LocoJoe's Most Recent Ride (Pub Pedaling)

[aka_locojoe]

Thanks for the birthday wishes.

Today 65rat, ratfink1962 and myself rode our local rail-to-trail.

[dos cruiser]

Happy Birthday Randy, I hope you guys stopped for lunch and a beer!

[Houndog]

I wish OKC had bicycle trails to ride,maybe some weekend the wife and I can come ride with you guys....Happy BDay!!

[aka_locojoe]

Thanks Don, Houndog.

Nope no lunch or beer . Just a nice ride

Houndog... watch http://CoastersBicycleClub.com for any group rides we might have and maybe you can come up. Also you might want to come up for the 8th annual Midwest Bicycle Fest September 30th.

[Houndog]

Bike fest sounds cool....I'll definatley try to make it...

[dos cruiser]

Bike Fest is a lot of fun, the wife and I are planning to come down this year, she really enjoyed the last one.

[aka_locojoe]

Hope to see you both there. Will announce more about it later.

Today's ride was to check out the 30th annual city-wide garage sale. Rode the bike below part of the day and my build-off bike the other.



Crossed paths with 65rat and 450redrider a couple times.



Brought home this girls space bike and a tire pump.

[yoothgeye]

City-wide yard sale sounds like an awesome idea. They use to have a base-wide yard sale one or two times a year (and no yard sales could happen apart from those times) at Fort Lee Virginia, I remember getting some awesome stuff there growing up, then they made it more frequent and the deals went away.

[Ratfink1962]

Randy, the permit said it was the 32nd annual.

At any rate, I didnt get to go browse, since I was holding my own sale, but it sure seemed to be a lot slower this year. We ended up selling quite a bit, but it took all day to do it. I remember in years past... we would sometimes sell out early.

[aka_locojoe]

Randy, the permit said it was the 32nd annual.

Whoops. Thanks.
You know I once thought I heard it promoted as the first, oldest, longest running (or something like that) city-wide.
Yes we would usually sell out by noon.

Today...
Rode my build-off bike (sans wood box & different seat) to breakfast.


The grand-kids are back in town from Summer vacation in Alaska. They stopped by today and along with their Mother, Grand-Mother and myself all 6 of us rode to McDonalds.

[65rat]

I bet we rode 30 mi. for the city wide sale. up and down every street in town (now I know where they all are) found a couple coworkers houses that I knew lived in town just not sure where they lived. I only bought 2 things was looking for a name brand mountain bike or hybrid, only thing I found was a Giant rincon so I got it and everything works on it. and a $5 weed eater from Ratfink1962 for my nephew

[aka_locojoe]

Yesterday's ride on the Flint Hills Nature Trail http://youtu.be/FreZL6NKKyU

[yoothgeye]

Yesterday's ride on the Flint Hills Nature Trail http://youtu.be/FreZL6NKKyU

Great video. On that downhill part to the road you need to find someone with some video editing software to add in a car coming down the road and taking out your wife. I guarantee it would go viral. haha

I envy all the trails around you. My local bike trail is 7-8 mile one way, I've ridden it day and night over and over, it gets kind of dull, I could probably ride it blindfolded... wait, I'll be right back.

[aka_locojoe]

Great video. On that downhill part to the road you need to find someone with some video editing software to add in a car coming down the road and taking out your wife. I guarantee it would go viral. haha

I envy all the trails around you. My local bike trail is 7-8 mile one way, I've ridden it day and night over and over, it gets kind of dull, I could probably ride it blindfolded... wait, I'll be right back.

Thanks.
Probably a good thing I don't have better editing software or skills. I'd get carried away. Skip to the very end of this one and watch the kid on the bike in the street. http://youtu.be/xhWG6Tvsa-8

We only have one "local" rail-to-trail and it's only 8 miles long. We travel to all the others. This latest one is the next closest and is 2.5 hours away. Far enough away that I didn't want to have to get up early and drive so we went there the night before and spent the night.

[jerrykr]

geeze you are getting good with the videos. Can I steal some of your ideas?

Flint Hills rocks!