Thanks.

It's kind of neat to see folks who are just starting out--some of them graduates of the BBC's Instructional Ride Series.

Bud led and much of the time I "swept" since I was the only one riding with a lit tailight the entire ride--came in handy on the busier roads to give other road users "heads-up".

Today's club ride:

https://bimactive.com/ba/journal/post/10783/26704

That frame looks great. Mine is there now. I'm going white with some sort of custom decal graphics.

Met Bennett out in Montana on an AC tour. He's a bit more into the rando than I.

I did run 11 miles on Saturday, pre run of the Balt half marathon course. Ran from Patt Prk up the east side (pretty) to L Montebello-over 33rd (all up) and then down St. Paul back to the harbor and Patt Prk. I won't describe my post run ailments, but I am out of commish for a few days.

I was on my fendered bike as well, no rain but wet riding through the clouds up on the ridge. I felt pretty good passing others with heavy commuter/touring bikes, as it felt more like a direct comparison. I don't think I passed you though, a couple Long Haul Truckers. Some gal on a racing rig grunted past me and offered the compliment of "you are beast on that thing"

Hey folks: No rec riding for me last wknd. Lots of yard work and a little brewing. Work the weekend before that thus I am ready to ride on Sunday. GB & NR still in? Anyone else? What time do you guys want to meet up? Where? GB, what is the name of the pub you want to ride to? What time do we go and heckle...I mean cheer Max on? You want to be home by 3ish? Should we do some riding before we go over to Columbia? Some big 'ole Catonsville Hills? I'll run sweep on the hills, "way" behind you guys just to make sure you make it up them

I'll answer myself, Victorias Gastro Pub. Just saw their beer list...Ayinger Oktoberfest on draught One of the best Oktoberfest out there. Lots of other good beers as well.
The ride is Sunday morning, details to follow.

did you say brewing?

(god I wish I could be out there riding with you guys. Issues with the rebuild are driving me nuts.)

Rick, whenever you get squared away with the build, you are welcome to join us, if we're in an area you can get to.

Saturday's ride report on the new blog.
(apologies for the poetic license NR)
https://bikingbeerandtoast.blogspot.c...oes-legit.html

Great report, Bob!

You didn't have to infer. You could have "outted me".

So, when's the 300k non-brevet ride?

Nice little report. It does sound kind of silly or at least geeky, secret controls and all. Along the lines of geocaching. I would still like to try Paris Brest Paris someday, and a good excuse to go back to Paris.

Since this was my first brevet I don't have any others to compare with. After a couple emails with Crista and Bill Beck, I have learned that the number of controls, especially the informational controls, was much higher than usual on this ride. Makes sense too- it was a short (for a brevet) ride along a very historic route. Most 200k rides have 3 controls at food stops.

Great write-up on the brevet, GB! And you made NR sound so . . . mysterious.

Well, the Airborne is all clean and shiny, new tires, headlights re-installed (I had swiped the NOBs from it to put on the 520 for commuting -- I've had replacement NOBs for a while, just never got around to putting them on), new batteries in all the helmet and bike lights.

I have NO IDEA what I'm getting myself into for the Booty ride, but I'm just going to have as much fun as possible. Which is more or less my general approach to most things in life, I guess, known or unknown.

If you guys make it out there, give me a call. I'll set my cell phone to "stun" to be sure I wake up -- errrrrr, NOTICE it.

Hey Max: What time will you be riding? Sunday is starting to look pretty sketchy, PM better than AM, Saturday is "mo better". At this point I'm going for it. Sundays weather should only affect my total mileage. Just tapped my Oktoberfest...not too shabby, I'll be one of those people handing out "water " bottles. Are you guys sleeping along Columbia Gateway in tents? How is that going to work.

Gb nice write up. I've wanted to ride an official one as well. Unfortunately my mind wanders and I would miss a station thus would not "get credit".
Harry: PBP has been on my mind as well but in all seriousness I doubt I could complete it. A few years ago maybe, these days doubt it. But I am thinking about L'Eroica
https://www.eroica.it/index_en.php
Trek: crank the wrench and have some beer.

Have y'all seen this light? Cheap as it gets and 900 lumen
https://www.geomangear.com/index.php?...roducts_id=138
People in the lighting forum are wetting their pants over it. Everything for $89 is really tough to beat.

Max, you rock.
Okay, so the weather is s'pose to be crap, but the whole thing's gonna be kind of an acid trip anyway. Right? I guess it might as well be a wet one.

I'll be there rain or shine sunday morning, hopefully with NR and Charlie too.
I'll just make up a schedule right now- howsabout I leave Hampden at 8AM. Get to Charlie's around 9AM, git to Columbia around 10AM get to Victoria's around 12PM and start heading back home around 1PM?

Go Max!

@GB - Where do you want to meet? I thought we talked about Carroll Park. Time?

@Max - I hope your overnight in the weather won't be too bad.

8:30?

Sounds fine with me. You choose; I'll be there.

Yes, the weather forecast is looking "ish" (as an old friend of mine used to say.) But, hey, as long as I'm able to get my tent set up while the skies are still dry (which it looks like I will be), I'm happy. My tent has been through absolutely torrential thunderstorms; nary a drop gets inside. I my tent.

As for the riding, oh, well -- I've ridden through a few day-long downpours (and I recall a Seagull Century that was not only rainy, but windy and cold as well!) The low temps are expected to be 55-60, so that's not bad at all, and the weather is supposed to get nicer as Sunday progresses. I haven't done a night-time rainy ride (except for the occasional getting caught on the commute home, but that's only 45 minutes, tops.) I'll be fine. The rain will just give me one more thing to ***** about -- errrrrr, focus on -- so I don't get bored.

Charlie, the ride officially ends at 4:00 on Sunday afternoon -- they do a "last victory lap" or something at 3:45. My plan is to ride through as much of the night as I can, maybe catch a 90 minute nap or so in the wee hours (maybe I'll wait 'til when it's raining the hardest, LOL!) and be back out again by sunrise or so. So if all goes well, I should be upright and rolling whatever time you all arrive on Sunday.

Oh, sorry, forgot to answer Charlie's question about our sleeping arrangements.

All the riders will be camping (if they want to) on the lawn next to the Merkle building -- 7001 Columbia Gateway Drive. So the route won't literally go in front of where the tents are.

Family and friends are encouraged to support riders, but I don't know the details on where they let you go. I know they don't want non-participants on the course, which is closed off with cones. (Basically, as I understand it, it's one lane of the Columbia Gateway loop; the other lane is open to car traffic.)

There was a map on the Booty Web site -- I forwarded it to somebody, maybe Bob? a while back. It's hard to find, though (their Web site layout isn't the greatest, IMHO.)

MOntgomery county here. Wanting to get a group together to bike. Trying to train to start racing

I know that my team (ABRT/Latitude) is going to start doing some rides around Frederick and Thurmont if you are interested. Head east and there are tons of rides out of the Davidsonville area. BBC is big out of Baltimore and there are a number of rides right around DC (NCVC and Route 1 Velo have a large presence there).

Heck, come out to Columbia and meet a few of us as we cheer on Maxine.

I was thinking about going to cheer on Maxine too. I also want to see that expo I read about on the Booty site. I thought it was Saturday as well, was I wrong? Which would be the better day?

rizz, I'd be interested in some of those rides. I am in Montgomery County.

Maxine's ride goes from 4PM today till 4PM Sunday.

Hang in there Max, looking pretty nasty out there.

GB I hope to meet you guys at Carroll pk. Where do you plan to meet?