It's finally cross season - with 1 week left in the season

The second On the Cross race is all ready to go. We set the course earlier today, Friday, and it has some great new singletrack and a nice loop around the lake, only a short section of road and a nice triple barrier section that will test everyone's ability. The only thing that Big Tom was waiting on were the port o lets. Let's hope that those show up or we have some serious issues.

With the snow falling at a good clip at Frites HQ, tomorrow will be more like cross weather than any other race we have had since last year's state championships in Lyons.

Dash, Brian and I have decided to double up tomorrow. We are going to race the usual BDDL race and then toe the line in the SS race. This should be lot's of fun, just go easy on us old guys. Big Tom thought that he had a podium spot lined up since there were only 2 people pre-registered but I will not fight him for that. He had his "win" taken away from him last week in Golden so it might be Tom's day.

Break out all the clothing that you have, it is going to be cold in the morning. But the fun quotient is going to be very high. Bring the mud wheels, the pit bucket and your favorite Belgium brew and enjoy the day.

See everyone in the morning

Redneck Paparazzi

A couple weeks ago, I took a day off of work so that I could help set up the ICCC CX course. So, instead of heading to work at 7am, I was heading down to the local coffee shop. It was a normal fall morning here in Colorado. Temps in the low 30's deg F, and clear skies. As I was driving down a narrow residential street in South, Denver this.......er...... "thing on two wheels" we'll call it.... passed across the street about 1/2 block in front of me. It was one of those moments where you say to yourself..."NFW!!! I did not just see that!" Naturally, I did the responsible thing. I stomped on the gas of my beat-up pickup in order to try and get a closer look. Now, these events usually end with one getting close enough to find out that what you thought you saw was not nearly as strange as your first fleeting glimpse imagined it to be. And then, there are those rare moments, like this day, when the closer you get.... be better it gets.



I pulled up behind a guy riding one of the early vintage Univega mountain bikes on his morning commute. But what was truly ingenious was his full-on, custom made, cycling cockpit. My man had taken some clear plastic sheeting and used some sort of treatment to make a complete body faring! The thing hung down about 3 inches over his handlebars, giving him complete protection up front, and then continued up over his head and all the way back until it stopped just above his seat. The fact that he even shaped it to where it fit his head and backpack made it all the more impressive.



I am not sure if I only thought it or actually said it.... but the words "Holy shit! I HAVE GOT to take a picture of this!" went through my mind. I grabbed for the camera equipped blackberry.



You know when you are riding along and some asshole just keeps following you on your bike and won't come around? Well...yeah.... I was that asshole. I was panicking like I just stepped into a clearing in the forest, saw Bigfoot, and was trying to get a picture before my yeti friend slips back into the woods. I kept fat-fingering the unlock code on my blackberry. After about 4 or 5 attempts, I finally got the sequence right. With one hand on the steering wheel, I aimed through my dirty windshield, tried to look through the camera lens and see if I was even pointing in the right direction and took a picture. I figured that by now, my man had to be getting either really pissed, or kinda scared that I wouldn't pass. So, I decided to finally go around him. But, the urge overcame me and I had to try to take just one more picture as I was going by. The result......I nearly side-swiped a parked car on the other side of the street. I jerked the wheel just in time not to crash and simultaneously took a picture of the roof of my truck.

For the next 5 minutes I went completely redneck paparazzi. I drove thru the narrow streets in my truck trying to guess where the rolling tarp would come by. The end result was primarily some scared locals. Before someone responsible called the cops on my possessed ass, I called off the hunt and headed to the coffee shop.

Below are the only two pics I got where said victim of my momentary obsession was in the camera frame.



The poor quality of the pic that a blackberry takes only added to the whole Weekly World News "I saw an alien" feel about this experience.





Believe it or not... this is what my man looked like coming at you!

Race All Week So You Can Eat All You Want

For those who live in the Denver, Colorado area, there will be a series of self-run CX races each day next week. The scheule is as follows:


Colorado Turkey Cross Series

Monday - Roxborough
Directions: C470 to Santa Fe - South to Titan. Titan turns into Rampart Range Road. About a quarter mile past the Loaf and Jug on the west is the park. Park near the tennis courts.

Tuesday - (GP Betz) Belleview Park
Directions: - Santa Fe to Bellevue, turn East on Bellevue and turn into the Pirates Cove Parking lot. Meet at the east end of the parking lot for Pirates Cove

Wednesday - (GP Haulman) Bear Valley Park
Directions: Meet at Mojo Wheels parking lot at 9:45 to ride to Bear Valley Park. Mojos is located at 285 and Sheridan.

Thursday - Bear Creek Lake
Directions: C-470 and Morrison Road. We will meet at Pelican Point Picnic area.

Friday - Chatfield State Park
Directions: C-470 and Wadsworth - Meet at Gravel Ponds. This will be the same course for 2nd round of the Colorado Veldrijden Crusade that goes off on the next day.

All events start at 10am and go as long as people want. Show up to as many as you wish. If you have questions.... email Big Tom at coloradoiccc@hotmail.com

Looking for a new ride

I know that it is almost the end of the year, but I really want a new ride. My Empella has been great but the love for her is just not there any longer. I got her back in 2001 and the first race was Nationals in Napa. Then she sat in the rafters for about 3 years since I could not race becuase of ankle issues. But over the past 2+ years, it has been thrashed and trashed almost every weekend from Sept. through Dec.

So these are the two rides that I have come up with:

Now the cross bike is made by Pedal Force and they are having a group by on it. If they can get 140 people to sign up, then the price goes down to 530 dollars. The frame weighs in at a scant 2.5 lbs. They have a couple of different fork options also. Max speed on this one will be around 50kms an hour. This bike looks an just like the Leopard CX1 that Parbo is racing this year. Except that they want almost 800 dollars more. Pedal Force has done other group buys for thier mtb/road frames and they seem to get some great reviews over at here.

But the Humvee Corbra, the above edition is setup for the Turkish Army. It does not get great mileage but people will pull over to the left as you go by them. It weighs in at a scant 8 tons. This one has options galore. Camo paint, Add on Armour, Amphibious kit, Night and Day vision periscopes and gunner protection kit. Problem is, nobody can get me a price on this one. I dont think that they will be having a group buy either. Top speed on this one is 115kms per hour.

There are a couple of other bikes that have me interested. The Origin8 Foxtrot seems really nice. An aluminum/carbon bike with a full carbon fork for around 800 bucks. The fork itself is supposed to be lighter than the Ritchey WCS cross fork.

The Salsa Chili Con Crosso has also peeked my interest. A scandium frame that weighs less than 3 lbs and it comes with an Alpha Q cross fork. Living in CO, I see them each week. They are ridden by the Clif Bar kids and they come screamming by me, putting me a lap down at each race so maybe that is what I need.

I know that I could just get a Redline, Kona, Ridley or whatever else is on the market, But everyone has one of those.

If anyone out there has ridden any of these bikes, please let me know. I am already stashing new cross parts for next year. I am hiding stuff all over the house like a squirell hides his nuts all over my backyard.

Tribulus terrestris

Latin name = Tribulus Terrestris
AKA Goat-Heads
AKA Puncture Vine

When I was a kid growing up on the ranch in SE Colorado, we called them road tacks.

The latin name Tribulus means Coltrop. Yeah.... this Coltrop



On many CX courses in Colorado, Plants like this....

Have seeds like this.....

Which lead to tires looking like this....

The Wiki pages yields the following insight:

A week after each flower blooms, it is followed by a fruit that easily falls apart into four or five single-seeded nutlets.

Yup... that's right.... I got my ass kicked by a plants nutlets.

nice.

Taking one for the team

So Sunday came and the weather was looking great. High's in the mid 60's is a great day for cross anywhere.

After picking up Dash at his casa, we headed out on the most expensive toll road in NA and headed East towards kiddie prison. The last time that I was this for east, I was already close to the Kansas border. We get out to the course and low and behold the entire course is already set up and people are riding. This has been a big issue this year with such early start times. Big props to the Schwab guys for having it all ready to go. I hope others will take notice and follow suit.

Brian and Scott were already kitted up and ready to go. After looking over the course, I was luke warm to it. It had 2 big hills and this kid is still fat and out of shape. So I hymed and hawed over what to do. Brian came back from his reco lap and I could tell on his face that this was going to be hard for him and he is in shape. Scott came back and needed to change tires since he was riding on grass tires and he already had a flat. The day was not looking good.

So I went back to the car and put my skirt on for the day and decieded to take one for the team. I would do hand up's, shoot some video and be pit boy for the real hard men that were racing. I find a nice place that I could do hand ups and get back to the pits in a quick second. The race starts and goes uphill fast. First lap in and Brian might be having an issue. He yell's at me that he has a rear flat. I get him his back up stead and he is back in the game. I change out wheels and he is back on the Kona. But only for a short time. He makes it around the east side of the course and is flat again and ends up finishing his race on the mtb.

Dash was going strong and looking good. I guess being "in between jobs" gives you time to train and ride alot. He was killing it in the top 10 or so. The guy that won the race was really killing it and rode away from everyone. Dash was sure to be top 15 but a late race flat and Brian stopping and helping him in the pits netted a 16th place finish. At the end of the day, Dash was 16th with Scott coming in 21st and Brian 26th.

Not a bad day for the Fry boys all in all. I did a couple of others flat changes for guys in the BDDL. No reason not to help out my fellow racers.

This weekend I will get to double up for the first time in almost a full year. The course down at the Springs is a great. Sunday's race will be new for me. I know the course but have never raced it before.

Son, there's a race going on…….. and you ain’t in it.

Today’s race was out in the prairie of Watkins, CO. On the drive out, I entertained the wife by pointing out where a couple of these are. Earlier in the year, I got the opportunity to learn where all the local ones are (you actually can look it up on the web) and I got to go down in one a couple of times. They were only used for a couple of years before being de-commissioned. And you thought today’s gov’t wasted money....

Having heard reports of how rough this course was from individuals who had ridden an earlier race out in the land of Laura Ingalls, I packed up everything I had. The Kona, spare wheels, and just for sport, the 29’er mountain bike (some of the reports bordered in horror stories). Now, about the 29’er…… let’s just say that I did not go all weight weenie when I built it. I focused more on affordability and durability when I was collecting parts. The damn thing must tip the scales at well over 25 lbs. I figured that if the course was really as rough as some were saying, there might be a chance that it would be faster to ride this hard-tail beast. A quick ride of the course proved that this was not the case. Truthfully, I did not think today’s course was that bad. One problem…… the goat-heads were out in full force. So…. I figured that since I went through the effort to bring the 29’er, I might as well throw it in the pits along with my spare wheels just in case things got out of hand in the battle with the goat-heads. I got in a decent warm-up and all seemed well at the start whistle.

One quarter into lap one and I could feel that the rear was soft. Before long, the rear was a dead soldier. Rich decided to forego racing today, but was on hand to cheer and give hand-ups. I dumped the Kona in the two-sided pit and asked Rich if he would be so kind as to replace that flat tire with one that had less of an inflation issue. OK….. it did not really go like that. I was completely gassed from trying to hold my position with the flat. I croaked out something like……"RICH!!! Rear!!!!", dropped the Kona, stumbled over, and grabbed the Mountain Bike. The pit was right before a triple barrier so rather than ride 30 feet and then dismount; I shouldered the black behemoth and ran the barriers. When I tried to set it down to remount, my arm got stuck. In spite of its size and weight, the 29er, with a sloping top tube, has a much smaller center triangle than the Kona. Being the gazelle-like creature that I am, I bent over at the waist to get the 29’er to the ground so that I could get the weight off of my arm and thus rescue it from the jaws of this beast. So…. anyone ever try and run along side a bike with your arm through the center triangle? You know that happens? You fricken crack your face right across the headset, that’s what happens!!! I didn’t Sven Nys myself, but it was hard enough to see stars.

OK…. By now you guys are probably saying something like “Dude, quit your whining about how heavy your 29’er is and ride already!!!” Well, you want to see how heavy my mountain bike is!?!?!?!?! It is this Fricken Heavy!!!



To my surprise, I got back to the pit and only gave up a couple of spots. Rich had the Kona ready to go. I gave the 29’er a serious ghost ride as I dumped it on a full run. I grabbed the Kona from Rich and started trying to make up for lost time. Less than a lap later, when I was about as far away from the pit as you could get, the new rear was low. The battle with the goat-heads was seriously starting to kick my ass. By the time I made it back to the pit, the new rear was long since dead....right along with my thoughts of a decent finish. I did the only thing I could do. I picked up the 29’er, apologized to it profusely for treating it poorly and got back to riding. Since I paid the $25 to be there, I might as well suffer. I quickly figured out that I could peg my heart-rate on the 29’er and still get passed. So I backed off a bit, rode hard tempo and figured that 2 flats in the first 10 minutes of a race was bike racing’s way of telling me that today was just going to be a training day. I said to myself…"Son, there's a race going on….. and you ain’t in it."

And now…. Some Pictures and comments

Dash Riprock was the class of the FMVC today

My day soon devolved into doing stunts like buzzing the camera lady.

There for a while, I tried to challenge myself by

lifting the 29'er over barriers by the seat.

Simon Burney would have my ass for sure for doing this.

It's much faster when you do it correctly

Scotty B. came out to represent.

Scott says the key to his success is

max hang-time off of the barriers.

Dash with his patented move.

The Elephant Water Fountain

"AKA The Horton Spew"

(click on the picture for the full effect)

New technology is always fun to play with

On Friday last week, I was at work and someone asked me about Flip Video. Now being a desktop admin, everyone thinks that we should know everything about every piece of software, every new gadget that comes out and should know how to fix thier home machine when it craps out becuase their teenager has downloaded a virus. For Jr, he should get a shot but the machine can be fixed with Nortons or McAfee.

But this Flip Video thing sounded kind of cool. So I went back and did an internet search and found some really cool things about it. So I headed over to the big box store and picked up one. Seemed kind of cool to take quick movies of my son and when we go out to the park to play and hang out.

So after the race on Saturday, I went back to the car, changed, grabbed a beer and the Flip Video camera. Went back over and decieded to just try it out and see what it can do. I taped a couple of things and played them back...seemed cool. The biggest question was - can I get this to stay on the handlebar or helmet and record a race?

I then ran into Chris from CO Springs and his buddy was getting ready to start his second ever cross race. Chris and I had been duking it out since last year and it was great to see him again this year and he has his own crew racing week in and week out. So as the Cat 4's take off, what better time than to test the camera out in real action mode.

So his buddy is the one standing up and looking at his bike with the disgusted look on his face. Somehow, the guy walking away in the Red Rocks kit got his leg caught up between the wheel and the chainstay. I have no idea how that would even happen. Below is the aftermath of the wreck and him trying to work on his bike. I would not recommend this to anyone, but he appears to be a trained professional

This totally sucks but what are you going to do? Technology sucks......better, stronger and faster is not always great for cross. But it did put the Six Million Dollar Man back together.

No racing this Saturday....but Sunday at the kiddie prison with mtb in tow.

See ya then

SSCXWC08 Pics

I found some pictures from the Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships that were held up in Portland this last weekend. Head on over to the PDXCross page and check them out. While you are there, take the time to look at all the other pics. I find myself going through each slide deck several times. Each time, I find some details that I had missed before. I wonder things like "How in the heck did he get that shot?" and "The angle on this one is perfect, how did they think to go there to take that picture?" All the time I am asking myself these questions, I am filled with a tinge of jealousy towards the whole Portland CX scene.


So..... I got a question for ya.....Would Colorado CX racers ever stand for a wall of suds?

Hurts So Good

After six weeks off, it was sure nice to be back racing. I noticed that it’s the little things you miss. The elevated endorphin levels after a race. The laughs you have with the guy who you just spent 45 minutes fighting for position with.....when you point out the chunk of hide missing on your leg…….because you left it somewhere on his cassette on the remount off that last barrier section. The cool way the phlegm hits the back of you teeth as you have another fit of exercise induced coughing (A.K.A Cross Cough) due to spending 45 minutes at 90 – 95% of your max heart rate. Yup, good times.

This weekend was the first of two races in the On the Cross series put on by ICCC, our Frites en Mayo squad, and some group of skinny little guys. This race was also CX State Championships for the juniors, so it was really good to have Slipstream on board and have Vaughters and the boys maintain their continued support of the Colorado juniors scene.

The course was designed by Tom and Galen from ICCC. Tom put all the elements in this course that a big man likes to see: #1 – minimal elevation gain; #2 – tight single-track to keep things interesting; #3 – some open road that rewards power, while not heavily penalizing size; and #4 – no elevation gain.... or did I mention that already? Galen provided some sanity and safety to the 2.2 mile course, such as adding an S-turn before the quad barriers so that racers would not be at top speed when they hit the barriers and possibly clip one (read Mr. Keller’s personal account of doing this). We set up the course on Friday afternoon. The biggest decision of the day came with regards to fencing off a particular turn in the single track section. If you missed this turn and went wide by more than about 2 feet, your natural course would take you right off a 10 foot drop into the river. Tom and I were of the opinion that the water in the river would lessen the impact......so what was the big deal. However, we were definitely in the minority. After setup, Tom asked me what I thought of the course. I had to be honest. Six weeks ago, I would have loved it. It was creative. It was engaging. And it was going to be hard. However, the last time I tried to turn my CX bike at speed, the result was a 2nd degree shoulder separation. So, I had to admit to him that the turns on this course had me more than a bit nervous about the prospect of a re-enactment of said “fall down and go boom” event.

I woke up at 1:36am on Saturday and was soon sweating through the sheets thinking about how I was going to get through that single-track at speed. I rode the course on Friday a couple of times slowly while setting up (had stakes, hammer, etc. in my hands) so I knew the true serpentine nature of that part of the course. A left-hander, followed immediately by a right hander, backed up by another left hander, then right, then LEFT, THEN RIGHT, THEN LEFT, GAAAAAWWWWDDDDD MAKE IT STOP!!!! PLEASE!!!!! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!!!!!! In an effort not to pee myself, I tried to think about other things. I tried to calm myself with …. “OK, fat-boy, let's see if we can figure out why you only have this problem on your CX bike and none of your others.” This, in turn, led me to thinking more about why the Kona handles like it does. I am beginning to really dislike this bike. But, let’s be honest, is it really the bike?. Point #1. This is the same frame that Treefarm uses and he is faster than a striped-ass ape on the thing. So, it is probably not the frame geometry. So…. What could it be? Think! Or, as Pooh would say “Think, Think, Think, Think, Think!” An hour or so later, I am applying some of the engineering principals I learned in my sophomore year in college and comparing that with some sage advice a friend got from CX frame builder extraordinaire Joe D. concerning this affliction I have.

A little background on the Kona. The Kona, in spite of being the largest CX frame I could find without going custom, is a couple centimeters smaller my road bike. In an effort to keep the same fit as I have on my road bike, I had to use a stem long enough to make a Shetland pony proud. The final conclusion at 3:15am is that with the long stem, I have too much weight on the front end. That settled, I tried to get back to sleep. At 5:45am, I couldn’t take it anymore. I was up and in the garage. I yanked the stem off the mountain bike which was the only one I had in the length I was looking for and bolted it on to the Kona. I know, I know… never ever mess with your bike on race day. But, I am telling you people, I am starting too really, really not like this bike.

During warm-ups, the Kona seemed better. But, said affliction has never occurred during warm-ups. It waits till you are going full-tilt boogie in a race before it would remind me it was there. Damn, I hate this bike. If the change in stems was going to help the issue any, I was about to find out real soon.

A couple quick things that I noted while on the start line. 1) No Taugimba. Mike, get well soon, we are all looking forward to you healing up and returning. 2) Some of the call-ups were AWOL. Kinda interesting considering that this was a BCR/BCT race. I have heard rumors that some of the top 35+ Cat 4 guys in points are starting to enter other Cats so they don’t have to Cat up before States. All I can say is...if this is truly the case, that must be some special kind of jacket they give out for winning States.....wonder why I've never seen anybody wear it.... 3) Rich was in the back after a last minute decision to join in on the fun. This year has totally sucked ass for him and it is great just to see him back out.

I got a 2nd row start spot. Not because of anything I have done in past races. I solely got it because it is our race and Tom gave me the hook-up with a low number. This allowed me to be one of the first to queue up after anyone with some resemblance of talent. I hear Rich shout out “This fat kid is heading to the back!” and hear two guys reply “We are here with ya!” You just gotta love the CX vibe.

TWEEEET the whistle goes and we were off. Half way through lap one I am settled in to somewhere around the 20th slot. We rip down through the paved part of the course with the sweeper turns and drop onto the single-track. Then……. here she comes…… the first hard turn on the single-track. It is a left hander that suddenly looks almost exactly like the turn I ate it on up in Frisco six short weeks ago. Just before I enter the turn, I remember one last time what a local pro had told me about regaining the mental edge after crashing. OK, OK, I can’t remember his exact words anymore, but they are along the lines of….. “If all you think about is crashing, you are going to crash. Instead, ride like you are never going to crash.”

I stomp down hard on the right pedal, look where I want to exit the turn and lean hard to the left…… and then it happened……. Holy Shit!!!! It turned! The fricken Kona turned! Screw the whole “it” thing…. WE turned! The Kona and I are one. I LOVE THIS BIKE! Now, we didn’t “flow thru the turn”, nor did we “rail it” to use a couple of Mud and Cowbells sayings, but the Kona and I….. we fricken turned at speed and did not wash out the front end! Out-fricken-standing! Half way through lap one, I am considering the day a success. The rest of the race was pretty non-eventful… simply because I stayed upright while others didn’t. I got more and more comfortable as the race went on. I gave up a spot on the last lap that I could have done without. However, given that I was coming back after a six week layoff, I will take the top 20 placing.

In three weeks, we will host the 2nd On the Cross CX Race. It is back out on the same course......only Tom is thinking about running it in the opposite direction. Now that I know it can be done staying on two wheels, I am looking forward to it!



Some pics of the day

Dash Ripock and I.

Probably not visualizing a fast start.... more

likely just trying to make sure we are clipped in.

Rich and some of his posse...

Chillin' at the back.

Scotty B. heading through the single-track.

Dash gaining some extra hangtime by using the log to jump off.

Gasping for air and trying to turn left.

Rich rode his mtn bike all summer

so he was right a home on this course.

On the rivet at On the Cross race this weekend

Damn, I am still tired. After not doing any organized training for the past 11 months and JRA'ing everything, the idea of racing was not high on the list.

But since the ol' Frites team was helping put on the race this weekend, we got to race gratis. If it's free, it must be for me was the first thing that Dash and Brian said and "convinced" me to pin a number on and turn the pedals in anger.

Since we had to work before or after the race, I took the 7am registration gig. Damn, it is cold at 7am these days. There is reason number 1 not to race. And who decieded to change up the schedule this year for cross???.....this racing at 925am is crazy talk. I feel really sorry for the old guys, that are out there at 8am in the cold but at least picking up all the goatheads so I dont have to.

So I work until 9am and grab a number, change at the car and ride to the start area. That is the best warm up I am going to get. I line up at the back of the 65 strong pack and I already know that this is going to hurt. Both Dash and Brian get callups since they have been racing all year. I was going to decline mine but Al must have lost my name, thank god for that. He yells, "GO" and everyone takes off like fat sorerity chicks when they open up the all you can eat ice cream bar. Man, why does everyone take off so fast? I am just pedalling along and catch everyone at the right turn onto the singletrack. I am just JRA'ing and start to pass people. How does this happen? Who cares, just keep pedalling I tell myself.

When I start lap 2, I get into a rhythm through the singletrack and just let it hang out and start having fun again. I get to the road and catch some guy and start the draft and the whole race thing is coming back to me. I pass him through the barrier section and take the lead and now I can feel the heart rate start to creep up and move a little more forward on the saddle to keep the speed high. That lasted for about 30 seconds and then "POP", my day is done. Reason number 2 not to race...if you have not been training, racing sucks!!!

I have not done any speed work, any speed endurance work or any specific work on a bike for that matter. I go back to being a JRA'ing guy at the back of the pack. I finish the race and I would have to be DFL. I dont think that anyone would be behind me a the pace that I was riding at. I cross the line and feel a sense of joy that I have finished, not been lapped a did not break anything. Wait for the results and there are guys that finished behind me. I don't know how that happened. I have tried to finish last and cant do it. Maybe I did not try hard enough.

Maybe I will try harder next week.

I also want to throw out props to Michael Beck. He had to have surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his eye lid last week. Michael races for Crossniacs and I heard he is doing great and already working on next years program....Get well soon.

04 Nov 2008 - So.... I've Gotta A Question For Ya

I saw this bar-end setup the other day. I am always highly amused by the creative ways people can attach bar-ends. I have seen so many different styles that it got me to thinking that they should be named. So..... I've got a question for ya. What would you name this one?







My buddy Jon said this one should be called "The Ozzy" in honor of the Ozzy Osbourne "Devil Horns" salute. Expertly demonstrated below by some guy who thinks all the people in his district are rednecks.

As always, feel free to leave your answer to the question in the comments.