October 2024, continued, still trying to catch up!!

 Hello, yep, still trying to catch up, my world has become a "Merry-Go-Round" and I can't get off, LOL! ;)

October 23, just a color ride along the Cottonwood Creek Trail!

October 24, we headed north on the Rock Island Trail up to check out the "progress" on the new crossing signal on Murry Blvd & RIT. They have to poles up and installing the signal box! Bummer, we couldn't go any farther ease, on the RIT, they decided to "re-route" the trail at the intersection to bring it to the signal box so they were pouring concrete and the trail was blocked off! We headed west on the RIT to pick up the Canal (Homestead South) trail over to Galley Rd., Arrugh, I guess due to the laying of "NEW Pipe" on Galley Rd., they tore out several sections of the Canal Trail so we couldn't get the Mc Donalds at Murry Blvd and Hwy. 24!!! We turned around for the 2nd. time in one ride! Back to the RIT, over to the Academy Blvd. access Path and to a Mavrick station/store for iced tea and LUNCH!

Headed to Shooks Run Trail and the Good Neighbors Meeting House for afternoon snack and tea! Rode back to the storage unit, then walked home!

October 25, Jo had a heart doctors checkup so I headed off by myself and rode several different trails and bike lanes. Took a couple of photos on the Foothills Trail! Wandered around here and there, then back to the storage unit. Nice day for a solo ride but missed my riding buddy!

October 26, The Out and About on the Recumbents TEAM is back together, we headed for the Sinton Trail to go to our dealer/shop at Angletech. If you ride a older TRICE trike like Jo does, it has "mirrored" hydraulic disc brakes, we had the original brake system replaced with new TEKTRO mirrored hydraulic disc brakes, they are the ONLY company left that makes them these days!! To be honest, they have been a "problem" since installed!!! We are looking at replacing them with a set of "90mm" drum brakes but the tech's needed to check to see if the "KINGPINS" would match up to drum brakes, otherwise new Kingpins are VERY expensive!!!!! 

Kirk, is pretty sure her current Kingpins will work with the swap and they have a set somewhere in backstock of new wheels with drum brakes but he didn't know where to find them. Joshia, will be back on the 29th. so, IF they do actually have them, he knows where and then we will get a service appointment to have them installed. From Angletech, we continued on Sinton to Foothills to the 31st. Street bike lane to Colorado Ave, stopped at Starbucks for iced tea and brown bag lunch. Then over to the Mesa Springs Greenway, over the I-25 Ped/Bike bridge to Monument Valley Park and our favorite spot for afternoon snack at Stanley Lake. Headed to the storage unit and home!

October 27, We just took a Food and Household Supplies Ride to the Walmart Market Place on Union Blvd, headed home dropped off the food and headed to the Mc Donalds on Garden of the Gods Road and I-25, via the Pikes Peak Greenway, then north on the "doublewide" sidewalk to Micky D's! Since we got a later than normal start today we just headed back to the storage area, PPGW, west Templeton Gap Trail and the Cascade Street bike lane!

Well, that's it for now, caught up again as we didn't ride on the 28th., we are doing a walk to downtown and from 5:30 to 7:00 PM taking a Ghost Tour of the old Carnegie Library Downtown, Colorado Springs! Should be FUN, till next time "Happy Trails". 

October 21, 2024 The Harder I try, the "behinder" I get!!

 LOL, it's me, trying to play catch up again! Come along and I will fill you in on what's been happening with us!

October 14, a final "Color Ride", on the Pikes Peak Greenway/Cottonwood Creek Trail, just up to the Cottonwood Creek Park.

October 15, the weather was talking about some possible "strong storms" by early afternoon, so we decided to ride the Templeton Gap Trail and stay a bit closer to homebase than we normally do. Lucky, it didn't rain, just a slight spitting on our walk home from the Storage Unit. Breezy but a nice day overall! Another short Colors Ride on the T-Gap!

October 16, LOL, This is a lost ride, we didn't take any photos and sadly, I can't remember where we rode to! It's hell getting OLD!! ;) 

October 17, Again, we had the threat of "afternoon storms" so we stayed close to home, heading south on the Shooks Run trail towards downtown to drop off our National Election Ballots and the downtown ballot box. Next, was the Pikes Peak Greenway over to the Monument Creek Trail and Monument Valley Park. Headed back towards the storage unit via the Cascade St. bike lane, we just kinda wandered around here and there before the afternoon rains finally showed up.

Sadly, it's getting to that time of the year were the rides are fewer and shorter due to how long it takes to "warm up" and what time the SUN goes down! Thanks for riding along, till next time, Happy Trails! 

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"!