Just in time for your return to school, or in John’s case, your month of awkwardly chilling waiting to start your Oxford experience: a cycling video that will blow your mind and hopefully inspire you to get out and ride when you’re back (disclaimer: DO NOT try this at home, ever. That goes double for me, since apparently I can’t ride a bike these days without injuring myself, and triple for Lumby just because he’s Lumby.) I remember mentioning this video to Erik once but never got around to sharing it with anyone. These guys do just about the sickest things I’ve ever seen anyone do on a bike.

The video is about San Francisco bike couriers. Who all ride fixies. In San Francisco. Think about that. I can barely ride a fixie in Williamstown. No joke, the way they brake is by skidding. You’ll see what I mean. Their insane handling skills are almost rivaled by their sometimes appalling stupidity, which makes for a very entertaining 54 minutes of film. It’s formatted a little like a ski video, although clearly what these guys can do on bikes is much more badass than what most people can do on skis. Good music, great cinematography, unbelievable bike handling, and some beautiful views of San Fran. Download it here.

Keep in mind it’s quite a large file so you’ll want to either wait till you’re back on campus or set aside a couple hours at home to download it. But it’s well worth the 600MB and the hour you’ll spend glued to your computer screen.

Collect your shiny new video on my WSO site:
http://wso.williams.edu/~inesbitt/MASH.zip
If you find yourself unable to play it, download VLC media player.

You won’t regret it.

I am writing to let you know that a) Myrtle Beach is awesome and b) we are beginning a site update that will make you famous. That’s right, we’re starting Cyclist Bio Pages. To get an idea of what we’re thinking of, go to our roster, then click on my name, Ian Nesbitt. (Erik should update the roster at some point today). Read up, and then send your ideas to me at imn2 at williams dot edu so that I can create you a page as well. In the process, I can outfit you with a username and password so that you too can edit your own page.

Erik, John, and I are getting ready to leave on a Spring Break Adventure that will take us to the golden shores of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a week. With weather like this in Williamstown, there’s been some speculation on how nice it will be down south. (Well, our speculations were not unfounded, it was 77ºF and sunny on the beach today.) Epic blog posts are scheduled to appear in the next week or two…

The team hopes to keep you closely attuned to our endeavors this season. The website has not gotten a lot of use in the past year since JJ created it, however if we keep having such raging successes as we had this weekend we will waste all good opportunities to showcase our talents!

One downside at the moment is that picture uploads do not work, and we are working as quickly as we can to fix that. (we can still link to flickr, as you can see above.) Please subscribe and become a fan on Facebook!

Highlights: A team résumé, of sorts.

Schedule: All our upcoming events.

Results: Check back after a race for links to Williams’ results!

The Team: Pix and biographies of the team. E-mail imn2 at williams dot edu or jja1 at williams dot edu if you want to be on the page or edit your information.

Rides: A list of local bike rides, organized by mileage.

Evidence: Pictures, video, and whatever other records we have of our seasons.