Let's Play "Where's Kevin"

It was nearly 70 degrees and sunny on Saturday, and teamFIRE headed out to Roca and on to Bennett for some good times and good food. The ride was about 39 miles with a pretty good SW breeze, but was great fun. Even though I had been sick all week, I showed up after being told by Kevin on the teamFIRE blog to "suck it up" and after being called, I believe, a "wussie" for thinking of not coming.

Lots of people showed - Janna, Nicol, Kim, Gravy, Jace, Adrian, Kevin M., Richard, Mark, Dave, and Kelly. And yet where was Kevin W.? Take a look below and see if you can find Kevin - you may have to click to enlarge the pic to find Kevin.

Here some of the riders are outside of Mamasitas in Bennett. Where is Kevin?


Another picture of even more riders. Where is Kevin?


Yet another picture of teamFIRE members and others enjoying the nice weather. Where's Kevin?


Finally, some of us enjoying a nice lunch at Mamasitas. Where's Kevin?


Expect much abuse :)

Cool Cycling Site

While surfing through some bike forums last night, I read a post from the creator of this site - BikeWire. The site allows you to log your rides, keeps stats, and has a number of other interesting features. I signed up and logged my ride from yesterday. Check it out and have some fun!

Would you f@cking knock that off!

So what offends you as a cyclist? Feel free to share your cycling pet peeves so that when I'm riding with you this year I will not annoy you. Or, I can piss you off, if I fill the need.

Rode in today -- yay!

Finally -- it wasn't too cold or too icy for me to ride. I know there are heartier people out there, but my cutoff is 15 degrees for bike commuting. Below that and it ceases to be enjoyable for me. The ride home should be sweet -- temp reads 38 degrees right now!

Spring can't get here fast enough.

40+ degrees on Saturday.

It's supposed to be above 40 degrees on Saturday - to celebrate, let's ride outside for once. I plan to leave the parking lot of the strip mall on 14th and Pine Lake (Wilderness Perk, Zesto's, etc.) at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday for a nice easy ride to get some miles in. Probably will head out to Saltillo, then take SW12th to Denton road, then west to Denton. Whoever wants to turn around at Denton can turn around there, or folks can continue wherever they want to go from that point. Anyone welcome - hope some of you can join me.

Jazz at P.O. Pears

Bored? Cabin Fever? Tired of riding the trainer or jogging on the treadmill in the basement? Writer's strike or oncoming recession got you down?

Come unwind and listen to some jazz - my quintet is playing Thursday, Jan. 24 from 7:30-10 p.m. at P.O Pears - featuring Rusty White on bass, Peter Bouffard on guitar, Steve Helfand on drums, Scott Vicroy on saxophone, and me on trumpet. Hope you can come down.

Ride Saturday?

I'm getting tired of riding the trainer in the basement.  Anybody want to ride on Saturday afternoon - maybe around 1:30 or 2:00?  Looks like the weather may be ok - high 40s.