October 2024, Gad's, it's almost the middle of October, time to update the BLOG!!

 October has been a VERY busy month for us, we stayed in Cripple Creek, CO. and went to a Melodrama of Monty Python' "Spam A Lot", it was great, lot's of really early fall weather has made riding really nice! The temp's being a bit lower and the leaves turning colors, it's just too bad Fall is so short and Winter is so LONG!! :(  Ok, here's what's been going on!

October 1, we headed over to see if we could find a backway thru Palmer Park to the Overlook area. We did finally figure out how to get to the back entryway and took a couple of photos and a video at the Overlook! Palmer Park is mostly a very large city park with lot's of Hiking and Mountain Biking type trails. It only has one narrow paved road thru the park, fit for recumbent trikes and you have to share the road with CARS, yikes, still the view is excellent!

Headed out to Manitou Springs to our favorite brown bag lunch spot on the Creek Walk Trail. beautiful day, sunny and warm, just enjoyed being out and about on the recumbents!

October 6, 

October 8, This ride was a "Mission Ride", we rode over to the Evergreen Cemetery to say Happy Birthday to my Mom, who passed into the light in February 2024. We used a lot of Bike Lanes and back streets and arrived at the Cemetery. Got lucky and my Brother Bob was also there so the 3 of us sang "Happy Birthday" to Mom! After that we rode to the lower part of the Shooks Run Trail to eat our brown bag lunch, checked out the ending point at the railroad bridges. Someday, this will head south and join up with the Pikes Peak Greenway!

 

October 11, We rode up the Sinton Trail to Angletech, our local recumbent dealer, we had "service appointment" schedule for both trikes, mine for front end alignment and Jo's for a new rear tire. We rode up to the Foothills Trail at 30th. Street and then headed back down Sinton Trail to the shop. After that, over to a close Starbucks for iced tea and the infamous "brown bag lunch". We didn't do a video or take any photos so here is a Relive Mapping Video, enjoy!

October 12, We decided to head to the "Sacred Grounds Cafe" for lunch, headed up towards North Cheyenne Canyon City Park. We almost had to turn back due to "Road Construction" along Cheyenne Blvd Bike Lane but found out we could sneak by using sidewalks and opposite lanes to work our way up. We managed to get to the Cafe, it was very busy! We headed back down, being able to use the "cleared" east bound traffic lane, thank goodness it was downhill so we could keep a higher speed, while having to "take the lane" with the cars!! From there, we just kinda wandered here and there around the city, using different trails and bike lanes. We did a quick photo op at America the Beautiful Park, then headed up the Rock Island and the Academy Blvd access path to a Mavrick store for a 2nd iced tea and snack! Here is a video and some photos!

 

PS: We did a Food and Supplies ride on October 10, then a quick BOGO Free lunch at 

McDonalds on Garden of the Gods Road.

"That's All Folks", till the next update, "HAPPY TRAILS"!

September continued, playing catch up again!!

 LOL, yes again, I am behind my time, oh well I will do a photo, video and story to try to catch up so, here we GO!

Sept. 19, we headed out to Manitou Springs to have our brown bag lunch at our favorite picnic spot on the Creek Walk Trail.

Here's a full video!

Sept. 21 We headed up the Rock Island Trail to check if there has been any progress on the new "lighted crosswalk" at the intersection of the Rock Island Trail and Murry Blvd. They do have a bit more underground cabling installed but, not much else. We headed back and stopped at Nancy Lewis Park 

Sept. 23, Headed up the Sinton Trail to the Foothills Trail over to the 31st St. bike lane

to the Midland Trail and America, the Beautiful Park, over to Monument Valley Park then picked up the Mesa Springs Greenway to the Pikes Peak Greenway to get to Panera Bread for iced tea and snack. 

Sept. 24, We headed up to Angletech, our local recumbent dealer for the AZUB Demo Day, with the Mgt. and staff of AZUB Recumbents from Europe. They came from the big Cycle Con Rally in OH. to ride with the crew at Angletech and see some of Colorado Springs. Had several AZUB trikes and bikes to demo and even a few other brands! We tried out a AZUB, ICE and Catrike recumbent trikes. Here is a video of the EVENT!

Sept. 26, We had a awesome fall day, high of 88 F, sunny and decided to do the Cottonwood Creek Trail. It's a lot less busy on the weekdays, we decided to go to the very end of the concrete trail up to Woodman Ave. and Powers Blvd. The northern part of the trail we don't ride often as it's "very open area", little shade but even though it was quite warm, there is a real difference between a JULY 88 F day and a SEPTEMBER 88 F day! ;) Ended up with over 25 miles! Here is some photos and Relive Video Map:

September 14 & 15, Emergency ride to Angletech and Ride to check the progress of the new crossing/light at RI Trail and Murry Blvd

 September 14, we got to the storage unit and headed out for a ride, we discovered that Jo's "left disc brake" was not working at all!! We slowly headed up to our local recumbent shop,  Angletech hoping it was just a simple adjustment needed. Well, it turned out that Kirk had to replace the whole "brake caliper"!! Since we have ICE trikes and Jo has "mirrored" disc brakes there isn't much choice but these replacements by TEKRO but, they just don't seem to hold up well as we've had to have them "bled and adjusted" several times since they were installed! :( At least now, Jo's bike stop's fine. We headed down the Garden of the Gods access path to our favorite McDonalds, as it has a nice, covered patio set up outside! 

Got a BOGO double cheese burger and the best price in the summer for a large unsweet iced tea!! Rode to Monument Valley Park, then headed back to the storage area, a short but in the end sweet ride.

September 15, we headed out on the Rock Island Trail heading east. We wanted to check out the progress of the new, crosswalk and light at the RI T & Murry Blvd intersection. Well not a lot of progress, more underground wiring is in place on both sides and the bases for the lights look complete. It will be a really good thing when it's done as it's a very busy and dangerous intersection without a crossing light! Headed back on the RI Trail, then took the Academy Blvd access path to a Mavrick convenience store for unsweet iced tea and our brown bag lunch. Picked up Shooks Run trail heading south to the Pikes Peak Ave bike lane over to the Downtown Starbuck's for more unsweet iced tea and our homemade diabetic trail mix. Use the Cascade Street bike lane to head back to the storage area, got spit on type rain but arrived dry!  

Here is a video of the ride!