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September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound
Aug 26^th, 2007, 6:36pm

I would like to host an rbent ride in my hometown of Flower Mound on Saturday, September 8th, start time 8am. Start location is the strip center where Bicycles Plus is located, on the SW corner of Long Prairie (aka 2499) and Flower Mound Rd (aka 3040).

For those who have not ridden in Flower Mound, there are a lot of great, paved roads, light traffic, and lots of hills. This area is a mecca for DFW area cyclists. I can easily ride 50-75 miles and unless by choice, not ride the same roads twice.

Nelson, Charlie and Robert have ridden with me and can attest to the great riding. As a matter of fact, Nelson and I rode yesterday, and even though it was HHH, we saw 50-60 riders in a relatively short amount of time.

Personally, I'd like to ride 50 miles (or more) with as much climbing (or hill repeats) as possible. Depending on the varied interest of potential rbent'ers, I could pre-design several different routes/distances/climbing.

As I type, my wife just volunteered to make "healthy" breakfast burritos, Shocked

so please let me know if you'd like to join us.

Ray Torrey

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FlyingLaZBoy Moderator '16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha Posts: 5803	Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound Reply #1 - Aug 26^th, 2007, 6:57pm Excellent, Ray! I would suggest trying to plan out three routes -- one with "extra" hills as you describe, one of similar distance "without", and a shorter route for a casual group.
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Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound
Reply #2 - Aug 26^th, 2007, 8:25pm

Ray: I'll have to check the official calender, but to the best of my knowledge I should be able to make it. It IS a great track and I'll definitely look forward to seeing those roads again. Lots of DFs for the testosterone charged folks to chase down! I am probably good for about 50 miles if there are places to stop a couple of times. See you in a couple of weeks.
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Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound
Reply #4 - Aug 27^th, 2007, 6:11am

Awesome - I'll have to learn to design routes on bikely.com pretty quickly. I wanted to design a 200k Permanent anyway, so this is the perfect imputus to get me started.

p.s. There is a 200k Lone Star Randonneur Brevet, leaving from Italy (Tx) this Saturday, 9-1-07 at 7:30am. I'll be there, and from what I've been reading, it will be well represented. Hope to see some of the rbent family there as well.

Have a great week everyone.

Ray Torrey

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MkCharlie rbent member Posts: 10	Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound Reply #5 - Aug 27^th, 2007, 3:37pm I'll be there too. Charlie
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound Reply #6 - Aug 27^th, 2007, 6:50pm Oh man I'll want the shock fork installed before that!
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Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound
Reply #8 - Aug 31^st, 2007, 7:55pm

Ok everyone, I just designed my first route on bikely. It's a common 35 route ridden in the Flower Mound area by many bike clubs. Not too many flat areas, and a steep climb of about 11% around mile 18. See the elevation profile. I hope this link works:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Flower-Mound-Argyle-35-mile-loop

This route is what I intended on introducing for our September 8th ride. Since I'm a newbie, please let me know if this is too short, too long, acceptable, etc... Also, do I need to provide a turn-by-turn cue sheet?

I'll also design a longer route (50 miles or so) that goes west to Justin, and depending on the mileage, there are good roads to go even father west to Eagle Mountain.

Comments/suggestions are welcome.

Ray Torrey

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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound Reply #9 - Aug 31^st, 2007, 10:10pm definately will want the longer route! Nicely done, Ray.
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Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound
Reply #10 - Aug 31^st, 2007, 10:14pm

Looks good, Ray. We have a wide variety of riders, so no matter what kind of route you lay out, someone will find it too long, too short, too hilly, too flat, etc. I say just pick a route you like, and lead it. Having a second distance can accommodate more riders, but then you have to recruit someone to lead that route.

My bout with bronchitis is gone and forgotten, so I'll have no excuse if I can't huff and puff myself up those hills.

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robert.j rbent member Posts: 429	Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound Reply #11 - Aug 31^st, 2007, 10:42pm Oops. Had no sooner said I could come than I got a call about a meeting at church I pretty much have to be at (what kind of church has meetings at 7:30 AM on Saturdays anyway?!). Possibly I can meet up with you somewhere along the way, but don't count on me being there. Robert
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Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound
Reply #13 - Sep 2^nd, 2007, 3:07pm

Hi Everyone - well I modified the 35 mile route to create a 50 mile route. The I saved the name of the file as "Flower Mound/Argyle 50 mile loop". I assumed BIKELY would have created and saved the file as the new route, however, it replaced the 35 mile route with the 50 mile route and kept the original name. So, the route is 50 miles now but the file name remained as it was.

I learned that I should have started from scratch to create the new route. Now, time permitting, I'll create the original 35 mile route.

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Flower-Mound-Argyle-35-mile-loop

I'll drive the 50 mile route later today or tomorrow and create an Excel cue sheet.

Does anyone know how to change the name of a file in bikely? I need to change the name since the name references 35 miles and it's now 50 miles.

Sorry for the confusion. Unless the group that has responded wants to ride the 35 mile route, we'll be riding the 50 mile route next Saturday, 9-8, beginning at 8am. As a reminder, my wife will make breakfast burritos, so I would appreciate anyone who hasn't responded, letting me know that you'll join. My cel phone is 817-975-8638.

Have a great week everyone.

Ray Torrey

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FlyingLaZBoy Moderator '16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha Posts: 5803	Re: September 8 Recumbent Ride in Flower Mound Reply #14 - Sep 3^rd, 2007, 10:08pm I"m pretty sure I'll be there, as well.... This route goes through some of the same sections from the Best of the Northwest ride we did back in June, that Bud and Greg came out on -- I see some sections I've been on before, when we started from Big Buck's... PB
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