Mountain Bike Stars

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Back in the 1990's and early 2000's, the Colorado chapter of the American Red Cross held a two-day mountain bike festival, called the Fat Tire Classic, in Winter Park. One year, five of us, Team Freak members all, had finished with the trails and had ridden back down into the valley (fun fact: there are 600 miles of trails in the Frazier Valley.) We were taking a break when the event photographer drove up and asked if he could take a photo of us, which he did. We asked him to take one with our disposable camera, which he did, only with his thumb in the picture. The thumb of a professional photog, of all things. Anyway, the official photo turned out so well that they used it for the next year's brochure. Team Freak had made the brochure! I still have a copy somewhere, but I also have it stored on Facebook. That is the photo up there. I am the one second to the right. Our pose was cheesy, but I guess that's what they wanted, because there we are, inside, right next to the registration page. We figured world domination was next, but that still hasn't panned out.