Birkie Fat Tire Bike Race Wrap

Jeff Hall and Buzzy LaMere at the Birkie Fat Bike Race in Cable, Wisconsin. They were both racing LAMERE Fat e-Bikes, full suspension, carbon fiber custom built bikes.

Shea making final adjustment on Jeff’s bike

Jeff Hall

Buzzy LaMere, owner of LAMERE Cycles

Jeff Hall, Buzzy LaMere and yours truly , MJ Hall

Fat Bike Birkie / 2025 / LAMERE E-Fatbike

 

Images from my Minnesota 7 Day Remote Winter Camping Trip / Four Wheel Camper / Part 3

 

Mountain Bike Flashback to 1992 & Yesterday

1992, I was racing every week. This particular race was at the Buck Hill venue. The day was extremely hot and humid. I remember hydrating and staying indoors in the the cool townhouse I was living in. Keeping my body cool and waiting as long as I could till I did my warmup ride. It was a good game plan because I finished top 10, I believe 6th place overall. 

Made the cover of the Metro Section of the newspaper... 

At the time Jeff Hall was out in Colorado racing with Scott Hebel in the Colorado Mountain Bike Races. I traveled the following week to meet up with Jeff and Scott. We were members of the Diamond Back Racing Team. I met them in Winter Park, Colorado. At 9700 feet high in the Rocky Mountains, it was a crash course in racing and living at high altitude. Heck of an adventure. 

I returned to the Minnesota River Bottoms this week. Took a break after the Montana adventure. I have been recovering and organizing my gear. Preparing for the season change to colder weather. 

Good to get out on an evening mountain bike ride into the dark of night.

Ride on!
 

Minnesota Mountain Bike Race Weekend at Maplelag Resort /2021

In 1991 my son Jeff, age 15 on the 2nd place podium and Jay Richards, on the 1st place podium step. Battled a muddy “Chequamegon / Short and Fat” race course to start a relationship with Mountain Biking that has spanned 30 years.

Fast forward to 2021 and Jeff Hall is 45 years old and Jay Richards is the race promoter at his resort in Callaway, Minnesota... this is good stuff!

The start of the 18 mile Elite Men’s cross country race. 

Jeff and Brendan battling it out early in the Elite Cross Country Mountain Bike Race.

Brendan would finish 1st and Jeff finished 3rd.

Little Donnie, Jeff’s son, had a good weekend camping, riding his mountain bike, playing catch with the football and the never ending supply of cookies at the lodge.

Jeff Hall, he finished 3rd in the cross country race.

Jeff, Brendan Moore and Jay Richards.

Ride on!
 

Winter Storm @ Midnight

 

Winter Camp 2

Blizzard in Minnesota / Fat Biking & Hiking

Into the Mild December Night / Add Grocery Stop