pdxcross

Knowledge comes in chunks big and small. Understanding is more difficult to achieve.

SSCXWC08. I learned that this is not the name of a printer cartridge. It stands for Single Speed Cyclo Cross World Championships 2008. Learning what SSCXWC08 means is knowledge. Thank you.

Understanding what SSCXWC08 means can only be achieved by going through one. Seriously.

And by going through one, I don’t mean just passing through the wall of foam. The wall of foam, you ask?

This wall of foam is much more difficult to explain, and to understand. Our pictures will help. Look at them. And please, say thank you to the kind and slightly absurd folks at Yakima for creating the wall. Not the wall in China. That’s different altogether, I’m almost certain.

If you now understand SSCXWC08 and haven’t looked at the pictures and weren’t there, you have a higher IQ than us.

Thanks for stopping by.

- Mike

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the smoke from the bombs planted inside the giant windmill on the hill filled my lungs and i nearly fainted. an intense drumming seemed to come from within my body. clanging from cowbells and cheers surrounded me adding confusion to my disoriented stumbling. blurred figures were coming toward me carrying wheeled metal objects. they stopped to hurriedly drink fluids. some wore clothes, some did not. some wore mud. all wore bubbles.

i moved to a clearing where the smoked lifted and i remembered, “oh yeah, i’m at the singlespeed cyclocross world championships. sweet.”

-Tim