gmcaptain

This is exactly what I'm looking for. You know anyone who could do something similar to that pulp fiction thing.. minus the heroine OD.


Ummmm... I don't think it would be a good idea to mention this conversation when she's around.

Matthew A Brown

I wish I could nominate this thread for something.



Quality, people. Quality.

mikearena

Shameless. Completely shameless.

I don't mind, cheap, shady hotels, if you're already making reservations.

NextDollarAfter

I would really enjoy a ride through downtown. definitely fun.
there are definitely some good houses, and this one spot on the beach.....

Matthew A Brown

Curious, what meanst thou by "some good houses"? With people you know in 'em?

NextDollarAfter

by good houses I mean really chill. Where going crazy can happen without the interference of cops/neighbors whatever.
and yeah,I was thinking of places with folks I know in 'em

Matthew A Brown

Super Rookie

hey.

how far is the track driving time from you guys in gainseville?

just trying to get some information...

i am down there in march...

floridatrackcycling.com has some listed race dates on it...whooo

adamkell

about 5 hours, I think.

WithNail

I hate the fact that racing starts in late january. You suck! I want to race...

WithNail

Alright I have my last exam this afternoon so I can start working on this again... What do you guys say to making this an annual/semiannual event?

I just found out some pretty important information though. Appearently because of the hurricane the lighting system has been knocked out and they haven't replaced the bulbs so the track closes at 5pm. I wasn't planning on making this much later than that anyway but it still kind of sucks. I hope they have things fixed by the event that way if some people want to, we could go out and ride the track at night. That just seems like it would be cool to me. exams SUCK!

adamkell

but you're almost finished!

I turned in my last deliverable of the semester yesterday, then worked on freelance stuff until midnight, went to gmcaptain's graduation party until 3, and woke up at 7 for a freelance client meeting. It never quite ends?

Regular event? Yea, awesome, but lets try to get through the first one without any casualties first.

Matthew A Brown

Oh, I thought I posted to this? Huh.


Given we'll have a total of two evenings in town, and even best case one of those at the track, I don't think it'd be a problem to have just the more randomish stuff that night. That might be a good time for me to learn how to, yknow, trackstand n'stuff. For example. And of course this just applies to us outtatown folks.

dommer

wow i seriously cant wait for this.

ill be coming down from orlando with the one other person in know in this town that rides fixed. so if anyone needs to bum a ride from orlando get in touch with me. we are working out logistics on getting the two bikes down in my girlfriends honda but im sure we could figure out three. so PM me if this could be any help to you.

also it had been almost two years since id been on a bike till about a month ago, if you need someone to help out at a checkpoint or something my out of shape self would be glad to help and not look like a fool.

jamey

yeah bro. i'm glad you're going.

jamey

does anyone know if you can ride with bullhorns on the track? i usually ride with risers and the only other bars i have are bullhorns and some old 3T road bars that are kinda trackish for road bars which might work ok but i'd rather not use them.

WithNail

yes you can ride with bullhorns on the track.

jamey

good to hear. i was hoping i wasn't going to have to splurge on some new bars that will hardly ever get used.

Matthew A Brown

Looks like touring is waaaay out for me at this point. Can't really afford to spend the three days poopin around. Eh.

But if yr friend is still interested in going she's quite welcome to the routes and such. It would be a quite reasonable route to take, assuming she'd be able to depart from Brandon pretty early whatever day. First night would be at a state park, so one could likely spring for lodging there, and I gather there'd be something around Okeechobee. Meaning, one wouldn't have to do this fully loaded or anything.




How many people we up to at this point?

! - me
! - A Kell
! - gmcaptain
! - mikearena
! - withnail
! - jamey
! - kraziefoo
! - nextdollar

? - chimbly - ?
? - tallanasty - ?

dommer

you can add two kids that no one besides jamey knows.

im excited to meet everyone and have a little fun dicking around on my bike.

NextDollarAfter

me and my two friends went to go ride the velo today. Ended up not being able to unfortunately. Looks really nice though, seems like no one uses it. When asking about renting a bike, it seemed like there was no deposit, just $5 period.

Matthew A Brown

Why weren't you able to ride?

tallanasty

You wanna ride it before wed? That's when I'm leaving back to Tally.

jamey

tallanasty what's your name? i think i met someone in tally that rides a khs and was wondering if you are him.

tallanasty

My names Robert. And I was the only kid riding a KHS until like 2 weeks ago.