Sundays M2M ride. I am all set to go. I am battling a minor cold(drove today, ugh!). Hopefully I will be fully recovered by Sunday.
GB send me a cue so I can print it out for the "hard of seeing";-) Maybe I should get 'cues on tape' and listen.

That's what NR does with vz navigator. :)
Here's the full cue sheet for M2M:
http://www.baltobikeclub.org/index.p...7919&no_html=1

NR... Yeah, that's a bit of a hike up and back and up and back again. :) Love to come ride another time though.

As for the bike. Picked up a MASI 3VC Team Issue carbon w/ SRAM Force and Spinergy wheels. :D Love it and SUPER fast.

I think that's what Barry used when we mnt. biked through Wyman park. Thanks for the cue, lots and lots of turns!!! Still got the cold, drove again just so I can be healthy on Sunday.

tried to download the cue but keeps saying...Illegal download. Where are you sending me, some porn site?? Don't worry about it.

Hey Harry good luck in coaching tomorrow.

M2M is gonna be a hot one.

@ those of riding tomorrow. See ya at the monument. Still got my cold. I ride sweep as I'll be shooting snot rockets all the way to DC:-)

Edit: @ GB nevermind I got it at BC site.

Nearly. That's the link from the BBC cue download. It no workie no more.
Must be the curse of the of the dynamic link again. Not helpful at all BBC

I uploaded an updated version to my googledocs.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=...YjY5MDg4&hl=en

It will be interesting tomorrow. Might be several new faces (I hope) and several challenging you for the "lantern rouge"
I will be riding it slow and steady, trying to keep the rests as short as possible.
Might not see NR tomorrow. He melted in today's heat. I'm sure he'll give gory details.

As did I. :eek: (Tho' not with NR.) I decided rather impulsively to ride the Six Pillars Century -- it starts out of Cambridge, and winds through the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. The short story: yes, I made it, despite not having ridden any further than 40 miles at a pop this year, but I was feeling like an over-broiled chicken by the end.

Gotta eat something and shower; details later.

I look forward to pics. I was at the stadium with the t ballers. Got in 24 miles this am just to stay on track. May 2nd=89 degrees= global warming.

M2M was excellent. 13 riders in all, most made the entire ride. Met some really nice folks. Some from Velocipede, some BBC and some BF. I struggled near the end. I leave the big write-up for GB.
My legs were starting to cramp especially when I got to the hills near my home. I'm showered, fed and sipping a nut brown ale now:-)
My totals were (no century today) 99.31 miles @ 13.4mph. Not blistering but the sun was. That's the most miles I have ridden under a century. A few years back I rode 99.1 miles. That last mile can be tough.
Bob good job.

This AM's commute was wet, muggy and very late. I was still spent from yesterdays ride and raining buckets so I rolled over bed and took the "last train to Beltsvillle".

@ GB: Here's a link to the Met Branch trail. http://www.metbranchtrail.com/map.html
Take a look at the crossing at Michigan(I think). the one next to the Basillica. It looks like the trail goes under Mich?? or this trail also has some problems crossing Mich. We were riding parallel to the trail along 4th and 2nd.

Had a blast yesterday. Thanks Charlie, always great riding with you.
That Met Branch Trail is exactly what we needed. That would cut off all of that nasty 4th and Florida mess. However, according to their site the section we would have needed (New York ave to Rhode Island ave) will not be completed until May. (which of course, it is, but doesn't look like they are quite done yet.)

Ride report coming. Today, I'm finishing up my Long Distance riding talk for this tuesday at Velocipede.

"I'm finishing up my Long Distance riding talk for this tuesday at Velociped"

When is the talk? Anybody else get invited to the Baltimore Bike Alliance meeting tonight?
It's in Hampden near the intersection of Falls and 41st. Let me know if you want info.

7PM http://velocipedebikeproject.org/news/

You coming?

"You coming?"

I would have to cut out of my son's b ball game early, so maybe.

Would have loved to have done the MtoM yesterday, like that route, but dad duty trumps all.
I'll get on one of these Rando rides someday.

Will you talk about sub 240 rides? believe that's an overnighter.

I think I'm going to be in that neck of the woods after work for another errand -- if so, I shall be there! (I promise not to throw any popcorn.) :D

Sorry I missed the M2M ride. I had to get into some woods, and I did so. . . once again on the fixed. About 200 miles over three days, with about 6,000 ft elevation gain, half of that accrued on Saturday alone. I don't know exactly how hot it was but, holy eff, that day in particular was all kinds of brutal. Starting off ragged after camping a little too close to a marsh by a locked-up PATC cabin by Burkittsville, my route had me climbing off that bat up South Mountain. There was a great deal of pushing and cussing of the lord involved in that, as well as a flat tire. Got to Boonsboro and set about climbing South Mountain once again, going kinda/sorta the other way (back over it), and after no climbing break to speak of, started up the backside of Catoctin Mountain. The theory of relativity as it pertains to bikes going up steep hills with no gears and heavy loads was full in effect: the only descents I can really think of was going down the backside of South Mountain the first time and saying to a hurt-looking, climbing spandex roadie, "If I can do it. . . " And then going down the hill in Catoctin, which was amazing. At a bar in Thurmont, as I walked in, someone shouted out, "You a horse jockey!?" (Context: they were watching, and had all bet on, the Kentucky derby.) Anyhow, I didn't even know Maryland had those kind of mountains.

Sunday's ride home, 60 or so miles I guess, felt like cake: tail wind, predominantly downhill, saw some weird country thanks to Google bike directions (dirt roads, thanks), two huge snakes. A good feeling is rolling into town on Liberty through Randallstown and all you can smell for like two miles is Old Bay.

I took some snaps of this trip, but they were done with my TLR so I have wait to get the film developed etc.

@ bob Don't forget to mention the manna from heaven....The mangoes. They saved my behind.
@ HArry: I was suppose to get info on that meeting. Rachel (1 less car) said I was on the email list. Apparently not. Please post the info for me as well as others. I can't make tonight though. if there's an email link post that as well. If you go post about it tomorrow. Find out how this group differs from the Mayors bike group. I hope they differ greatly because I hate when we have more committees than volunteers.
@elk: nice report, still working the fixing I see!! South mnt is big

Hey, M2M was amazing. thanks for setting it up, Bob

(btw this is Boson, member of velocipede.... on the long haul. according to rod's computer we ended up with 98 miles or so and that + my commute to and from the monument meant that I did my first century yesterday...)

and yes, rando talk at the shop 7pm... it should be cool.

when's the next rando ride?

First, this is different than the mayor's bike group in that it's independent of city hall. (I also don't think what the mayor's bike group does is advocacy in the classic what-we-need sense, this is. Compare to WABA.) The Baltimore Bicycle Alliance will be a collection of interested and active folks in the city's bike community that will be getting together to, first, set an agenda (what we need to have happen in Baltimore) and write up a mission and so forth. These initial meets will be focused on that and the more people involved from as many different parts of the Baltimore bike community, the better. The first meeting is set for tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Knott Foundation in Hampden.

Pics of BB & BBW May Day Roll http://www.flickr.com/photos/4901434...7623859118143/

FWIW The Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee is a grassroots organization and has no ties to City Hall other then that they recognize us as representing cyclists in the city. OLC Baltimore Bicycle Alliance is to focus on Baltimore City and County (if not the rest of the metro area.) This should have some advantages being recognized as a non-profit advocacy group, what else they can do depends on involvement.
I'm bummed I missed the M2M ride, sounds awesome!

Hi Boson! :welcome

I guess when you have in the name "Mayor's", it doesn't come of as particularly independent. Aren't there city employees on the committee? I also don't see much if any outreach or advocacy--which is different from representation--from the advisory committee. There's a feeling of city government insider-ness, I would say.

where's Isaias?? No trip report, no twitter? What's up?

Bike Alliance: The fact they include Baltimore Co. is good, as Balto county is way behind the biking curve. Heck we make PG county look good.
I will say that on the few Mayor bike committee meetings I witnessed I saw nothing that would indicate that the Mayor(or others) influenced the decisions of the group. They seemed very independent to me.

My bad sorry, one less car was being filtered out in my gmail acct lately.

I know he had a nasty spell of cramping on his Saturday ride.
I was a bit concerned too, but I checked his bim tracking and noticed he rode in today.