OK since I am the guy with the most daytime time on his hands I'm taking the initiative to have a ride around White Rock Lake. Initially I'm going to suggest a start time of 1800 (6PM) at the same rally point as the Ride of Silence on the west side of the lake off Lawther Dr.using the bike bridges on both ends of the lake.  
 
Bike Portland's ride will have a SB look-alike contest and beard contest, but I don't think I can get that part organized, I'm going to have enough problem with just getting the ride organized. If someone else would like to hold a contest or contests, feel free.
 
Since this is going to be on April Fool's day wearing of goofy costumes will be encouraged, my wife says my normal bike cliothing looks like an April Fool's joke anyway
 
Anybody have the e-mail addy for the guy that's doing the Ride of Silence now? I need to pick his brain some.
 
Opus

Quote from Opus the Poet on Feb 6^th, 2008, 11:28pm:

 
 
fixed    
 
I'll be there in Spirit, since I'll still be coaching baseball in BFE......

Richard, by April 1 it'll be reasonably decent evening light.  No worries...
 
Opus, you might contact Gail Spann, at bikingail@aol.com -- she used to captain the Dallas ROS activities.
 
Paul

Quote from Opus the Poet on Feb 8^th, 2008, 1:18am:

 
Thanks for the wake-up.  I was reading April, but thinking March.
Richard

I'm having a problem getting the frame repaired on my bike (not enough money, and a bad reaction to one of my meds made actually holding on to tools not work for more than a few minutes at a time, 2 or 3 times a day).
 
So, I might need to borrow a bike to have something to ride for the Sheldon Brown Memorial ride.. Anybody have a spare bike or a stoker seat on a tandem?
 
Opus

Our EZ1 is probably available....
 
PB

Bump, I need to keep this ride in your conciousness. I think the rally point for this ride is the boathouse (?) on the west side of the lake, where the Ride of Silence rallies. consider this a warm-up for the RoS!
 
Opus

Quote from Opus the Poet on Mar 11^th, 2008, 5:01pm:

 
 
That's the best location, although that's not where the ROS starts.  But the ROS parking lot is totally torn up with construction at the moment, so the boathouse and Tee Pee Hill parking lots are the best location.

  Bummer Opus, sure hope the fever breaks and you get better ASAP.
Hope your able to regroup by ride time, sometimes these bugs go as quickly as they pop up. The fever could be a good sign that your body is in full warefare against the invading whords of nasties.  
If I ride, I will land at the E.Lawther Bus Stop, so I won't have to worry about parking. I would most likely ride the DF Dawes Lightning Tour because I haven't toted a bike onto a bus / train ever and I'm trying to build up the courage to give it a shot.

Quote from FlyingLaZBoy on Mar 30^th, 2008, 3:06pm:

The Tango has a bobo , it has blown over in the wind on the DERAILLEUR  several times recently plus the time in Grapevine when I caught a high concrete lip turning (attempting to any way ) into a store parking lot off Hwy 26. The result has been the long guide has become way bent causing the gears to not work correctly at the top end (chain went behind the 32T inspite of the correct setup on the stop. If I can fix that, I'll look into toting the Tango even though the Dawes is a WHOLE lot lighter.  

Quote from jman on Mar 30^th, 2008, 4:53pm:

Good news/bad news--After consulting with "The Bike Doc" (aka Eddie ) and reading through one of his many volumes of bike wisdom, I removed the derailleur and used a large crescent wrench to pull the "non-replaceable" hangar as close to true again as possible considering lack of proper tools or previous repair experience  . The hangar section is not what you call "beefy" and after several times of landing on the derailleur for different reasons including learning curve lay over   was not only bent in about 1mm, it was bent inward on the back portion 1mm. I was successful in getting it straightened up close enough to where it is shifting ok with a little tweeking   I just have to watch out when parking to put the bike in a position where it won't be inclinde to role over on the derailleur again.  
Happy days are here again except it looks like gloomy windy weather could mess up plans to ride at White Rock for me tonight.

Quote from FlyingLaZBoy on Apr 1^st, 2008, 9:04am:

 
 
I'm sorry to here this.  
 
I'm taking off work early to be at the Boat House by 6.   We still plan on riding the trikes around the lake.  We find the trikes are much less affected by the wind than by the hills and I don't see rain in the forcast.  We will ride in a clockwise direction (unless overruled by a majority).  We ride slowly, so others will be able to catch up.  Our fastest loop around White Rock so far was Sunday evening and averaged 8.1mph.  
 
We hope to see some other bents there.
 
Richard

Quote from Opus the Poet on Apr 2^nd, 2008, 1:10am:

 
Opus,
I am very sorry to hear you still are not feeling well.
 
Yes, Vicky and I were there.  Unfortunately we didn't see anyone else on a recumbent.  We rode around the lake. It was a great ride.  The weather was perfect.  Made our best time yet, averaged 8.4mph.
 
This is the first time we have parked at the boathouse.  We normally park at the bath house on the east side of the lake.  I like the bath house better because it has more parking and is less crowded.
 
Maybe we can reschedule the SBM ride.
 
Richard