january ride proposal
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Ride Update! Jan 26, 10 am, at the Sugarloaf/Foot o’ the mtn stonghold parking lot place. I’ve made a revised and more accurate map, that still shows the mileage to be sub 50, and the climbing to be negligible. I have added what appear to be more dirt roads, more roads without real names, and more instructions like turn at the pond with island and the big tree. it’ll be like a scavenger hunt, with the prize being ‘getting home before its dark’. we’ll have lunch somewhere, so pack one, and toe warmers, and noggin protectors, and all that, if its going to be cold. it appears the ferry charge is MAX 4 dollars. I bet its less, for bikers.
Car pool people, if’ns ya can.
ok, we havnt had a really long ride in over 2 months. obviously, we are all even more out of shape than we were before we ate that kilo of fudge, 2.1 gallons of nog, and 36 new years toasts.
i have a ride proposal for either next weekend or two weekends after that. a ride from sugar loaf into VA and back, 50 miles, less than 2300 ft of climbing. thats nothing. thats like walking to the mail box. thats like playing cards with your grandmother. thats like chef bouyarde’s tomato sauce.
here’s the link: look at that ride profile. its like the current housing market. its like pat boone singing tutti fruiti. its like vanilla pudding with a plastic spoon.
ok, so how about it? it’ll be fun. you get to ride a boat. you get to go to VA. you get to ride on dirt roads. ditch the kids! ditch the husband! ditch your coke habit so you can pay for the gas!
holla back if your interested and shit and shit. i vote for the last weekend in jan. pick a date. we’ll have lunch. we’ll have dinner. we’ll have flats, broken frames, and cold fingers! we’ll have a half century of rolling hills. we’ll smell cow shit. we’ll look like dip shits. we’ll ford a stream. maybe. i cant really remember where that stream crossing is.
shit i gotta go: i’m on reserve battery power, yo!
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I haven’t broken a bike in like, six months. I’m interested.
word. thats one maybe. rob? starmer? gary? mark? i think of those only starmer actually reads this shit. and he just has a secretary take cliffs notes.
Mr. Starmer would like to inform you that he is planning on attending. He would prefer the last weekend in January as well.
Don’t mess with my secretary:
nice. whats her WPM like?
i vote last weekend, on the 26th. then i propose a jambalaya on the following sunday in b-more. i reckon i’ll have to email gary and ect.
john, do you have the postive/negative 411 on the proposed route? if not, i can get someone to maybe predrive it.
I’m totally down for this, sounds like another great ride. I vote nobody pre-drives this route….all it’ll do is have a negative effect and keep us from riding it.
I say we blindly follow Johnson into the wilds.
I love the elevation spike at mile 29 that looks like vertical death and is only 300 feet. HA.
Someone should totally ride that treadmill bike on this.
Anyone check the proposed weather for this day?
RobQ
roads that lead to grass fields are part of the adventure of riding. i’m guessing there isnt an accurate guestimate of weather for that day, but if its anything like today, it’ll be awesome!