well im going to start on the snow days that we had. i realy wanted to ride my mullet but it was left at school the last day before the snow days and i wanted to get it but the school was all locked up and i couldnt get it. i did have my old bd response but it has rim brakes and it didnt work too well in the snow. all i did during my snow days was sit at home and hunt a little bit. last fri when we rode late for lunch backwards. it was realy fun and im glad that we didnt go on the powerlines because it had like four inches of mud on it. i rode it the day beofre and it was terrible and i could barely move. yesterday (monday 3-5) we did three laps around the big triangle in 2-1. i was a little late because i was helping ben kendall with his broken chain that he broke on our friday ride in the mud. after we did all that we all had a flat tire by magic and we had to take off our tire, flatten it, remove the tube, show you and then put it back in. after that we had to fill it back up and but out tire back on. i had a realy hard time because i couldnt get my tire off with my hands and i had to get your tools to do it. then once i got it back on my front brakes were loced up and i was very mad because it was very hardt o ride up to the saddle. after i got up to the saddle i came back down and tried to fix my brakes and i did but my front hub is ruined and the berrings and shot. and also i have a click in my bottom bracket. this is all makeing me mad because it is a new bike only 1.5 months old and it shouldnt of done this. i am takeing this back the the shop on friday after school and im makeing them give me a new front hub and lube my bottom bracket. and hopefullt its all better. if it brakes again soon im makeing them give me my money back or at least most of it and im going to get a different bike. so when we ride on wednesday im probly going to have to ride a loaner bike. also today i read to page 57 on "its not about the bike" and it was talking about lance when he was young and winning a lot of his races but he was stupid and inexoperienced.