Top 10 Best and Worst for 2008 (According to The Bonebell)

Here we are kiddies – the Top 10 Best and Worst for 2008 – all dirt baggin’ related. This is all in good fun and not meant in any other way but pure entertainment and reflective value over this past year. We’ve enjoyed the year greatly – and if you happen to land in the best or worst list – at the very least we noticed something to laugh about (again in a good way!). Be well – celebrate safely tonite and Happy New Year! (P.S. we’re riding a New Year’s Day ride (CX friendly) out by Waterfall Glen tomorrow morning at 10AM).

Top 10 Best
10. Stiggity realizing that his online name doesn’t match what was knitted on his son’s sweater – its two g’s – like Tigger.
9. The word dirtbag first being perceived as ‘negative’ to roadies when they first heard it from Stiggity, sweet!
8. MTB teams actually put faces to the names – at least most of ‘em (Hey you’re that guinness rider I ran into at 3 Ravines, and raced at WORS against, and raced at Rock Cut with, and had apple pie with your sister!?)
7. The time that Nevada Dave went on a training ride for 40 miles, and followed it up with a 60 mile cooldown not going below 21mph – on knobbies – into the wind – to Gary, IN and back.
6. El Maya realizing that buying things for your kids is about as cool as buying things for yourself – especially – when its bike related.
5. Meeting the Dirt Rag crew at 24/9 and learning that we all have the same love of the dirt indeed.
4. Nevada Dave placing 9th at 24/9 in the National Championship Solo Category.
3. Stiggity hiring a coach and finding out that the ‘fitness deuce test’ might actually have a benefit – or not – but he never let go of Taco Bell.
2. Stiggity coming in 2nd place at the Chicago Cyclocross Cup Championship Race!
1. Nevada Dave coming in 1st at the Chicago Cyclocross Cup Championship Race after blabbing all season long, he’s not serious about cyclocross after endurance events.

Top 10 Worst
10. The oddest fun ride of the year where out of 10 dirtbaggers, 5 crashed, 1 serious 3rd nipple inducing injury, 3 flats, and several mechanicals were had – in the name of fun at Palos.
9. El Maya making his first appearance Expert category race in a WORS series and DNFing.
8. Stiggity making his first appearance Expert category race in a WORS series and DNFing.
7. Team Pegasus’ uniforms!! Or is it the Sprockets uniforms??
6. Giving Stiggity his shoe buckle back that El Maya broke off his shoe – over year ago.
5. Finding out that all of the Killjoy riders really ‘are’ nice people.
4. Taking a swig of a beer handup – and then handing it ‘back’ all frothy and spit up on to the Half Acre Crew (Sorry!).
3. El Maya’s red Surly (Jerry) gets stolen off of his back porch.
2. Stiggity actually rides a real cross country race wheelset …. on his freeride bike.
1. Riding behind a knobby tire on the bridle paths at Palos – it ain’t all mud.