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Turning Australian-ese, I think I'm turning Australian-ese, I really think so, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Turning Australian-ese, I think I'm turning Australian-ese, I really think so, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

I heart the hell out of that Andy.
And you know for that matter, Dan (pictured) aint too shabby himself.

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Because it's finally Friday, and I'm tired and feeling especially out of gas, I will go ahead and throw the following video up. Now it should be noted that this video isn't especially safe for work, but then again, that's kinda relative, because for example, if you work in a place like Swobo, or Dahlonega Wheel Works, watching videos like this is required, thus being very safe for work;

My roots are dirty too 1/2 Price. My roots are dirty too.

What do you all have planned for the weekend?
A picnic?
Do some laundry?
Ride a bicycle?
Catch a movie with yer Kin-folk, and then shoot at yer neighbors?

Thad, who was one of my compatriots on the 'Joe's got hair and wrote a book ride', emailed me to let me know just how deep his radtardation runs;

"Yo Stevil,
Thanks for helping me avoid the suckiness that is the bummer life on a weekly basis. This past weekend my girl, the Lovely Jessica, and my dirtbag self decided to roll on down to the Sea Otter Bicycle Festival in Monterey and represent Santa Cruz in style thanks to Josh Muir from the Bike Church who loaned me his tandem and Kelly and Darin from Ped Ex who loaned me the rad cargo trailer with a fork mount so I could tow my Santa Cruz Roadster (thanks for the hook-up Willy!).

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Thursday the Lovely Jess and I loaded up the cargo trailer with my race bike, camping gear, and a cooler full of ice cold Tecates which we kept conveniently close in the cooler at the front of the trailer, and headed south to Sea Otter. When we pulled into the race park at Laguna Seca it was like the Clampits coming into Beverley Hills, getting weird stares from the people in their 60 foot motor homes and jacked-up trucks carrying the latest $8,000 mountain bikes.

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I threw down a second place in the road race on Friday and a win in the circuit race on Saturday and then Jess and I were more than happy to pedal back home to Santa Cruz, tired of being accosted by aggressive vendors trying to get me to sample their latest crack-like energy drink or bounce up and down on some new uber bike with a down hill shock that had 72 inches of travel. The funniest part of the whole weekend was, after a few celebratory brews and waiting 2 hours for the awards presentation after my circuit race, I ended up on top of the podium and this chesty couger smears lipstick on my cheeks and shoves a Thule car top bike rack in my hands and walks away before I can object.

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So there I am on the podium, 3 pints of IPA coursing through my veins, lost in the irony of it all. Damn.

It's about time for another Bob Loves Joes Hair Ride ain't it?

Cheers, Thad"

That right there is everything about life that I whole heartedly embrace wrapped up in a single correspondence, and touches point on just exactly why The Sea Otter and I don't really get along anymore..

Congratulations Thad, and just because we haven't had one in a while and your email came along at a perfect time, coupled with just cause you and your better half are bad asses, welcome to the coveted position of Friday Hero, and yes, the time for a dry 'Joe's got hair' ride is approaching, or perhaps it should be called the 'Joe's got dry hair' ride.
Details will follow.

Now, in closing, did you know that there is a new magazine on the horizon coming out thats just for the segment of our population that smells good? Call that a sexist statement if you must, but I'll be damned if I've ever been around many women who generally smell as bad as most men I know. It's just like a physiological phenomenon. Anyway, as I was saying, there is a magazine coming out thats just for the girls, and with the powerhouses of productivity that are behind it, I imagine that it's going to be an incredible success.

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Women's Cycling Magazine (dot)com. Visit early, and visit often.

Buy two subscriptions just to be safe.

It's Friday.
Fellas, rock out with your socks up, ladies, jam out with your clam out, and most importantly, GeneO, black out with your sack out.

I love each and every one of you.

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Comments

72" of travel? DUH, if you aren't flinging yourself down a hill with at least 92" rear travel and 76" up front you had better wake up and smell the bacon burning.

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yeah about those Dahlonega Wheel Works dudes...

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The White Family.....aren't they behind the crime wave at the Demo parking lot?

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Best "Friday Close Out Line" ever.

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Don't those guys know you can suffocate if you get stuck in a fridge? I heard Knoxvill on Stern talking about the Whites. Sounds like crazy stuff, a must see documentary.

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I appreciate women that can kick my ass...because it is pretty much, most every one of them.

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Jesco is Elvis.

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