A little bike video from last night.

Mini-Shuttles at Patapsco from Brian Elwood on Vimeo.

More random shots!

These are actually current pictures! Yeah, crazy I know! Jamie's hair is really starting to grow. The big debate around the house is should we cut it or not? For now we are letting it grow and grow. Silly hippy baby!



Jamie loves reading my bike magazines. He points the pictures and says "bike, bike, bike!"



In other news, Jamie is taking his first independent steps starting last weekend. He's still pretty unsteady but he can slowly walk between items of furniture now. We are doomed.

Random shots!

Momma and Jamie at the zoo checking out the stingrays.


A nice random 60+ degree day in February.


Seminaked babies are always good.


Does Jamie have a future as a sanitation engineer?


Oi, Oi, Oi. Punk rock will never die.


Obligatory bike content. Road race at the USNA. Coincidentally one of Jamie's first words was "bike".

Birthday!@@@!!!

January was birthday time! Lots of visitors, lots of presents:





lots of cake!




Perhaps too much cake?

What? A new blog post?

Lots of pictures to post. The boy is growing up so fast. He talks and talks and talks.

Here are a couple of Christmas pictures: Yeah, it's been that long.

Presents were good....


Boxes were better!

Crash!

Here's a sequence of shots from a recent dual slalom race. This is a good example of what not to do when the guy in front crashes. I'm in orange.

First a couple of shots during my qualifying run.





I qualified in the top half of my bracket which is pretty good. Unfortunately they rearranged the brackets before the head to head race and I got bumped back a few spots. This meant that I didn't have lane choice. The guy I was racing (16 yo kid actually) choose the fast lane which meant I was going to have to pass him at the merge (where the two side by side tracks come together as one).

Follow the sequence. I'm in back looking into the corner and setting up for a "Low-High" pass. That's where you come in to the corner low and try to body check the guy you're passing by exiting high. Remember I'm looking low into the corner, so I have no idea what the other rider is doing on the high line. Watch what happens:


















Ooof. It looks bad but all I got out of it was a little scratch on the elbow. Unfortunately the other racer was able to get up faster than me and managed to cross the line first. Oh well, that's racing. What I learned is that I need to keep an eye on the other racer and the corner. If I had know he was going to fall, I could have braked and made a safe pass while he was on the ground.

Christine's Silversmithery.

If you were a casual observer of this blog you might think our lives revolve solely around biking, Jamie, and stomping around in the woods. Well, that's a big part of what we do, but there is more. For the past few years Christine has been taking a jewelry design class. She's currently working on a large serving spoon and fork. Here's a few recent shots of her in the studio:

Hammering and forming:


Annealing:


Works in Progress:



More to come...