June rides....hopefully a pleasant month of weather and rides for all

[cosc]

I finally was able to ride my bike after a very windy day and several days of thunderstorms. The rain was wonderful but not great for training for Bran (Ride across Nebraska) coming up this weekend. I'm hoping for a calm weather week.
Today's 41 mile ride was great with low 70's and no wind. Everything looks lush green except for fields with crops just starting. I'm looking forward to the mature sunflower fields.

[Irulan]

Here is how my ride went to today. Let me preface this with last night we had to cancel due to massive regional t-storms. This morning it was gorgeous, and I was contacted about 7 am for a mountain bike ride.

Right off the bat I went over a pile of dog poo that was hiding and got it flung onto my new shoes.
Then we hit a little mud puddle about 1/2 mile into the ride. Being a good trail citizen I went through the puddle and not around it. Whatever that mud was... well, it was some sort of horrible sticky clay. It jammed up the jockey wheels in the derailler and before I even know what had happened I snapped the derailler off. I was hoping to pull the derailler off and single speed the rest of the ride but I was having problems with the chain tool. I could get the chain off via the master link, but I couldn't shorten it. I ended up taking the chain and derailler off and coasting back to the lot.

[Veronica]

What a bummer! Hope the next ride is much better!

Veronica