Quick report from Cirque '08...
food, bikes, riding, more bikes, food, some more riding, bike trails through along canopied tree-lined trails, deer, bunnies, wild flowers, more bikes, more food, Motobecane city bike, bbq, auction - bought Campy Rally derailleur and Vito bottle, more riding, old towns, big trees, old stone walls, more bunnies, heat, more bikes, shopping for a frame builder, banquet, missing linens, Charles A. talking to himself, more bikes, more riding, heat, bikes, heat, shopping for parts, more shopping for frame builder, heat, much more heat, more riding, crab cakes, more bikes, Vietnamese food.
I came with $7000 in my pocket, hoping to take home a new bike, but sadly I'm returning to Ohio with $6870 still left, and an unoccupied space on the bike rack. It feels kinda like the day I learned there is no Santa Claus.
Still, maybe next year....
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio.