Memorial Ride Group get together Reports and pics

[BigSean]

Okay so Im too tired to write now, but hopefully some of the others will post reports and pics. It was great riding with all of you. What a great day, and congrats to Tracy for doing so well, Brian who did the ride in tennis shoes on flat pedal, and the others that took on a new challenge. Great ride by all.

[dauphin]

It was an outstanding ride, Sean....thanks for leading the group up those "tiny" hills...:rolleyes:

[briank]

Absolutely!! Thanks Sean and everyone.
It was great putting faces to names. I had the time of my life today with this new challenge of biking. Officially met a whole bunch of cool peeps I consider friends. Could not have completed this ride with out all your support and mental encouragement.
I am hecka sore, especially my 2 buns. Pulling up to my house after the ride in my truck, I opened the door, I almost fell out due to leg fatigue.. You guys sure know how to show a greenhorn a good time. I felt comfortable and in great company all day. Looking forward to future get togethers with you all.

Gracias!!

[merider1]

Pics!!!! Where are the Pics!!!!! I was so lonely today on my itty bitty ride. Sad, I tell ya...I missed you guys! :( :( :o :)

[dauphin]

It was cool meeting you briank...and now I am trying to remember who all the names go with....geez...it's a drag getting old....I do know that nesdog and I cursed that monster hill most of the way up together and marveled at andy hammering up the mountain on that fixie!

[dauphin]

Pics!!!! Where are the Pics!!!!! I was so lonely today on my itty bitty ride. Sad, I tell ya...I missed you guys! :( :( :o :)
several people were taking photos...including Ron as he said you would be highly perturbed if he did not...

[spingineer]

Here's my ride report.

There was a flurry of messages sent the night before the ride, only because the Park and Ride lot didn't really have an address, and looking up mapquest or google maps was just confusing. Gave everyone explicit step by step instructions, and everyone made it to the start (at least the ones who could make it).

There were a few no shows. ME, Asia, both had prior commitments, which made it difficult to complete the ride, and be able to meet those commitments. ME, Asia, you were both missed. Wished you could have made it on the ride.

One rider, who was not with our group, went and then came back. The main route on Arastradero was closed, and would not allow bicyclists even to get through. So immediately, we had to come up with an alternate route. We went down Page Mill, then over to Foothill, then up Alpine, adding another 5 miles to the trip.

We met SesameCrunch at the Texaco gas station on the route (on Portola and Alpine). We then proceeded to climb Old La Honda. It was great! The sun was just starting to break through, so it was time to take off the jackets, but I still left arm warmers on. Took a few pictures on the way up ... those will be upcoming later.

Most of us continued on the longer route, while a few went on the shorter route. Tracy (tprevost), Wayne (VMC), Brian (briank), and Alan (Sesamecrunch) went on the shorter, more direct route. The 7 or 8 faster riders went on ahead on Pescadero, while a few of us (me included), just tried to get into a rhythm, since we didn't have any draft to work off of. The wind wasn't too much of a factor, so that allowed me to maintain a fairly steady cadence.

We got to the Pescadero Bakery, and had some pastries, and just some light food. We didn't want to carry too much with us, as we would have to carry it up the 3 evil sisters on Stage Rd. The climate was overcast, but it wasn't too foggy. By the time we reached the peak on the second evil sister on Stage Rd, we could see the ocean, but since it was overcast, there was a whole lot to see.

We finally met up with the others who took the short route at San Gregorio General Store. They were waiting about an hour, so as you can tell, they were itching to go.

We continued on, finished the third evil sister, then climbed up Tunitas. It was just gorgeous riding through, passing through a redwood forest. 2/3rd the way to the top, the terrain started to level off a bit, and I got my second wind. I then shifted to my middle chain ring, and stayed there till reaching the top.

We then descended King's Mountain, and it was nice! Fast downhill, with some swithbacks and hairpin turns, but banked at enough of an angle that speed wasn't too much of an issue. By the time we got to the bottom, and regrouped by Tripp Rd, we could see all smiles on everyone's faces ... no wonder, we had dropped 2,000 feet in a very short horizontal distance.

We went back and tried to go through Arastradero, which was closed to us in the morning. We were able to go through. The problem was a downed power line, and we were able to squeeze our way through the road. This meant we had the whole road to ourselves (at least for a little while). From there it was back to the cars.

There were a few of noteables on this ride. First, special accolade to Brian (briank). He did the whole ride on a hybrid bike, with noticeably fatter tires, compact double, and on tennis shoes. Brian gets the silver chalace, the rider of the day award. To climb OLH and Tunitas on that, it is an accomplishment. Second, congrats to my co-worker John. He too did the ride on tennis shoes, plus a big fred-like bag mounted on top of his handlebars. You want to see Fred-ness ... he started the ride with a sweatshirt. Third, Andy ... wow, what a character. He did the entire ride on a fixie.

The long ride:
Distance: 68.44
Ride Time: 5:38
Altitude Gain: 6822 feet

Don't have the short ride stats. Perhaps VMC will be able to upload that.

[spingineer]

Pics!!!! Where are the Pics!!!!! I was so lonely today on my itty bitty ride. Sad, I tell ya...I missed you guys! :( :( :o :)
I'm working on it !!!

[SesameCrunch]

Nice to have met you all. Thanks to Sean for leading the ride.

Let's do this again on a monthly basis!

[backinthesaddle]

Hey gang, I promised to be the "old slow guy way behind" and I sure kept my promise! I won that competition. Next time (if there is one) I hope to ride with more of you in the group.

Good ride, thanks Sean for hanging back with me on Old La Honda, that was my first time up that road that I'd heard so much about.

Tunitas Creek was a real mashdown for me. Somewhere I read that it was a 6% grade. Well maybe on the average counting the first few fairly flat miles. Averages sure can lie.

I clocked about 72 miles. Don't know exactly how much because the battery on my Garmin died within a mile of the finish. Don't know why I clocked almost 4 more miles than Spingineer, don't think I made a wrong turn anywhere.

Very tired now, but not especially sore, and looking forward to some real lightweight riding tomorrow.

[spingineer]

Group Shot at Beginning of ride:
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UmneyDurak, riding the entire ride with a cast on his left wrist. That's hard core!
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Nesdog ... strong rider. Don't let him let you think otherwise.
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Alpine Rd.
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John Keen
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VMC
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tprevost ... so photogenic, even while on a ride
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[spingineer]

Regroup at Portola and Alpine, and meet up with SesameCrunch
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Awww ... what a cute couple ... tprevost and VMC
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Nesdog up ahead on Portola Rd.
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Old La Honda
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Sean helping Tracy up Old La Honda
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Regrouping at the top of Old La Honda at Skyline
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Hanging out in front of the Pescadero Bakery
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Stage Road
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[spingineer]

Interesting Statue
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San Gregorio General Store
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Tunitas Creek
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Andy relaxing after reaching the top of Tunitas Creek
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Brian rejoicing after reaching the top
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Regroup at top of Tunitas Creek
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[Frogger]

Thanks Sean for leading such a fun ride. Sorry, I had to leave early. I had a commitment to get back early. It was nice meeting all of you.

Frogger

[spingineer]

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Awww ... cute couple, without the helmets and lycra
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[UmneyDurak]

Hey.
Thanks for the great ride, it was fun.

[jobob]

Geeze, that looked fun, sorry I had to miss it! Some other time.

- Jo

[lok_hkcc]

Thanks guys! That was a really fun ride. And Andy definately deserves a dozen of beers for doing the whole thing on a fixie!

-Enoch

[BigSean]

Well I fell asleep early and woke up early.:rolleyes: Here is a motion based link.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/2841829

[BigSean]

Nice to have met you all. Thanks to Sean for leading the ride.

Let's do this again on a monthly basis!


Thanks for leading the group down to the store. Sorry we missed ya, but we will do it again.

[BigSean]

Hey gang, I promised to be the "old slow guy way behind" and I sure kept my promise! I won that competition. Next time (if there is one) I hope to ride with more of you in the group.

Good ride, thanks Sean for hanging back with me on Old La Honda, that was my first time up that road that I'd heard so much about.

Tunitas Creek was a real mashdown for me. Somewhere I read that it was a 6% grade. Well maybe on the average counting the first few fairly flat miles. Averages sure can lie.

I clocked about 72 miles. Don't know exactly how much because the battery on my Garmin died within a mile of the finish. Don't know why I clocked almost 4 more miles than Spingineer, don't think I made a wrong turn anywhere.

Very tired now, but not especially sore, and looking forward to some real lightweight riding tomorrow.


Glad to hear ya made it back. How was the ride up Tunitas creek?

[SesameCrunch]

I am in awe of guys like Backinthesaddle and Briank who are newbies and were not daunted by this difficult route. You guys hung in there and did a big ride! Hats off to you.

Another hats off to "fixie" Andy. Almost 70 miles and 7000 feet on a 42/17 fixie. Man, I don't know if you're tough, or crazy :D !!!

Thanks to BlastRadius and Sean for a short but sweet paceline down 84! It was fun! Let's do that again!

[tprevost]

Okay so Im too tired to write now, but hopefully some of the others will post reports and pics. It was great riding with all of you. What a great day, and congrats to Tracy for doing so well, Brian who did the ride in tennis shoes on flat pedal, and the others that took on a new challenge. Great ride by all.


Awwww.... thanks Sean, it was a great ride and I'm looking forward to doing it again (yes, really :p ). My legs were totally shot at Roberts Market but I managed to limp back (I think at like 11mph :eek: ) I feel okay today though!

YIPPEEE!!!!!!!

Trac'

[tprevost]

It was an outstanding ride, Sean....thanks for leading the group up those "tiny" hills...:rolleyes:


John, It was SO great to finally meet you! Thank you so much for joining us; I'm looking forward to riding with you again soon!

Trac'

[spingineer]

I'd like to take the opportunity to say thanks, first to Sean for organizing this, and to the rest of the gang. It was great to finally meet everyone. I wished we could have spent more time riding with SesameCrunch ... thanks for leading the short route down to San Gregario. Sorry we missed you there ... we took a little longer than we thought.

Sean, great to finally meet and ride with you.
UmneyDurak, I am in awe of you. Doing such a tough ride, with basically one arm. That is dedication.
Briank ... what a job, to do this in tennis shoes, hybrid, and a compact double, just awesome. And you have a terrific attitude! :D
Backinthesaddle, it's great to see you persevere with this. I think I see a double century rider born here. Persistence does pay!
Nesdog, you are stronger than you lead to believe. It was great to finally ride with you.
Dauphin, it was great to ride with you. You do exist! Too good a rider for me to keep up with.
Blastradius, man you are just too fast. Riding with you makes me go anerobic.
And finally tprevost and VMC ... you are a hoot!

[tprevost]

Absolutely!! Thanks Sean and everyone.
It was great putting faces to names. I had the time of my life today with this new challenge of biking. Officially met a whole bunch of cool peeps I consider friends. Could not have completed this ride with out all your support and mental encouragement.
I am hecka sore, especially my 2 buns. Pulling up to my house after the ride in my truck, I opened the door, I almost fell out due to leg fatigue.. You guys sure know how to show a greenhorn a good time. I felt comfortable and in great company all day. Looking forward to future get togethers with you all.

Gracias!!


OMG!!!! Brian, you ROCK!! I can't believe how awesome you did :D and all without complaining ;) I hope you can feel your legs today.... or at least you don't have to move much :p

Looking forward to seeing you again!

Trac'

[tprevost]

Hey gang, I promised to be the "old slow guy way behind" and I sure kept my promise! I won that competition. Next time (if there is one) I hope to ride with more of you in the group.

Good ride, thanks Sean for hanging back with me on Old La Honda, that was my first time up that road that I'd heard so much about.

Tunitas Creek was a real mashdown for me. Somewhere I read that it was a 6% grade. Well maybe on the average counting the first few fairly flat miles. Averages sure can lie.

I clocked about 72 miles. Don't know exactly how much because the battery on my Garmin died within a mile of the finish. Don't know why I clocked almost 4 more miles than Spingineer, don't think I made a wrong turn anywhere.

Very tired now, but not especially sore, and looking forward to some real lightweight riding tomorrow.


Great Job! You even took the long route too... I wouldn't have made it so :beer: to you!!!

:D

[tprevost]

I'd like to take the opportunity to say thanks, first to Sean for organizing this, and to the rest of the gang. It was great to finally meet everyone. I wished we could have spent more time riding with SesameCrunch ... thanks for leading the short route down to San Gregario. Sorry we missed you there ... we took a little longer than we thought.

Sean, great to finally meet and ride with you.
UmneyDurak, I am in awe of you. Doing such a tough ride, with basically one arm. That is dedication.
Briank ... what a job, to do this in tennis shoes, hybrid, and a compact double, just awesome. And you have a terrific attitude! :D
Backinthesaddle, it's great to see you persevere with this. I think I see a double century rider born here. Persistence does pay!
Nesdog, you are stronger than you lead to believe. It was great to finally ride with you.
Dauphin, it was great to ride with you. You do exist! Too good a rider for me to keep up with.
Blastradius, man you are just too fast. Riding with you makes me go anerobic.
And finally tprevost and VMC ... you are a hoot!


Hey Ron! You're pretty cool yourself! Thanks for dinner and ice cream! :p YUMMMMYYYY!!!!!! I can't wait to get to ride w/you again :D

[tprevost]

Thanks everyone for a great ride! I had a great time and enjoyed meeting everyone.... and Andy... great to see you again too :p

... and btw ladies... Sesame Crunch has some fabulous legs and someone needs to get some pics of them! ;) ... and, thank you SC for leading us down to the store and hanging out w/us while we waited for the peeps on the longer route!

[spingineer]

... and btw ladies... Sesame Crunch has some fabulous legs and someone needs to get some pics of them! ;) ... and, thank you SC for leading us down to the store and hanging out w/us while we waited for the peeps on the longer route!
... and there were some young pups on this ride. ME, you would have been drooling all day long! :D

[BigSean]

Hey Ron! You're pretty cool yourself! Thanks for dinner and ice cream! :p YUMMMMYYYY!!!!!! I can't wait to get to ride w/you again :D


You had ice cream too? Well if you had mentioned ice cream.:rolleyes: Actually, I came home and ate and fell asleep laying on the floor.:o I was whooped. This morning Im pretty tired, sore legs already.

[tprevost]

You had ice cream too? Well if you had mentioned ice cream.:rolleyes: Actually, I came home and ate and fell asleep laying on the floor.:o I was whooped. This morning Im pretty tired, sore legs already.

yeah, we trapsed around and found a cold stone after outback... YUMMMYYY!!!! I was pretty tired too, I'm not too sore yet but generally pretty fatigued :o Thank you again Sean, you're the best :p

[spingineer]

Hey Ron! You're pretty cool yourself! Thanks for dinner and ice cream! :p YUMMMMYYYY!!!!!! I can't wait to get to ride w/you again :D
thanks for all the complements on my picture taking. I'm just trying to capture the moments. I appreciate the kudos. Next time, I'll drive to your neck of the woods, and we'll ride around there.

[spingineer]

Now we just have to wait for VMC's pictures ...

[BigSean]

Now we just have to wait for VMC's pictures ...


VMC and Sheldon was also snapping pics most of the day.:D

[merider1]

Group Shot at Beginning of ride:
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Oh, my, lots o' hotties! Great pics, Ron! Thanks for sharing!

tprevost ... so photogenic, even while on a ride
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I'm whistling but you can't hear it. Trac, I love this pic, gorgeous. :D

[nesdog]

Good morning all!

A couple of months ago, my wife asked me if we should take our 12 year old and head from Socal up to San Jose to visit her sister for Memorial Day Weekend. Problem is we would be short a bed so I get to bring the camping gear and sleep on the air mattress. "Okay..I think I'll bring the bike."

So, I posted a little note here asking if anyone knew of a little ride I could do, oh an hour or two, etc. Well, the Nocal forumites responded! And yesterday pulled together for an amazing experience.

To be honest, I was a bit concerned about this one. Tons of climbing, way more than I'd do on a regular ride. And not knowing the territory, I had visions of calling my wife for SAG from some out of the way hamlet.

Ron (Spingineer) provided excellent directions to the start...hey, right on the money!

The group met up at the park and ride and away we went. Despite my never having met anyone, I was welcomed warmly by the group. We had an easy spin for the first 15 or 20 minutes.

The first climb, Old La Honda, was gorgeous! The pictures don't do it justice. Tree covered and cool. It is similar in profile to our noted Rock Store, which I did last weekend as prep. And I did okay.

Downhills....through the redwoods and out towards the coast. Just amazing, amazing views, lots of easy going conversation as we flew along, catching whiffs of the forest or fireplaces, a vastly different world than the chapparel and oak trees of Socal.
I don't know where we were exactly but on that road just before the group split for long and short, we had long sweeping curves that you could take into the turns at speed. And it went like this for a while! Visions of flying through some European Tour de Something.

Still more climbs and then Sean, watching out for the group, pulls over and says "enjoy the downhill" and waits as I pull ahead. Big Sean, huge, huge props. You were like an organized tour leader out there, providing tips, encouragement, unselfishly taking care of the crowd. No one need ever worry about being dropped or slow or anything. Next time you come down our way, we've got to buy you a fancy dinner! And get you on a ride.

We did more climbs and drops then a stretch with some rollers. Andy, doing impossible things on his fixie, and I rode along together for miles. We started trading pulls to keep ourselves alive in building headwinds, and had a great time doing so. Sean told us later he chased us for a long time trying to keep up!

At some point, we re-gained the coastline and were treated to an inspiring view of the headlands.

Now the big one...Tunitas Creek....and big it was. Andy pulled away from John ( Dauphin) and I with ease. How the heck does he do that on that bike???

To say we suffered would be to minimize the climb, coming 50 miles and already 5500' into the overall ride. I had on arm wamers and windbreaker because the coast had been cold...now I couldn't stand having them on but was afraid to stop for fear of never begin able to start again! For 1/4 mile I worked to remove them while riding, then thought what a stupid idea because if I got my arms stuck, I was going to end up over the side and down the mountain. I used my teeth at one point in despiration to yank the sleeve and tore it...dumb, dumb, dumb, now I have a little tear in my beloved Optik!

Good gawd, pain, pain, pain, 7-15% grades for 3.5 miles. Not knowing where the top was made it worse. John and I finally reached the top. Wow...
Tracy noticed my legs were shaking as we re-grouped. It was actually from the cold..I was so sweaty that when we stopped, I got the chills from the overcast!

Re-gained the heat and sun as we had a nice run to the bottom and eventually back to the cars.

Folks, once again, thanks for putting together a fantastic ride. It was great to meet so many of you and I enjoyed the conversation, comradierie, even the hills that I worried about! Ron, the next time you are down south, let's plan a ride in the Conejo!

Pix coming up...

Sheldon

[nesdog]

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[nesdog]

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[nesdog]

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[BigSean]

Sheldon, thanks for the ride. It wsa great meeting you and you are a much stronger rider then you let on. Anytime you are in the area feel free to look us up again. :)

[BlastRadius]

Thanks all for a great ride. It's nice to meet everyone. I didn't match everyone's real name to BF name but I got many. One of the last pics in the parking lot should have most of us. If someone can post it and caption it with our BF names, that'd be great.

Thanks Sean and Ron for organizing and sheparding the group.

Brian, you're an inspiration... just started cycling and commuting by bike not too long ago, getting rid of a car in the family, and doing this long hilly ride with such aplomb. Some people don't complete a metric century after years of riding much less a metric with 6800 ft. of climbing. Congrats.

UmneyDurak (sorry, forgot your real name), it was great riding and chatting with you; you're fast and after your wrist heals even faster. Now go get in those intervals like your coach said :)

Andy, awesome fixie ride. Let's plan an meeting up for another alleycat sometime soon. I think we missed NACCC this weekend.

Wayne and Tracy, Sonoma would be some great road or mountain biking. We should do one up your way for one of the monthly rides.

Dauphin (forgot your name too), nice Bianchi :) We'll have to do a ride up 'round your neck of the woods too.

Everyone, let get that jersey decided on and ordered. It'd be great to have for our furture rides.

Cheers.

[spingineer]

Sheldon, thanks for the ride. It wsa great meeting you and you are a much stronger rider then you let on. Anytime you are in the area feel free to look us up again. :)
+1 ... as I said before, Sheldon is a strong rider. We'll have to add Nesdog to the list of the ultimate sandbaggers ... :D :p

[spingineer]

Oh, my, lots o' hotties! Great pics, Ron! Thanks for sharing!
Ok, stop drooling ... you're going to make a mess! :p Hope it helps capture some of the experience, although nothing will replace the real thing. Hope my photography comes close to your expectations ... and hope these pics cheer you up (after riding all alone yesterday ... violins were in tune when I was reading your post).

[SV Commuter]

Thanks, Sean and everybody, for a great day! Good to meet you all and hope to ride with you again. I'm feeling pretty confident now about my first century (Canyon Classic, June 9). I'll lbe getting as much riding as I can until then and let you all know how it goes...

Brad (the guy that never rides hills)

[BigSean]

Thanks, Sean and everybody, for a great day! Good to meet you all and hope to ride with you again. I'm feeling pretty confident now about my first century (Canyon Classic, June 9). I'll lbe getting as much riding as I can until then and let you all know how it goes...

Brad (the guy that never rides hills)


Anytime Brad. By the way, seems to me you climb hills now.;)

['nother]

Wow, great job guys! That is not an easy or casual route. Hats off to you first-timers especially.

Nesdog*, you could be SteveE's twin.

UmneyDurak, you're a freakin' animal riding with the cast. HARDCORE :lol:


*EDIT: I'm not sure I have this right, now reading the captions. Whoever is wearing the Sponge Bob jersey.

[merider1]

Anytime Brad. By the way, seems to me you climb hills now.;)
Nice shots of you, Sean. :) Even though I wasn't there, I loved the reports and pics. I really missed out riding in those views (and with such a great group). I can't wait to join on the next one.

[SesameCrunch]

... and btw ladies... Sesame Crunch has some fabulous legs and someone needs to get some pics of them! ;) ... and, thank you SC for leading us down to the store and hanging out w/us while we waited for the peeps on the longer route!
:o :o :o Aww shucks!

It was my pleasure to lead the short ride. Loved chatting with you, Wayne and Brian. Hope to see you another time.

[dauphin]

Dauphin (forgot your name too), nice Bianchi :) We'll have to do a ride up 'round your neck of the woods too.


Thanks for comment on the Bianchi...loved your bike and the wheelset too! Name is John, btw. I do hope someone posts that group shot with all the names/screen names.