Memorial day Weekend ride reports, please

[Seramount]

Originally Posted by Seramount

gotta get going 'early' tomorrow if I want to ride...more rain storms forecast for mid-day.

like it when a plan comes together...got out for another 36 miles this morning and as I turned down the street to my house, it started to rain...

perfect timing.

[crownjewelwl]

christian - what time were you out? i was on the bridge in the am the other day

how do you get your daughter on the tandem???

[scho74]

first time on a strider. walked for now, but she'll get it soon!

[bcroslin]

After years of talking about it we resurrected the holiday training ride here in St Pete. We rode from downtown St Petersburg over the bay to Davis Island near downtown Tampa and back. Great ride with good people. Happy Memorial Day.

[velotel]

Originally Posted by BumbleBeeDave

. . . in the Adirondacks, doing the Mohawk Hudson Cycling Club's "Alternate Plan B" ride for 64.5 miles. Lots of beautiful sunshine, stunning scenery, and mostly empty roads. Then driving around to do some photography afterward. You can see a map of the ride at: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/7969783

BBD

Cool, you're still here! Nice to see you photos again, to see how it's supposed to be done.

[OtayBW]

Got a 50, 70, and 50 in this weekend - just around here locally. Nice time...

[gomango]

My son has been out and about on his Della Santa this last week.

Just returned today from a trip to the Canadian border to go fishing at our cabin.

I ran the bike over to the shop and ran it through the wash.

Doesn't look half bad at this point.

FWIW He's taking this on our trip around Lake Superior this summer.

[IMG]DSCN6669 by gomango1849, on Flickr[/IMG]

I'm taking my Bilenky if I get the new front wheel built in time.

[IMG]IMG_2274 by gomango1849, on Flickr[/IMG]

[oldpotatoe]

But a really nice 3 hours or so with my buddy. Boulder to Lyons, the Fruit Loops, Hygiene for a cafe, then back. Cool, calm, great. Gotta get outta Boulder on Bolder Boulder day... Let the runners have it.

Geez, really love this thing...it's hailing right now, btw. Really like the Moots but Geez...

[spiderman]

Rebuilt the DW and it did not disappoint.
Was a real challenge to piece it back together
But used parts from each fixie I have ever built.
40 easy miles with my wife and another couple
Saturday and then some great miles with trubaby
The rest of the weekend.

[christian]

Mountain bike ride with kid 1 in the am.
Solo MTB ride in the late am.
And this after dinner...

[Peter B]

Rural ramble

[Dead Man]

STP training ride with a teammate up Larch Mountain... didn't take a single pic, but that's what happens on training rides, I guess

[christian]

Originally Posted by crownjewelwl

christian - what time were you out? i was on the bridge in the am the other day

how do you get your daughter on the tandem???

I think you were out earlier than us. We rolled out around 11 and returned around 1:30.

As far as the tandem, she climbs up by herself - I rotate the pedals (by hand) to 12 and 6, she puts her left foot in the cage, grabs the bars and seat, and swings herself up. Then she snugs up her toe straps and tucks them in. Then - and this is the best part - she rotates the left pedal around to 11 so I get a good start. Good little stoker!

Today I ordered pink Fizik bar tape for me and pink ESI grips for her. Her bike, so her decision. I'm not suuuuperstoked.

[texbike]

A series of bad iPhone pics from the weekend -

1. Our "Matty" after an 11 mile, muddy ride (his longest yet!).
2. Daughter and friend on a hike at the greenbelt near our house.
3. Son playing in the water on our hike on the greenbelt.
4. A 3 foot Rat Snake seen on a rainy ride (I helped it across the road and it climbed up a tree!).
5. Mom and baby deer in our yard.
6. Live music out on the Lake during a break from the storms last night.
7. Our backyard turning into the Everglades after 4 inches of rain this afternoon.
8-10. Crazy clouds at sunset to top off our crazy weather today.

Good times!

Texbike

[benb]

Semi disappointing long weekend for me.

I did get in one family ride towing my son in his burley trailer Monday.. only about 12 miles but we were out several hours stopping at a playground, parade, etc..

I wasted a bunch of time friday and saturday trying to make the canti brakes on my All City Space Horse stop worth a dime (particularly the front brake). I finally gave in and ordered some Tektro CX9 Mini-Vs. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can still use my big tires & fenders with them. The cantis had gotten so bad I hurt my fingers on my left hand braking hard on a ride in the middle of the week last week.

The other flip side is my son (2 and a half) got his first bike with training wheels.. so there were like 5 rides where he was riding and I was running/walking after him trying to keep him on the sidewalk. That was fun. He's had a balance bike for a long time, his balance is nowhere near good enough to start riding without training wheels but unfortunately he's totally lost interest in riding the balance bike. I hope it doesn't set him back as he is WAY enthusiastic about bikes already. We go out with him and he rides about 1/2-1 mile on the sidewalk already, stopping along the way to make mischief and cause trouble.