LocoJoe's Most Recent Ride (Flint Hills)

[aka_locojoe]

I'm not sure how I missed this but that green and white Dodge motorhome use to belong to my grandpa for a few years until he decided not to build it

That's cool. Didn't even notice it was a Dodge. Not for sure what the deal is with it now?

[450redrider]

I'm not sure how I missed this but that green and white Dodge motorhome use to belong to my grandpa for a few years until he decided not to build it

That's cool. Didn't even notice it was a Dodge. Not for sure what the deal is with it now?

My grandpa sold it around last summer to that guy who was either going to rebuild it with parts off the black one or viseversa I'm not sure which my grandpa decided to build something different now

[aka_locojoe]

Crappy video with good music from last Saturday's ride when it was around 70 degrees. Lows around zero this past week. Near the end of our ride we stopped at our favorite LBS to get tubes and ran in to 450redrider and 65rat who were just heading out for a ratrod ride. Didn't think to get pics of them and their bikes.

Lunch


Fixing flat

[Ratfink1962]

the 70 to zero thing... I read somewhere that they were explaining it as a 100 degree swing.

70 degrees one day, and a minus 30 (wind chill) a couple days later!!

[aka_locojoe]

the 70 to zero thing... I read somewhere that they were explaining it as a 100 degree swing.

70 degrees one day, and a minus 30 (wind chill) a couple days later!!

Crazy Kansas weather. Makes winter a lot more bearable though. At least the snow and frigid temps come and go.

Here was today's miserable 5 mile ride. Only fell once! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL2haMJvxU0

[Skipton]

Randy
Thanks for the cool video! Did you have the camera mounted on the bars? Or where you one handed in the snow?

Oh Yeah! you are HARDCORE!

[aka_locojoe]

Randy
Thanks for the cool video! Did you have the camera mounted on the bars? Or where you one handed in the snow?

Oh Yeah! you are HARDCORE!

I was holding the camera. That was kinda tuff.

No you're the one that's hard core. I did it just for kicks. I don't commute by bike in nice weather let alone this crap.

[aka_locojoe]

Yesterday we took a short road trip to the town of Lindsborg, Kansas. From there we rode about 4.5 miles up to Coronado Heights and back. Lindsborg was settled in the spring of 1869 by a group of Swedish immigrants. Coronado Heights receives its name from the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, who visited central Kansas in 1541. Supposedly he climbed this hill looking for the Native American community of Quivira, where he was told "trees hung with golden bells and ... pots and pans were beaten gold."
Once back in Lindsborg we rode the Välkommen Trail which is a paved rail-to-trail.

Video here

[outskirtscustoms]

the 70 to zero thing... I read somewhere that they were explaining it as a 100 degree swing.

70 degrees one day, and a minus 30 (wind chill) a couple days later!!

Crazy Kansas weather. Makes winter a lot more bearable though. At least the snow and frigid temps come and go.

Here was today's miserable 5 mile ride. Only fell once! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL2haMJvxU0

I thought you got the fall on film.....lol. Looks like a fun ride. Indiana has some weird weather too.

[Graylock]

Crappy video with good music from last Saturday's ride when it was around 70 degrees.

The music made the video pal.......that was cool! Works for me

Graylock

[StepChld]

With just a few additions, we could make that place completely Zombie proof.

[aka_locojoe]

Thanks for the comments. Oh and just to show I haven't abandoned the ratrods for the hybrid... here's a photo from a ride last Thursday eve

[aka_locojoe]

Took a long weekend and road trip to Texas to ride. Snow flurries when we left here. A miserable high of 83 there. Like everything else the sun must be bigger in Texas too. Luckily it didn't get hot till the very end of the ride. Was a great trail and ride.

Video here

Spotted this ratrod at a restaurant while there.

[cman]

That is great that you and Nova are enjoying all these railtrails. The "Castle" in KS is pretty unique.

[Rat Rod]

Great video as always Randy.

Oddly enough, we were at my brother-in-law's house in Weatherford yesterday for a birthday party.

It was a windy weekend here so yall must have had in interesting ride at times.