The Alien got me

I was showing Kelly my best cyclo-cross "jump back on the bike" technique Sunday afternoon when my U.S.E. Alien seatpost suddenly and somewhat painfully had a catastrophic failure. Hard to explain in words how the saddle broke off and I found myself nearly skewered by the Alien head. Luckily at the end of the event I only had a small laceration on my... well... I'm not really comfortable talking about that.

Before Failure















After Failure (Try sitting on this!)