2015 Ride to Conquer Cancer

[Sheep]

I am a weird weight wennie. I mean, I am 200lbs but I have to have light bikes so I can say "I have a light bike". My Cervelo is in the 13's and my Niner Jet9 RDO is 23 lbs on the dot.

Her Alum Yeti is 24.5.

Yeah the weenie is starting to come out in me, but I ride 46kms a day and keeping my effort down does actually add up. Right now my tires and rims are killing me, the combined weight of my wheels with nothing on them is 2320 grams. DT Swiss has the R23 disc rims at 16** and using a center lock rotor I should be able to get the weight down there as well. But, that's 700 bucks before rotors, and I'm about to buy an apartment so I should keep that spending down until I have things settled.

SheepStar

 

[Hobbit]

Where in NM, we have access to a cabin in Ruidoso so we are going start riding there some.

I'm in ABQ. Ruidoso, and that whole are - Lincoln, Carizozo, and Cloudcroft are beautiful. There's some nice road and mtb'ing in that area. There's also a lot of history in that area. I recently spent a weekend at The Lodge in Cloudcroft. It snowed the entire time, but was nice and sunny at white sands. We had a great time

I wish I could tell you some specific place to go, but most my experience riding down there was for races. I'm sure the lbs can tell you where the best trails are. As far as road riding I don't think you can go wrong in any direction up there.

Make sure you carry a couple of tubes with you. Also get some stans in you mtb tires. NM is notorious for goat-heads.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I'm in ABQ. Ruidoso, and that whole are - Lincoln, Carizozo, and Cloudcroft are beautiful. There's some nice road and mtb'ing in that area. There's also a lot of history in that area. I recently spent a weekend at The Lodge in Cloudcroft. It snowed the entire time, but was nice and sunny at white sands. We had a great time

I wish I could tell you some specific place to go, but most my experience riding down there was for races. I'm sure the lbs can tell you where the best trails are. As far as road riding I don't think you can go wrong in any direction up there.

Make sure you carry a couple of tubes with you. Also get some stans in you mtb tires. NM is notorious for goat-heads.

It is beautiful there, two of my best Strava buddies live there and come here to ride with us some. Nate is a high ranked mountain biker there. Bob is around 73 y/o and can whip me on a road bike.

When I lived in ABQ I made Meth under what looked to be an industrial laundry-mat. Oh crap, that's Breaking Bad, I confuse the show and my life a lot...lol.

We both run tubeless on the MTB's, we have all kinds of goatheads in Texas too but I have only had 1 flat in 4 years. The issue in Texas is you have to refill Stan's every 3-4 weeks as it dries out in the heat. We run tubulars on the road bikes so carrying a tube isn't an option. I run a little Stan's in those too plus carry a can of "Pitstop" in my Jersey pocket. I have never had to use it.

Below is the Cabin. It is owned by a friend who hasn't been there in 3 years. He has a local guy that does the upkeep and he just lets a small group of friends use in when they want. It is 3.5 miles from the base of Ski Apache.



This is me winning a big race by a long shot...

That's a joke, it is me but there are about 7,000 people in front of me...lol

 

[Hobbit]

When I lived in ABQ I made Meth under what looked to be an industrial laundry-mat. Oh crap, that's Breaking Bad, I confuse the show and my life a lot...lol.

Too funny!

Where in Tex are you? I lived in San Antonio for a spell.

It must be nice to be able to run tubulars. I don't know of anyone around here that does that. A friend who's from ABQ tells me he runs them all the time there. I haven't been on a pair of tubulars since I stopped racing. My bike has my winter training wheels on it which incorporate "the system," which is an old tubular casing inside your clincher tire. I even have a little Stans in there to boot, which dries out awfully quick here too. The goat heads are that bad around here.

All the pics of me on my road bike show my back only. lol! Here's a shot of my noodling around in the ABQ foothills

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Too funny!

Where in Tex are you? I lived in San Antonio for a spell.

It must be nice to be able to run tubulars. I don't know of anyone around here that does that. A friend who's from ABQ tells me he runs them all the time there. I haven't been on a pair of tubulars since I stopped racing. My bike has my winter training wheels on it which incorporate "the system," which is an old tubular casing inside your clincher tire. I even have a little Stans in there to boot, which dries out awfully quick here too. The goat heads are that bad around here.

All the pics of me on my road bike show my back only. lol! Here's a shot of my noodling around in the ABQ foothills

We are in Fort Worth.

I am somehow lucky with flats I guess. On the large charity rides we do, you see flats every 1/2 mile and neither the wife or I have had one. I run pretty new tires at all events so that may have something to do with it. I think we both blew through training tires this past year but they were down to zero life.

Everyone around here is saying the new formula that Orange Seal is using is working as well as Stan's and not drying out. I may switch to that but not until I need new tires as they say the formulas don't mix well.

Today will be my first day back on the bike in a few weeks. Bulging disc and steroid injections have slowed me down but I have got to try and ride all week and hope I am fine for Snowboarding in Lake Tahoe next week.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

35 a year.. wish I could find that many here.

Yeah some bikes manage huge discounts. One of the managers here at work has a $15,000 dollar specialaized. So this is her bike, but youère putting your wheels on it? Man, that bike is 11 lbs lighter then my Giant... Mind you, Aluminum and disks.

SheepStar

Here is the schedule around us this year. We try to pick out 1/wk.

Texas Bike Rides for 2015
Event Location Date
Happy New Rear Bike Ride 2015 Blue Ridge January 1, 2015
Saturday Urban Ride Houston January 4, 2015
Bayou City Outdoors Houston January 12, 2015
Texas Independence Bicycle Tour 2015 Deer Park January 17, 2015
Megan Baab Memorial Road Race 2015 Copperas Cove January 17, 2015
Third Annual Comanche Cross Bike Race Odessa Coming soon
7th Annual Bike Through the Forest and the Hills Bike Ride 2015 Coldspring January 24, 2015
13th Annual FrostBike 50 Cypress January 25, 2015
Texas Chainring Massacre 2015 Valley View January 31, 2015
Band Against MS Ride Houston 2015 Houston January 31, 2015
Tour of New Baunfels Race Weekend Coryell Coming soon
30th Annual Super Bowl Sunday Ride 2015 Multiple Locations February 1, 2015
27th Annual Freeze Your Fanny Longview February 7, 2015
Pedaling the Prairie 2014 Hempstead February 7, 2015
Ride for Refuge Austin Coming soon
6th Annual Bike for Little Heroes Hockley February 8, 2015
Chihuahuan Desert Bike Fest 2015 Presidio February 12-14, 2015
13th Annual Humble Lions Club Bike Ride Humble February 14, 2015
Iris Stagner Memorial Mineral Wells Coming soon
Tri-County Hill Hopper Round Top February 15, 2015
Ray Porter Memorial Race Against Cancer Tyler February 21, 2015
25th Annual Jalapeño 100 Harlingen February 21, 2015
The Walburg Classic Walburg Coming soon
Pace Bend Road Race Spicewood Coming soon
Heart of Texas Recumbent Rally 2015 Austin February 27-28, 2015
26th Annual Baytown YMCA Gator Ride Baytown February 28, 2015
The Plane Great Ride 2015 Montgomery Coming soon
City of McAllen Arbor Day Challenge McAllen March 7, 2015
The Great Escape Manvel March 8, 2015
13th Annual Pedal Thru The Pines Smithville March 14, 2015
The Raven’s Revenge 2015 Huntsville March 7, 2015
B-geO Magnolia Miles 2015 Magnolia March 14, 2015
SETHBC Big Thicket Bike Tour 2015 Kountze, TX March 14, 2015
Tour de Houston 2015 Houston March 15, 2015
Reveille Peak Bike Festival Burnet March 20-22, 2015
Beauty and the Beast Bicycle Tour 2015 Bullard March 21, 2015
12th Annual Schlumberger Education Expedition Missouri City March 21, 2015
7th Annual Riverside Ride Victoria March 21, 2015
Rosedale Ride 2015 Austin Coming soon
STEAM-N-WHEELS 2015 Abilene March 21, 2015
Bluebonnet Express 2015 Waller March 22, 2015
The Devil’s BackBone TXTRI Waller March 22, 2015
RAAM Cycling Challenge – Texas 2015 Marble Falls March 28, 2015
Head for the Hills 2015 Chappell Hill March 28, 2015
SpringFest Metric Century 2015 Bullard March 28, 2015
Salado Smokin Spokes Ride 2015 Salado March 28, 2015
8th Annual LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour Stonewall March 28, 2015
3rd Annual LBJ 100 Individual Time Trial Stonewall Coming soon
2015 Easter Hill Country Tour Kerrville, TX April 3-5, 2015
Tour de Castroville Walk/Run/Ride Castroville, TX April 4, 2015
Red River Riot 2015 Muenster April 4, 2015
Bessies Creek 24 Brookshire April 9-11, 2015
Bikes for Trykes San Angelo Coming soon
Castell Grind Castell April 11, 2015
Tour of Navidad Valley 2015 Schulenburg Coming soon
Aware Bike Tour Hewitt Coming soon
13th Annual Katy Ram Challenge Katy April 11, 2015
Ark-La-Tex Challenge 2015 Texarkana April 11, 2015
Tour de Freedom Plainview Coming soon
Tour Dallas 2015 Dallas Coming soon
11h Annual Spokes ‘n Spurs Liberty Hill Coming soon
Ride to the Rescue Manvel Coming soon
Cycling for Libraries San Antonio Coming soon
3rd Annual Coastal Bend Tour de Cure Corpus Christi April 11, 2015
Ride 2 Recovery Texas Houston April 11-18, 2015
Lampasas Hillacious Bike Tour Lampasas April 11, 2015
12th Annual Dam to Dam Bike Ride Jasper April 11, 2015
Cuero Wildflower Bike Ride Cuero Coming soon
11th annual North Texas Classic Fort Worth Coming soon
2015 Lancaster Country Ride Lancaster, TX Aprill 11, 2015
Ride Ataxia Dallas 2015 Denton April 12, 2015
BP MS 150 Houston Tour Houston April 18-19, 2015
Playtri KING TUT Triathlon McKinney Coming soon
Honor Ride Clay Hunt – Ft. Worth Fort Worth April 18, 2015
Ride for Heroes 2015 Aledo April 18, 2015
Scavenger Hunt 2015 – Spring Dallas April 18, 2015
11th Annual Tour de Cypress Ride and Run Mt. Vernon Coming soon
Texas Ultra Spirit 2015 Fayetteville April 24-25, 2015
11th Annual Red Poppy Ride 2015 Georgetown Coming soon
35th Germanfest Metric Century Bicycle Rally 2015 Muenster April 25, 2015
Bike Out Hunger Weatherford Coming soon
2015 Red Balloon Run & Ride Plano April 25, 2015
Beat the Street for Little Feet Sweetwater Coming soon
Ride On The Wild Side Kingsville April 25, 2015
Shiner GASP 2015 Austin April 25, 2015
Colorado River Bikefest Ballinger April 25, 2015
Fiesta Wildflower Ride 2015 San Antonio April 26, 2015
4th Annual Lions Rip Roarin’ 55 Mile Charity Bike Ride Providence Coming soon
Bike MS: Sam’s Club Ride Frisco May 2-3, 2015
7th Annual Bike for Mike Fulshear Coming soon
Tour LaFitte 2015 Lake Charles, LA Coming soon
2015 Stampede on the Chisholm Trail Belton Coming soon
Waggin Trail Bike Ride Hillsboro Coming soon
3 State 3 Mountain Challenge Chattanooga, TN Coming soon
Tour de Braz Alvin Coming soon
Pedal to Padre Brownsville Coming soon
Tour du Rouge 2015 Houston to New Orleans May 3-8, 2015
Texas Gran Fondo 2015 Fredericksburg, TX May 9, 2015
Head for the Hills 2015 Cedar Hill Coming soon
San Antonio Tour de Cure 2015 San Antonio May 9, 2015
Rolling Hills Challenge Columbus May 9, 2015
2015 Tour De RACHA Waller May 9, 2015
Chisholm Trail Parkway Run and Ride Various locations Coming soon
Tri for Humanity Little Elm Coming soon
Bike Out Hunger Texas 2015 Bandera to Wichita Falls May 11-16, 2015
Real Ale Ride 2015 Blanco May 16, 2015
Bosque Tour de Norway 2015 Clifton Coming soon
WildRide! Against Cancer Richardson Coming soon
Ride of Silence 2015 Various locations May 20, 2015
Burleson Honey Tour Burleson May 23, 2015
Caught on the NETT Farmersville, TX May 30, 2015
11th Annual Atlas Ride Pillar Bluff Vineyards May 30, 2015
Fayetteville Good Ole Summertime Classic Fayetteville TX June 7, 2015
9th Annual Spindletop Spin Beaumont June 6, 2015
Hearth Of Hope Life Cycling East Texas June 7, 2014
Mesquite Rotary Bike Ride Mesquite June 7, 2014
2015 Colorado DEATH RIDE Tour VI Silverton, CO June 6-8, 2015
Fire-Ant 100 Gatesville June 14, 2014
White River Road Rally West Texas June 14, 2014
Collin Classic Bike Rally McKinney June 14, 2014
Tour de Muleshoe Muleshoe June 14, 2014
All American Bicycle Rally Springtown June 14, 2014
29th Annual Tour d’Italia Italy June 21, 2014
DFW Tour de Cure Dallas/Fort Worth June 20, 2015
Bike MS: Valero Ride the Rim 2014 Palo Duro Canyon June 21-22, 2014
SB 250 San Antonio Ride 2014 McAllen June 27, 2014
Possum Pedal Bike Ride Graham June 28, 2014
The Dragon Criterium Series Southlake, TX June 28, 2014
Wild Pig Pedal Seymour June 28, 2014
Cow Creek Country Classic Waxahachie June 28, 2014
Hell of the North Texas Sanger, TX June 28, 2014
Tour of The Wichitas Fort Sill, OK June 28, 2014
Rough Riders 200 Angel Fire, New Mexico June 28-29, 2014
Firecracker 100 Bike Ride Stephenville Coming soon
Bridgewood Farms Charity Bike Ride Concroe, Tx July 4, 2014
Spokes of Freedom Farmersville Canceled
David’s Ride McQueeney July 12, 2014
Peach Pedal Bike Ride 2014 Weatherford July 12, 2014
Tour de Paris Paris July 19, 2014
Tour the Peanut Country Gorman July 19, 2014
25th Annual Cactus n’ Crude MS150 Bike Ride Midland July 19-20 2014
Katy Flatland Century 2014 Katy,TX July 20 2014
The Dehydrator Oklahoma July 26, 2014
The Goatneck Bike Ride Cleburne July 26, 2014
Spin Your Wheels Bethany, OK Coming soon
Eighter from Decatur Bike Rally Decatur August 2, 2014
Kiwanis Catch Me If You Can Bike Ride Breckenridge August 2, 2014
Blazin’ Saddle 75 Granbury August 2, 2014
Hamilton Hillaceous Hamilton August 2, 2014
Tour de Jalapeno 2014 San Marcos August 3, 2014
2014 Hot Rocks Bike Ride Rockwall August 9, 2014
The 2014 Kiwanis Red River Rally Pottsboro, TX August 9, 2014
Miles 4 Marce College Station, TX August 15, 2014
Midnight Massacre Sanger, TX August 16, 2014
Cove House Classic Bike Tour 2014 Copperas Cove, TX August 16, 2014
The Humane Bike Ride and Wine Tasting Sour Lake, TX August 16, 2014
Vernon Burnin’ Bike Ride Vernon August 16, 2014
Take on the Heat Triathlon The Colony August 17, 2014
Hotter’N Hell Hundred 2014 Wichita Falls August 22-24, 2014
Team Faith Spokesmen – Sweat to end homelessness Wichita Falls August 23, 2014
Camp Eagle Classic Mountain Bike Festival Rocksprings, TX August 29-31, 2014
Blackland Triathlon Plano September 1, 2014
37TH Annual Enchanted Circle Century Tour Red River, NM September 7, 2014
La Vernia Wild West Hammerfest Bicycle Ride 2014 La Vernia September 13, 2014
1400 Miles Austin to Denver September 13, 2014
Austin Central Texas Tour de Cure Reunion Ranch Georgetown September 13, 2014
Cowtown Classic Bike Ride Fort Worth September, 13, 2014
Bike Out Hunger 2014 Mansfield, TX September 13, 2014
CF Cycle for Life Dallas, TX September 13, 2014
3rd annual 9/11 Memorial Tour Douglassville, TX September 13, 2014
Tour de Pink Prairie View September, 14, 2014
Texas Time Trials Glen Rose, TX September 18-20, 2014
Hale on Wheels 2014 Plainview September 20, 2014
2014 Fort Davis Cyclefest Tour Fort Davis September 20, 2014
Houston Tour de Cure Houston September 20, 2014
Wheel A’ Mena Ride Mena, Arkansas September 20, 2014
Conquer the Coast Ride 2014 Corpus Christi, TX September 20, 2014
Tour for Children 2014 Helotes, TX September 20, 2014
Cotton Patch Challenge Greenville, TX September 20, 2014
Red River Road Kill Rally Ardmore, OK September 20, 2014
Magical Museum Mystery Tour Katy Texas – Leonard Merrell Center September 21, 2014
Bikes, BIBLES, and BBQ Eureka Springs September 25-27, 2014
2014 Texas Tumbleweed 100 Endurance Ride Dumas September 27, 2014
Texas Mamma Jamma Ride Austin,TX September 27, 2014
Waco Wild West 100 Bicycle Tour City of Waco,TX September 27, 2014
The Big Dam Bridge 100 Little Rock, Arkansas September 27, 2014
Tour de Rio Blanco 2nd Annual Crosbyton, TX September 27, 2014
Rip Roar’in Ride Liberty Hill, TX September 27, 2014
The Fort Hood Challenge Copperas Cove, TX September 27-28, 2014
Pineywoods Purgatory Tour Lufkin, TX October 4, 2014
3rd Annual Bike For Kids’ Sake Abilene, TX October 4, 2014
Wish 100 Bicycle Rally McKinney October 4, 2014
BTX Roundup & Ride Downtown Bowie, Texas October 4, 2014
Camino205 Bike Ride Palestine October 3, 2015
The CareFlite Paluxy Pedal Glen Rose October 4, 2014
College Station Rotary Ride College Station, TX October 4, 2014
Bike Out Hunger – Bridge the Gap Waco, TX October 4, 2014
Tour de Taco Clovis, NM October 4, 2014
BTX Roundup & Ride Bowie, TX October 4, 2014
Spirit of Texas Ride Wimberley, TX October 5, 2014
Tour de Fireant Marshall, TX October 11, 2014
North Texas Bicycle Rally Trophy Club, TX October 11, 2014
Outlaw Trail 100 Cycling Tour Round Rock, TX October 11, 2014
MS Ride to the River 2014 San Antonio, TX October 11-12, 2014
Tour de Ted Houston, Austin, College Station, Victoria, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Waco, Abilene, Dallas, TX October 11–19, 2014
Lake Travis Cycling Classic Lakeway, TX October 12, 2014
Ride for Missing Children Flower Mound, TX October 17, 2014
23rd Annual Missions Tour de Goliad Goliad, TX October 18, 2014
Mineral Wells Crazy Kicker Ride Mineral Wells, TX October 17, 2015
The Heroes Ride 2014 Conroe, TX October 18, 2014
Bike Around the Bay Galveston October 18-19, 2014
Texas Cycling Camp – Let’s Ride! Cedar Hill, TX October 18-19, 2014
Red Bud Ride Farmersville, TX October 18-19, 2014
Livestrong Austin Challenge Austin October 18, 2015
Aptalis CF Cycle for Life Hockley, TX October 19, 2014
Trick It Up Bike Ride Farmersville, TX October 25, 2014
Kiwanis Sealy Fall Classic Sealy, TX October 25, 2014
RPMH Charity Ride Sweetwater, TX October 25, 2014
Tour de Pecan 2014 Seguin, TX October 25, 2014
Tyler Grit and Glide Dual Cycle Event Tyler, TX October 26, 2014
Sweatin’ Burnt Orange Bike Tour Blanco, TX October 26, 2014
Terra Firma Racing – 24 Hours of Rocky Hill Smithville October 28, 2014
Mineola Pedal for Paws Mineola, TX November 1, 2014
Wallis Independence Ride Wallis, TX November 1, 2014
Tour de Gruene Gruene, TX November 8-9, 2014
Pedal Palacios Palacios, TX November 8, 2014
Just Ride for a Just Cause Simonton, TX November 15, 2014
Bicycle Spirit Ride Livingston, TX November 15, 2014
Don’s Hell of the South Clifton, TX November 16, 2014
Terra Firma Racing – Reveille Peak 100 Burnet November 22, 2014
Turkey Roll Bicycle Rally Denton, TX November 22, 2014
Bike The Bend For Literacy Richmond, TX November 23, 2014
Mission to Mission Charity Bike Tour San Antonio, TX December 6, 2014

 

[Sheep]

Here is the schedule around us this year. We try to pick out 1/wk.

Texas Bike Rides for 2015

Makes sense, you have summer for most of the year.

SheepStar

 

[ParadigmDawg]

We went on a long snowboarding trip to Lake Tahoe and when we got back I told her we needed to run to the shop and they were re-fitting me on my bike. When we got there they had her bike on the trainer next to the trainer they placed mine on. She sat down on the bench next to her bike and we proceeded with my "fake fit". I was like crap, she isn't mentioning the Focus...After about 15 minutes she started discussing the Snowboard trip with the store owner. She said, if we win the Lotto I am buying us a house in Lake Tahoe and then I am buying that Focus right there...

I said babe, you better reach into the gear back I brought in because your pedals are in it and that is your bike and this is your bike fitting. She flipped out and seemed really happy.

It has snowed or iced everyday since she has had it so it's just seen a little trainer time but today is going to be sunny and warm so we will get in 30 miles or so depending on how the winter lay-off treated our bodies( I also have a bulging disc and been getting steroid shots in my spine so I have no idea how I will do). We have our first event the middle of April and then a difficult event the next weekend.

I am a little PO'd as it is lighter than my R3 with the stock wheels on it....I am not giving her my wheels now!!!!!