cuda2k

We're coming into the peak months for organized charity rides. I am currently looking at making 3-4 rides in the next couple months, leading up to HHH and then on into the fall months. I'll try to keep this first post updated as everyone chimes in with their intended rides and such. I'll kick if off by adding the rides I plan on doing. Information about most of these rides can be found here: Bicycle-Stuff

Mesquite Rotary Bike Ride - June 2nd
mrbubl ?
wayner61 - 56mi

Collin Classic - June 9th
cuda2k - 34mi or 47mi
KevinMcDade - 100k+
tailchaser - 100k
tourist - 47/55/34mi
wayner61 - 100k/55mi
jmccain - 55mi

Gatesville Fire Ant Ride - June 9th
phazer08

Tour de Italia - June 16th
cuda2k - 50mi
lotek
wayner61 - 100k
jim10040 - 30mi

Cow Creek - Waxahachie - June 23rd
cuda2k - 46mi
crdean1 - 46mi?
phazer08 - 46mi
kylen721 -34mi

Tour de Paris - July 21st
cuda2k - 70k or 100k
wayner61 - 100k

Hot Rocks, Rockwall - August 11th
cuda2k - tenitive

Hotter'N Hell Hundred - August 25th
cuda2k - 100k
(there's a full thread for the HHH rollcall)

Cotton Patch Classic - September 15th
cuda2k - 100k
KevinMcDade - 100k+


Autumn in Bonham - September 21/22nd
cuda2k - 100k


Texas Time Trials in Cleburne - September 27th
bluechip

pathdoc

I wanted to ride the Collin Classic but I'm in a masters program at UTD and I have classes that weekend.
Where is the Tour de Italia? I couldn't make it for that one either, I'll be out of the country.

cuda2k

Italy, Texas.

Santorin

I wish I was ready for rides like these. Soon enough I will be, though.

EJ123

I don't have a road bike

cuda2k

They've got rides that are only 20mi or so Santroin. btw, I started riding in late May of 2005, and did my first metric century (64mi) in September of the same year on a 25lb bike that was 3 sizes too big for me. Don't suggest you try the same as far as the wrong size bike, but you could be ready for shorter rides real soon especially if you get a good fitting road bike.

TechJunkie

I'm in for the HTH 100. 100k or the full distance- depends on whether I hit the gates before they close.

TechJunkie

Craigslist- I've done solo metrics on my 30lb Centurion quite regularly- Bar Ends, 27" wheels and 6 speeds. I paid $75 from Fred Demetrovitch in Duncanville. He sells vintage bikes out of a storage unit, and had enough to choose from that I got an absolutely perfect fit for a lugged steel recreational bike. Cost me about another $50 for new cables and tires, vintage barcons.

tourist

What's your size?

kevinmcdade

I'll be doing the Collin Classic and the Cotton Patch Classic whatever the longest distances are.

tailchaser

I'm in for the long (64?) Collin Classic route if I haven't set fire to my bike as an appeasement to the rain gods by then...

cuda2k

Updated, not going to keep the HHH list updated here as we have a long running list in the HHH thread. Not sure what bike I"ll be rolling on this year for Collin Classic, depends if I get the Serotta together by then.

Santorin

Well, I've got my friends mtb with road tires on it, but it isn't the most comfortable. Hopefully, I'll have a road bike soon and can get out there. I think that is really the only thing stopping me. Oh...and those big hills.

MMACH 5

He had a "$20" sale, a few months back.

I got an old Trek 800 for my 9yr old daughter. While I was there I looked around at his other bikes and he's got some sweet rides, (if you're into older, steel bikes with 27" wheels).

Do you know if he is down there every weekend?

Oh yea, my daughter has been piling the miles onto that bike. Quite a bargain!

EJ123

19.5inch for the Fuel. Though the long stem provides the right length, whew. I think a 21in would be fine also.

tourist

You may fit on one of my roadies. I ride somewhere between a 58cm - 61cm depending on brand. My mountain bike was a 21"

You can go to www.wrenchscience.com and use their calculator to get an idea.

Bluechip

What about the Texas Time Trials in Cleburne? It starts 9/27. I will be doing it for the second time. Last year was a total disaster for me. Too many things went wrong for me but this year I will hit the 300 mile mark for sure.
https://www.tt24tt.com/

mrbubl

Don't forget Mesquite this weekend.

June 2, 2007 - Mesquite Rotary Bike Ride, Mesquite, TX - https://www.rodeobikeride.org/

RC_spinner

Put me down for the Collin Classic, 37 mi. And the Tour de Italia, 50 mi. I dont see Hot Rocks in Aug, usually tw weeks before Hotter 'n Hell, or Jackrabbit Stampede in Sept. Are the rides listed on Bikes-Stuff just the ones supported by RBM, or are those rides not yet finalized?

Chris

cuda2k

The ones on the Bicycle-stuff site are those that the organizers have contacted him with information about usually. There's some links in another (stuck) thread in the texas forum with a more comprehensive list of rides state wide.

RC_spinner

Hot Rocks is listed for August 11th via their web site. Count me in for that one

Chris

lotek 

Italy and HHH, I think I'm teaching the weekend of Collin Classic.

tourist

Collin Classic 47 or 55 depending on the heat. If it is like last year I'll probably do the 34.

cuda2k

Agreed. Collin Classic last year is the only ride I've ever SAG'ed in on, and I most certainly wasn't the only one. Though if the forecast stays the way it is currently the heat will be the last of the concerns for the day.

sparat1k

i will probably be in hot rocks and HHH, i was in both last year where it rained on us for an hour in rockwall and you all remember HHH (shutter).

anybody doing commanche cyclone this sunday?