Monday, December 24, 2007

Burnaby Plans

Next Sunday I'm off to Vancouver for the Burnaby 6-day. As has been the case through most of this season, I've had trouble pinning down a partner. It's happened this way in Portland, T-Town (twice), LA, Forest City, and to a lesser extent the planning to go to Europe. That it happened for Burnaby shouldn't have been much of a surprise.

At First Luke Winger and I were going to ride. But he skipped town and went to Argentina. Can't really blame him there. Then a string of others, Cody O'Reilly, Kenny Williams, Vince DeJong, David Byer, and others. Everyone either already had a partner or wasn't able to go.

Finally the race organizer, Jeremy, decided to pair me with a pretty powerful local rider. He has a fair collection of credentials, to put it mildly. A medal from Canadian elite nationals, and a master's world championship in the points race. I may not have ever met him before, but he was clearly a very capable rider.

Then another change. Things have shifted again, and now I'm partnered with Brad Huff.

If this is any indication, Burnaby is going to be awesome.

He's damn fast. I'm going to need to step it up for this one. Especially after seeing the start list. This is going to rock.

8 comments:

Skibby said...

have your riding partner autograph some speed stick paraphernalia, for a speed stick hand party!

Ben said...

Congratulations, man. That's awesome news. Not only is he fast, he'll be fun to hang out with.

OTR said...

That's awesome man! I would have bought Winger his plane ticket to ride with Huff. Represent dude!

Super Rookie said...

congrats.

svein is way cooler though.

that is because he is a fucking hobo!!!!!

dude is the shit. seriously.

Unknown said...

LIVIN LARGE! TAKE PICS AND VIDS SO WE CAN LIVE THE DREAM A LITTLE TOO.. GOOD LUCK

Anonymous said...

Keep your blog updated. Looks like your racing with all the big dogs there. Livin the dream.

OTR said...

I think I'm going to switch my man-crush from Timmer to you.

Skibby said...

come home, i miss you...