Off Road Fire

As many of you know, I make my own hot sauce - Off Road Fire Co.. I also buy various other hot sauces - both because I love hot sauce, and also because I like to compare store bought versions to my own. Currently, I have about 15 different kinds of sauce in the fridge. Today I bought a bottle of Dave's Gourmet Crazy Caribbean Hot Sauce. It's not bad... but Off Road Fire is better - at least I think so. Not in heat, mind you - but in flavor. ORF is not quite as hot, but it's very close actually - Dave makes some other sauces that are _way_ hotter. This is not too hot. But it's number one ingredient is carrots and those shine through a bit too much for my taste. They are used to temper and thicken the sauce. Note: see above... this sauce really grows on you.

Don't forget Chequamegon!

I say that because I just about did forget myself. The Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival, up in Hayward/Cable WI, is the nation's largest mass start mountain bike race. 1700 riders start on main street, downtown Hayward, and finish at Mt. Telemark ski resort in Cable. Much of the trails used are the same ones used by the American Birkebeiner (which my buddy Adam got third in this year!).
Anyway, my registration is going out in today's mail, and then it's up to the lottery faeries, which don't seem to like me all that much. Saturday is the last day for getting entries out, so go here to get the entry form.

UPDATE: 04-04-08 My check didn't clear.. not in once again. Damn lottery.