Paintball pictures are up for all you pesky a-holes! :)
Pictures.It was a fun weekend and thanks to everyone for coming up!
It was my birthday as some of you may know and I decided that I should finally put down the cash on a road bike. I got the
Trek 2100. It is a fast little sucker and pretty light too. I just am still getting comfortable riding it. I ordered up my new shoes for the bike, Sidi Genius 5's, bought a new helmet, Giro Monza, and picked up some new Pearl Izumi gloves. All the stuff is super comfortable. I added on one of the Banjo Brothers bags to the back and it holds my wallet, phone, and the Crank Bros Multi-17 tool in there nicely. Anne forced me to take this picture, I don't like my picture taken. :) But that is the new bike.
Thanks to everyone who sent cards and gave me presents or took me out for drinks or lunch, it was a good birthday. Anne gave me a sweet picture of the Stone Arch Bridge, I love it.
I took the speed demon out for a ride Saturday AM, I did a little over 40 miles and it felt pretty good. The wind sucked and I got a little lost down by Valley Fair but the ride was good. I hope to find a group to ride with, I might have to hook up with
TCBC for some rides because riding on the road alone isn't as fun as riding the MTB alone. Plus I like to BS when I ride and 40+ miles just talking to my self is creepy.
Thanks to Freewheel Bike for helping me out with my bike purchase, that is more than I can say for Penn Cycle in Eagan and the one in Bloomington. Neither one wanted to really help me find a bike and it took more than 20 minutes for someone to ask if I needed help in Bloomington and no one ever offered to help me in Eagan after waiting 25 mins. There was no one else there!
Distance:Weekend: 67.00km (41.63mi)
June: 77.25km (48.00mi)
Year to date: 663.31km (412.16mi)
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3 Comments:
I've started to dislike going to Penn Cycle in Eagan - they can't even remember who the heck I am when I come in two weekends in a row with wheel problems (that they couldn't catch the first time). I need a new bike store.
If you're a member of TCBC, you're actually insured by extra insurance while riding - pretty nice deal. Couple hundred rides a month not including ad hoc web rides. If you like a younger crowd, you might want to stick to A/B rides though - the B and lower ride group tends (not exclusively, just tends) to be a bit more middle aged.
Thanks Scooter! I am pretty sure I am going to join up in the near future. Gotta support the local bike clubs! Have you been on many of the rides?
I have been happy with Freewheel but it is kind of a haul from Eagan/Bloomington. It is right off the light rail line(Cedar Riverside).
I wanna know how Penn got voted best bike shop in America when the service is so lacking...
I used to live in the Cedar Riverside building facing Freewheel - went there all the time, my roommate obsessively so (he once went biking drunk on the U of MN bike bridge and ran into the doors).
I've been on many of the TCBC rides, though I tend to do the B's and not the A/Bs as I use my seminobby fat tires for exercise and you can find a number of 40-50 mile B rides, which is about what I'm up to w/o cutting into family time. My own pesonal pet peeves are not enough of them start in Dakota County (though they're always looking for more leaders), but roll through her from St. Paul instead, and they don't start early enough for my taste - I prefer 7:00 a.m. rides on the weekend. Of course, if you like to hammer (and this doesn't mean keeping up with professional racers - there are a variety of groups on every ride), the 6:00 p.m. rides, usually 25-35 miles, tend to be best as people are trying to get in their ride before twilight - and as the year goes on, they get faster as people get stronger and have less time before dark.
I also have to say that weekend-long rides are excellent. They have Weekend on Wheels and a few other weekend rides that do 50-100 miles a day, sometimes up and down the river banks (this year in Menomonie), and they get you to some place new.
If you go to their site (should be first site back if you throw TCBC into Google), they have a ride list that's open to the public, and you can get a pretty good idea of what the options are.
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