Saturday 1/9/10 Ride Report

Nice sunny day for a 2.5 hr ride of the local gravel roads. About 20 degrees at start. Jim Allan put together a great route and brought the coffee as well. Rob R., Steve B., Kahuna and Jim were great company......Hope the roads treated other CB's well today.

SNOW JOB

What do you call a ride that is only a third of the time it took to get there? Usually a mountain bike ride, but in this case it was last night's Bastard Ride. For every foot I went forward, I slidsideways two. While Craig (and a sweet new SS Tricross!) CD, Doez, and Jeff Z charged ahead, I turned tail and headed back not too far into the ride. I thought they'd be gone for an epic dash to discover the North Pole but it wasn't long before they were back in the lot and drinking Craig's beers. After that it was off to the HC for beers and some kind of strange fried fish. Here are a few photos to give you a taste of what it's like when crazy turns stupid.

Here's Craig (above) getting ready to take his new ride out into the cold and snowy night.

Hard man Jeff Z put in the most miles in truly tough riding conditions. He rode from home and then back again. This is what he looked like up ahead of me all night. Okay for about 30 or 40 minutes before I chickened out and headed back to the car like Mr. Grumpy.

 

Every wonder what goes on inside the HUP United van on a cold and snowy night? Strange things folks, strange things. This looks like the traditional one-legged kilt dance the Hupsters always perform before their rides. It's quite rare to actually see this. Consider yourself lucky. I guess.

Any one riding tonight?

Curious if anyone is riding tonight...?
If so, what where the conditions last Tuesday????
traction or icy? Have my single speed built up, & looking to ride, but might have to switch some tires over...
currently has a small block 8 on the back...

Tuesday Ride Report Continued.....

I’m not sure when I’ll be able to show my face again, very sad indeed. They actually move their start time up to 6:30 pm, just so they could kick snow in our faces. What could we do, we were out numbered 2:1?

An Evening both Sad and Superb

Four Bastards showed up to ride tonight: Kim, Tony, Jeff Z, and me, along with a bunch of mountain bikers. Here comes the sad part: there were more mountain bikers than bastards! We started together (here comes the sadder part) until we got dropped by the MBers! WTH! We chased them up Tiffany to 7-mile where we lost 'em (or they lost us). Which was OK, because that's where the evening turned superb. We took 7-mile out to Ashley then Jeff suggest we continue on out to Montcalm. Wise choice as the road was beautiful and the traffic nil. We headed south on Montcalm to 4-mile and then turned west to come home. Finished the ride with just over 25 miles.

Tuesday, 1/5

Any bastards riding tonight? Haven't yet decided if I'll be venturing out....

Baby Bastard Sighting!

It 's true! I saw Baby Bastard Patrick w/ mine own eyes - here in the shop last week.

Yea Verily, 'tis the truth.

He looked like the Patrick of old - no outwardly visible signs of SoCal deterioration, although he sort of implied that he wasn't ridin' much. He did spew some nonsense about "no 'cross scene in SoCal" (but why wouldja live there then, huh?) but said that he was tryin' to get out a bit now and then.

Lotsa blather about a wedding next summer - sounds like it's gonna happen in Grand Haven.

Thought a few of you Olde Skool Bastards might wanna know - prollly a buncha you goin' "whointhehell is that?"

Oh well.

See you Bastards on the 14th, ie the "return of MC"

MC