I want.

Izalco Extreme Super Record. Mmmm.

Lucifer

It's almost as though he's always instigating a photoshoot.

Addicting Habenero Salsa

Makes roughly 32oz of delicious salsa you will have a hard time not eating in a single sitting.

In order to complete said task you will need:

A pot. 3 quarts? Likely the one that you use when you make pasta.
A blender or food processor. If you have both, use the food processor, the blender too often purees it.
Lots of tortilla chips.If you can, make your own. You may as well.
Peppers, carrots, tomatoes and an onion. Personally, I'm a fan of this combination:

3 Habeneros
4-6 Jalapenos
2 Serrano Chilies
2 Anaheim Peppers
2 Padron Peppers
2 Bell Peppers
2 medium sized carrots, skinned, chopped
1 small onion, peeled, quartered
3-4 tomatoes, cored, roasted
1 pinch of red chili flakes
salt to taste
water

Here's what you should do:

Boil everything together in just enough water to where it's almost submerged for 15 minutes or until everything is tender. Strain, and reserve the water to adjust viscosity. Throw it in a food processor, and press "Go". Add reserved fire water and salt as needed. You should mess with all kinds of peppers until you can dial in your personal spicy/sweet salsa requirements.

Enjoy.

Tour De Water Tower

via Go Means Go

We were exploring and getting acquainted with our new city during last years Tour De Water Tower. So needless to say (but I will regardless) I am very excited to race this years "Guerilla TT."



And while we're on the topic of bike racing, I'd like to share that my new friend, Eric Becker (Thumb Print Racing) talked some sense into me and I will now be racing the rest of the season's Seward Park Series for experience and for the hopes of a late season upgrade to CAT4. Commencing name taking/ ass kicking.

Recap

Things I liked this week.


Our cats, Lucifer (top) and RZA (bottom) "wraslin"


Warm and sunny early morning bike rides


I was given the components for a special last Wednesday and I came up with this: julienne Padron pepper saute over herbed goat cheese on toast.


My good friend, Brad Terry, just started a new art project he's calling "Black Teeth" (left). I'm way into it...So into it that I'm compelled to decorate these lovely stickers compliments of USPS.

Semi-Exciting Stuff

New Knife: Yoshikane Nakiri [Vegetable Cleaver, top]


New Training Plan: M-Rest, T-Hills, W-Aerobic, Th-Sprints (crit style), F-Rest, S-Endurance w/Sprints, Sun-Race and Destroy
All of which include awesome visuals such as these-




Thanks Mike.

b+ radsport: North West

My friend and teammate, Mike Roecklein, stepped outside his warm and sunny comfort zone of Southern California for some business in our fair city of Seattle. During his stay we made sure to include a couple training rides, one in particular included the classic 55 mile Lake Washington loop (counter clockwise). I've completed this ride a dozen times before and not once have I encountered a mechanical mishap (lucky I know). Wednesday just wasn't our day. My water bottle popped out of the holder on a decent and was ran over by a Benz, then Mikes seat post mounted holder failed and dropped both of his bottles...one of which was ran over. I then was confronted with glass penetration for rear flat #1, changed the tube hand pumped it and delt with it until Bellevue where we found Gregg's Cycles. Largest bike shop ever. We re-upped on supplies and off we went. As we started our climb out of downtown Kirkland, Mike managed to find a nail to puncture his rear tire. Luckily we were prepared due to my initial flat, because 48mm valves don't fit in 70mm carbon rims. All interesting fails aside. I had a lot of fun on this ride. It truly makes a difference when you're not going it alone. Thanks for the good company and words of wisdom Mike.