Great Lakes - Sunday, 21st, HIP ride?

I'm bummed. I'd be there but I have a work trip planned and I'm flying off to NJ on Sunday for a disaster recovery test. :crash:

I'm bummed. I'd be there but I have a work trip planned and I'm flying off to NJ on Sunday for a disaster recovery test. :crash:

Interestingly enough, this ride will be a recovery test for recursive.

Can we ride slow enough for him to consider it a recovery ride? That's the test.

Interestingly enough, this ride will be a recovery test for recursive.

Can we ride slow enough for him to consider it a recovery ride? That's the test.

Don't worry about that. I might show up.:D

Hmmmmm ....

http://www.bikeiowa.com/uploads/gallery/frazzCyclingToon.jpeg

<excuse the size>

Funny you should post that...
I woke up today with a bad lower back.
Ouch.

Wilke...you ridin' or hidin'?
We could use your cycling photographic talents on this adventure.

Wilke...you ridin' or hidin'?
Speaking of hiding, where's Cromulent? He should come on out, too.

Speaking of hiding, where's Cromulent? He should come on out, too.

RIGHT!

Crom
Mayo (Fellow FIB CyLowe)
bike4life
flywolf
frunkin

...hop on board and check in here please.

CyLowe...we need a meet and greet and setup time and a roll time...

May I suggest 10:00 to 10:15 for arrivals, meet and greet, setup bikes...

HARD START TIME: We roll at 10:20...
That should put us back there by 12-30-ish, perfect timing for a little snack there over talk of how awesome we all are, but pale in comparison to recursive.

I'll be hiding in the weeds ... watch for the glint of the camera lens as you roll by.

working sat night ... sunday morning .... http://www.freedomcrowsnest.org/forum/images/smiles/offtobed.gif

Ahhh...now the late start time makes sense. I'm not used to riding short distances. You can leave late and are still back before sunset. Huh...

Ahhh...now the late start time makes sense. I'm not used to riding short distances. You can leave late and are still back before sunset. Huh...

None of that century nonsense here sir.
You're in, right?

Bring your tools of course.

Fyi....

Leaving Town And Heading Into The Land Of No Internet Service In The Country As Of Friday.

The Last I See Of This Will Be On Friday Morning....leaving At 9;00 A.m. And Will Be Away From The Real World After That.

So Unless Something Changes Here Before 9-00 A.m. Friday...let Us Say Once Again;

--this Sunday The 21st
--meet At Backyard Bikes Parking Lot, La Grange Wi
--get There By About 10;00, With A Roll Out Slated For 10-10 That Morning....a Two, Two And A Half Hour Ride Planned Through The Rolling Hills At An Easy Pace....photos Encouraged...snacking At The Shop After The Ride, Which Should End By 12-30-ish.

K?

None of that century nonsense here sir.
You're in, right?

Bring your tools of course.

Technically I still haven't asked the boss. I didn't want to pop it on her at 2am last night when my flight finally came in. This is after she thought I had arrived 4 hours earlier. She was thinking that I had been killed in traffic or something....oh and did I mention I lost my cell phone yesterday so she couldn't get ahold of me.

Careful negotiations.....

^^^^ i think you mean begging. and yes be careful when you are begging. :)

later.

Ahhh...now the late start time makes sense. I'm not used to riding short distances. You can leave late and are still back before sunset. Huh...

You could show your awesomeness and ride up P-man :D

I have clearance from the tower :o . . . count me in!

:beer:

You could show your awesomeness and ride up P-man :D

I have clearance from the tower :o . . . count me in!

:beer:

looks like the ride just got its second A group member! :D

later.

Jeez lets pick a place 2 1/2 hours away from Appleton. :mad:;)
I'm supposed to be either working or doing a cross race so we'll see what happens.
I figure its about 35-40$ woth of gas/food. Anybody doing more riding afterwards? If i'm making the trek the ride has to be epic :D. Now I'm actually considering it, 4+ hours in the car to ride for 3 hours with a bunch of guys 30 years older than me, that I met on the internet, my idea of a good time :eek:

I'll talk to my boss and my cross buddy tomorrow and I'll have an official answer tomorrow night.

Jeez lets pick a place 2 1/2 hours away from Appleton. :mad:;)
I'm supposed to be either working or doing a cross race so we'll see what happens.
I figure its about 35-40$ woth of gas/food. Anybody doing more riding afterwards? If i'm making the trek the ride has to be epic :D. Now I'm actually considering it, 4+ hours in the car to ride for 3 hours with a bunch of guys 30 years older than me, that I met on the internet, my idea of a good time :eek:

I'll talk to my boss and my cross buddy tomorrow and I'll have an official answer tomorrow night.

Hey now I'm only like....15-20 years older. ;)


Oh....and I got the OK. :beer::beer::beer:

EDIT: Just found out we may already have an obligation. :eek: I'll keep everyone posted.

You could show your awesomeness and ride up P-man :D

I have clearance from the tower :o . . . count me in!

:beer:

Ride up = :roflmao:

Hip,

if you're going to go to all of that trouble, you should at least ride 3-3:30 hours.

i'm not just sayin', i'm sayin'.

...we just might end up doing that...who knows...it's easy to get lost out there.
And anyone who wants to could continue on with another loop after we get back to the shop.

Jeez lets pick a place 2 1/2 hours away from Appleton. :mad:;)
I'm supposed to be either working or doing a cross race so we'll see what happens.
I figure its about 35-40$ woth of gas/food. Anybody doing more riding afterwards? If i'm making the trek the ride has to be epic :D. Now I'm actually considering it, 4+ hours in the car to ride for 3 hours with a bunch of guys 30 years older than me, that I met on the internet, my idea of a good time :eek:

I'll talk to my boss and my cross buddy tomorrow and I'll have an official answer tomorrow night.

Dear Young Frunkin,

As someone who is, what, say, 82 years older than you, I feel I have an obligation to pass along things I feel I have learned along the way.

Sometimes it's not about what it seems it's about.
Sometimes, a bike ride isn't really a bike ride at all.

Sure, you could cyclocross race or work.
Sure it seems like a lot of effort to ride too short of a distance for you with us.

But that's not the point at all now really, is it?

There will be plenty of races in your life. There will be plenty of long, long rides. And Lord knows there will be much work in your future.

How many times do you have the chance to be a part of something unique like this? A chance to experience the simple bonding between man, machine and people you feel you know through the internet because of our shared passion.

This is your chance to hear bad jokes....lame excuses...hearty laughter....shared cycling stories...recursive bragging about himself (well, wait, you already know about that part because you've raced with him)

....come out and play frunk!

Hip

Jeez lets pick a place 2 1/2 hours away from Appleton. :mad:;)
I'm supposed to be either working or doing a cross race so we'll see what happens.
I figure its about 35-40$ woth of gas/food. Anybody doing more riding afterwards? If i'm making the trek the ride has to be epic :D. Now I'm actually considering it, 4+ hours in the car to ride for 3 hours with a bunch of guys 30 years older than me, that I met on the internet, my idea of a good time :eek:

I'll talk to my boss and my cross buddy tomorrow and I'll have an official answer tomorrow night.

Frunkin, to be honest with you, 2.5 hours is a long way to go for a (supposedly) casual/friendly 40 mile ride. It's in LaGrange because Hip's near there on weekends and it's only an hour drive for many of us.

Here's what you need to do. Work and/or do the cross race. Then, plan a ride up in Appleton for folks on the forum to attend, though at this time of year it can be dicey on who is willing to show up with weather possibilities and all. It costs nothing to plan a ride, advertise it on the board here, and have folks show up. Check the Psimet Invitational thread (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=339602)s out. Lots of folks showed up for some or all of the ride.

Show us your planning skills and put an Appleton route together!

... Now I'm actually considering it, 4+ hours in the car to ride for 3 hours with a bunch of guys 30 years older than me, that I met on the internet, my idea of a good time :eek:

I'll talk to my boss and my cross buddy tomorrow and I'll have an official answer tomorrow night.

Cripe, how old are you, 7? I'm going over tomorrow and will "pick" out a route for you guys to do Sunday.

Cripe, how old are you, 7? I'm going over tomorrow and will "pick" out a route for you guys to do Sunday.

...come on Wiswell...dump those plans and ride with us.

Mrs. Hip now wants her Bianchi along...just loaded it on the truck. She's ridin' Sunday to meet us out there at the shop after our ride. You want a "C" group, she's it.

"A" Group--recursive, ahman23, clcypsycho....20+ mph
"B" Group--everyone else....16-19 mph
"C" Group--Mrs. Hip's touring club....10-12 mph

See you out there...Sunday morning....get there by about 10....

Roll Out= 10:10 a.m. from the parking lot of BackYard Bikes in La Grange, WI

:D.....I'm off....

Would someone pick a route?

It would be nice to have a map. The Psimet "no drop" ride was one thing, I'm from the area and really wasn't worried about being lost.

"It's like we're going into Wisconsin." "Well I got the sh!t kicked out of me in Wisconsin once."

Again, getting dropped is no big thing but Wisconsin has the highest per capita rate of ax murderers. You get lost, they make a lamp shade from your skin.

iab, i printed up 5 copies each of maps for three of the potential routes on the backyardbikes.com website and will have them with me to hand out.

Also, we can get a list of phone numbers this time, too.


ETA... We'll probably choose one of these three (because these are the ones I printed):
http://backyardbikes.com/Images/JCBC-35-or-38-miler.pdf
http://backyardbikes.com/Images/Nature-plus-37-miler.pdf
http://backyardbikes.com/Images/Bluff-lower-hebron-island-38-miler.pdf

I really enjoy reading your ride planning threads. They always give me a chuckle. Sometimes makes me wish I lived back up in Crystal Lake, IL so I could get out with you guys. Sometimes...but I really do like it down here in Franklin, TN.

Anyway...plan more rides. It's great reading.

:D

I wouldn't mind the 40 mile route. We could show the Illiniosians that we have a hill in Wisconsin.

Besides, I need a new lamp shade.

Again, getting dropped is no big thing but Wisconsin has the highest per capita rate of ax murderers. You get lost, they make a lamp shade from your skin.

Why do you have to stereotype like that? :mad: :mad:

Plenty of domestic items can be made, not just lamp shades. Curtains, trash cans, chairs. But everyone always assumes that just because I'm from Wisconsin, I make lamp shades out of people.

I wouldn't mind the 40 mile route. We could show the Illiniosians that we have a hill in Wisconsin.

Besides, I need a new lamp shade.

Hmmm. I did Horribly Hilly this year. I think I saw a hill or two. Me no likey.

ANYway....it's not looking good for me on Sunday. 2 work associated birthday parties. One for Boss's daughter, one for co-worker and his wife (so I guess it is technically 3 birthday parties).

Hmmmm.....ride bike.....eat birthday cake...twice....hmmmm.....

Why do you have to stereotype like that? :mad: :mad:

Plenty of domestic items can be made, not just lamp shades. Curtains, trash cans, chairs. But everyone always assumes that just because I'm from Wisconsin, I make lamp shades out of people.

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7648/wbtp4.jpg

Why do you have to stereotype like that? :mad: :mad:

Plenty of domestic items can be made, not just lamp shades. Curtains, trash cans, chairs. But everyone always assumes that just because I'm from Wisconsin, I make lamp shades out of people.

http://www.biography.com/biography/images/episode_images/Ed_Gein_320X240.jpg + http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f1/180px-Easy_cheese2.jpg = http://www.builderssquare.com/assets/images/global/FloorLamp_Lamp_Shade.jpg





I blame the cheese. ;)

Anything with "bluff" in the ride title should scare you if you're from Illinois. So of your routes, all those that travel on Bluff Rd = ouch. I know. That road has kicked my butt at least three times. Not that it has a "climb," per se, just an annoying amounting of time going up. If you are going east to west on its whole length, it's a 12 mile "climb."

And by the way, Ned Beatty was in the south, anyway. Only thing to fear in Wisconsin are those "Americans for Prosperity" and their big pig at the state capitol.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=1938772197562792419,42.784800,-88.614910%3B13284437018509089629,42.784800,-88.656220%3B1910338698213903156,42.773520,-88.678120%3B8281831591470949252,42.756020,-88.701390%3B13817756256504630621,42.725560,-88.770220%3B5798338706065417129,42.765160,-88.827920%3B15290648455396175413,42.770940,-88.800720%3B17000111926535397550,42.769440,-88.764920%3B6393104003326342267,42.755300,-88.736610%3B8120354746135828899,42.756270,-88.716060%3B8699768588819693352,42.772650,-88.692440%3B8177288307179945025,42.784830,-88.608170%3B691767761011772105,42.799370,-88.604400&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=la+grange,+wi&daddr=Kettle+Moraine+Dr+%4042.784800,+-88.614910+to:Kettle+Moraine+Dr+%4042.784800,+-88.656220+to:E+Lakeshore+Dr+%4042.773520,+-88.678120+to:R+and+W+Townline+Rd+%4042.756020,+-88.701390+to:Lake+Lorraine+Rd+%4042.725560,+-88.770220+to:42.742852,-88.80764+to:N+Lima+Center+Rd+%4042.765160,+-88.827920+to:N+Sturtevant+Rd+%4042.770940,+-88.800720+to:Stader+Rd+%4042.769440,+-88.764920+to:W+Town+Line+Rd+%4042.755300,+-88.736610+to:W+Town+Line+Rd+%4042.756270,+-88.716060+to:State+Park+Rd+%4042.772650,+-88.692440+to:Kettle+Moraine+Dr+%4042.784830,+-88.608170+to:US-12+%4042.799370,+-88.604400&mra=dpe&mrcr=5,6&mrsp=6&sz=13&sll=42.736422,-88.789101&sspn=0.053837,0.115528&ie=UTF8&ll=42.748525,-88.731422&spn=0.107653,0.231056&z=12&om=1


how about this route? 35 miles. around whitewater lake is always nice.

^that's an excellent choice...done that one before.

Yes it's true....I am on location and doing the internet cafe thing right now. No service at my lake place, chateau as CyLowe calls it, but my broadnabd card works at the little cafe in wonderful Palmyra, WI. Sipping hot chocolate and cruising BF...gotta love it.

Gotta love something...got to the chateau and the furnace is broken!
DOUGH.

Waiting for a part now.
Good thing the weather is going to be sunny and 70 all weekend, cause it's 52 with blowing rain now!
(sips hot chocolate)

Come on "P"...I ask, who wears the pants in the "P" family anyway.\
I want to see you out here Sunday!

I thought that you lived in the wilderness out there ... furnace? Internet Cafe' ?

I had imagined more like splitting logs and just getting one TV station on the BW TV !

:p

I really enjoy reading your ride planning threads. They always give me a chuckle. Sometimes makes me wish I lived back up in Crystal Lake, IL so I could get out with you guys. Sometimes...but I really do like it down here in Franklin, TN.

Anyway...plan more rides. It's great reading.

:D

I'll be in the Bowling Green, KY area next spring visiting my sister. Maybe you should start up the BFTNC or the BFTNKYC and have some rides! Beautiful area to ride (although there were lots of dogs near my sister and the locals have a habbit of stealing all the road signs so you're never really sure what road you're on).

Google: "People have been stealing the signs from county road 420 for going on ten years now, and residents who live along the road finally got so tired of it all, they started nailing the numbers to stop signs."

My sister gave me good directions to find their house: Go 10 miles down the road, turn right at the big church, take the second left and look for the white fence .... but hey, I found it!

:)

Google: "People have been stealing the signs from county road 420 for going on ten years now, and residents who live along the road finally got so tired of it all, they started nailing the numbers to stop signs."

Dude.... *cough-cough*..... why would anyone want to steal that road sign?


Hey, are you hungry, too? I could eat a whole large pizza and a bag of Oreos....

:o :o :o

Cripe, how old are you, 7? I'm going over tomorrow and will "pick" out a route for you guys to do Sunday.

Maybe you should just skip the volleyball and come out on Sunday. Who knows, you just might run in to a fellow PSU fan and we can talk all about how awesome it was to see Joe Pa's boys crush Wisconsin last week.

I'm just sayin'

- Jose Perez Class of '05

Nevertheless JoePA is an old senile fart who needs to retire and take JayPa with him. We go to one away game per year. Unfortunately, we picked Michigan. That was a long car ride home.

Anyway, gentlemen, I was over in the Kettle today and thought I'd pass along that Bluff Rd is closed starting at the intersection of Betts Rd (eastbound, I think). Thought I'd pass it along.

I'm having some trouble figuring out where exactly Backyard Cycles is.

Is it here? http://maps.google.com/maps?q=La+Grange,+WI,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Because that's where I'm going. Looks suspiciously empty.

Hang on ... lemme check ....

Edit: Yeah, you got it. It's right on 20 you can't miss it. I gotta picture of the place as I drove by there today ... lemme find it ...

Edit edit: I took this while blowing by there at 90 mph ... you should find it no problem:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/1664816875_750f8c2f0e_o.jpg

Edit: Yeah, you got it. It's right on US-12 you can't miss it. I gotta picture of the place as I drove by there today ... lemme find it ...


Fixed for you. It's on US-12 at county H.

Can't miss it. They have a lot across H from the store where one can park a car and meet up with other erstwhile cyclists who are heading out to brave the slight 20+ mph sustained winds.

See you all there!

Guys, sorry I can't make this one, have fun. Recursive, hope everytime it's your turn to pull you get a wicked head wind. :)

Guys, sorry I can't make this one, have fun. Recursive, hope everytime it's your turn to pull you get a wicked head wind. :)

I don't pull. I have people for that.

But seriously, I'm posting this from my car. See you punks shortly.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

...have fun....might get out for a quick trip on the fixed gear.

Guys, sorry I can't make this one, have fun. Recursive, hope everytime it's your turn to pull you get a wicked head wind. :)

head v. recursive

i pick recursive.

i hear his shear awesomeness is, well, awesome. later.

head v. recursive

i pick recursive.

i hear his shear awesomeness is, well, awesome. later.

Well put aham...missed you out there today.

Well put aham...missed you out there today.

ditto.

its tough, but the family has supported my crazy efforts all year. while they were not all cycling related they still supported and sacrificed 100%. i could have been there, but it would not have been right. so i spent a most awesomeness days with my two year old. that my friends is priceless.

well, dont get me too wrong. i rode 51 miles yesterday and ran 6 today. just had to get up at the butt crack of dawn to pull it off.

so hip, next year i need at least 2 weeks notice. make it early or make it late in the season. doesnt matter as you will see the BFNIC representing in me. later. :D

How did you guys enjoy that little breeze? ;)