTB Race Series.
Saturdays Nov. 17, Dec. 1* & 8 (* indicates a NIGHT race)

Harrell's Team Rider Jamie "Jan" Hyatt takes the top spot in the expert race.

For more info go here and support your somewhat local race series. It will be tons of fun last year.

Cola, Cross and Short Track

Everybody, Anybody, Somebody. . .

Edit:

Meet at Harrell's at 8:00 Saturday morning for a ride at Lynch's.
I will leave a time for Manchester on Sunday later.

I will be in town again this weekend looking for some good rides.

Does anyone know if there are any cross races in Columbia, Greenville, Charlotte area? I want to try this cross sport. I have heard it is painful and I now have the almost right machine for it. . .

Charlotte Short Track: I am wondering what kind of course this is? Can I run my slicks and 32X15 gearing to smash the field? Are there lots of roots or is is mostly rolling?

I am ready for some races!

Peace

Urban Night Adventure

Date: Tuesday & Thursday evenings
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Food Lion Parking lot on Broad River road, close to the intersection of Greystone. Or most of the time you can find the group on the River Front paved path shortly after 6:30.

Rides can run anywhere from 1.5 - 2 hours. The ride is mostly based on pedaling and not much jumping off of city dwellings. So leave the downhill gear at home. Bring your own lights and a mtb or an urban rocket if you have one.

Cola Weekend Rides

Yo yo,

Later Edit! Rode Harbison today, nice and dry. I am taking tomorrow off and JP and I are riding Manchester @ 9:00 on Sunday morning.


I will be in town looking to ride Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday. I am thinking early in the morning out at Manchester on Saturday. Or I could be talked into FATS if anyone else can go.



Shout out what times and places are best.



Peace

Harrisburg Short Track Racing

It that time again folks short track racing at the Harrisburg 1/2. Dates listed from the charlottemtnbike.com website: 10/27, 11/10, 11/17, 12/01, 12/08. Rumor has it there could be two night events this year. It was loads of fun last year.

Congratulations Jamie!

Way to go Jamie! Silver-medalist at the SC/NC State Road Race Championship.

Road Racing and Mountain Rides

Peeps,

Lots of action in Greenville this weekend. If you are up for the activities, give me a shout. The Tomato is even going on a (gassssssssssssssssssp) road ride tomorrow to see the time trials.

Big news is the Mountain ride leaving from Kitsuma Monday morning at 7:30. We will be riding up the old Toll Road and bombing Heartbreak. Get in touch with me if you want in.

Peace

Clinton/Laurens Metric on Aug 25

If anybody's up for a metric on Saturday morning, there's one in Clinton, leaving out at 8:00. I've got room for 4 more bikes and riders in the truck if anybody wants to carpool from Newberry.

Here's the link: http://www.laurenscountycyclists.org/fotd.html

Later gators,
Clint

NC/SC State RR

Hey guys! How many of you are planning to race up at Fork Shoals in 10 days at the NC/SC State RR Championships?
Since there are combined categories, I thought we might try some "race tactics" or something. Maybe get Toby in a break... or whoever is willing, really. I might know someone who can hand up drinks, too.

Harrell's rider takes 10th out of 90 at Fool's Gold

Congrats to me at the Fool's Gold 50 miler. I was wearing the Harrell's colors.

Peace

Anybody in NC?

I am leading a ride from the Fish Hatchery tomorrow at 9:00.

Fish Hatchery
08/12/2007
9:00am

Fool's Rides

The EXTREME Tomato will be in town this coming weekend looking to do some rides. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are all on the docket. I will post times and places as I know them. Suggest up if you want to ride or whatver.

Gotta get in shape for the Fool's Gold coming up!

Pisgah Mountain Ride!!!!!!!!!!

Blue People:

Some Cola locals are riding up to the big mountains this weekend.

Saturday 8:30am 07/21/2007 @ North Mills River

If you want to go and need more information, hit me up.

Ride your bikes!

HBW Scores Podium Spot

Congrats to team riders Damon Little on his 2nd place and Toby Porter on 4th place in the 6 hour event at the Cowbell Challenge in Charlotte NC. Both riders went out on the challenging 10 mile course. Both riders completed 5 laps in just after the cut off time, 50 miles in just over 5 hours of racing. Note to all others racing, the HBW riders were running self-supported.

If YOU post on here, PLEASE READ!

If YOU post on here, PLEASE READ!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please take note that E-Designs will be going live with Harrells Bicycle World’s World Wide Web page version 1.0 very soon.

As we are trying hard to stay community oriented, we have a link set up from the website to this BLOG. What does that mean? It means that this BLOG will be representing the Harrell’s riding community and probably receiving quite a bit more traffic. So we just want to make sure that we think about representing Paul Harrell and his business appropriately when we make posts.

Neither Paul nor I think there has been a problem, we just wanted to make everyone aware of what is coming aboard.

I am also calling out for some information and pictures for those of you who post here on the BLOG. Please leave a comment under this post with the following information:

A list of all the bikes you own and ride.
Pictures of the bikes you own and ride. The best way to get us these pictures is to send them in an email to webmaster@e-designme.com. We will also need your written or verbal consent that you allow us to publish and post pictures of you and your bikes on the Harrell’s website.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment and I will answer them the best I can.

Thanks for your time and courteousness,

Jonathon

Sunday MTB Ride 8am

Sunday 6/17
Meet time 8am
Harbison Front Lot
Distance to be determined
Come one come all, bring your mtb one gear or many gears no one counting.

Mt. Mitchell

Hey everybody,

Here are the awsome results from last Monday's Assault on Mt. Mitchell:
(full results at http://www.freewheelers.info/assault.html)

The weather was a moderate 70º - 75º from bottom to top, a bit muggy, and with a slight breeze. The sun barely poked through the grey clouds that blanketed the skies all day, and of course, the last 5 miles were through a dense, rolling fog.

Finishing 108th, Gabe rocketed up the mountain in a time of 6:10:00 - congrats Gabe!

Finishing 161st, I came up next with a respectable time of 6:27:05 - which is 0:02:32 faster than Lynn's best time, so now he has to ride again (little side bet we had going).

Rounding out the top 25%, Kevin came in 250th with a very good time of 6:55:02.

All three of us cracked the 7 hour mark, and that's great!
If anyone else came up, and I didn't write in your time, just post a reply or email me.

Good job everyone!

Where is Everybody?

Did the Blue Man Group suspend their tour?

I will be in Columbia this weekend looking to get some short hard rides in. Most likely Manchester or Harbison.

Saturday and Sunday so just post up if you prefer one time over another. I will post times and such later this week.

This is the last hurrah before the 12 hours of you better drink a ton of water.

Dupont Epic 6-9-2007

Guys and Are there any Gals that look at this thing?

Anyway,

Come up for a great Mountain ride on Saturday June 9th.

We will be leaving the parking lot around 8:30. I can give some directions to the Fawn Lake access if anyone decides to come.

Also, Joe has some camping spots reserved if you would like to camp friday or Saturday nights at Black Forest Campgound call them up and ask for a spot next to the Pelton's.

Leave any questions in the comments and I will get to them.

Peace

mtbr thread for this ride

HBW Training Ride Photos

Pictures are online:


I've posted several pictures from the HBW Team Training Ride up at my website:
http://musicofpeterkay.com/cycling/hbwttr.htm

I'll be adding the map and profile and posting a few more pics thatI need to scan. I might even put some video up if I can get my hands on that, too. For now, here are 19 digital images from May 12.

Enjoy them - we enjoyed making them... right? Just ask my knees. ouch.