Saturday Ride

Meeting at the shop at 6:45 AM. Hope to see everyone there.

Jonathan

Ride Saturday

If its dry in the morning meet 7:15 shove off at 7:30 from the shop. If its raining I'm sleeping in. Have a good weekend.

Jonathan

Locks of Love

Sarah here! The big news is I finally have a new hairstyle. For anyone who knows me or has seen me at the shop, you know that I pretty much always have long red hair. I was finally ready for a change. I decided if I'm going to do it I may as well do it right- cut it all off and donate it to Locks of Love! Miracles Hair Salon, next door to the shop, participates in this program and the haircut is free of charge with your donation! I ended up donating 12.5 inches! Donna (due with baby #2 in 3 weeks) at Miracles did a great job with the cut. Check out the before, during, and after photos...

See you all soon- I work at the shop most Wednesdays and Fridays and usually have baby Willow with me (now 3 months old!).

Wind and Corned Beef and Cabbage.

I had to work on Sunday so I wasn't able to race in the morning. So instead of heading down to Trade Zone, Jim, Tom and I headed out for a round the Severn River ride. It was a pretty cold morning and very windy. Unfortunately, we read the wind wrong and had a tailwind for the first half the ride and were straight into the headwind coming home. It was so windy that when we rode over the Naval Academy Bridge it was difficult to ride in a straight line. We had to lean into the wind just to avoid getting blown into traffic. Good times.
I seemed to spend most of the ride on the front pulling those 2 around as Jim is out of shape after a long winter and Tom prefers to hang in the back. The best part of riding was all the noise that Jim was making. Between his asthma and the cold air I thought that he was going to die on us. I think that he may have even left some of his lungs along the side of the road.
We ended up with about 40 miles in just under 2.5 hrs.
After work on Sunday, Sarah and I packed up the kids and headed over to my parents' for some corned beef and cabbage. I have to tell you, it was the best I've ever had. My dad is a great cook and he outdid himself this year. The Irish soda bread he made was awesome, too.
So even though I had to work it turned out to be a great day. We are getting extremely busy at the shop and the season isn't even in full swing yet! Get those bikes in for there for tune-ups so when the weather really breaks you are ready to ride!
Oh, and if anyone wants a part time mechanic job, come on by the shop and talk to me.

Keeping the rubber side down,
Jonathan

Snow Ride

Well it's been a great winter for snow riding this year. Last night we got what will probably be the final one of the year. Great ride in fresh powder with a frozen ground. John, Trevor, Timmy and I went to Patapsco. John had to bail out early due to a failed light. Trevor forgot to charge his light, so it went out about halfway through. We all tried to ride without lights at that point, attempting to use the moonlight off the snow. Went well until Trevor had a nice "yardsale" crash (his gloves even popped off!). We topped the night off with beer and wings.

Look for more up-to-date blogs here, complete with photos, in the future!

Bring your bikes in now for quick turn-around on tune-ups and overhauls. Mention this blog and get $10 off your tune-up thru March 2007.

Keeping the rubber side down.