June 3 ride reports...

[Geonz]

I led my "saunter" ride and decided to start out in front... it worked much better than earlier when I've been starting in back. (I also didn't have a huge group because half of 'em went off to do a longer, faster route). When I'm in front, people stay behind me... I don't even think it's conscious (abject terror that I will snarl and bit if they go by !!) - but the group stayed togethera lot better.

We rode out to St. Joe ("Holy Joe") and dined at the Golden Mine, and went back and then some of us went out to the fairgrounds for the Playing It Safe stuff where we had a booth selling and fitting helmets for $10 ... we just about sold out this year! It helped 'cause one of our racer guys was there with the helmet he'd worn when he was hit by a car... the man has endless patience with small children, too!

Yes, I wore the pig snout helmet cover ... and brought the blender, but I need to work on getting the proportions right. I was a little too heavy on the yoghurd :-)

The weather was PERFFECT!!

Hugs to you poor souls with flat tires and rain....

My perfect-fit bike makes a perfect triangle balance with feet, butt and hands, so all I have to do is shift a little to totally shift weight. I like my Trek 7500FX, too, but when I got it, it was the new kid on the block and there weren't other flatbarred fast "city hybrids." I'm afraid it's got fewer than 500 miles on it 'cause Mr. Extra and I have been inseparable.