WELCOME to: BJ and Jo Ondo's recumbent trike cycling blog! This blog has information about US! We don't own a car and use our trikes for our main Transportation and, also our Recreation! Thanks for checking out the Blog, LETS RIDE!
August 28- We headed south to pick up the Midland Trail, west and head into Manitou Springs and our favorite picnic spot on the Creek Walk Trail
Beautiful day for an easy ride as the Midland and Creekwalk trails are old rail trails. There is a pull-off with two small metal picnic tables and a bench right along Fountain Creek just before the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce building. No iced tea, just water and our brown bag lunches but the place is quite nice. Headed the opposite way back, stopped and finally got that iced tea and ate our late afternoon snack bars. From there it was time to head home, great day, enjoyable ride!
September 2-Heading to our favorite Haunt, the Creekside Cafe and Cottonwood Creek Trail
Heading north, on the Pikes Peak Greenway to the junction with the Cottonwood Creek Trail and making our way, east to the Creekside Coffee House! Brown bag lunch and of course iced tea on the patio! The CC House has good food and drinks and lots of shade on a really hot day.
From there, back on the CCT, east all the way to the current ending point, (with a detour for construction), just northeast of Powers Blvd. where the concrete trail ends, turning into a gravel single-track trail, not a good trail for recumbent trikes!! It's all downhill heading west on the CCT so it was a fast run back to the Pikes Peak Greenway, south and back home. 90F sunny and hot but still an excellent ride.
CCT Bridges-Video Short
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September 5-FOOD RUN and Lunch Ride to Panino's 74 Restaurant-Music Video
Time again for the Bi-Monthly Food Run to the Walmart Market off of Union Blvd. via the Rock Island Trail. Did the shopping, loaded the cargo trailer and headed home to put the cold/frozen items away. Jumped on the Cascade Ave. bike lane, south heading downtown.
Panino's 74 has been our favorite Italian Restaurant for decades and it's a short ride with a shaded patio, which lets us keep track of the trikes! We got our favorite, Panino Wrap, "The Big Bopper"!
We headed down and picked up Shooks Run Trail, north in the afternoon, stopped at the Tasty Freeze Drive Inn for our 2nd. iced tea and a snack bar. We were going to head out a bit further BUT, the dark rain clouds were coming in so we bailed and headed home via Shooks Run and Rock Island, west. Got the trikes in the apartment and the RAIN came down, perfect timing!!
Heading to Panino's 74-Video-Short
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September 6- The NEVER-ENDING search for MORE YARN Ride
LOL, Jo has been using old yarn that was given to her by a friend, hoping to make it last till after we got back from "Recumbent Cycle-Con" in Mid-September. She caved and we set out to get her enough YARN to make her baby blankets & beanies for local area hospitals here in Colorado Springs and Pueblo CO.
Again, headed east on the Rock Island Trail to get to the Chelton Drive bike lane over to the Platte Ave. Walmart Supercenter. Lucky, I found the only shady spot around the store, and she headed in to get her yarn. Yarn loaded up in the Saddle Bags we headed back to the Rock Island Trail, east but the Chelton Drive bike lane has a "13.5% Grade HILL"!!! Thank
goodness for "E-assist" which helped us get up the hill and back on the trail. Heading over to turn on the Academy Blvd. walking/cycle Path, north and head to the Mavrick Station Cafe for our lunch. Headed back down the Rock Island Trail, west and then home. Food shopping wears us out so it was a much shorter ride than normal, but it makes even a "chore" fun!
13.5% hill, Chelton Ave Bike Lane
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The only other ride so far was done by Jo alone as I had a dental appointment, September 9,
she headed up to Angletech to get 2-new front tires installed and check fender alignment before we head out on September 15th. to "Recumbent Cycle-Con" and some "different" trail riding in Xena, OH. Might be a ride or two before we head out but that's for another BLOG entry!! Happy Trails!
