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Pie ride today


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So do we report our pie ride to this thread or will the first one in start the
"Official" 2008 pie ride thread?

So do we report our pie ride to this thread or will the first one in start the
"Official" 2008 pie ride thread?

This ones started so report what you did today on this thread- with pics of course.

I will be taking some non bikers on their first field trip. We will ride the Norwottuck Rail Trail from Northampton Mass to Amherst. Its paved, low grades and a good place to start...............if.................:(..its open.

As I left work yesterday someone told me it might be closed for pavement problems. I checked the online site and its open again but the rumors persist. In an attempt to be green, someone put a high glass content in the paving mix. Over the years, the glass has been working up and out of the pavement and this year there seem to have been quite a large number of flats. I'm thinking about taking the MTB and its large knobbies instead of the Rabbit. My friends will not be very fast.

At any rate there will be pie. If you see me today, I will be smiling, so smile back....:)

Report to follow




Ok Out at 9.30 and as Ross needed some Hill road work- took him up his first couple. Only a 10% for a mile- swiftly followed by a 12% for about the same distance although it felt longer. Then hit the headwind for the long drag of about 5% for two miles to Beachy Head. He did well and the riding pics are of this area. You can see the Offroad hills in the background and both of us were looking at them wondering why we were playing with the traffic. Then it was PIE Time. Ross had Banoffie and I had the Apple. It was that big so I then struggled for the couple of miles to the MUP. That MUP was crowded today but pleased to say that the Muppets behaved themselves. One call out that we were coming and the dogs and kids brought under control and they all left us a clear passage. So just under 30 miles- 1600 ft of climbing and just had a Toasted Cheese and Onion Sandwich as The PIE had been worked off during the ride.

Still hungry though so might be worth another quick ride this afternoon.

That 6th picture shows one of the Georgian Manor Houses in our area. Built sometime in the late 1700's and is up for sale if any of you want a 16 bedroom house in 4 acres of Scrubland.

What am i doing today? Loading the bike in the back of the van, and driving somewhere for a piece of pie. It's raining...

Working.... :cry:

Accompanying Donna to her company picnic. I should cut up a tree toppled by the remnants of Ike as it came through Kentucky. If it doesn't rain(which we could use here), the tree might wait while I get a ride in.

This morning, I am putting the finishing touches on my 'sermon' for the weekend, I have a wedding this afternoon and then confessions, Mass and Baptisms in the evening... SO I am working too. No time for a pie ride................However I may find the pie anyway or something as a good substitute.
keep up the good work.

In about 2 minutes I am riding my Schwinn to the 27th annual Wavecrest Woodie meet.

http://wavecrestwoodies.com/upcoming.html

I find that classic bicycle enthusiasts have several things in common with classic car collectors and restorers, including the whole keep-it-original vs. upgrade-the-driveline debate.

Nice pix Stapfam! I'm off to a wedding today. Pie ride will have to wait til tomorrow.

We're joining our group for a 40-miler today and stop for lunch/brunch about midway. I'm hoping there will be pie on the menu -- if not, maybe we can pick some up on the way home.

And Stapfam wins for the first one to eat pie today....... and for the best-looking ride food on the planet! :)

I will try to get some pie in but today it is a hill climb day, plan on 50 miles and two steep climbs. Still have two more centurys left this season to stay in shape for so I can't slack off quite yet.

Nice pictures, stapfam! That is a huge piece of pie! I'm off for a 70 mile club ride and I will see if I can find some pie on the rest stop if possible. Won't have a camera with me, though, sorry.

R just had a Toasted Cheese and Onion Sandwich as The PIE had been worked off during the ride.

Still hungry though so might be worth another quick ride this afternoon.

I always enjoy your food pics with the giant cups, stapfam.

That is a huge piece of pie! .


I always enjoy your food pics with the giant cups, stapfam.

Even I thought it was a bit on the large side but it is Pie Ride Day- so just do a few extra miles to work it off

And the cups have very thick walls so the Amount of coffee inside is not that enormous.

Hold on- You are Americans- Living in the land of 16oz steaks and gallon pots of Icecream!!!!

And one pic I should have posted showing the other scenery of open Scrubland. This was where we hit the 10mph headwind up the long drag.

Jeff, Michael and I rode 23 miles around Coopers on a beautiful, cool morning. Lori had hot cherry pie and cold vanilla ice cream ready for us when we finished. It sure was nice to need to wear a light jacket while I rode. :D

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Out at 5:45, stopped by Village Inn for a "Triple Berry" (includes blueberries) pie a la mode - about 25 miles on the old Nightbuster bike!

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Pie day starting badly for me. I brought my Univega ("my rain bike") into the kitchen last night to install new chainrings since it was forecast to rain today and I wanted to go for a ride rain or shine. After taking off the old chainrings, discovered that the crank puller I thought I had in the bottom of my tool box has gone missing. :mad:

So the bike is unridable, and I'm waiting for the bike shop to open...

But, totally by coincidence, my wife made a pie last night and I had a piece while working on the bike, just after midnight.:)

Pie day starting badly for me. I brought my Univega ("my rain bike") into the kitchen last night to install new chainrings since it was forecast to rain today and I wanted to go for a ride rain or shine. After taking off the old chainrings, discovered that the crank puller I thought I had in the bottom of my tool box has gone missing. :mad:


That must be your policy every day, living where you live....

That must be your policy every day, living where you live....

...certainly in the fall and winter. But, in the summer (May to early September) it's really dry. I rode in a little rain commuting yesterday, but I haven't gotten really soaked for a couple of months.

Pie smie...I see few posts in the weight loss challenge and wonder why.:D

Got up at 5:15AM for a 9.7 mile individual time trial start time of 7:30AM. We were on the trainer warming up by 6:40AM. I set a new personal best today. I had a chocolate milk and latte at Peet's.

I'll see what I can do

Pie smie...I see few posts in the weight loss challenge and wonder why.:D

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Reason for PIE is so that you have to do extra miles to work off the calories- So---- Pie keeps you healthy and fit.

Reason for PIE is so that you have to do extra miles to work off the calories- So---- Pie keeps you healthy and fit.

Do you still believe in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy?:D:p

Pie smie...I see few posts in the weight loss challenge and wonder why.:D

Got up at 5:15AM for a 9.7 mile individual time trial start time of 7:30AM. We were on the trainer warming up by 6:40AM. I set a new personal best today. I had a chocolate milk and latte at Peet's.




Left the house at 0730 on my quick 10 miler (actually 9.88) and got a good workout in the headwinds. Came home and sucked down a diet pepsi and ate one of those boxed apple pie thingies the wife gets, so I had "pie on the fly". :D

Took a pie ride with my bride along the Canal towpath. Clear skies with mid
70 degree temps. topped off with Hot Apple pie a la mode.

Your's truely at the start/finish point. Fairport N.Y. to Pittsford and back.
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The Village Coal Tower Restaurant.
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The pie.
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Happy Trails

Do you still believe in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy?:D:p

Only if they bring PIE.

I am no longer a racer- No need to keep Ultra fit and no need to worry about if I am going to not fit into my Suit tomorrow.

All right.........I did the ride but got NO PIE. I took my newbies on a 20 mile ride and like the faithful sheep dog, hovered near the rear of the pack handing out water, encouragement. I'm proud of them, they completed the 20 miles which was far above anything they had tried before.)

The restaurant on the ride was closed..........not just closed but gone, empty, devoid of food, machinery, people and Pie...:cry:

We finished the ride and since everyone was starving we wandered over to a small seafood place near the trail head. No pie........not even peperoni..:eek: I finally had a very good meal from the salad bar, but sometime this weekend, somebody had better put me and pie in the same place at the same time...:D

I notice stapfam hasn't mentioned the cherry pie he ate tonight and the quick blast on the ol' tandem ;-)

I notice stapfam hasn't mentioned the cherry pie he ate tonight and the quick blast on the ol' tandem ;-)

Cherry pie wasn't on the ride and thanks to my Daughter (Ross's Wife) I didn't get much of that. The Tandem will be on another post later.

Did the Amish 100 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Came out to 100.0 miles on the dot according to my GPS readout. Cool day, but nice for riding. Got another 100 mile ride tomorrow, if my legs aren't stiff as a board when I get up tomorrow...

Today's perfect-weather Saturday ride with smart and beautiful wife alongside (but not in) the Mississippi was better than any dessert.

No pie for me today - I piged out on a business trip this week. Today was climbing day to keep the legs strong for next weekends century. Captured two 1100 ft ascents on a 50 mile ride. Tomorrow I need 30 more miles to hit 100 miles for the week. Two more centurys coming up over the next two weeks.

Had a great 25 mile ride with the local club. It was a beautiful morning for riding at 65 degrees.

No Pie though. Never even thought about Pie.

DD and I did her "second favorite route" which takes us through Kensington, where there is little traffic. We were only barely able to qualify for the pie, with our ride of 15.25 miles. We opted for blueberry. Yum!

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DD and I did her "second favorite route" which takes us through Kensington, where there is little traffic. We were only barely able to qualify for the pie, with our ride of 15.25 miles. We opted for blueberry. Yum!

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Don't you find those wheels to be a bit slow and heavy?

First weekend back home.
I did 22+ miles in Central Park on a crappy rental last Saturday
Today, with my OCR, on my turf, I had to be able to do at least that much.
So, I set off to do my typical 200' to 0' to 660' to 0' and back again.
I wasn't sure before I set out but I did find my legs to be OK for the ride.
22 miles later, I'm heading for our local bakery -Mazzetti's- for a well-earned slice o' pie.

"Pie? We have cake slices down on this shelf"
"Yeah, but do you sell pie by the slice?"
"Pie by the slice? No, we don't do that"
"Dang."

So, I struck out?

Ahhhh, bless Mrs S, again.
She knew it was pie day and, just in case, she brought a little something home for me from the market.

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That count? Does in my book

OK, I guess this is the pie ride photo spot.

You guys are a real bad influence on me. Cause of you the wife and I shared a piece of apple and a piece of pecan pie.

Here's the ride to the restaurant:

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Here's the eating of the pies:

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and here's the trip back (along the freeway):

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Only 22 miles total, so I'm not sure we burned off the calories.

Did fifty miles today. (If I could have done 6 more, I would have ridden my age, but it starting getting dark out) I did stop for pie -- only the restaurant didn't serve pie so I made do with a blueberry scone. Will that still count? I had my heart rate monitor which showed how many calories I burned and I don't have to feel guilty about eating the scone! I post the picture if I knew how.

Got to eat two pieces of the lemon meringue pie my my very special wife made for me for pie day. I helped. She took the pictures. The rest is for tomorrow after the metric century with the Green Mountain Bike Club.

We arose at 6:00 am to ride with the group today, 40 miles from the Upper Santa Ana River Trail (SART) to the Hidden Valley Nature Center and lunch at Simple Simon's in Riverside. The SART is a very popular trail for cyclists that begins in San Bernardino and ends at the beach. Riders can pick up the trail from various points and the scenery depends on where they begin and end. It's also a great way to cover a lot of mileage non-stop away from traffic.

In spite of preparing the night before, we got off to a rough start. Hubby took the recumbent that one of the other riders generously loaned to him for a few weeks. We had a hard time figuring out how to secure it in the back of the truck. Then, just as we arrived at the starting point (25 or so miles from home), we realized we left all the water bottles at home.:eek: Hubby managed to buy a couple of bottles of water at the Quality Inn next door to the trail head.

And we were off, on a picture-perfect day for a ride.

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At the Hidden Valley Nature Center we saw wonderful exhibits of snakes and spiders and saw a lizard that looks like either a giant worm or a very, very tiny snake. We learned that lizards have eyelids and snakes do not, and that's how they can identify this tiny snake-like creature as a lizard.
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We shared a piece of berry pie from Simple Simon's in Riverside across from Mission Inn. The crust was as good as it looks, and got a thumbs-up from Hubby who claims that no one make pie like his mom.:rolleyes:

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After lunch we passed by a lake that caught our attention and caused us to miss the entrance to the trail back to our starting point.

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I fell asleep in the truck on the way home. I heard Hubby say he wants to get his eyes done next (he has cataracts), then I heard "I like the black ones". HUH??? He was referring to the new black Honda Accord that passed us while I was snoozing.

Another beautiful bike ride with this fabulously fun group of grey-haired kids on wheels. Can hardly wait for winter so I can post pics of rides on the trails showing snow on the mountains.:innocent:

Well, my 70 mile ride turned into 85, but I saw no pie. I did have a lovely blueberry muffin, a banana, some multi grain bread, an order of 'mini-churros' from Jack in the Box, a large chocolate chip cookie, and a Dr. Pepper. The ride wasn't too difficult so I had no problem eating that stuff.

Great pictures everyone, thanks!

nice little 20 miler around peninsula here, then settled down for a nice bit of marionberry pie. ran into two cyclists that had just moved up to Tacoma from San Francisco. They were in Ocean Shores for the weekend looking for places to ride. It was a tad overcast here, but they said it was raining in Tacoma. Met another gent in his 70's visiting from Germany. we rode together for a bit, then off i went...

not a bad pie day.... great ride... met three new friends... great pie...

it does not get much better.

be well,

jim

I had to combine PIE Ride Day with Pirate day. I left at 7:00 with a buddy to ride "the loop" before meeting up with the rest of the group, now totallying 10 riders. We rode familair roads and stopped at the usual deli for a break. I checked out the pastry case, but nothing caught my fancy. Here is a picture of us on our way back.

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By the time we got home, I had done 50 miles. I skipped the usual stop at our local cafe and headed home. I had prepared for this turn of events and had pie waiting.

I'm so pathetic. Here is me having my pie on my patio. It's not even Hostess or Little Debbie. It's Safeway generic. Tasted good anyway. Arrrrgg!

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....... Hubby took the recumbent that one of the other riders generously loaned to him for a few weeks. .......:

How's that working out Yen? Does he enjoy riding it?

Since I did two rides for Pie day I only ate pie after the second ride.

The first ride was the Saturday morning riding program with the local MetroPark. There were 57 riders and many of us gathered afterward at a local restaurant for a late breakfast. No pie...not even a pastry.

The second ride was a moonlight ride on a section of the Little Miami Scenic Trail. There were 14 riders and we had a great time. Riding at night is one of my favorite times of the day. We saw a few critters cross the trail but none that came close to our wheels. I had blackberry cobbler with ice cream but ate it before I thought of taking a pic:( We're planning another night ride in early October so I'll take a re-enactment photo of the event;)

I didn't really ride. I sagged for a century ride.

Didn't even get 1 mile from the start and found a cluster of riders by the side of the road. Somebody hadn't installed their inner tube right so they deflated the tire and reinstalled it. I came along just in time to offer the use of a real floor pump.

The second "rescue" was a woman who punctured, fixed her own flat and immediately flatted again. Unfortunately for her she had 650c wheels so nobody, including me, had a spare tube the right size. I did, however, have a patch kit. I patched both tubes (the second one was a pinch flat), and she finished the century.

I also did a quickie rear derailleur adjustment and trued a fairly new wheel for a fellow who had a bunch of loose spokes. He needs a full retensioning job. That's not much work for a 10 hour day. If I had charged full shop prices for everything that I did it wouldn't even cover my gasoline costs.

NO PIE :sigh: I think that's my own fault. Next year I think that I'll negotiate for a complete Dutch apple pie from a local bakery if they want me to sag.

Today is overcast and looks like rain. I'm going to spinning class in the morning and watching the Rams game with some friends in the afternoon.

How's that working out Yen? Does he enjoy riding it?

'dude, thanks for asking. He loves riding it. He says it's a much better leg work-out yet he feels so good otherwise that he could keep going all day. His left shoulder was stiff later, but I think there could be scar tissue or adhesions left over from surgery that is causing that. The joint itself is fine.

Saturday, I was going to ride down to a diner I know in Albany that has good pie but when I called they were out of blueberry. I rearranged my ride plans to go to Troy's (NY) Chowder Festival. I took a small plastic container with me and stopped at a diner close by. I asked for a small slice of blueberry pie to be put in the container, when she returned the container was packed full of pie!

I followed the Erie Canalway Trail to it's end in Cohoes and then surface streets to Troy, about 22 miles .

At the chowder fest. I sampled a few and then ran into a restaurant owner I know, he gave me a larger portion of his excellent New England clam chowder. I walked the bike down to the marina and ate on the dock. I ate all of the chowder. The pie portion was huge and I ended up giving half of that to a Golden Retriever that was hanging around. He approved of the pie.

I rode back up the other side of the river for a total of 45 miles.

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My pie are squared :thumb:

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Troy Chowder Fest

Sat. I rode with another 50+ BF member NealH on the 60 mile Tour de Tuck which had over 6000' of climbing. We managed a 3:55 ride time/4:11 total in perfect weather. Today we joined some other riders for a 34 mile "recovery" ride. I don't think 20+ mph average is a recovery pace especially when there is over 1500' of climbing. Another beautiful day though.