Peter Dy's Page

over the 4th of july weekend, i met with my brothers, jon and kyle, at mohican state park and rode 12 out of the 24 mile loop on friday. i felt good out of the gate and hustled up the first mile climb and cruised with jon until mile 11 where he dropped me to catch nick. i then stopped to record some video of the descent on my iphone 3gs. not too bad quality considering... it handled the varying light and rough terrain pretty well. i taped the back with blue painter's tabe moun… Continue

this past weekend i raced my second race of the OMBC season (round #4 in the calendar) at The Wilds just outside of the nature conservatory for which it's named. it's about 1.5 hrs east of columbus where we crashed at my brothers' the night before. we cut it a little close and almost didn't make the start time. i basically arrived, registered, assembled the bike, changed, and got to the line about 5 mins before the gun. no warm up. no stretch. not the best way… Continue

as i was prepping my bike for this year race season, i noticed on a brief ride that something wasn't right with my lefty terralogic. it sank under my body weight and slowly extended on rebound. not normal... i sent it to mendon cyclesmith for a complete overhaul (o-ring renewal, oil change, bearing care). mendon is the go-to-guy when it comes to… Continue

my first race of '09 was at vultures knob this weekend and things went much better than expected.

the knob is a gnarly course with tricky, rocky descents and some killer leg burning climbs. i'm racing novice this season (since it's been 3 yrs since i rode competitively) which meant that we only did 1 lap plus a prologue and totalled about 7 mi. the entire novice class included over 40 riders, 14 of which were in my age division.

over the winter i didn't touch a bike rather i focused more on we… Continue