Potential Mesa CX Series

"Trails suck unless they are wide enough for a cross race."

This is the kind of attitude that keeps Americans from being competitive in the Euro-CX scene. Man up son! Maybe the beer and frites is a better route for you because the racing is just too hard. In my CX racing career (4 races) I have adopted a new rule to live by; WWSND?

What Would Sven Nys Do?

Belgium knee warmers-check. Super Euro haircut- check. Deep dish carbon wheels-check. Super hot girlfriend-check. Quitting a race because his hands got too cold...

On another note, Mesa (me especially) is a little bummed at the level Big Shark domination that has been taking place in the races. I mean, Derek Loudermilks mustache isn't even euro! It might be acceptable at Sturgis but c'mon! When Josh Johnson and Nate return to town after chasing UCI points they are able to race the Bubba courses on 23 mm tires! Harre seemed to be the Euro egg, rolling into races in the bling bling Audi, hard techno bumpin. But then he helped Derek out in a couple races- which knocked his Belgian hard man status back down significantly. Sven would have screwed his teammate for the W.

Murphy was so overwhelmed by the Shark attack he downgraded to the B's only to have to deal with the Biggest Shark in the pond, hopefully his new haircut helps. Ogilvie seemed to have been convinced that Dereks tough guy non-euro look was the answer and shaved himself a handlebar 'stache. Matt James has declared that the Big Shark long sleeve skinsuits are too rad to even try to compete against and told his sponsors that he isn't going to win until he has one. I have admitted defeat, realizing that Jerry Rice was wrong; looking good doesn't make you play better and keep praying that the next race is going to be at Berryman and 6 hours long. Giovani Fondolini hasn't even been showing up to races, too upset to show his face after legally changing his name and not having considered "Dieter Housenstraeten," which would have rolled off the tongue nicely in the Belgian cross race announcers voice in his dreams.

Which brings me to my final point. The Mesa Sven Nys Invitational series is going to be all the Euro it can be with hard races, beer and Sven Nys himself. That is, if he accepts the invitation we sent him. We offered him $100 bucks to show up (no travel expenses included.) We also offered him some beer , as long as he was willing to bring it, we would reimburse him as it's too expensive and hard to find here. Mesa figures that if all else fails in our attempts to knock the Sharks off the podium, Sven Nys is the answer. Keep your ear to the grindstone for more details, we just sent the e-mail last night (the only part of this post that is serious).