Tomorrow for her crimes against dad, Jamie is getting her butt kicked on the bicycle.  

Today, for pay backs, we'll just point out her bad form at blogging.  When adding a video, especially one your dad won't approve of, be sure the video fits into the space you've allotted and isn't too wide to fit!  (still love you, still love teasing you, still don't know which one we love more!)

Great day here today.  Summer is knocking on the door.  Tomorrow is suppose to get close to 90 degrees!   Planning a nice training ride with our MS group.  Should be long and enjoyable!

Dean's debut

If you will please feast your eyes to the right of the page you will see an amazing video clip from Dean's big news debut.

Sorry Dad

Those of you that know Dean, know that he is pretty much the king of Cycling... In other words... He is basically a Cycle Nazi.

Well... He happened to land himself on the news yesterday, on a bicycle with a basket.
It is fantastic to watch... And even more fantastic to make fun of him for it.

I suppose you could call one portion of it false advertising... Due to the fact that he DID NOT lose the 20 pounds he mentions, on this type of bike

OH WELL

Please enjoy!

And sorry for the advertisement at the beginning... I couldn't take it off!

Love you Dad! Sorry for hacking into your profile to make fun of you... But come on... IT HAS A BASKET!

Dean's big debut

Dad I am sorry but I had no choice....

Here is his big news debut on cycling...

Funny thing is that they put him on a bike with a basket... Those who know him, know that he is basically the kind of cycling, but not like this!

So here he is ladies and gentleman! Enjoy!

So, Ryan wants a post about my "other bike"  Well, I got my new wheels last night and took them for a ride.  Then this morning, I went to get on my bike with the new wheels to ride to work.  But, my new rear wheel with  a new tire had a freaking flat!!  So I rode my other bicycle to work.

But I suppose Ryan really wants to know if I've ridden one of the Harleys lately.  And the answer is sort of.  I rode the Harley to work one day earlier in the week.  It was rather uneventful but always nice to have a little wind in the hair time.  It's funny, the summer I first got a Harley, my bicycle was lonely after I got the Harley.  Now, I ride the bike more than the Harleys.  I enjoy both equally, but the bicycle gives me physical conditioning and the Hog - just pleasure.  

We've got the MS150 (a hundred miles bicycle ride on Saturday) coming up the end of this month so bike time is a must or the ride will be even more of a suffer fest.  Stef and Jamie are out on their bikes still (7:00 p.m.) as I write this.  They rode to work today as well.  But they have further to go than I did.   It's crunch time and there's a race to get ready for the ride now!

The Harleys are nice these days too.  With gas at crazy high prices both kinds of bikes are nice. Not that we can't afford the gas but rather who wants to?  I don't!  I think we need to drill more of America's own oil sources, build more refineries, build some more non-oil based power generation modes i.e. wind, hydroelectric, and even nuclear and gas prices will come down.  Of course we should continue to develop alternative fuels but those may be and seem to be years away from reaching their potential.  In the mean time, these steps can increase supply and reduce demand pressures and price too until we can replace the need for oil.  So we're trying to do what we can with bikes and Harleys.  

We aren't particularly "green" but we try to do what makes sense.  Not because we believe in man caused global warming but to be good users of available resources.  Including good users of our bodies as we age - by being in  the best shape we can.  

OK, so I've been catching a bit of indirect grief from Jamie for not making a post on my new computer - yet.  I've only had it just over 24 hours.  But some of us are very impatient.  You think she might be a bit edgy after her husband's recent mouth over haul?

Life at our house has been normal.  But this week should be unusually quite.  Nick leaves for NY in the morning leaving his mother and I to fend for ourselves this week.  If we can stand that much of each other, we hope to have some fun.  We may need to steal Maddy just to maintain our sanity!

Besides a MacBook Pro, Stef and the family came through with a nice set of bicycle race wheels. Shortly, I'll accept delivery of  a pair of Zipp 404s.  What a great Farther's Day.  Thanks guys!

All's well and quiet here.  Hope to maintain the status quo. 

Sorry for the lack of pictures. These are from a family trip about a year ago. I saw the one of Ava and Carrie and since it hasn't been used yet, and I like it, well, here it is! The lake looks a lot the same, except that it's coming up, fast. About a foot a day the past few days!

The flight to Lake Powell last Friday was a bit of duck and dodge. There were some low clouds in our way which we had to go around. But, we only had to change course twice so it wasn't too bad and we arrived there safe and no less sound than when we left home!

We met up with 13 friends and had a great time. Burnt just over $1,100 in gas and covered parts of the lake from Wahweap to Bullfrog Marinas. Spent a couple of nights in Oak Canyon and a night in Reflection. Reflection is nice because it's so secluded and any beach is so small that it's just yours. Oak Canyon was nice too because with four boats, we had a semi-private beach. No one outside our group joined us. The water is still a bit too chilly to really enjoy it but the air felt good since Sunday afternoon. It was chilly on Saturday but we lived.

The flight home today was fun. We had a nice strong tail wind and climbed to 13,500 feet MSL. We hit 192 knots up there thanks to the tail wind. We dropped down to 11,500 MSL for most of the flight and had 172 knots there so we covered the ground quickly. Very little turbulence to mess with us either - just a couple of bumps over the ridges. No air traffic in our way and cleared straight into Salt Lake's airspace without delay.

This afternoon the airspace will close down to GA for a couple of hours so President Bush can visit Utah. Plus, Nick had to be back at school for a class so we came home earlier than expected, under mild protest from the pilot!

Now to catch up on the projects around the house and get in a bicycle ride.....