Texas - Anyone else riding Bike Around the Bay Oct 10-11?

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yeamac
09-27-09, 10:54 PM
Post here if you are. I am riding a tandem with my 9-yr-old daughter.

http://www.bikearoundthebay.org/

Online registration ends Oct. 5.

SpiderMike
09-28-09, 10:03 PM
I'll be there.
yeamac
09-30-09, 01:30 PM
So it seems only two of us from BF, then. You have quite a collection, Mike ... which bike you gonna ride?

I noticed about 3x the number of cyclists out riding today on the Braes Bayou over my usual lunchtime ride. Probably prepping for either the MS Ride to the River this coming weekend or perhaps BATB next weekend.

SpiderMike
09-30-09, 09:46 PM
I'm still getting over the bug my 18 month old daughter decided to bring home and share. Still not 100%, so I'll be on my Peugeot to play it safe.

Now that I don't have a bike commute, I'm only wishing for ride time prior to the dance.
djetelina
09-30-09, 09:48 PM
Will try to make it myself. Thanks for the reminder!
yeamac
10-02-09, 09:58 PM
Route details are now posted here (http://bikearoundthebay.org/details.htm).
SpiderMike
10-08-09, 10:36 PM
Got my packet. Intersted to see what they mean by bike lift on day two. If y'all don't see number 165.... that was me. :)
yeamac
10-09-09, 12:48 AM
Bike lift = in '07 at the start of the Fred Hartman Bridge, they did not use the on-ramp from the feeder to the bridge for cyclists. Instead, they had us cycle down the feeder road a little farther, then they had a spot where each cyclist had to stop, dismount, and walk up a plywood ramp they had constructed with a green astroturf type stuff covering the floor of the ramp, with a handrail on one side. I remember it being very slippery with road shoes, which I wore at the time. I had to use two hands on the rail and take baby steps just to get up the ramp! If I remember correctly, the "bike lift" was one guy on the ground handing your bike up to a guy on the pavement up above, which was maybe 5-7 feet off the ground level. Can you imagine hoisting 400+ bicycles up that way? I guess they felt the on-ramp was too narrow for cars and cyclists, I don't know ... I don't recall the ramp, but if there was a strange part of the ride, that was it.

I'm getting my packet on Fri because Kirby is much closer to me. I was #32 in '07, imagine I'll be several hundred by the time I pick up my packet this year.

Oh yeah, and my daughter and I have trained all summer in the heat. Don't think we ever rode together in weather much cooler than 80 degrees. Looks like the whole weekend won't even get that warm. Gotta find some warm clothes for her to wear if it is really in the low 60's and wet at the start on Saturday.