THE NEXT STEP

WE ARE SO EXCITED FOR EVERETT AS HE HEADS OFF TO HIS NEXT ADVENTURE. HE IS A WONDERFUL SON, GRANDSON, BROTHER, TRAVELING COMPANION, ATHLETE, CHEF, TECHIE AND SO MUCH MORE. GOOD LUCK WITH EVERYTHING YOU DO!!!

Graduation 2011 !!!!!!!!

So long High School!!

Hello University!!

The ceremony was very nice.

Good friends and brothers.

Yeah! We can finally send out that family photo that everyone keeps asking for.....you know, one where we are not wearing spandex and helmets.

Proud parents.

Proud grandparents.

Handsome guys.

We ate at a great little mexican food restaurant. Yum! Grandma and Grandpa have been so good to the boys and very supportive over the years, so it was awesome to have them here to see Everett walk across the stage. Dad brought enough barbeque to feed an army....or my three guys...whichever.......

Our dinner was amazing. Great choice Everett!

Jansen Can Bounce Off Trees: Bad Crash

Shey and Jansen hit the road early Sunday morning to make it to TN for the SERC race at Tanasi. They were donning their new Cycle Youth kits....very dapper!

Jansen went down hard in his first lap. Evidently he hit a tree, then bounced off at least one more, then ended up down an embankment in the end. He said he mostly hit things with his face and right side. Tanner was right behind Jansen and thought the crash was hard enough to drop his race and walk Jansen out of the woods. The faster these guys get, the harder they hit.

(they both wish Tanner had on a helmet cam)

At first, Jansen said he couldn't breathe and his side was excruciatingly painful. His face didn't hurt, but his vision was blurred. Once his vision cleared and he could breathe again, he and Tanner started walking. It was a very long walk.

Paramedics cleaned up the cuts and did a quick check of his side. When he got home, I could see there was a puncture all the way through his cheek and his side was still incredibly painful. He had xrays and a thorough exam by our friend, Kwan, the next day and they found no ribs to be broken and he did not stitch the hole up, since the face heals so quickly.

Jansen cannot believe he did not break anything. He was very fortunate!

Unfortunately, the wound keeps bleeding and today another large splinter came out of it.
The pain in is side is finally easing off after a couple days.

Here he is all cleaned up, before the swelling started.

Lower right is the puncture. The right side of his face is swollen and discolored, now, but should heal quickly.



Ah, another manly man scar to show off!


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How do you dress a cyclist?

Though none of us like to shop and we avoid stores like the plague, we do like to support companies with like interests. Ya' know, those guys who think it would be cool to make clothes for people who like the outdoors as much as them. So, I thought we would show some of our favorites:

Endurance Conspiracy. They use organic tshirts that are super soft and they boil the dye into the garment so many times that it takes on the feel of a shirt you have worn to just the right softness and never want to take off.



Chewie: this is just what Jansen looks like on a bike!


Monster on the left is obviously one of the boys after they have broken their bike upteen times and Monster on the right is Shey holding that bike up after he has fixed it.


This one is called "the Lance" I think. It reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie, which is a hit with all four of us.

Mariachis drafting a luchador! Awesome!

Oh, this one is my favorite. Racing together with my best buddies, back when we called ourselves the "Bad Lasses". Uber fun adventures!

Pisgah Works design idea. Got this at the SS USA event. Hope Bruce makes some more of these.

You will find Shey strolling around in this one weekly.

Shanna at Endless Bikes has some cool "tag" designs, as well as the best cogs around!

You have to earn this one! A wicked ride and shirt, both designed by Dan Coy.

Richie's new cycling clothing company, Sfatto. Very cool kits and amazingly soft shirts. I have been dying to get my hands on one of his kits!

Everett and I picked this winged 'fro man up at New Belgium Brewing in Colorado on the way to see Jansen race Nationals.

Speaks for itself. Microcosm Publishing makes this one and some other pretty cool designs.

Cafe:ine. Love their shirts, but love seeing their trailer at a cyclocross race with hot coffee and cocoa, even more!

Cyclocross, hup, hup, hup!

A Mike Stanley print, of course.

Twin Six has a lot of cool designs that you see all over the mtb scene. This one is Bat Out of Hell.

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T6 ....yeah and we have more T6, too. Too many to post on here....

Ah, Johnny's the godfather of the OUTDOOR MAFIA!

Super Soft Tee we found for Jansen in Colorado Springs while he was at the Olypic Training Center.

Regional Camp shirt from a few years ago.

I have a couple shirts from Flirtees. They have some neat cycling shirts for women and are based in Canada. I think they have a new web site, now.

So, we also have a collection of pretty cool shirts that are given out at the races and maybe I'll post those later. No, I won't post any of the ones with our sorry mugs stretching across the front, but here is a sample of some cool designs.

Psycho Cross on Halloween weekend.

Gotta love Krustache Designs! Kurt from Faster Mustache (a very fun, local group of cyclists) designed this Squoat shirt. (squid vs. goat), as well as some other really groovy prints that we love.

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Mellow Johnny's Classic

The trip to TX for the Mellow Johnny's Classic was pretty smooth. The flight was on time and the car rental was super easy.

As soon as we hit the road in the rental, we plugged in the gps and found the closest Taco Cabana. Yum! Fajitas and chips and queso! Then off to Dripping Springs. Shey's mom had set us up at his little sister's house and she stayed with us, so there was fresh fruit and other good snacks already there when we arrived there around midnight. :>)

The next day we drove to Suzanne's friends house to pick up the bikes. One of the bikes was shipped from Monterey, to Dripping Springs, back to Monterey, then back to Dripping Springs. We were thankful it made it there in time for the race, but the box had seen better days.

Building bikes. Jansen has had great luck with his two Giant bikes this year. Love them!




Suzanne sat in her lawn chair and gave instructions on building the bikes......he-he, actually she was trying to figure out if her phone would take pictures upside down......

The pro race was on Saturday, so they were finishing up the mens podium when we arrived for the pre-ride. Ryan Woodall had a great race and is on the far right. I didn't recognize him with the moustache....it kind-of looks like it's glued on.......:>)

(Krista also had a great race and was top five in the women's pro field. She is having another great year.)

The guys really liked the course but Jansen flatted about half-way into his pre-ride and we headed back to the house to take care of that situation.

I had to borrow some more Stans from some of the pro mech guys. They insisted their payment had to be something unusual and it had to be there the next day. Then they said in unison, "And it can't be a painted rock!" So, we stopped and picked up some water guns and a sports illustrated swimsuit edition, which both went over very well with the guys the next day.


The next morning the Lindners lined up and were ready to race. My parents and Shey's mom and dad came out to watch. They found a great tree to sit under just past the start line. It was windy, but not too hot.

Shey, me and his dad, Glenn.

Jansen on the start.

Jansen had a great start, had a 30 second lead in the single track and was feeling very strong when he flatted. (The sharp rocks all over the course warranted a different selection of tires, so we will hit the Kenda catalog in preparation for the course next year. Kenda has a huge selection of tires for every course and now that we know what we are up against, we can choose wisely.) He did his best to fix the flat, but the sharp rocks in the area finished his race. Bummer. Shey stopped to see what had happened and he was pretty bummed that Jansen was out.

Shey at the start.

He started waaaay too far back and had to do a lot of passing through riders who weren't riding the technical sections, well.

Love this tall grass.

Shey on the course. It's hard to write-up a race when there is a mechanical, as we rarely have dnfs in this family and we all get pretty bummed when we aren't able to finish a race.

Jansen still trying to figure out how to correct his situation and finish the race after riding in to the pit area on a flat, with CO2 used up.

After the race and after the guys wandered around mumbling about rocks, flats and passing, we headed into town for hamburgers and a chance to visit with our parents. Next, it was back to the house to get a good night's sleep.

The next day, Shey shipped off the bikes, then we headed into Austin to Mellow Johnny's bike shop.

Shey doing his thing.

They really liked the black box with a motor that lifts this bike up by cables! Ooooh, would be good for the shop AND the house!

The shop also had a little cafe that served snacks and coffee. I got us a Nutella milkshake to share and it was AWESOME!!!!!!

We hit Taco Cabana one more time before heading home. Yummy!!

I wish I had raced and I wish the guys had had better luck, but we are excited to head back there next year and kick it GA style! It was really nice to see all of our family together at one race.

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