Not a lot new, getting in our weekly food runs with trikes and trailer. Thurs. May 23, we rode to Manitou Springs, decided to do a ride for MY enjoyment and not shoot any video and LOL, Jo didn't even take a photo so it's just words for that ride, windy, sunny and an enjoyable "day off" from making video's! :) 18 miles using different trails and a lot of back streets marked as Bike Blvd's., as their doing major intersection work on the Midland Trail so we had to take Pikes Peak Ave. in places, kinda a PITA but since the city/state DOT are trying to make them safer for Ped's and Cyclist's, it's worth the hassle!
Friday, May 24, we are still having some problems with Jo's hydraulic disc brakes so we headed up Sinton Trail to, Angletech to have Kirk re-check the brakes and he decided to re-drain the master cylinders and put in new fluid, that has seemed to fix the "dead lever" feeling! We headed up Sinton to Foothills to the Palmer Mesa Trail and the Overlook. They said they are going to tear out the old Asphalt section and pour concrete somewhere on the trail. RATS, I was hoping they'd tear out the asphalt on the first section of the Foothills Trail as it's VERY rough and NEEDS to be replaced! I wanted to see if they'd closed off any of the trail but doesn't look like they've started yet, enjoy the video!
Saturday May 25th, No video but we got out on another sunny, warm and WINDY day for a ride up the Rock Island Trail, wanted to check out and see if they'd re-opened the section of old asphalt that they finally decided to "re-condition"! It's finished and it's an improvement, but wish they'd have gone to concrete! The section was from Paso St. to Union Blvd. Now they could use to do the same from Templeton Gap Rd. to Paso St.! We headed up, took the not quite WIDE enough dirt spur trail to get to Constitution Court and Constitution Ave. to get across Powers Blvd. over to Panera Bread for unsweet iced tea and eat our brown bag lunch! Headed back the same way as the clouds were building, had to stop off at Safeway for a few food items, Love panniers, stopped at the apartment, unloaded and headed off to the storage unit. Got a few sprinkles on the walk home but no real rain! :)
That's it for now fellow Riders, hope your having great weather on less WIND on your rides, Sunday looks better and Memorial Day, we will be heading to do Ceremonies and grave visits, will shoot a bit of video to share for that day, REMEMBER, ALL gave Some, Some gave ALL! Have a "thoughtful" and safe Memorial Day, take the time to THANK those that gave it all to give us our FREEDOM!
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