I chased this around for at Addison Oaks today... Ouch...

You just couldn't not like this ride...

My 2009 miles to date: 15662
My 2009 ride time to date: 1064 hours 09 min

Danny and I met up with Simonster and Brewchamp for a nice little Black Friday ride. A few snowflakes showed up but not enough to make it a white black friday. By the end of the day I was able to improve my best ever 7 day total up to 555 miles. :-)

Thanksgiving Morning ride at Pontiac Lake

Here's the official 2009 Thanksgiving Morning ride at Pontiac Lake group photo... :-)

Mileage Wars

I did it!! 505 miles for the week!!! That's a new personal 1 week record. When Simonster told me he was busting out a 500 mile week.. Well.. It was on. :-)

Met up with the Simonster for another perfect fall day for riding and I crossed the 15,000 mile mark. :-) On my way home happened across a few friends, cool! Rolled in the driveway with 120 miles. The OCD was compelling me to put lights on the bike and bust out a few more miles but I refrained.

My 2009 miles to date: 15074
My 2009 ride time to date: 1025 hours 24 min

Thanksgiving Morning Ride at Pontiac

Hey kids...

Thanksgiving Morning (Nov. 26, 2009)
Pontiac Lake Mountain Trail Head
Group Photo and Ride at 9:30 AM

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Rolled with "The Clikeman" today...

My 2009 miles to date: 14702
My 2009 ride time to date: 1001 hours 38 min

One One One & Done!
That's 30 hundo's for the year.. So far. :-)

The Superfly's odometer ticked past 10,000 miles today...
This bike doesn't like to sit still...

Niceman :-)

Yep. It was shorts and short sleeves today. Yea! A was a pretty fun race, well except for getting caught in that big crash about 500 feet from the start line. Bah! I felt pretty lucky to get up with just some scrapes and bruises. Coolest of the bunch was the chain-ring to the ribcage. Ouch! That left a mark. From there just tried to ride back through as many guys as possible. Rode back to Kalkaska after the race to get 64 miles on the day. :-)

My 2009 miles to date: 14297
My 2009 ride time to date: 974 hours 34 min

Iceman pre-ride

Wednesday night ride...

Monday Night Halloween Ride

Self portrait on top of Mt Christy on my way to Lapeer... 112 on the day.. Hundo #29 for 2009... :-)

My 2009 miles to date: 13826
My 2009 ride time to date: 943 hours 59 min

My 2009 miles to date: 13714
My 2009 ride time to date: 937 hours 24 min

Hundo Numbo 28....

ice ice baby...

My 2009 miles to date: 13243
My 2009 ride time to date: 906 hours 37 min

Another spectacular day to ride our bikes...

Joined The Simonster and Brewchamp for the Pine Knob Switchbacks today. I'm quite sure the PKS blowout is a lot like waterboarding. You feel like you're going to die and it can cause lasting psychological damage... Ouch! In mileage news, I crossed the 13,000 mile mark for the year and totaled 125 on the day. At the end of ride I'd only consumed 34 ounces of Gatorade. I know.. Pretty bad... :-(

My 2009 miles to date: 13031
My 2009 ride time to date: 892 hours 41 min

Rolled with the Simonster today.
Scary monsters, keep me riding, riding scared...

My 2009 miles to date: 12758
My 2009 ride time to date: 874 hours 34 min

The rain was hit and miss today... Mostly miss.. :-)

Another hundo dundo!

25th hundo of the year today to finish up a double hundo weekend and a 400 mile week. Today it was a ride out to Richmond with Danny and Dr. Lisa. Cullen joined us on the way back and helped me with lighting for the last 10 miles of darkness.

Met up with Simonster, Kuhncapi, and G-Man for the Crippler. Not quite a full Death Loop, so you don't die, you just end up crippled. Ouch!!!

8000 miles

The Superfly's odometer clicked past the 8000 mile mark tonight. Apparently that's when I need to replace chainrings. Uhg!

Sunset over the Polly Ann Trail.

12,000 Mile Ride

Crossed the 12000 mile mark for the year on today's Sunday Hundo. Rode out to the Waterford CX race to watch the team, then over to Pontiac for a lap and then Highland. 104 miles when I pulled in my driveway. It was a perfect day, well except for my big wreck at Highland. Clipped a tree with the bars on a little decent. A cracked helmet nudges this shunt into first place for my worst crash of the year which I feel pretty good about because besides the helmet it was just a few little scrapes on my knees, hip, and shoulder. :-)

Sunset September 18, 2009 - 7:37 PM

Addison Oaks XC

4th place today. Raced the Fuel EX9.5 which kept Addison as fun as it can get. A short post race loop out past Leonard on the Polly Ann for a 70 mile total. It was a perfect day!!

My 2009 miles to date: 11713
My 2009 ride time to date: 808 hours 56 min

I have ridden just over 15,000 miles in the last 365 days. It's been since I broke my ankle in January of 2005 since I have been above the 15k mark. Nice!!

Ahhhh...  Another hundo today. :-)

My 2009 miles to date: 11418
My 2009 ride time to date: 789 hours 7 min

Poto...

Met up with Bill, Steve, and Amanda for my annual Poto ride today. Seriously, over the last 13 years, I have not ridden Poto more than once each year.

Busted out the Fuel EX today. It had been over 3 months since the last time we went out. We had an awesome time... Don't tell the Superfly...

Long Shadows

Sunset's about halfway through my evening rides now.
Nickel Metal Hydride vs Lithium-ion?? HID vs LED?? :-)

Stony XC

Dang, and I had been looking forward to this race but I definitely did not feel great today. Not 100% sure why I was so off today but I'm gonna blame the Prednisone I'm taking after my exposure to poison ivy at Fort Custer. 

I looked up the side effects on the interweb..

Prednisone side effects
Muscle weakness, headache, blurred vision, nausea, feeling short of breath, leg discomfort, stomach pain...

Ouch, I had them all... :-(

Way to go Amanda!!! :-)

Poison Ivy

Yuck!!

Fort Custer Time Trial

Amanda, Steve, and I did a nice camping/ft custer tt race weekend. A fun pre-ride on Saturday. Then my favorite tradition of Nina's Taqueria for dinner, and a new tradition of Lickity Split for dessert, these kids love their ice cream. Finished off the night with some campfire stories. I felt good in the race and only had one little bobble the entire way. It was my 8th trip out to the fort over last 10 years and this trail is always a blast. Steve had a great ride missing 3rd by just 0.37 seconds. Amanda flatted and had to run several miles, :-( ...but she finished!! :-)

Check out this shrubbery I found I'm my ride tonight. The knights who say ni would just love it.

102, 103, & 149

The heat index, my mileage for the day, and my slightly dehydrated post ride body weight...

Met up with the Simonster and Danny for the obligatory weekend hundo. By mile 60 we all started to melt a little. It was seriously hot out there today.

Ten thousand mile ride....

I crossed the 10,000 mile mark for 2009 while riding through downtown highland today. :-)

Stony TT

Big-M Weekend

20th Century

I busted out my 20th century for the year today. 

It was a Stony Creek, Addison, and Lakeshore Park loop today. 

The "SCALP".

My 2009 miles to date: 9164
My 2009 ride time to date: 639 hours 22 min

Another great day for a long ride. Capac ended up my turn around point today. Capac, it's a palindrome!

My 2009 miles to date: 9059
My 2009 ride time to date: 632 hours 44 min

Pontiac-Highland-Holdridge

Finished up the 4th of July holiday weekend with a great multi-trail ride. Pontiac, Highland, and Holdridge. :-)

My 2009 miles to date: 8772
My 2009 ride time to date: 614 hours 59 min

The Dirty Thirty

I rode Jeff Weinert's dirty 30 ride today. It was a nice ride and another good mileage day for me. Stopped at 107.

SUPER DEATH LOOP

I survived Simonster's Super Death Loop today and arrived home with 150 miles on the day. Whoa.

I busted out a nice solo hundo today. Explored some "new to me" sections of the polly ann trail up past Dryden and ended up as far north as I-69. That section of the trail up there is pretty rough. More like weed covered rocks than a trail.

Stony Marathon

It was a great race!! After I went for a nice cool down ride with Cullen to finish up the day with 103 miles. Perfect!!

My 2009 miles to date: 8203
My 2009 ride time to date: 577 hours 37 min

Lumberjack 100

That was interesting. First couple miles of the race went perfect and I was positioned in the top 15 as we hit the dirt, but then my seat-post clamp broke into pieces. I turned around and started back to the parking lot. Just happened to have a spare post in the car. It was pretty hilarious to be riding against traffic just after the start of the big mass-start hundo. Got a lot of sympathy from the racers when they saw me riding, saddle in hand, just 2.5 miles in. After a pretty quick seat-post and saddle swap I was off again. I’d lost some time, but so much worse was the 260 places. The first lap was ridiculous as I worked my way past about 231 riders, riding through the ferns off line and hoping I’d not crash into one of those hidden stumps that got me and busted my collarbone at the first lumberjack. I’d given up hope of a result and was feeling a bit grumpy during that first 25 mile lap. But knowing there was chip timing this year and lap times would be posted, I’d try and post a solid final 75 miles just to compare with my friend’s times. Long story short, the final 75 miles were really fun and I was simply amazed to end up top 10 on the day. As for my plan to compare lap times after the race, my final 75 miles placed 7th best in men’s open and my last lap was 5th best.

Special thanks to the hospitality and race support of Team O'Dea/Simonster. Thanks guys for an awesome weekend!!

Ruby....

Another awesome day for racing our bikes. After the race I rode over to Lakeport and back to give the superfly it's first view of the big lake. :-)

My 2009 miles to date: 7670
My 2009 ride time to date: 541 hours 32 min

Another great day of riding around on our bikes.

My 2009 miles to date: 7400
My 2009 ride time to date: 522 hours 16 min

4+4=101

Clikeman, Kuhncapie, Finkelstein, and me.
Bloomer, Stony, Addison, and Bald Mt.
4 guys + 4 trials = 101 miles.  :-)

My 2009 miles to date: 7317
My 2009 ride time to date: 516 hours 47 min

Brighton Stage Race (Day 2)

What a perfect day!! The Brighton XC was awesome! I decided to ride the Fuel EX again. I started out sluggish, but felt better each lap and was happy with my second half speed. The rest of the guys had great races, and Amanda picked up the women's Pro/Cat 1 win!!! After the race I busted out some nice month end miles. Finished up the day with 86, the month with 1452, and that brings my 2009 miles up to 7007. Oh yeah, it's a palindrome.

Brighton Stage Race (Day 1)

Ended up riding the Fuel EX for the torn shirt time trial today and I'm glad I did. I have really been loving the Superfly but when the trial gets twisty, like torn shirt, the Superfly wants to fly into the woods. It's not me, it's the bike.

Memorial Day Ride

The Dolppinator, The Clikeman and I did our First Annual Brighton/Island Lake Memorial Day Ride today. It was a perfect day!!

2009 miles to date: 6734
2009 ride time to date: 478 hours 30 min

Bloomer Park XC

It was really, really, fun until my freewheel imploded. After that it was just plain fun.

Conspicuous Consumption

Robby needed a new pair of shoes.

Another unexpected weekend off from racing with both Addison and Bloomer cancelled, and though the trails were muddy, the dirt roads were dialed, so I rode 100 miles yesterday and another 100 miles today! :-)

6000 mile ride

I crossed the 6000 mile mark for 2009 today while riding Cullen. :-)
It was the best ride ever...

0 hours of Addison

It was a bummer that the weather didn't cooperate for the Addison 12 hour. After we got the word on Addison, Bill, Tim, and I decided to go to the big bike demo at Island Lake. It was sunny and beautiful when we got to the demo so we jumped on our bikes and hit the trail, but the rain came and ended our day there too... Bah!

Bill and I met up with the Simonster for a day of debauchery on the dirt roads of north Oakland county. I rolled into my driveway with 116 miles. It's coma time!!!

2009 miles to date: 5694
2009 ride time to date: 409 hours 14 min

PLRA TT

We had fun playing in the mud today!!! :-)

Take a Kid Mountain Biking

Alex, Bill, and I volunteered to help out at the MMBA's "Take a Kid Mountain Biking" event at Lakeshore today. Weather was perfect, well, until the storm front blew through.

I Quadrupled My 2009 Miles Today

Seriously!! Well, my trail ride miles anyway. I started the day with 10 and finished with 40. :-) Some fun hot laps at the PLRA with the Clikman, Freedinger, and Kuhncapi. Sunny and 77 degrees!! Could winter finally be over?? I rode my Superfly and my Fuel EX today, not at the same time. I fully expected the Fuel EX would be the bike for me at Pontiac, but surprise, surprise, I think I might race the Superfly at Pontiac. I lowered the tire pressure down to 20psi and that made the bike handle and feel great. Who'd a thunk it?

5000 Mile Ride

I crossed the 5000 mile mark for the year, tonight on a nice little ride with the Clikeman.

My bike statistics at the end of the day.
Total Miles: 5025
Total Time: 363 hours 0 min
Average Miles per day: 47.86
Average Time per day: 3:27:26
Days Ridden: 105 of 105

Whoa.

Wet and Cold

39 degrees and rain tonight. Yuck!!

Miles, Miles, Miles..

I set a new personal record today. 1748 miles in a 31 day period. Of course all the miles were knobby tire miles. :-)

The Superfly has been doing most of the work lately. I have had the bike for three weeks and it's already knocked out 1150 miles and has not been cleaned off once. 

2009 miles to date: 4957
2009 ride time to date: 358 hours 19 min

A Plethora of Climbing...

Another awesome day of riding! I met up with the Simonster for some serious climbing on the Monster Midget loop. Took the long way home and finished up the day with 115 miles. Nice!

2009 miles to date: 4848
2009 ride time to date: 350 hours 47 min

Good Friday

My first trail ride of the year today!! It had been over 5 months since I last rode on a trail. It's still fun!!! 

Hot Rod

Meredith popped into town for the weekend so we got the old gang back together for this perfect day..

2009 miles to date: 4113
2009 ride time to date: 302 hours 31 min

Super Fly

Added a new bike to the stable yesterday... On just the Superfly's second ride it got worked pretty hard, following the Simonster around for the day.. The pace was serious... Rolled in to my driveway with 106 miles... Noice!!!

2009 miles to date: 3747
2009 ride time to date: 278 hours 22 min

Winter, Day 90 of 90

I did it!! I rode every day this winter (December 21 thru March 20). Totaled 4004 miles in 299 hours and 44 min. That's 44.5 miles & 3:20 per day on average. Wow!!

Rainy weekend...

Not a very good weekend for riding my bike. I managed 2:03 today. Got caught in a soaking rain. Uhg! So far this year, 2 hours, is my self-imposed minimum, ride-time per-day. It's days like this that 2 hours seems like a lot. The graph below documents my ride-time per-day for the year so far. Just 2 weeks of Winter left till Spring is here!!! :-)

2009 miles to date: 2992
2009 ride time to date: 227 hours 42 min

Winter, Day 68 of 90

40 degrees and rain tonight and it really wasn't that bad. I think I have finally got the rain gear figured out.

2009 miles to date: 2552
2009 ride time to date: 196 hours 9 min

Winter, Day 63 of 90

Yes it's still winter kids... Recent mild weather even had me dreaming of spring but... well... the snow looks pretty anyway...

2009 miles to date: 2343
2009 ride time to date: 180 hours 16 min

Winter, Day 50 of 90

Simonster invited a few of the guys out for a nice ride in the country. As much as I ride and as well as I know area roads it's not often I end up somewhere I've never ridden. I love that feeling of not knowing where I am. It's kinda like a mini vacation. Simonster had promised a 90 mile loop from our designated meeting spot. I knew I was going to ride 32 miles to and from that spot. When I rolled into my driveway and came to a stop the 122 mile mark clicked over. 90 + 32 = 122. Mike had planned the ride out to the 100th of a mile!!!

2009 miles to date: 1761
2009 ride time to date: 136 hours 8 min

Winter, Day 46 of 90

Yep!!! Winter is better than half over, Kids!!! Still no problems encountered for me in reaching my goal of riding "outside" every day this winter. I have averaged 3:12 a day over the past 46 days and 4 hours a day if you count getting dressed and undressed for riding in these conditions. :-)

2009 miles to date: 1503
2009 ride time to date: 119 hours 19 min

Winter, Day 40 of 90

Major heat wave tonight! It was in the upper 20s. Seriously, that felt warm. Last night it was in the upper teens and we were all laughing that we remembered when 18 degrees seemed really cold. It's amazing how the body acclimates.

Well, winter is nearing the half way point and historical average temps are already on the rise. Yay!!

2009 miles to date: 1207
2009 ride time to date: 96 hours 53 min

Winter, Day 33 of 90

Wow. My daily ride time average is at 3:19 so far for 2009. It's taken some late nights on the bike. Seems like I'm getting home at about 10 PM every night now. I'm so sleepy...

2009 miles to date: 904
2009 ride time to date: 72 hours 58 min

Winter, Day 29 of 90

Bah!!  Some more bike wrestling and white knuckle riding this weekend. My hands seriously ached from griping the bars so tightly, yesterday afternoon, while we were receiving our latest 7 inch dump of snow. I suppose it's my 2005 ankle fracture that makes me feel so anxious. I sure don't want to go through that again. 

I've posted a few of these icebike sculptures just recently. My bike has looked similar to this at the end of just about every day's ride this year. I think it's cool.

2009 miles to date: 755
2009 ride time to date: 60 hours 51 min

Negative Tempreture

AccuWeather.com says the wind chill was minus 20 while I was out riding tonight. Yikes!!  To add to the fun.. I flatted!! Fortunately I was just a mile and a half from home so I decided to ride the flat/walk home. I wasn't about to change a tire in these temps. My hands would fall off.  The flat tire cut my ride short so I ended up going  back out for a midnight ride to finish up my day. Besides missing out on some sleep midnight is an awesome time to ride!!

Brain Freeze

My coldest ride of the year tonight. 1 degree (wind chill of -17).  2 hours and 56 min. was enough. Uhg! This cold snap is really making me earn my pay.

2009 miles to date: 628
2009 ride time to date: 49 hours 46 min

Winter, Day 21 of 90

Wow!! I have averaged 44.9 miles and 3:27 per day for the first 10 days of 2009. That' a new personal record.. I checked the archives. Today's WRCS ride was fun with a serious bike wrestling bout over the final 15 miles. I was all like, Greco-Roman style and my bike is all like, WWE SmackDown on me. Uhg!

Winter, Day 20 of 90

Night Rides

I have averaged 918 hours of biking over the last 7 years.

YEAR	MILES	HOURS
2002	15051	1009:47
2003	16161	1088:03
2004	15351	1060:44
2005	11311	778:15
2006	14041	977:13
2007	12321	832:58
2008	10201	710:56

Nearly 200 hours each year will be ridden at night.

S p o o k y ! ! !

Peculiar crotchal region ice build-up tonight...

Winter, Day 15 of 90

Hey!!  We have made it a sixth of the way through winter already!! I've averaged 273 miles a week so far this winter, which I'm pretty happy with given some not so friendly weather around here...

Today's goofy pre-ride group photo...  

Winter, Day 13 of 90

I plan to ride my bike everyday this winter. I've done it a few times before. I rode everyday of winter in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. It's a great way to start the year.

2008 miles per bike report

2008 Trek 69er
3297 miles (91 rides)

2007 Trek EX9.5 

2307 miles (63 rides)

2008 Trek EX9.5 

1384 miles (33 rides)

1997 LiteSpeed Ocoee

868 miles (28 rides)

2007 Trek XO2

809 miles (22 rides)

2006 Trek Elite 9.9

700 miles (25 rides)

2003 Trek 5900

253 miles (4 rides)

1994 Barracuda A2V

247 miles (8 rides)

2006 Trek Top Fuel 110

174 miles (7 rides)

2007 Trek XO2

118 miles (6 rides)

2005 Felt RXC Team

8 miles (1 ride)

Cannondale 3.0

0 miles (0 rides)

2001 Trek 5700

0 miles (0 rides)

Robert's 2008 Miles

Total Mountain Bike 

8985 Miles 

634 hours, 21 min. 

(14.2 avg. mph) 
250 rides 

Total Cross Bike 

927 Miles 

63 hours, 14 min. 

(14.7 avg. mph) 
28 rides 

Total Road Bike 

253 Miles 

10 hours, 51 min. 

(23.3 avg. mph) 
4 rides 

*Total Bike Trainer 

36 Miles 

2 hours, 30 min. 

(14.5 avg. mph) 
2 rides 

Grand Total Bike 

10201 Miles 

710 hours, 56 min. 

(14.3 avg. mph) 
282 days 

2052 Single-Speed Miles.

84 days off the bike this year.

*I'm including bike trainer miles from two rides back in February while I was taking some time off the bike and doing physical therapy for my low back. Herriman rules allow a rider to count bike trainer "only" during an injury.

Happy New Year!!

I don't plan to ride my bike again until next year...

I finished up 2008 with 10201 miles in 710 hours and 56 min.

It's not a good ride...

Unless there's some blood... :-)

Nothing all that spectacular to report... I had a bloody nose on my ride today... Yuck.

3G Network?

Three Geeks Network...

10,000 Miles

I hit the "10,000 miles of bike riding" mark, for 2008, today.
A birthday/christmas present to myself.
It's just what I wanted!!!

Clichés

On tonight's ride I heard a few classic "shout outs" from the people..

"Aren't you cold?"
"Get on the sidewalk!"
"I give you a lot of credit."
"You are hardcore Dude"
"Go Lance!"

Winter, Day One

Today's ride had us in temps in the single digits with wind-chills at a minus 15. Riding around for 3:12 in these conditions was the perfect recipe for another day of interesting down-tube ice build up..

Stalagmite or Stalagtite?

Owed to the Snow Plow

I rolled 45 miles with the Dolppinator today. I was skeptical that we could successfully pedal our bikes today after the area got slammed with 6 to 12 inches of snow yesterday, but thanks to the local Department of Public Services snow removal dudes, the riding was awesome!!! Alex and I even worked some structure into our ride today with some hill repeats on Cranbrook hill. Ouch!

Fall Color Tour

Ha! They say it's still Fall for a couple more days but come on...  I weighed my bike after tonight's ride to see how much snow and ice had accumulated on it..  6 lbs worth..  Funny!