STP July 14-15 2007

[Kano]

They should do a Bicycle Washington tour like Bicycle Idaho and Bicycle Oregon. I suppose you could do your own if you linked STP, RSVP, and this all together

So, I was reading this whole thread -- this must be the time of year for thinking about bike trips etc for the year, cuz just yesterday I was looking at the SPIN Idaho pages to see if the new calendar of rides is out yet (it's not) and when I got to this message, I thought:

Funny you should mention that

two of the links were for the Bike Idaho and Bicycle Oregon rides and look what I saw when I clicked the link:

http://www.oregonbicycleride.org/

You got your wish this year, Colby!

Karen in Boise

[colby]

So, I was reading this whole thread -- this must be the time of year for thinking about bike trips etc for the year, cuz just yesterday I was looking at the SPIN Idaho pages to see if the new calendar of rides is out yet (it's not) and when I got to this message, I thought:

Funny you should mention that

two of the links were for the Bike Idaho and Bicycle Oregon rides and look what I saw when I clicked the link:

http://www.oregonbicycleride.org/

You got your wish this year, Colby!

Karen in Boise

Hey!! Thanks for sending the link, Karen! I'm going to check the calendar and see if I can go. It sounds awesome.

[Aint Doody]

The Bicycle Idaho Ride this year is in Washington, but it's already full! They opened the regisitration right at the end of December. It's a great ride. Sandy Greene says that they are taking a wait list. I highly recommend this ride. I'm going again.

A great place to look for rides in the Pacific NWest is www.bicyclepaper.com

[Susan Otcenas]

two of the links were for the Bike Idaho and Bicycle Oregon rides and look what I saw when I clicked the link:

http://www.oregonbicycleride.org/

Jeff & I are signed up for the Oregon Bicycle Ride. The Idaho/Washington ride looked good too, but the timing of OBR worked out better for us. I got an email this morning saying that there are only 60 spots left open on OBR, so if anyone is on the fence, you might not want to wait too much longer!

Susan

[Susan126]

Thanks for the input MM_QFC, I will definitely put my ticket up on the board around June. I'm sure I will have no trouble finding someone. Hopefully next year will be my year for riding in the STP . . . AND . . . MAYBE . . . doing it in one day?! Dare I try?

And mimitabby . . . are you really going to ride in this year's Century Apple in Wenatchee? I will look for you!!!!!!! I believe you when you say, "When it's hot . . . it's HOT!" Joe and I went to Leavenworth one Memorial Day weekend and brought along our road and mountain bikes. We did a 60 mile road ride and it was in the 90s! We were beat at the end of the ride! We crashed in our hotel room after the ride and slept for about 4 hours straight. The heat really took it's toll on us. Then the next day we did a mountain bike ride with friends up Devil's Gulch and around Mission Ridge I thought I would pass out from heat exhaustion about 3/4 of the way up. Luckily for us a man in a huge truck took pity on us and gave us a lift the rest of the climb. We only had 2 miles to go of the 14 mile climb but I don't think I would have made it. We have done the ride many times before no trouble but the heat that May really was horrible and we were not used to it. Plus we started late. When we do the ride we normally start around 7 AM but that day we weren't on the trail until almost 10:30 so we hit the hardest part of the ride, the climb, during mid day heat!

Thank God for kind strangers!

Hey it's supposed to be sunny and upper 40s today! When I get home from work (I get off at 2:30) I am going to take my road bike out and go for a spin around my area. Get my sunglasses out! He he