Saturday Ride/Sunday Ride
Ok here is the final plan: Saturday the 16th, Mtn ride @ 2pm, @ the church on seminary ave, Loch Raven in Baltimore. Under 15 miles.
Sunday, meet @ Cory’s house, around 8am. We’ll leave around 9. 60 miles or so. Bring fat tires if you have em, dont sweat it too much if you dont. Bring lunch, plenty of water. Nick is providing donuts and I am bringing potato pancakes, which we’ll fry up about halfway through the ride. I hear we might need lights, so bring em. Its supposed to be in the 50s, but not in the morning, so dress right. The pace will vary, but will never be fast. No one but the slowest of the slow will feel…slow (me). Anyone who has stuff they want to cook up for lunch, or who has a case of beer or something, that they want to consume halfway through the ride, you can drop it off at Cory’s blue recycling bin before 8pm, saturday nite, and we’ll run it up to the halfway house, as it were. Cory is @ 18 west 6th street, frederick MD. Ride your bike there so you dont feel bad about drinking adult beverages afterward. Email me @ jamesjohnsonart(at)yahoo(dot)com for details.
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I am rolling 4 deep on Sunday. Good dudes and lugged riders all.
Will bring Dunkin’ Donuts and a phat spliff.
i’m gunna bring the potato cakes, a stove and a frying pan for mid ride grubbins. sounds like its gunna be a good ride: at least 10 people. that means only 4 show up right? does everyone have some sort of light? at least a tail light? according to cory, there are a few places to get water.
it’s kinda gonna be unnecessary to carry a stove since we can probably steal one from erin aylor or my sister mid ride when we ride past their houses? i sure as hell ain’t bringin’ nothing but food and a bit of water. Hell, there’s a bar on the ride. and casey you may actually end up being the slowest one on the ride if you load the steamer trunk up too much.
are we looking at the rad big cat ramble logo for the spoke cards? or are you making chanukkah patches?
i just got a new part for my steamer trunk, so i have to kick it. Also: i dont care if i am the slowest. I usually am. I wont be the slowest offroad. Those dirt-a-fearin’ DC kids will. Are you gunna make and deliver those potato pancakes to your sisters/erin’s house? Or are we gunna do that saturday noche? Also: beer?
Spoke card wise: I’m gunna make the Puegot cards, starmer already made the elephant cards, with the wrong date, so both will be given out in the spirit of the season.
I’m trying to figure out how to carry all I need to make some mulled cider mid-way through the ride. So far I’m up to a surly flask of Capt. Morgan…. If someone else will have a stove, that would be cool.
Cory, was that you at the planning commission meeting Monday night? I heard the name and a 6th street address but didn’t put it together until later. You should’ve hung around for the bike route agenda item.
John, right?
Yeah, it was me. I wanted to stay, but it ran later than expected and I had to get back to studying for some big professional exam I have this week. How did it go?
Oh, and the cider sounds lovely.
The route idea had pretty positive reception. Bill Smith has a recap: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/FrederickPedalers/message/730
For the ride, still figuring how much cider to bring and how to carry it.
Cheers
I second the cider idea. John: do you have anyone else signed up? I’m making spoke cards today, and the pancakes, so I need a rough count.
a note to anyone wanting to lug a bunch of stuff onto the ride, but doesn’t feel like hanging two gallons of cider on the ends of their handlebars through singletrack and up steep gravelly climbs.
Anyone can drop off stuff at my house before 8pm on Saturday. (there is a empty recycling bin next to my door at 18 W 6th street.) I will drop it off at either the 25 mile mark where it will be outside (in a cooler if req’d) or at the 36 mile half way point secure at my sister of friend’s house and refrigerated if needed.
I’m ridin’ 23s on this bitch singletrack or no.
yo man, i’m riding 200psi 180 TPI 18mm wide tufo track tubulars with silk sidewalls, to avoid pinchflats and woo the ladies. I hear they also like cranks that snap when they are scored by rocks, handlebars with oversized clamp areas to needlessly improve stiffness, and saddles made of two carbon fiber airmail envelopes glued to two hydrogen filled ti-carbon rails. Also: handlebar tape is too heavy. I just spray my bars with 3M adhesive so they arnt slippery. Also: I’ll be testing out the new ax lightness brake set. Sub 100 grams for front and rear brakes wasnt light enough, so they are asking me to test the new “spezielleklammerfunktion-sehrfedergewichi-bremsvorrictung, which is to say the new “non-functioning very lightweight braking unit mechanism”, which consists of my shoe (carbon sole (soul?) of course) being placed on the tire when I need to slow down, (ie at the end of a long stage, after victory is assured and the finish line attained).
Had a blast yesterday! Great to finally meet you guys.
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