If you guys need to ride on Saturday that's cool. No worries. I'll hit HITG on Sunday and let you guys know how it goes.

 

I hate when that happens!!!!! Glad your pump didn't go into your spokes and flip you OTB!

 

Seriously. It did bend a spoke on my rear wheel though, and when I'm in the right gear combo the derailleur cage just lightly rubs the bent spoke as the wheel turns. Taking that to Mikes tonight for repair. Hopefully I can ride it again by Tuesday, I'm itching to really start pounding on the miles. Last night I broke 1000 official (recorded) miles since August of last year. I have about 200 miles that I didn't record before that. I'm hoping to pile on another 500-1000 before the summer ends - I've already ridden 300+ in the last 4 weeks alone

 

So are we on for Olmstead at 8am this Sunday?

Also, question for when we do Tahoe rides (which I think we should be prepared to plan out when we ride this week): What time will we meet in the morning? Or will we stay local up there and have the freedom to ride all day? If cost were an issue we could split a room or camp or something.

 

8AM Sunday!

I'm assuming we'll carpool up to Tahoe. I can fit at least 3 bikes on the rack in my bed.

 

i've got a friend that has two cabins in kyburz that he rents out and we could get for cheap for a night.
enough sleeping room for a bunch for people if you bring your own sleeping bag

i would think, go up Friday night, spend the night at the cabin, hit Mr. Toads or Tahoe Rim, etc...then end the event on Sat at the Pacifica buffet in harrah's/harvey's. :banana:

 

I held a 2007 Specialized Tarmac Comp down at Mikes tonight. Oh, man - that thing weighed next to nothing and was gorgeous. I didn't ride it out of fear my credit card would suddenly burst from my wallet and I'd come home with the thing. That bike is gorgeous :naughty:

I might try to pick one up towards the end of the summer. It will make my commuting faster!!!

 

This is pretty cool. My stats for the past month (taken from my GPS uploaded to the PC):

267 miles since the end of April (I got this on 4/27) and 20 hours spent in the saddle . That's pretty good given my work/school load. Average speed sucks, but my mtb riding brings that down (avg speed on the roadie is ~ 17mph). 22,334 calories burned - that's awesome. 12702 feet of climbing

 

I'm really feeling HITG for Sunday. It's only about 1hr to Soda Springs exit off 80. 18 mile ride. You guys set on Olmstead?

For some reason I thought you guys were switching to Saturday...

I can fit 2 on the roof and 1 inside...or maybe 2 with front tires off.

 

I'm not totally sure that I can ride Sunday. If I can ride, HITG would be fine with me. It would be fun to do something different.

What do the rest of you guys think about HITG?

 

I'd be cool with it. Would be neat to do something new. We need to set it up ASAP though in order to get it all going.

My wagon can really only fit one bike on the roof (with disc brakes) given my current rack setup. With different trays I could take more, but I'd be fine with giving gas money and riding up with someone.

What say you!

 

As far as hauling bikes, my van will hold 4. It only has 2 seats though. So if somebody can haul people, I can take one person and lots of bikes.

We could meet in the parking lot of the Raley's grocery store that is at the Foresthill exit.

 

It might be a little on the exploratory type ride since none of us have been on the loop. May have to stop and read the directions or check a map or something. Matt, can you upload the purposed loop into your GPS and then if we get off track it would alert or at least show where we need to be?

Egan…you have time for HITG?

 

Do you have a link to the trail map?

I'll have to check and see.

 

Lance: I should be able to download that in to my GPS and then load it as a course and we can follow the map it will provide. Also, since I'll load it as a course, we can race the guy who did the ride

Egan: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/244203

The ride has about as much climbing as Connector + FDLT, but it's shorter by about 1.5 miles. It's not very rolling though - you climb like crazy for the first six miles or so, then it's a little rolling for the next four, then three miles straight down and a dirty climb at the end.

I think we can hack it. We need to minimize our stops, however - a four hour (total time) ride 2 hours from home will have the lose