Today was the annual MMBA Expo, for the first time held at the posh Lansing Center.  Posh is relative of course, in prior years the Expo was held in an unheated barn, so it wasn’t tough to make an upgrade.  The Expo is basically a series of speakers, a silent auction of donated items, a swap meet for used parts, a bunch of organizations with information booths, and awards for both the top trail work volunteers of the year and the CPS race award winners. Ten Mile Media posts some pix if you want to know what it all looks like. Bonus points if you can spot Eric and I.

Personally I don’t get all that excited about the Expo.  I like riding my bike, but I’m not into “the scene” and socializing with bike shop workers and such.  If I hadn’t won an award in my class I surely would not have gone.  I am a little cheesed off as well at the awards this year.  In every past year the award was actually a pretty sweet looking little trophy with a statue of a mountain biker on it.  This year it was a cheap little plastic chainring.  Seriously!  I know its just a silly little award for an amateur race series but I drove over 2 hours to pick this thing up.  Not to mention I paid a fee for the series, and by their own admission this was the highest participation year yet.  So why cheap out on it now?  Just my luck I gues. Judge for yourself, I think you will agree.

Current trophy:

Old, awesome trophy: