Tuesday turned out to be a beautiful day even though I worked all day. After my 120 mile round trip commute I rode into the garage to find Margaret standing there with her helmet on. I looked at her googly eyed and curious as to what she thought she (and I) were supposed to be doing. Her response was “Your taking me riding tonight!” Keep in mind here as you evaluate her request that I had been up since 5…
Last weekend was looking good for a nice ride when the text came in from our friends George and Pat asking where we were going. At first I was going to wimp out and just take a shorty for lunch. Then I decided since the weather was supposed to be so nice and we had another couple to ride with that I would take a nice short ride to Cranfills Gap. It’s been a long time since I had a…
A couple weeks ago we had a nice break again in the winter weather again so we took a day trip to Waco to see the Dr Pepper Museum. Last summer we went to Dublin, TX to see the original Doc’s Dr Pepper museum and we thought it would be nice to see the other museum as well. There was only a small window of riding opportunity so the short ride to Waco seemed to make sense. This content has…
January 18 thru 21 was a three day weekend for some people depending on their companies outlook on national holidays. Fortunately I was off with pay to take advantage of it. As I was closing out my day on Friday I began to consider options for possible rides. Invites were going out from friends and riding groups but I just couldn’t decide which one to go with. All of them were taking day trips but none of them were going…
Remarkably beautiful weather rolled in on New Years Day 2014. We had been in the lower 40’s and below for every day for over a week and suddenly on January 1, 2014 the temp rose to 65 degrees. The obvious thing to do when something like that happens and opens a window of opportunity is to RIDE! Which we did! This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
Recently we took a ride with the Friendship Riders before the ice storm rolled in. Everything worked out perfectly both time and weather wise. We knew a cold front was soon to arrive but would be proceeded by a couple days of 70+ degree weather. Apparently one of the groups organizers felt the same way and planned a ride to take advantage of possibly the last comfortable riding day of the year. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench…
The annual Wise County Toy Run is a great time to meet other riders and ride for a reason. This year Margaret came along and rode her bike to her first large event. We met up with our HOG Chapter at the dealership for the Chapter ride to the event. I think we had about 50 bikes this year from our Chapter. It was a good turn out even though it was down from last year. Upon arrival in Decatur…
It’s been 3 weeks since my last post due to a lot of construction projects I am managing at work. Because of this we haven’t been on a ride in 3 weeks either! This weekend however I managed to get a small break and was able to take off Sunday. We took advantage of this and took a ride to Muenster, TX. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
We finally did all of that work around the house that we had planned for the last couple weeks. Most of it was yard work and after a long day of that, we were tired, hungry and didn’t feel like cooking anything. There had been something like a 50% chance of rain all day but we didn’t even get a drop. Sundays chance for rain had gone up considerably so we thought it would be a good opportunity to get…
The weekend turned out to be far more than I anticipated. Originally our plans were to work around the house on Saturday and participate in our chapters skills day on Sunday. We got up early Saturday morning and the temperature was a nice cool 65 degrees and was only supposed to get up to around 85 for the high. We didn’t want to miss out on the nice weather so we planned a short 248 mile ride to Strawn, TX…