Night Riding
Posted on November 13, 2008, under Uncategorized.
Saturday night I headed out with the local boys for a night ride. After 10 hours of work at the local beverage house I was tired, but, my wife is awesome and she pushes me out the door when I complain and whine that I’m too tired. When I left the house it was fourty two degrees. When I arrived at Bob’s house it was thirty nine degrees.
We piled on the clothing and tried to empty the tap on Bob’s PBR keg from the prior weekends Halloween Fest.
A ride that I’ll normally knock out in 50 minutes was at 2hrs at the mid point. I had to work the next day so I took off ‘early’. But, it was one of the best rides I’ve had in a long time. We stopped and looked at the lights in the cities below and were in awe that we live in a place with single track out the door with the view we witnessed that evening.
Although a secular group, excluding yours truly, we all fealt blessed to be in that moment. Find a moment to ride today or tonight. Whether it’s twenty minutes or two hours.
The essentials:
Knee warmers: Specialized makes some of the best I’ve worn.
Light: I ride the Dinotte 400, my brother in law rides the Light in Motion Stella, and everyone else rides Nite Rider tri-Newt. All of them work great. Find the best deal on any of these and buy it. Chainlove.com has great deals on the Light in Motion from time to time.
A Knife: not really, but on of the ‘team members’ was sporting a spyderco on his CamelBak. We gave him lot’s of SH**, but, he’s probably the only one that had a chance if a cougar got us.
Ride!
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