Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Wednesday Local
Solo ride around the hood. Up San Antone, to Mtn ave, down Euclid then back up a couple times. Just looking to gain 1500 ft. My legs were very tired on Monday and Tuesday so I was expecting to feel bad today. But hey, I felt great! cruising up the hills without much discomfort. Maybe I had a tailwind up the steep grades. :-P
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Much Nicer Sunday!
Another 44 miles (thanks for the heads up Ron! I had originally typed 4 miles. Ron sent me a message said, wow, all that in 4 miles? Ha ha ha!) but with a lot less wind thank goodness! 16.3 average speed. Gina did really well today, so did Aimee. Ran across Bad Bob but didn't get the shot. Saw Frank out there who rolled by us somewhere in Yorba. I managed to get a shot of him after he rolled by and dropped us!
Steve at the coast for a visit. Guy still riding and racing his inline skates at 77 years old. Wow. I hope I can still ride when I get that age, I'll be really pleased with myself. Great job Steve! He told me a few stories about his races and fast downhills at 40 MPH with no brakes and an opened road course. Dude must have nerves of steel riding in traffic racing at those speeds! :-O
A little tale of the inconsiderate homeless aholes out there. Yes, I believe some are down on their luck but as mentioned, most of them are just bullies and punk drug addicts out there for a free ride not having to follow any rules or obey laws that the rest of us have to follow. So riding through the area, there are people just sitting in the middle of the bike lanes. Ring the bell, shout out politely, they don't care. They look at you like F you! There are even lines painted on the grounds by authorities in an attempt to keep them back off the trail. They don't care!
So we ride through, loose dogs, extension chords, one guy even lifted the chord neck high as we were approaching. Idiot! At the Katella underpass, there is even a workbench wooden horse type fixture blocking half of one lane. No reason at all, nobody working on it, for what? Just to be ass holes!
So these inconsiderate low lives (not all, but many) leave their crap there just to be assholes. Not to mention kicking rocks and glass onto the trail hoping to flat the tires of passing cyclists.
Annoys me but I make it through. Then I get to the beach stop and chat with Steve. Yes, the 77 year old inline skater. He told me that he avoids the area now. One day he was skating down that way. Someone had kicked a bunch of rocks and dirt onto the trail. He was skating by, hit the rocks and took a dive. What do the homeless do? They start clapping, cheering, and laughing because he fell! How low life is that? Poor people just looking for a better life, right!
So on our return, I am riding with Gina and Aimee through the area. Strava will show we cross paths with 150'ish riders so it's not like it's not a traveled trail. We approach the area and some punk hops off his skateboard and leaves it right in the middle of our lane. I ring my bell, avoid the asshole with his bike flipped upside down, working on it in our lane, see the guy about 30 yards ahead, ring my bell and really didn't notice the skateboard till Gina shouted, "watch the skateboard!". It was in the shadows of a tree and being grey in color, I did not see it. 10 yards away I finally see it and shout for the guy to move it. We were moving slowly at this point, maybe 10 MPH. The guys just looks at me!
OK bitch, want to play that way? As we roll by, I unclip, perfect shot, I get my foot under his skateboard on the roll and flip it up off the trail and it goes flying into a tent. OK, now I got his attention! We just keep rolling and he starts shouting. I couldn't hear what he was saying but really, keep your crap off the trail and that wouldn't have happened. Aimee said he was shouting something like I can't believe you did that blah blah blah!
The way I see it, I can't believe he would do something that dangerous to cyclists. I had 2 women with me you punk, you could have hurt me, or worse the women that were riding with me. Keep your shit off the trail and I won't bother it!
Fabulous Frank for the "Pass and Drop"!
Steve at the coast for a visit. Guy still riding and racing his inline skates at 77 years old. Wow. I hope I can still ride when I get that age, I'll be really pleased with myself. Great job Steve! He told me a few stories about his races and fast downhills at 40 MPH with no brakes and an opened road course. Dude must have nerves of steel riding in traffic racing at those speeds! :-O
A little tale of the inconsiderate homeless aholes out there. Yes, I believe some are down on their luck but as mentioned, most of them are just bullies and punk drug addicts out there for a free ride not having to follow any rules or obey laws that the rest of us have to follow. So riding through the area, there are people just sitting in the middle of the bike lanes. Ring the bell, shout out politely, they don't care. They look at you like F you! There are even lines painted on the grounds by authorities in an attempt to keep them back off the trail. They don't care!
So we ride through, loose dogs, extension chords, one guy even lifted the chord neck high as we were approaching. Idiot! At the Katella underpass, there is even a workbench wooden horse type fixture blocking half of one lane. No reason at all, nobody working on it, for what? Just to be ass holes!
So these inconsiderate low lives (not all, but many) leave their crap there just to be assholes. Not to mention kicking rocks and glass onto the trail hoping to flat the tires of passing cyclists.
Annoys me but I make it through. Then I get to the beach stop and chat with Steve. Yes, the 77 year old inline skater. He told me that he avoids the area now. One day he was skating down that way. Someone had kicked a bunch of rocks and dirt onto the trail. He was skating by, hit the rocks and took a dive. What do the homeless do? They start clapping, cheering, and laughing because he fell! How low life is that? Poor people just looking for a better life, right!
So on our return, I am riding with Gina and Aimee through the area. Strava will show we cross paths with 150'ish riders so it's not like it's not a traveled trail. We approach the area and some punk hops off his skateboard and leaves it right in the middle of our lane. I ring my bell, avoid the asshole with his bike flipped upside down, working on it in our lane, see the guy about 30 yards ahead, ring my bell and really didn't notice the skateboard till Gina shouted, "watch the skateboard!". It was in the shadows of a tree and being grey in color, I did not see it. 10 yards away I finally see it and shout for the guy to move it. We were moving slowly at this point, maybe 10 MPH. The guys just looks at me!
OK bitch, want to play that way? As we roll by, I unclip, perfect shot, I get my foot under his skateboard on the roll and flip it up off the trail and it goes flying into a tent. OK, now I got his attention! We just keep rolling and he starts shouting. I couldn't hear what he was saying but really, keep your crap off the trail and that wouldn't have happened. Aimee said he was shouting something like I can't believe you did that blah blah blah!
The way I see it, I can't believe he would do something that dangerous to cyclists. I had 2 women with me you punk, you could have hurt me, or worse the women that were riding with me. Keep your shit off the trail and I won't bother it!
Fabulous Frank for the "Pass and Drop"!
Mike and Joaquin
Steve
Saturday, April 8, 2017
OK I Got To Whine Ha ha!
44 miles today with Gina, Aimee, Jose then Joaquin joined us after 32 miles or so. Why did he catch us? Aimee who never flats, flatted. So I couldn't sleep last night, only got 2 or 3 hours sleep, got up to ride, then Aimee gets a flat. So I fix it for her then we hit the road. THEN the wind hits! What a tough ride to the coast. Gina was doing well but then Joaquin took the front after Edna Park. I didn't want him to but he did. I wanted to stay at the front for the little up and down section south of Edna so that Gina would be OK as that is the section that gets her. Trying to sprint up a few little hills one right after another did take it's toll and since she hasn't been on the bike all that much, she faded a bit. But she later recovered so it's all good. I just like to set the pace at times so that she doesn't have to put in that little extra effort to keep up. Makes it that much easier. But we did get help from Joaquin and Jose for about 50% of the WINDY trip to the coast.
Garmin said 15.2 average which was good with this monster headwind but Strava gave us a 15.0. They do that once in a while so I'm thinking about revoking my membership ha ha!
Little taste of today's headwind
Few seconds after fixing Aimee's flat. Extra workout, thanks Aimee. She did say your welcome after the ride ha ha!
Garmin said 15.2 average which was good with this monster headwind but Strava gave us a 15.0. They do that once in a while so I'm thinking about revoking my membership ha ha!
Little taste of today's headwind
Few seconds after fixing Aimee's flat. Extra workout, thanks Aimee. She did say your welcome after the ride ha ha!
Joaquin's new wheels
Check out the sand storm at the beach!
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Wed Local Ride
Out of town for the weekend so my mileage sucks so far this month ha ha! So today I had to do a little longer midweek ride. 23.8 miles with 2,021 ft of gain. Hit 24th street about 5 times, across 21st down Benson then back up. Going down Euclid is all To' up so going down sucked. So I changed a little bit, oh well, I got in a ride!
Well mostly a nice ride. I was riding down a section of Euclid when a small stick from a tree fell and whacked me on my nose. Ouchie! Kind of stung a bit. Then on the next round, I was on that same section when a BIG section of a branch fell and whacked me across the face ha ha! THAT got my attention. I was somewhat in shock for a couple seconds wondering what had just happened. The thing was about 12 inches long. :-O
Nice day for a ride but heading uphill into the wind kind of sucked ha ha!
Well mostly a nice ride. I was riding down a section of Euclid when a small stick from a tree fell and whacked me on my nose. Ouchie! Kind of stung a bit. Then on the next round, I was on that same section when a BIG section of a branch fell and whacked me across the face ha ha! THAT got my attention. I was somewhat in shock for a couple seconds wondering what had just happened. The thing was about 12 inches long. :-O
Nice day for a ride but heading uphill into the wind kind of sucked ha ha!
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Sunday SART with Gina and Aimee
44 miles 16.3 average on my old Cannondale. Nice day for a ride! Started out a bit cool and looking like rain but I had faith in the forecast. It did turn out to be a nice day!
One thing I like about Aimee, She doesn't play games. She flat out told me when she started riding with us, she could not change a tire and that is why she wanted to ride with us. No, I think you are cool, no I think you guys ride well, no I think Mr. Beanz is the bomb, just flat out, "I want to ride with you guys cause I can't change a flat ha ha! So she noticed her rear tire was worn so she brought along a new tire so that we could swap it out. We were rewarded with some fresh Alaskan salmon, 4 pieces! She said that was my thanks for swapping the tire. I told you, Mr. Beanz accepts gifts ha ha!
We did the first 7 to Yorba then ran into Mike at the park who tagged along with us for the remaining 37. He did a total of 58 today. Did see Greg out there with his finger to nose salute. Herb and Alyce, and a few other familiar faces today.
The new tire. After I installed it, Gina turned to me and said, "that wasn't bad!". Not sure but I think Gina thinks in her mind that she was the one who changed the tire ha ha!
One thing I like about Aimee, She doesn't play games. She flat out told me when she started riding with us, she could not change a tire and that is why she wanted to ride with us. No, I think you are cool, no I think you guys ride well, no I think Mr. Beanz is the bomb, just flat out, "I want to ride with you guys cause I can't change a flat ha ha! So she noticed her rear tire was worn so she brought along a new tire so that we could swap it out. We were rewarded with some fresh Alaskan salmon, 4 pieces! She said that was my thanks for swapping the tire. I told you, Mr. Beanz accepts gifts ha ha!
We did the first 7 to Yorba then ran into Mike at the park who tagged along with us for the remaining 37. He did a total of 58 today. Did see Greg out there with his finger to nose salute. Herb and Alyce, and a few other familiar faces today.
The new tire. After I installed it, Gina turned to me and said, "that wasn't bad!". Not sure but I think Gina thinks in her mind that she was the one who changed the tire ha ha!
Aimee said it was so pretty she didn't want to ride it worried it would get dirty!
Spring is here......but we really didn't need that guy's face in the picture ha ha!
Poor Aimee, a minute or so after this, she got the bee kiss on her leg, OUCH!
Gina pulling the B Train!
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Yankee Clipper & Don
Solo, well mostly solo miles today. Gina had things to do preparing for a birthday party tonight. 44 miles/ 16.9 average speed. Wow what a windy day. I was killing it at the start of the ride. Had a 17.3 from Rampart to Yorba Park. Then held a 17.2 into the wind from Yorba to Edna Park. From there it was all down hill ha ha! I was pushing as hard as I could and only doing 14 MPH the last 2 mile stretch from the wooden bridge to the beach.
Ran into Don there who was doing his usual 53. I had to rush back so I took a short break chatting with Don about videos. Notice the recorder on his helmet, he's entering the video world ha ha! We headed off together so that I could take a few shots of Don in action. As soon as we hit the trail, he took off like a bullet. I had to warm my legs back up so it took me a couple of miles to catch him. Finally I caught on the back and got a little draft so that I could take a breather and whip out my camera. I took a few shots then moved to the front. We held a pretty good pace on the return. We were pumping pretty good and after viewing Don's Strava, I noticed he had a whole bunch of 2nd and 3rd awards on his segments. BUT I also counted 18 PR's (personal records) along the way. Way to go DON!
Along the way back, some dude joined us for a while. Near the final miles of my return (12 miles/ Don still had 21 miles on his return) the dude insisted on taking the front. We were doing fine but he moved up anyway which was cool! Not very often does someone "volunteer" to take the front ha ha! So why not ?!
On the early section of my ride, I stopped at Yorba for a breather before heading back to the coast. This dude rode up and started chatting with me right away, friendly feller! We spoke about rides, experiences, the trail etc. Turns out we've both been out there for quite some time. I probably won't get this right but he mentioned starting up some org called "HUBBA" (told you I would not get it right). I forgot the specifics but turns out I might have met one of his partners back in 05 or 06. I saw some guys stop and start sweeping up some debris on the trail (broken glass). I'm figuring that was his buddy working with him. Some tri dude I want to say his name was Bob.
I figured that out after the dude told me that he went by "Yankee Clipper". Why? Because he carries clippers with him (see pic). He stops and clips away branches, twigs, etc whatever can be a hazard along the trail. He also mentioned something about being a trail runner and clipping twigs clearing stuff from the running trails as well, for the safety of the runners. Very cool! I may not get all the details correct, but you get the idea. So if you see this guy out there, say thanks! ;-)
We rode together for a little bit so I did manage to get a few shots of the guy. Least I could do for his efforts cleaning the trail! :-)
Yankee Clipper (there is a story to the name!) Hope I got the name right. Could be Patriot Clipper ha ha!
Ran into Don there who was doing his usual 53. I had to rush back so I took a short break chatting with Don about videos. Notice the recorder on his helmet, he's entering the video world ha ha! We headed off together so that I could take a few shots of Don in action. As soon as we hit the trail, he took off like a bullet. I had to warm my legs back up so it took me a couple of miles to catch him. Finally I caught on the back and got a little draft so that I could take a breather and whip out my camera. I took a few shots then moved to the front. We held a pretty good pace on the return. We were pumping pretty good and after viewing Don's Strava, I noticed he had a whole bunch of 2nd and 3rd awards on his segments. BUT I also counted 18 PR's (personal records) along the way. Way to go DON!
Along the way back, some dude joined us for a while. Near the final miles of my return (12 miles/ Don still had 21 miles on his return) the dude insisted on taking the front. We were doing fine but he moved up anyway which was cool! Not very often does someone "volunteer" to take the front ha ha! So why not ?!
On the early section of my ride, I stopped at Yorba for a breather before heading back to the coast. This dude rode up and started chatting with me right away, friendly feller! We spoke about rides, experiences, the trail etc. Turns out we've both been out there for quite some time. I probably won't get this right but he mentioned starting up some org called "HUBBA" (told you I would not get it right). I forgot the specifics but turns out I might have met one of his partners back in 05 or 06. I saw some guys stop and start sweeping up some debris on the trail (broken glass). I'm figuring that was his buddy working with him. Some tri dude I want to say his name was Bob.
I figured that out after the dude told me that he went by "Yankee Clipper". Why? Because he carries clippers with him (see pic). He stops and clips away branches, twigs, etc whatever can be a hazard along the trail. He also mentioned something about being a trail runner and clipping twigs clearing stuff from the running trails as well, for the safety of the runners. Very cool! I may not get all the details correct, but you get the idea. So if you see this guy out there, say thanks! ;-)
We rode together for a little bit so I did manage to get a few shots of the guy. Least I could do for his efforts cleaning the trail! :-)
Yankee Clipper (there is a story to the name!) Hope I got the name right. Could be Patriot Clipper ha ha!
Don
Saturday, March 18, 2017
41 miles at 16.6 MPH average speed. Saw Ron and Dixie at the start, then again at the coast for a little, well a long visit ha ha! The legs really cool down then it's hard to get started again. Nice day but seemed to be getting a bit chilly at the coast. Alex stopped by too!
Good stiff headwind on the way to the coast. I really didn't think Gina would ride today. Last couple of days she had been complaining about a stuffy nose. But she did really well today. A few times she would pass me on the little hills ha ha! She didn't even looked tired today. On the way to the coast she wouldn't shut up though. She was talking about all kinds of stuff so I was like, "Gina, shut up, save your energy!". Maybe she didn't need it though cause she passed me up a few times ha ha!
Good stiff headwind on the way to the coast. I really didn't think Gina would ride today. Last couple of days she had been complaining about a stuffy nose. But she did really well today. A few times she would pass me on the little hills ha ha! She didn't even looked tired today. On the way to the coast she wouldn't shut up though. She was talking about all kinds of stuff so I was like, "Gina, shut up, save your energy!". Maybe she didn't need it though cause she passed me up a few times ha ha!
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