spingineer

shhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brittany's gonna kill me now ... you let the cat outta the bag

msincredible

I did my Feb 16th ride already.

Traversed one country, crossed the border to another, wandered around a bit, then returned back. Have to work out the miles, especially considering the few times I got a bit turned around and did some extra loops.

Oh and got into a bit of trouble with the border patrol. How was I supposed to know that a bicycle is a motorcycle, not a pedestrian?

spingineer

lol ... So what country are you in now? You cross more borders in one ride than I do in 4 years

Be careful out there. Glad you didn't get thrown into the slammer. Was the border patrol cute at least?

It's been so long since we've been on a ride. When you get home, we gotta do a ride together (but hopefully I'll be able to keep up with you)

Take care

Bostic

I'm awake, sorta. Never can sleep much before a bf.net ride.

sweetnsourbkr

Good morning everyone. I'll see you in Dubbie.

msincredible

Singapore with a quick venture into Malaysia.

msincredible

Have a great ride, guys!

spingineer

Damn ... I can't believe it. I missed the ride. I was on the north side of the bart station. Only after coming home, I realize there is probably parking on the south side (and probably where everyone started). Well, 64 miles in the car today at least. At least I'm back here in time to catch a club ride.

Sorry, no pictures from spingineer on this ride today.

alainp

Oh, man. So sorry, Ron. Yup, we were on the south side of the station and wondering whether or not you were gonna make it. I'll try to post pics later tonight and I know Pete has tons of pics too. Again, sorry we missed you.

spingineer

That's ok alain. I actually was planning to only to the Palomares climb anyways, and head back. I ended up doing my own hills back home.

sweetnsourbkr

Alain, what happened to you guys??? You dialed it to 400 watts and droped the hamer on us and disappeared.

fc_

grrrrrrr......

It was just so not my day!

With all of the best intentions, I set out this morning, only to miss the bart train that would get me there by 7am by a few minutes. I guess the next one got me there 10-15 minutes after 7. With the cold at that hour, I didn't really want to work on any kind of chase (heck, it was hard enough to talk myself into riding), and simply set on down the road towards sunol at a leisurely pace, hoping that maybe someone was slower than me that morning (a futile thought! but it kept me going).

Headed up Palomares, things got worse, 3 flats on the ride up! Fortunately, that was the number of tubes I had with me, having stopped at a bike shop earlier that week to stock up. Not wanting to push things with the cycling gods, who were for some reason not on my side today, I decided to head back through castro valley and back home. A plan that was going fine until......

You guessed it another flat! Bugger! Out with the patch kit. Managed to get things patched up and finish back to the san leandro area.

Hope the group had a good ride, maybe next time, I'll have better luck, today was just not my day.

(ps: swung by robinson wheel works on the way home to pick up more tubes, and to add salt to my wounds, they were closed today for a trade show. Hows that for a Finish?? )

sweetnsourbkr

fc_ sorry to hear of your misfortunes. You must live near me in SL. Maybe we can get together for a ride sometime?

Bostic

Glen set off on a ridiculous pace and I just barely managed to stay with the group. That last section was more difficult than all the climbs.

alainp

Bostic said it best. We were trying to keep up with Glen who set a quick pace. That last stretch really tired me out.

jobob

I couldn't keep up with Glenn if my life depended on it. But LOS and sweetnsour and I had a lovely return ride

Great ride, everyone !

Really sorry we missed you, Ron.

And Sean, sorry about all the grief you had this morning. Some other time, hopefully.