Ending October and into November!

October 30, 2025- For many years, there were two small natural duck ponds in Monument Valley Park. About 3 years ago, they were drying up and in really bad shape! 2 years ago, they started a rebuild by digging out the land in-between ponds. Starting the new Duck Lake, dug out, added a protective layer and short rock wall around the new lake. The westside of the Pikes Peak Greenway goes right by the Lake and they smoothed out the old rough dirt trail with a new layer of concrete. 

Going by on the trail, we watched the construction, and it took 2 years, but it's now finished and I rode the trike to the Dedication Ceremony at the lake!  Shot a video and took photos of the ceremony. Then headed out for a ride, it's great to see the city work on the parks and they even put in a walkway around the whole lake!

November 1, 2025- Another round at the Sacred Ground, "CAFE". Again, headed out mostly on area bike lanes, including, Weber St, Tejon St and Cheyenne Blvd bike lanes. Although the Tejon St. bike lane is still a challenge, the newly paved and painted Cheyenne Blvd bike lane is actually fun to ride now! We decide not to ride up to the Starsmoor Center at the foot of North Cheyenne Canyon Park. Arrived at the Sacred Grounds Cafe and it wasn't as busy as usual, so we got great parking! Ordered iced tea and ate our brown bag lunch on the patio area. From there we headed back on the Cheyenne Blvd and other bike lanes. It turned out to be a really nice day and so far, except for a couple of "cold fronts" here and there it's been sunny and warm, SWEET!

November 3, 2025- Food Run & Lunch Ride- It's that time again, we needed FOOD! Hooked up the cargo trailer and headed via the Rock Island Trail to the Walmart Market Store at Union Blvd. We headed out to lunch after packing away to food and supplies, then rode misc. trails, etc. to finish off the ride for the day!

November 6, 2025- Rode to Angletech to sign up for their T-shirt order and I checked out some new recumbent accessories, sadly Jo had an eye doctor appointment, so I was SOLO! There was a new handlebar bag, actually made for recumbents to attach to the sidebar that had the latch close to the rider and a hard plastic bottom. Next, new hi-tech water bottles in stainless steel and don't need to be squeezed as they have "gravity flow"! After that headed to a Mavrick Station Store for, what else, Iced tea and the infamous brown bag special!

Back down Sinton Trai, sadly, it's blocked off again for more finishing work so had to use the Elliston Street Detour route, rats. Headed north on the PP Greenway up to Panera Bread, I caved in and got a Hot Tea and a Cinnamon Raisin Bagel for late afternoon snack, YUM! Back on the PP Greenway and headed to the barn, ok, apartment, the winds had gotten really STRONG, lots of dust and crunched leaves blowing around made it a good time to end the ride!

Ok, folks, that's all for now, hope your fall is being kind to your riding, we all know the snow will fly soon but the longer the warmish fall stays the better we like it. Tell we come together again, HAPPY TRAI'S! 

More October!

 October 25- Hauling Bunn's, to catch up with Jo!- Jo headed out on a ride early, I was stuck at the apartment, waiting on a FedX package with a new higher speed capable Modem from Xfinity. It arrived about 11:30, so I put on all the trike gear, loaded up the trike and headed out to catch up to Jo. She had headed up the Cottonwood Creek Trail and just finished lunch at the "Creekside Cafe". I told her I was on the way, but she decided to head down towards me, we met on the PP Greenway, decided to reverse, we rode the Vincent St. Bridge Loop and headed to Panera Bread so I could have lunch and we shared a large iced tea!

From there we headed south on the PP Greenway over towards Monument Valley Park and the Ped bridge/walkway.

Over the Ped Bridge on to the Mesa Greenway, which we rode till it's ending point at America Furniture Warehouse, turned around, picked up the Fontanero St. bike lane back to the PP Greenway, over the Popcycle Bridge and then back to the apartment.

We've got doctors appointments and other social things going on over the next few days so no new rides, rats! I'll get back to ya when we get to RIDE! Happy Trail's! 

More October ride postings!

 LOL, I just can't stay up with blog post these days, sorry folks! So let's continue with the October rides!

October 17- Another great ride of the Cottonwood Creek Trail. We headed out on a really nice fall day to ride the Cottonwood Creek Trail up past Cottonwood Creek Park to Austin Bluffs and turn around. Sunny, warm and just a nice day to do the ride, the trees are starting to lose leaves but there was still some color here and there. We stopped at the Creekside Cafe on the way up for iced tea and our brown bag lunch. Headed up to the park and thru the tunnel up to the turn off for Austin Bluffs Road. Headed back the same way and back to the PP Greenway and home.

October 19- We almost ran into a "BLACK BEAR" on the Mesa Greenway!- Headed over to the PP Greenway on the westside of Monument Creek and ran into a huge number of RUNNERS! We took it slow and turned off on Fontanero St. bike lane to pick up the Mesa Greenway heading to the westside of Colorado Springs. As we cruised on the trail, I was looking ahead and saw a BIG BLACK BEAR heading towards on the trail!! We quickly turned around and headed off the trail to some side streets to get away from the BEAR! 

Took the Walnut St. bike lane to Cuchara's Trail to get on the Midland Trail and head to Manitou Springs and the Creekwalk Trail. From there it was a mellow ride but chilly, as one huge cloud blocked out the sunshine! Stopped at the Starbucks at Colorado Ave and 31st. Street for a HOT tea and brown bag lunch on the way towards Manitou Springs. Rode to the end of the Creekwalk Trail and turned around, headed home via the Pikes Peak Ave and Weber St. bike lanes

October 21- Food Run and Lunch Ride- Headed out the Rock Island Trail over to Union Blvd to the Walmart Market Place Store for food and supplies. Packed up all the items into the trailer and panniers on the trikes and headed back the same way. Took off to hook up with the Sinton Trail over to Centennial Blvd & Garden of the Gods Rd. Stopped at the Mavrick Station Store for iced tea, met up with Reggie, a fellow Vet and Trike rider, he stopped into the store for lunch during work and we had a great chat about trikes, hope to get a ride in with him in the future! We headed back to same way and headed back to the apartment and tucked away the trikes!

 October 22- Feeling Groovy and checking out the Palmer Park Overlook- Well Jo had a Heart doctor appointment, so I headed out the PP Greenway and picked up the T-Gap Trail. Decided to head to the Palmer Park Overlook at Palmer Park. There's no real trail to the park so I rode back streets, bike lanes, etc. over to pick up the backside entryway into Palmer Park. It's UPHILL, had to use level 2 and sometimes 3 on the E-assist for easier pedaling!!

Headed off on the spur road to the Overlook., BTW, the road is narrow and no bike lane so you have to Share the Road with cars, luckily, it was a weekday, so much lighter traffic. The Overlook use to let cars all the way up but now it comes to a parking lot and you have a walkway you can walk or ride a bicycle into, much nicer!! The view is awesome on a clear day so had to shoot a bit of video and take a photo or two. Heading down to the otherside of the park is a super-fast downhill road, with very tight sweeping corners, WEEEEE! 

Headed over to the Mazeland Rd. and Academy Blvd. Mavrick Station Store for, iced tea and munched on the usual brown bag lunch. On the way back headed south on the Academy Blvd. Path and got on the Rock Island Trail heading west. Picked up the PP Greenway, westside going south to Monument Valley Park, then over the Ped Bridge across I-25 and got on the Mesa Greenway, took it to it's current ending point, then turned around and headed for the apartment!

Well, that's it for now, thanks for checking out the BLOG! I still like putting the words and photos on a blog, even over doing it as a YouTube Channel, hope you think it's worth taking the time to read and enjoy, it's appreciated, BJ. :)