God, The Aunt Eater

So lets see, Summerhaven is pretty cool...
72 miles, 7,914 ft climbed, over nearly 5 hours of riding.

Wow, Thats High!

There was a fire awhile back (10 years or so) which sucks, but it made some really awesome views possible.

A pretty classic Lemmon View.

It was a good ride. Originally starting off with a good bunch of people, Shelby, Rico, and Rafael (all from Performance) were there. But, also in attendance were some people from the UofA cycling club. Well, unfortunately Shelby drop out pretty early, Rico and Raf had to get to work by 9, and I still had a good deal of pedal power left over. So I tried to keep up. It didn't work out for long. I kept it up though and eventually made it to the Cookie Cottage! it was pretty neat place with a bunch of cyclists just chilling.

The 'halfway' point

When I eventually began to think about all the other stuff I had to do that day (such as sell Brian the Roomie's storage unit for him) I decided it was time to turn on the metaphorical hair dryer and speed off with hot air blowing in my face. Well, it was then I happened to notice the slight bulge. In my rush to deflate it, I neglected to take the invaluable photo. Instead you are left with this hard to see cut in the side wall.
Luckily some kind people happened to have a floor pump. I pulled out my granola bar wrapper and patched it back up in no time! Now I simply have to hope that its still holding... or I just need to go skidd a bunch (I just hope I wont be as pissed as Gordon-Levitt was!) until it explodes and then i'll have no choice but to replace it!

And less recently. It rained awhile back!

Eventually I did dare. My foot did get a tad wet but I survived. It was good fun.

 And then last Tuesday (awhile back) Rico, Burt and Liz and I biked Gates Pass:

Cool clouds, no rain.

At least not on us anyhow.

Ricardo taking the lead against a great back drop!

And then there was this! Darlene and I got to enjoy it on a nice ride back to my place.

But, despite all these great pictures, despite some awesome rides, meeting some new people and fun planning for Brazil, despite all of the greatness of life, I'm just glad there's at least stuff like this keep things interesting!

Yep. Its a car. Stay tuned for more details...

Not any car, my dear reader, this car is... well. I dont even know what to say!

Come up with the wittiest caption for this picture and you'll win!!!

Whooo-Hoo-Hoooo speeds

This morning really made my day! I had been looking for a longer hard ride ever since doing Saguaro East with Jon on Saturday. That was a great ride and Jon was a great riding buddy, but it was a bit short, and sadly ended abruptly when I had to sprint off to work and was late.  :-(
And so finally it happened. Ricardo suggested we go riding sometime and tuesday morning it was! I was so excited for it that I made sure to go to bed early and stripped my bike of the non-essentials.

I did end up putting the pedals back on...

It was a beautiful day. Some steep climbs. Even though this isn't a picture of them...

And some good notsosteep climbs.

Whoo-Hoo-Hoooo Speed. (As seen at 0:53)

Not to mention the good descents. Of course the above video (found by me here)  is not of myself as should hopefully be clear by the ridiculousness of the double speedometers. Something that (although I might do for some currently ununderstandable good reason) you won't find on my bike.
In the end though, I was feeling great! I felt like I had just gone on an awesome bike ride, because I had, and I felt like I rode hard, because I had. Even the poor rankings on Strava won't get me down! well, at least not much...


In other news, I'm pretty set on getting a GoPro.

I do this kinda stuff all the time. You guys just don't know about it because I can't get my phone out in time to get good pictures of it! and even if I did it would probably (despite my above-par bike handling skillz) cause me to do this:

to either my bike, my phone or my self.