6/1/2011 19miles

-Don't ever confuse the two. :-D
On this ride I rode the Spirit lake/Okoboji trail system, which was a disaster but it was a cool looking disaster.Just to show I was in Iowa in case you all were wondering, from here on out location, cycling edicate, traffic laws, the laws of nature no longer exist. I mean why have a bike trail when you can have a private entrance to your all inclusive golf community, enclave?

Yeah I finally got some sun.

This ymca has a skatepark. \m/

Soon after this ride shot the problems started as a detour and turns to nowhere sent Me gallavanting across parking lots, parks, & highways. Not to mention the traffic, which there was a fair amount which is probably what messed it up the most for Me, it was like I never left. Also a great deal of the trail markers were spray painted arrows on the ground, if you ended up on a bike route you're f*****.(not literally)

Oh yeah there were some stats: 1:34 12 Avg 19miles 31.5max

5/25/2011 41miles

Some of us drive sports cars, some of drive truck for a living, and some of us ride bicycles a long ass ways. I decided to do a tough day of cycling, the wind was howling and I had to change My outer layer 3 times. Eventually I just lost the leg warmers.


I didn't see to much weird dumped stuff; a pregnancy test, the main wiring of a car, and lots and lots of beer cans.
This is the hartford park(no I don't know the real name, it looks pretty wet) I did quite a bit of hanging out here in My lifetime sense the skatepark had a no helmet rule. Athough I didn't really skateboard.

Giro d' Italia

These Contador stage wins are getting out of hand.

I hope he burns himself out before the TDF

5/21/2011 16miles

This was idiot driver day.
And I wasn't much for hills. :(
Stats: 1:31 10 avg 20 max

5/17/2011 23miles

Another bike trail run some college girls got kind of flirty, but then some construction workers on kiawanis said I looked like a girl. Aches and pains kept Me from riding none to hard.

Stats: Avg 11.4 Time 1:51 max 21.5

Unfriendly clouds

From Tuesdays weather system.

First group ride

I rode about five blocks with the local cycling club f.a.b. in honor of this dude, I think his name was James. I'm kind of an idiot whatever, anyways Micheal C. who led the ride is a nice guy. The ride went ok not good or bad, most of it I was concentrating on riding on someones wheel. And I got in a group with two dudes that got dropped off the back, pretty lame yada yada yada. I was in the group for a few blocks, the flashing light from all the light kits(because this was at 8:30 at night) will definitely stick with Me.
After that it was a lot of standing around I didn't know the prayer "vigil" started at 9:30 standing in cycling shoes sucks. I was one of three people in My twenties, for Me this is just a hobby I believe I showed enough conventions. I held this ladies hand I think she was his sister and I told her I was sorry, this whole riding bikes for someone who got killed riding a bike I don't know how I feel on it. I had to kind of look at it like deep down she might kind of hate this right now.
I guess I used this as an excuse to check out the group ride atmosphere, kind of dumb of Me. To be truthful I can't even really afford it right now.

Ghost bike

I barely heard about the last bike accident this was weird, I rode down this block a week ago twice here. http://tonybikes.blogspot.com/2011/05/532011-41miles.html Also all the times I've almost gotten hit recently riding and brushed it off these near misses, as I call them. I was thinking about taking a picture of the ghost bike but I decided it wasn't something I wanted to shoot, _even I can't turn this into a joke. I guess the group ride is probably on for Me, I guess this gave Me the push I needed and as someone put it "-the ride of silence takes on a whole new meaning now." I decided to play home sweet home someone with children too, ok I'll shut up.

In other news I broke a pedal again and had to replace that.

Patching FAIL

I got a flat on My subpar cruiser oddly enough on a ride to donate money. One of those freak flats from a roofing staple, I didn't have My phone so yes I had to do some walking. I never did get the money donated either, one hole was a round pin hole which I used a glueless patch on, the other was a diagonal tear I used a glue on kit. I guess I could mention the tire was fine but unfortunately My patching failed(I've been thinking maybe I should've got rubber cement{*For tire patching, shoe repair, and other industrial applications}) and leaked at the middle, maybe I could have cut the glueless patch and made it work, oh well.
The main difficulty was from the tire being 700 x 45c which when I looked before has been pretty hard to find. However I was able to get a couple fairly easy so the troubles of that ended.

*Wikipedia

5/3/2011 41miles

F****** f****** f****** I rode a circuit today of our bike trail, or part of it.







These are the pre-ride caleries I crammed, the second sandwich I ate half way through the ride. It wasn't very nice out but I did get to try My new cycling gloves the second half of the ride, the wind was strong but sparse. I had to do a pretty long skid to avoid getting smoked by a caddilac who thought he owned the road, so I did have a 'near miss."
Here's a self portrait from My phone sense I no longer have a picture of Myself in this blog.

Not bad from a phone.

James Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zseTKnNMmK4

Strait mackin' with no hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrxvOswXfY

Update

I've noticed that posting has fallen off, even though the weather has only marginally improved. On that subject I'm pretty steamed at My picasa image hosting which at first seemed to handle My upgrade well, but now My blog broke bad. So I've got a whole lot of useless images from the last couple years that aren't being used for anything. Or take a whole lot of time to fix every picture in here, and I'm tempted just to start from scratch but then again I still have text.

As far as riding go's I've as usual pulled in some stray miles I don't feel like counting, on My subpar bike.

Which is rather clunky but sence I got a brand new bike stolen at jazzfest,(one year) I'm ultra
paranoid of bike thieves. None the less I paid a visit to leaders park
and did some poking around, it's definitely goat country. Twards the end of My last mountain biking career I was having to take My pulse alot, so I don't know if I'll ever be riding it. I found some tracks of what I thought was a badger, and after some deliberation ended up being a bobcat.
A little about My goals; quite a few of them for this summer flew out the window, like the bike camping. Probably the group rides too, I'm still enjoying riding at My slow pace to keep My weight under control though. I found this page from a rocker Bobby Berge, that played on a couple records of a Sioux City rocker by the name of Tommy Bolin. http://www.reverbnation.com/bobbyberge I'm not exactly raving about this music though.