The Hawley Blog

For those who don’t know, Hawley lost its service center guru Ian Foyster to an act of senseless violence earlier this week. The tragedy of the circumstances is perhaps only eclipsed by its surreality and suddenness. It’s hard to put into words the collective feeling all of us felt when Steve broke the bad news. [...]

The Blog has been knee deep in various Knog lights that will be gracing our 2010 catalog today so that means a simple reminder for those of you in town tomorrow evening looking for a relaxed, Halloween themed ride: Also, here is a nugget of BMX/Star Wars mash-up glory from my boy Jose Texidor…

(Backstage at last week’s concert. I pulled the lever but nothing cycling related occurred)Halloween is just around the corner and that means it’s time for TNT to broadcast “Halloween IV” and a seriously edited version of “Tremors II” (The director’s cut has an 18 minute long Michael Gross beard trimming scene) for approximately 4 days [...]

From 60 years ago, sucka! This was way back when your typical cross course was littered with land mines, unexploded V-1 rockets, men in suits smoking cigarettes and women offering their firstborn to the racer who had stolen their hearts (and their change purses on the first set of barriers). It was a simpler time [...]

Joshie’s Ibis sporting the new pink IRDsThis past Sunday, Hawlers Joshie, The Blog and Will G threw our hats into the Augusta cyclocross ring. For The Blog, it was the maiden cross voyage. For Will, it was a chance at CX3 redemption after a messy showing in Greenville. For Joshie, it was an opportunity to [...]

(“We need moneeeeey”)That’s right folks! America’s favorite musical festival, after a deserved ten year hiatus is coming back in 2010. Just when you thought the summer music festival couldn’t get any better… BOOM! A big fat Lilith bomb goes off and decimates the rock and roll landscape. Bruce McCarthy, original Lilith Fair attendee and Hawley [...]

“Toddler Launching” is the second fastest growing sport in the lower 48. You need one parent, one spawn and a whole lot of wrist snap. I snagged this photo from a website devoted to child tossing with a smattering of cyclocross images. It’s insane the height some of those kids are getting. EXTREME!!! Last night’s [...]

Even Lord Terak was so impressed with the pure gnar that he paused his flank on the hillside of Paris Mountain to watch a flurry of clean runs and clean decapitations at the second annual DH event. The course was muddy and the blood ran thick. The opposing Ewoks who inhabit this area took the [...]

Sorry about the lack of a post today, but Julie and Joshie got The Blog “all worked up” about the impending tsunami of swine flu that is preparing to engulf our hapless burg. I have been calling local banks asking them about rental rates for walk-in safes, etc until this horrible pestilence goes back to [...]

Ahoy hoy cro-mags and jobless beatniks. Another Monday is here and that means it’s time to “give the drummer some”. In this case, the “drummer” is actually the pugnacious Rachel Kuuuh-uh-can’t remember how to spell her last name of our beloved Palmetto Cycling Coalition! Anyhoo, Rachel sent me a link to the Leadville 100 movie, [...]