Today's Ride
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Today-Thursday-Charlie Kelly and I rode to San Rafael, about 5 miles, so I could pay a bill. We came home via the Water District, up past Phoenix Lake to 5 corners, then back down to Deer Park and Fairfax. It felt like fall this morning, with frost on some of the cars in the street's windows and a high today of 62 F. and sunny...
Today-Thursday-Charlie Kelly and I rode to San Rafael, about 5 miles, so I could pay a bill. We came home via the Water District, up past Phoenix Lake to 5 corners, then back down to Deer Park and Fairfax. It felt like fall this morning, with frost on some of the cars in the street's windows and a high today of 62 F. and sunny...
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Today-Friday- It's starting to feel like Fall around here finally- 55 F. when we started the ride and about 61 expected this afternoon, plus two days of rain upcoming over the weekend. We need the rain, so I'll be glad for it. Have you noticed how long the shadows are getting? The sun is laying over pretty far this time of the year. We rode to Tamarancho today, a good climb up when you keep a good tempo...
Today-Friday- It's starting to feel like Fall around here finally- 55 F. when we started the ride and about 61 expected this afternoon, plus two days of rain upcoming over the weekend. We need the rain, so I'll be glad for it. Have you noticed how long the shadows are getting? The sun is laying over pretty far this time of the year. We rode to Tamarancho today, a good climb up when you keep a good tempo...
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so today i was asked to go to a yha in castleton to pre inspect it before taking a bus full of teenagers, and for lunch.........
i went riding, would have stayed longer but i had to collect sprog from school and its a 1-2 hour drive traffic pending
lunch in the van
freshly built bike to ride, wonder if it'll stay this clean......
the views, when i dared to stop and take some, tight time frame
mmmmm getting muddy
back to the van just in time for my aim of 1.30
and no, it didnt stay clean for long, but nowt went wrong, posts a little low but worked and rode ace!!!
so today i was asked to go to a yha in castleton to pre inspect it before taking a bus full of teenagers, and for lunch.........
i went riding, would have stayed longer but i had to collect sprog from school and its a 1-2 hour drive traffic pending
lunch in the van
freshly built bike to ride, wonder if it'll stay this clean......
the views, when i dared to stop and take some, tight time frame
mmmmm getting muddy
back to the van just in time for my aim of 1.30
and no, it didnt stay clean for long, but nowt went wrong, posts a little low but worked and rode ace!!!
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FairfaxPat
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Today-Thursday, Thanksgiving Day Holiday- I rode the annual Appetite Seminar with Warren and Charlie Kelly and at least 500 other riders. The climb up to the ridge at 1500' was brutal the way we went-plus it was so muddy on the last third of the climb we were pushing all the way. Once at the ridge top at about 1500' there is Pine Mtn. Truck road (fire road) to ride along the ridge, but since it is flat, it collects rain water and was, in places, a long muddy trough. We were riding and walking through the bushes along side of the deepest places. After hanging at the Triangle, the place where the last downhill starts, we rode down to the party downtown at the Museum parking lot. There was free beer until it ran out, and lots of old friends to visit with. A really fun day...
Today-Thursday, Thanksgiving Day Holiday- I rode the annual Appetite Seminar with Warren and Charlie Kelly and at least 500 other riders. The climb up to the ridge at 1500' was brutal the way we went-plus it was so muddy on the last third of the climb we were pushing all the way. Once at the ridge top at about 1500' there is Pine Mtn. Truck road (fire road) to ride along the ridge, but since it is flat, it collects rain water and was, in places, a long muddy trough. We were riding and walking through the bushes along side of the deepest places. After hanging at the Triangle, the place where the last downhill starts, we rode down to the party downtown at the Museum parking lot. There was free beer until it ran out, and lots of old friends to visit with. A really fun day...
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A few of my own photos from the Thanksgiving Day "Appetite Seminar" ride. Count was somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 riders. Sunny skies but deep mud that would have been the envy of any UK rider. As usual, beer ran out just as I arrived at the finish party at the Marin Museum of Bicycling.
For 21 years Josh Orlando (left) has run the Pine Mountain Turkey Day Cafe, pouring coffee laced with a little hair of the dog. He'll make you pancakes of you need them.
The Turkey Boyz decorated for the occasion.
Mud. We have it. Especially after 7 cm of rain in the previous week and a few hundred riders.
Marin Museum of Bicycling is a perfect finish party.
It got a little muddy.
When you have Scot Nicol and "Ibis Maximus" in the same place, you get a photo.
Here, BTW, is the poster I had made to promote this ride in 1982.
For 21 years Josh Orlando (left) has run the Pine Mountain Turkey Day Cafe, pouring coffee laced with a little hair of the dog. He'll make you pancakes of you need them.
The Turkey Boyz decorated for the occasion.
Mud. We have it. Especially after 7 cm of rain in the previous week and a few hundred riders.
Marin Museum of Bicycling is a perfect finish party.
It got a little muddy.
When you have Scot Nicol and "Ibis Maximus" in the same place, you get a photo.
Here, BTW, is the poster I had made to promote this ride in 1982.
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