Bad timing and good times

Let's leave out the fact that Dirt Rag did a little feature about worthy blogs on Tuesday and on Wednesday these new readers who clicked the link to Bad Idea Racing were treated to my poorly executed blackout.

Traffic comes and then it goes on to greener yards. Screw 'em, the fickle bastards. Steve Tilford can have them.

I've got bigger news....

Flashback to October 2011.

Project BS begins, and I test ride a By:Stickel. Not only was I in love with the bike, I had a manly crush on its Ardent front tire.

Now, a good tire on a front squish bike is not always a great tire on a rigid bike. I've ventured away from my tried and true front tire in the past and been disappointed, but once more I stepped into the void. I called George at Bike29, he had an Ardent 2.4 in stock, and he shipped it out toot sweet. It took me awhile to find the happy place pressure-wise, but after a few rides, I decided that I had found my new favorite front tire.

Now Mike Piazza (Bad Idea Racing manager, coach, attorney, directeur sportif, Dicky handler), being the good listener that he is, remembered that I am already a big fan of the MAXXIS Crossmark, Ikon, and Ignitor. He rapaciously decided he would step over the head of Admiral Ackbar (Sponsor Liaison and Equipment Acquisitions Director ) and contact MAXXIS regarding sponsorship for 2012, thinking that any money that we could save might be put towards the purchase of a Bad Idea Racing mini-cannon.



He told me about all this after he had all the paperwork taken care of and assured me it would be great for everybody (the sponsorship and the mini-cannon). So imagine my excitement when he called me some time back in December to tell me that something from MAXXIS showed up from the postman. I came home to this:

Which contained this:

Great, just what I needed, another sticker sponsor. I considered my options...



No, that would be the easy way out. I decided to wait awhile and see if something better panned out.

And on Wednesday, it did.

Tires.

Not just tires. My favorite kind of tires from MAXXIS, a company here in the Southeast US, so it's pretty cool. I'll be riding MAXXIS this year, and I have to admit that after years of mixing and matching, I'll be riding two tires, front and rear, that match and everything.

Aesthetically pleasing,

and I have stickers.

I am happy about all of this, but I did tell Mike Piazza to please go through the proper channels next time, or else I might have to take some kind of justifiable appropriate action. Remember what happened the last time someone tried to think outside the box around here?