[DO NOT POST RIDE REPORTS HERE, THE ORIGINAL THREAD IS WORKING -- PB]
 
 
Got up early, ate cereal, read paper, worked crossword and rolled out about 10:15am with no distinct riding plan. Cloudy and windy. I left my home and headed northward through southwest Garland and into southeast Dallas, Then looped back southward around Eastfield college into Mesquite's northwest corner (I think) and then through the upper edge of Sunnyvale and back home.  While the OTHER clowns were circling WRL at a high rate of speed. I was doing my "Tour of Four Cities"
 
UH-OH--my statistics: 25.1 miles @10.1 miles per hour.  A great fun ride and saw four burgs

Quote from Sweeper on Sep 18^th, 2012, 5:05pm:

 
Speaking of "burgs", Kenny and I finished off today's Clown ride with "burg"ers, fries, onion rings, and home-made root beer at the Dairyette. Larry and Bob each consumed your favorite Dairyette treat, a root beer float, in your honor. Too bad you weren't there.    

Uhhh... why did you start a new thread on this?????  

The old thread does seem to be locked up as it rejected my post yesterday.
 
Then my phone locked up so I just chucked the post.  Did ride to work from the LMRA yesterday. The ride is about eight miles and average speed was about 13 mph with a top of 31. Only had one incident: a big woman in a huge truck rolled right out of a strip parking lot without looking. Since I already had the lane I eased over to the left a little more to where I'd miss her as I passed (doing about 20 at this point) and yelled "hey!!" as loud as I could. The movement or voice finally caught her attention and she squeeked to a stop.
 
Other then that, it was great to be back on the bike.  
 
Carl
 
P.S. there was actually a lot more to the ride as this was my first "shakedown cruise" since getting the Lightning back together. I'll have to write about that later because I am walking into work now.

Another 30 mile weekend and I didn't even ride on Saturday.

Got off early from work, so I thought I'd try to get in 45 miles this morning. Trinity Trails from Gateway Park to Benbrook and back again. On the way out, I rode a few miles with a nice guy on a ICE trike. I told him all about the club and he said he'd love to come out and ride some time.  
 
Nice weather, and everything was perfect until I got to the river crossover heading back to Gateway. There was water on the concrete, and three large white birds blocking the way. I went wide to avoid the birds, and accelerated to go up the ramp when the bike slid out from under me.  
 
I slid about five or ten feet, skinning my arm pretty bad and bruising my left hip as well as my pride. This bummed me out to no end, because I'd just replaced my tires with something much more grippy, so to be sliding was not in my plans. Took about five minutes for me to extricate the chain from the front chain wheel where it looked like the bottom bracket tried to eat it. Oh well, things were going so well...
 
Putting bandages on my arm and pricing out a Catrike 700 as I speak.
 
 

Please don't post here, to avoid duplicate threads -- the old thread is working, not sure what the problem was...
 
Thanks!
Paul