September 12, 2025-Catching up with September!

 September 1- Labor Day Ride, we headed out to visit our mother's grave sites, we were on a road trip to Memphis and Clarksville TN. during Mother's Day, so I didn't get a chance to stop by my mom's grave site. Jo's mom's birthday is August 31st. and we usually ride over to the Shrine of Remembrance to her plaque on the Rose Garden Wall. Decided that we'd use the Holiday as a time to honor our mom's!

From the cemetery, we headed back via bike lanes and the Shooks Run Trail to head to the Tasty Freeze Drive Inn for lunch, iced tea and break from the heat of the day!

 

 Headed back to the apartment and put away the trikes, good ride, good lunch and getting to spend a moment with our Mom's, it made a great day to do no LABOR!  ; )

September 3 - Just a food run and lunch ride for Jo and I to Smashburger at the UVC Center

September 10- Baby Blanket Delivery Ride, Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort, etc. 

We started by heading north to X-Finity Store at UVC Center, then headed back to the apartment to pick up the homemade baby blanket, Jo made for Torrie G. who is the owner of the "Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort"! Delaney, her daughter just had a new baby so we decided to "deliver via TRIKE"! 

They weren't there so we left it with the staff, hope she can use it, Jo loves to crochet things as a stress reliver and enjoys giving them away! We headed out on the PP Greenway to the Mesa Greenway, bike lanes and the Midland Trail towards Manitou Springs. It was getting hot, took the Midland Trail back to PP Greenway and home to the apartment! 

From the park, over the I-25 Ped/Bike bridge, Mesa Greenway, Fontanero St. Bike Lane to the PP Greenway and over the Popcycle Bridge back to the Apartment! 

September 11- On a somber day for the United States of America, we headed out to Angletech for a service appointment for BJ's trike!! 

1. New ball joints (tie rod ends) as after 14 years of use, the ICE Sprint 2 Special Editon trike was needed a "front end" overhaul! 

2. New Drum Brake, brake shoes!

3. New Big Apple 2.0 tires on the front wheels, the old ones had 6000 miles of wear, time for new ones!

Jo was supposed to get new ball joints too but alas, ICE parts only shipped, 1-Set, RATS!

We have to wait till her set gets shipped in hopefully soon. She also needs a new chain and new Big Apple 2.0 tires added! Yep, just like a car, these are "wear and tear" items but since my trike is 14 years old and Jo's 2009 TRICE T is 16 years old, they lasted a LONG time!

We ended up getting a Hot Dog at a Mavrick Station on Garden of the Gods Rd. while waiting for the new parts and tires to be installed. Then we headed back down Sinton Trail to the PP Greenway, then south on the "westside" of the Greenway which is all concrete to a back street over to the Cascade Ave bike lane into the downtown Starbuck's for snack and tea and then the Pikes Peak Ave and Weber Street bike lanes back to the apartment! Not a long ride but we got in over 10 miles before late afternoon!

Ok, I am finally caught up, no ride on the 12th., we had to do some food shopping, Jo has to be on a Soft Foods diet for 30 days, (ARRUGH) for healing for the dental work she's getting done! Due to her bone medication, she has to take kinda extreme measures for dental bleeding before she gets her new upper and lower partials at the end of 30 days. Till we see or chat again, HAPPY TRAILS".