May 2026-LOL, behind as usual, thanks for checking out the BLOG!

 5-2- Spokes Fighting Strokes Ride at Angletech

We headed up to Angletech to check out the Spokes Fighting Storkes traveling trike caravan. Dan has a huge trailer full of differently set up trikes for Storke victim's and other types of physical handicap folks that want to see if they can gain some mobility riding a recumbent trike. With all his trikes and the demo trikes at Angletech there were plenty of brands and styles of trikes to work with. LOL, I even rode a new AZUB 20" Full Fat off-road trike, it was a lot of fun. We also came because Pitmaster Toby, from Toby's Trikes and BBQ Channel on YouTube was supplying the BBQ lunch and we have always wanted to try his food and check out his new additions to his AZUB Ti-Fly X trike.

After lunch we took a ride with the whole group down to America the Beautiful Park in downtown Colorado Springs, CO. It was getting late, so we said our good bye's and headed home via the westside Pikes Peak Greenway Trail! Fun Day and great event!

  

5-3-A cloudy but warm ride, downtown lunch and more!

We headed out to get on the T-Gap trail and then took the Union Blvd path to T-Gap Road and the bike lane over to Nancy Lewis Park for a quick pit stop. Then we headed to downtown at Panino's 74 Restaurant and had salads and a mini-meatball lunch, YUM. after that we headed over to Midland Trail and caught the Foothills Trail over to Sinton trail and back home. It started out a cloudy day but got nice as it got later. Just a several trails ride for some miles! 

Video Short-East Side Ride in the Garden of the Gods Park

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5-7-Food run and Lunch Ride-

Due to wet weather and lots of appointments, we really NEEDED to go to the food store, so we headed up the Rock Island to the Union Blvd Walmart Market and got food and supplies. Loaded up the trailer and pannier's and headed back to the apartment to unload, then up to the Mavrick Station Cafe for a good Hot Dog and BBQ Chips with, what else, Iced Tea! 

It was a chilly morning, so we got a bit of a late start so after lunch we headed over to the Sinton Trail, to the PP Greenway and back to the apartment! Even an errand can be a good ride! 

Video-Short: Food Run and Lunch Ride

5-9- BIKE LANE FEVER, heading up the Cheyenne Blvd Bike Lane to North Cheyenne Canyon Park

We hadn't been up to the Sacred Grounds Cafe for iced tea and lunch in a bit so we jumped on the Cascade Street bike lane over to the Tejon St. bike lane and the Cheyenne Blvd bike lane headed up to the Cafe and the Starsmoor Center at the foot of the North Cheyenne Canyon Park. It's a bit hectic with the car traffic but with the bike lanes it's not bad. Much better once you get to the Cheyenne Blvd bike lane and head west. We headed up to the Starsmoor Visitor and Nature Center, but the whole area is being redone, restrooms, parking lots, etc. so we turned around and head back down to the Sacred Grounds Cafe CO. For Iced Tea and our brown bag lunch. LOL, we need to save back a few dollars and buy lunch there again soon! We just seem to ride there at the poorest part of the month!

From there, it's back down the Blvd. bike lane and a bit of the same way back, except we headed over to America the Beautiful Park and the PP Greenway over to Monument Valley Park and the west side of the Greenway over the Popcycle Bridge back to the apartment, a long ride but still a lot of fun and excellent weather!

Video Short- North Cheyenne Canyon and Sacred Grounds Cafe

Long Video- Bike Lane Fever

5-14-Angletech then the Creekside Coffee House Ride

Headed up to Angletech to let Joshia check out the rear derailer as I want to upgrade to the rapid shifter (trigger) from the old bar end shifter set up on my trike. Got an appointment for June 4 and they ordered the shifter. Went across the street at Mavrick Station Cafe for iced tea and the brown bag lunch. Decided to not do the normal, Foothills and Midland route and instead head up to the Creekside Coffee House after riding the Cottonwood Creek Trail up to Cottonwood Creek Regional Park as a turnaround point back to the coffee house for afternoon snack and more iced tea!  Gave Angletech information to a nice lady who wanted to know more about the trikes and then met an older couple of trike riders having a coffee and also gave them a card so they can check out our YouTube channel! Really nice day started out pretty cloudy but got better and warmer as we rode. 85F by the time we arrived back at the apartment!

Video Short-Mid Cottonwood Creek 

Long Video-Angletech and the Creekside Coffee House Ride

Finally caught up, sadly a lot of our yearly medical appointments are in April and May and the weather has been really good our really BAD lately so no idea when the next ride will happen! Until we come together next time My FRIENDS, HAPPY TRAILS

April 2026-Food Run-Hot Dog-COLD Winds!!

 4/23-Food Run, Hot Dog-Cold Winds- It was time again to head to the Walmart Market for a Food Run. Hooked up the cargo trailer and got on the Rock Island Trail over to Union Blvd, down the little used doublewide sidewalk into the Walmart Market Parking Lot. Did the shopping, loaded the cargo trailer and headed back to the apartment but wow, the wind was really chilly! 

Thought about just calling it a day but we decided to head over to the Tasty Freeze Drive Inn for a iced tea and a grilled hot dog and bun!! Good stuff, the cold wind got calmer, so we decided to put on a few more miles, heading south on Shooks Run and get in a bit more ride for the day! Through America the Beautiful Park and then the Mesa Springs Greenway to Fontanero St. and back on the Pikes Peak Greenway, over the Popcycle Bridge and back to the apartment. Even with the cold winds we still enjoyed the ride, sometimes errands can be FUN! 

We had hoped to ride the "Motorless Morning" at the Garden of the Gods Park on Sunday the 26th. but the weather sucked!! Foggy, cold, gray and windy so we bailed and did a walk in the late afternoon during a break in the storm clouds! HAPPY TRAILS. 

April 2026, more rides with better weather

 Still kinda crazy with personal stuff and a bit of very WINDY weather here and there but we have been able to do a few rides!

4/19- Errand Ride and a whole lot more- We ordered some helmet visors for our SENA R1 intercom helmets from Amazon. As our apartment complex outer doors are locked, it's hard to get a Amazon/UPS, etc. delivery. We use an Amazon Box at a close 7-11 store. Sadly, that box was totally full, so we got directed to a 7-11 on Uintah St. We headed out for a ride before getting to the 7-11 and found we chose the WRONG 7-11 store; we had to go up to the Uintah and 19th. Street 7-11 Amazon Box.

Headed up on the Uintah Street bike lane over two steep hills and found the proper box, since it was a Sunday and late afternoon, we thought we'd just hang around till 3 PM. At 3:15 we headed back down the bike lane to the Mesa Springs Greenway and home, RATS

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4/20-Errand Ride-Part TWO-The Music Video- Finally got the ID numbers from Amazon via phone and again we headed up to the Amazon Box at the Uintah St. & 19th. St. 7-11 store! The box is outside and you punch a number into a screen BUT, the sun is so bright you can't SEE the screen information!!! It took us several times to get it right but finally door 2 opened and we got our new visors!!  From there we headed down 19th. St. to Pikes Peak Ave., rode the street to a stoplight and Midland Trail access. Rode west, on the Midland to access the Colorado Ave bike lane, east and stopped into a Sonic Drive Inn for an All-American Dog and iced tea.

After lunch, we headed back to the Midland Trail and headed east into America the Beautiful Park and then headed to Shooks Run Trail and over to Cascade Ave for a late afternoon iced tea and snack at the building 3 Coffee House. It was getting really warm so we headed back to the apartment!

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4/22- We meet again, Creekside Coffee House on the Cottonwood Creek Trail-Another beautiful morning, headed north on the Pikes Peak Greenway to the Cottonwood Creek Trail junction. Turing northeast, on the CCT and headed up to the Creekside Coffee House for, well, what else, iced tea and the brown bag lunch on the patio! A bit breezy but abundant sunshine, headed again up the CCT all the way to the current detour due to water system construction on the trail. Turned around and headed back down the CCT to the Vincent Frontage Road-Nevada Ave Path to the "Cracked Trail" and the underpass into the University Village Colorado Center and Panera bread for late afternoon iced tea and snack. Back to the Pikes Peak Greenway heading south and home.

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All caught up for April so far, IF it's not pouring rain on Sunday, April 26, we will be riding the "MOTORLESS MORNING" at the Garden of the Gods Park! 5 AM to 12 NOON, NO CARS allowed thru the park so it's a FUN ride with lots of other bike, trike rides, skaters, skateboarders, walkers, etc. Till we come together again, my fine friends, HAPPY TRAILS!