You can trust me!

I know you trust me,but will you lay down for me? I didn't think so,hey, looks like George posted a ride tonight at CJ,if you can go, Looks to be warming up a little,and i think the rain is over with.jj  PS 6:30 pm for some interval work.

Coming to a country road near you!

The Catawba 9.5
Kick & Krank
May 22,2010
Be Ready!

Great Day for Cooking!!!

Great ride guys, There were 11 of us to start with and one turned back because of the cold, it was only 24 degrees,My fingures got pretty cold on the kick up,but coming back was fine,The footbike felt just wonderful,i think i have it zeroed in just right,just gonna get warmer from here on i think with some rain every now and then,We have to start prepairing for the Kick & Krank in May Plus Calvins and Tosrv,3 tuff rides in one month, so get to Crackun boy's!!!PS, we will stay on the alt site till the other gets fixed, jj Clingmans Dome,coming up! yea!!!!!

Site meter!

I think it's our site meter that is messing it up, Tracy is gonna look at it, just hang on,jj

Yea, Baby!

If i find out who or what is causing our blog to mess up, i'll put one of these down there shorts! jj

HANG OUT HERE FOR A WHILE

Mine is messing up again, i sent it in again so i guess we will just hang here till they look at it, i assume yours is not right also, if you are having trouble let me know in the comments and just stay here for a while, we can use this for as long as we have to.jj

What a crowd!!!

Bob & SIS are thinking about expanding if we keep growing..

Draw up the prints BOB , were growin bigger and better!!!

Update

Im going back to the reg blog today, everything looks good, see you there, jj

Breakfast ride/kick! 3/20/10

How cool is this, Saturdays ride/kick-5 footbikes and 8 road bikes,it was great!It was Dan's Birthday(guy in the green shirt)so we all sang happy BD to him, i think everyone had a good time, this is what bike riding is all about! I don't know why my legs hurt?? hahah ! jj

Bout Time!

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/lahood-policy-statement/

Listen up troop!

Now hear this, looks like a good showing tomorrow, there will be at least 5 Scooters on line and i think we might have an extra one if anybody feels goofy,Plus the road bikes, Weather is gona be great and runyan hill is gonna suck! can't have it all you know,James, call them early and tell them we got a crowd coming,let's buggie!!!!! JJ

From the dickster

CALLING ALL HAMMERHEADS (AND ANY OTHER BIKE RIDERS):
Here is a spring challenge to get you to dust off the winter cobwebs:
3.0 MILE GRCP CHALLENGE
(GRCP is George Rogers Clark Park)
This is a time yourself ride (be honest!) to be ridden on or before April 15th. This is
NOT an official event of any kind and is not sanctioned by GRCP, myself, or any other
entity or person. You ride at your own risk. Be careful as the park roads are 2 way
and include winding hills.
I will tally the results and send it via email after 4/15 to all who email their info to
me. I would like sex, age, combined weight of bike and rider, bike type (racing,
touring, mountain, racing recumbent, touring recumbent) and name. I will delete
name from tally of results if requested.
A $50 gift certificate to either Springfield Cyclery or The Bicycle Stop is being
offered to the rider with the quickest time. To verify honesty, the rider must repeat
the ride, with an observer to be designated by me, to within 3% of their submitted
time, on or before April 30th in order to receive the certificate. For example, 10
minutes = 600 seconds x 3% = 18 seconds margin.
I rode this 3.0 mile ride on March 8th in 12 minutes, 0 seconds for an average speed
of 15mph. I am male, 64 years old, 252 lbs bike and rider (yes, I’m 20 lbs
overweight!) on a mountain bike. I suspect a hammerhead may be able to break 10
minutes (20 mph average) – we will see!!
Here is the ride:
1. Start at the traffic circle in the middle of the park. There are parking spaces
here.
2. Ride around the circle two complete times.
3. Leave the circle and ride west to the park entrance (the way you drove in).
4. Just past barn turn left, ride around the wooden gate in the roadway, go left
at the ‘Y’ to the Gathering house and turn around at the end of the parking lot.
5. Return to the ‘Y’ and turn left going up the grade to the gate at the other end
of the road.
6. Ride around the gate, proceed to the circle and ride around the circle two
complete times.
7. Leave the circle and ride east, down the hill past the lake to the lower parking
lot and turn around at the end of the lot (be careful, bridge is narrow).
8. Return back up the hill to the circle and ride around it one complete turn.
9. Stop and record your elapsed time. You should be at 3.0 miles, but
regardless, your elapsed time at this point is the determining factor.
If you are not familiar with GRCP, go to Google Maps, enter GRCP (spell out), choose
Satellite View and Zoom In.
Ride it slowly once or twice first to familiarize yourself with the roads at GRCP.
Also, GRCP does not allow riding off the pavement on their trails.
Have fun – Ride safely – Email results – Compare how you did to others – Tell me if
you liked it. I am hoping for 25 riders to give this a try.
Dickster (richardotto45@earthlink.net)
PS: If bad weather prevails during the next month I will extend the deadlines.

Saturday's ride/kick 3/20/10

It's a go!! ride/kick what you want, go the pace you want and go the route you feel you want to go, It's on!meet at Sis's around 8am,leaving my house at 7am, It will be a little dark again in the morning,so bring a headlight, and some sort of tail light, if you got them,not sure the way im going yet, but i think i might go the race route to get the feel for it!See you all im the morning! JJ

cool!

It might be fixed!!!! well give it the week-end and see, ok? jj

Training Ride!

Joe and I aired it out at CJ last evening, in training for May's Catawba Kick and Krank 9.50.

We were there, where were you?

You should have seen the looks! "Look there, Martha, those two old men on scooters are about to pass us." CJ is a wonderful place to ride, with the new pavement! Lots of route options, with a few minor uphills. We did a single loop, about 15 miles, and did not even go below the dam.

Happy St Pat's Day Boy's

Doing a few laps tonight over at CJ on the Footbike,come on over and blow your lungs out for a few, i won't hurt you,much!hahaah! later JJ Between 5 and 7pm!

Just Do IT!

Get out and ride this week!

Just hanging out

You an't gonna believe what i ran a cross today,just setting there saying take me home,i think i might be a good picker! hahaha!!

Drying out the shoes

Some serious FYI, Putting newspaper stuffed in wet shoes really works ,,I was very amazed..
Caleb really had to battle yesterday, him and Tracy battled all the way to "CALEBS CORNER", before Caleb put the hammer down, only to lose his pancakes at the railroad tracks, all over his gloves and shoes.... Then when we got home he never could get warmed up ,with a possible ear infection... Slept the entire day,(no joke). Slill can't shake the water out of his ears. He's better but still not himself...

Wow!!! Two posts in one day!! Gotta go,, I've got brackets to fill out.. Later guys

the "MADD" finish

Yea guys, you missed it!!!! This is what it looked like coming around Moorefield onto Ridgewood e. That's me with the light finishing 3rd. Tracer on left giving Caleb all he could ask for!!!! Wow what a finish and the crowd was just UNBELIEVABLE.... I gave it my all , but youth again prevailed!!! Good Job Trace..

Over the river and through the woods!

Anybody want to go hiking today? Meet me on top of the overlook parking lot just west of the dam(top parking lot) At 1 :00 sunday afternoon,im going to do a 2 mile trail,up through the woods to the crable house and back, maybe twice,dress warm and dry if you come,jj Questions? cell-me.

General What IT IS!

Catawba Kick & Krank 9.5
It's a race of 9.5 miles to Breakfast, why 9.5 miles? Because thats how far it is, ok?One rider is on a bicycle and his/her team mate is on a Scooter Footbike/Kickbike At the half way point 4.75 mile mark, they switch bikes and the other rider finishes the race to SiS'S,first Scooter there win's Start at 7am on the 22 May at Joes house,any questions, ask!You will get a Scooter ahead of time to practice providing we have any left, jj

OH YEA Baby!!! it's ON!!!

The Breakfast ride was great for those who drove! The guys who road i can't speak for, but it was cold and wet!The Catawba Kick & Krank is in full swing,Terry picked up his Footbike today and we decided that the rules are,that there are no rules!Well maybe just a few!So it will be a fun time just Smackun each other,Let the Smack begin!!I figure as long as Brian and Tracy are in the race we got next to last place sewed up!! hahahahhaah!! jj

Rain!

It's raining lightly now, and the radar does not look promising. I think I will drive up. I will shoot for 7:30 or so.

what are we doing??

Looks like rain in the morning
do we want to drive up, or ride in the rain? give me some feed back!jj

Map it out!

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/03/industry-news/google-maps-to-offer-biking-directions_107564 this is cool, i typed in my address and then Catawba and it gave me a bike map going our short way< thats cool,It gives you a rt from spfld to portsmouth going through Xenia,then down, it's pretty cool.jj

What He Said!

Just testing the site boy's, don't get worried,hehe, had a good ride yesturday and ran into Dan P and a friend of his at CJ and he said he was going to talk to his son and if wanted to, he would like to do the Kick & Krank as a team? cool! James you better start working!!!!jj

Oh Yea!!

Looks like rain today,Only one thing to do, Ride!

workun on it!

If you can't post here send me your e-mail and i'll put you down for an invite, jj

How Original!

Team 1-Swamp Rattelers
Team 2-Team JBK-on 6inch tropy, got it! hahahahahahah!

Early Sign UP!

you go for it boy!!

We are not the UCI, we can not say you can't dope or use EPO,but if you need to ,thats between you and the future!

Travel safe my friend! hahahhaha!! jj

take 2 and call me!

Into the future!!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1969746,00.html

test

Little jack horner sat in the corner eating his curds and waves,along came a spider and said are you a rider? no, im sorry, wrong ryme!!

Ride report 3/6/10

It was great to get out after being snowed in for a while. Nonetheless, it was very cold. Tracy had frost forming on the front of his jersey! I was never so glad to see that white building in Catawba come into sight. The coffee and breakfast brought us back to life for a lively spin back home. Better days lie ahead.

It looks like the alt site is not suffering from the same affliction as the regular site.

It was fun!!

That a boy's!!! We had a good ride this morning, even tho i couldn't see where i was going! The fog was so thick i took my glasses off all the way up and back,so i didn't see much of anything! hahah! there were 2 on footbikes and 4 on roadbikes,a good turn out for a foggy day,we had fun!! thats what its all about!! JJ