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No photos because busy, but got the first Dads On Bikes ride in today. This was an idea I'd started to put together a few months ago, as our little one was old enough to travel in the Burley behind the bike.

Finally got round to sending messages out to various contacts, and 3 of us met at one end of town, rode to the other with our kids (happen to be 3x girls all under 3 today), had a good play in the park, met another person there who 2 of us knew (1 of the 3 is new to town), and got him added to the group. Then headed back to the coffee shop where we met the Mums and gave them the (now tired) children to take home!

All up a smidge under 20km towing the trailer, 16 of those were loaded up with a (nearly) 18 month old.

Be doing something again next weekend, and as it's a long weekend (ANZAC Day) we might do a longer Dads only ride on the Monday, meeting Mums in the next town.
 
Riding in Palo Duro Canyon.

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s***ting next to my bike. Check out that drivetrain!

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Later I found some kitchen cocks at the antique store

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Did a knuckle job this past weekend and had zero time for anything else, so I took a short spin around the neighborhood this morning to stretch my legs. Better than no riding! I also got to test a new front bag that I had Rewd Bags out of Greeley custom make for me. It started as a napkin drawing, turned into a lot of conversation, and finally wound up as a real thing.

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Vietnamese Tiger Stripe camo for tactical purposes!

In unfortunate news, one of my pedal spindle dust caps is gone. No clue where it went. Oddly enough my wife lost a dust cap last week. Together we have probably 40 years of semi-serious riding under our belts and it’s never happened to either one of us.
 
Yesterday's ride. Cycling group out of Laguna Woods in Socal. We do a couple of century rides every year. I'm one of the 'younger' riders in the group at 68. Yes, some of us do have ebikes. I didn't turn mine on until mile 64 and only then because we'd been into headwinds for 14 miles and knew we would be for the rest of the ride.
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Just under 20km today on the Dads and Bubs ride; 3 of us out today, my little one was the youngest (18 months old) the other 2 are coming up to 3.
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It's a fantastic bike for this job, just so comfy!

The Burley is good as I can just lob stuff in there for the park (we ride to a park, let the kids run around, ride to a coffee shop and meet the mums before heading home).

Yesterday my helper watched me pump up the tyres on the Burley, and has now sussed out the track pump:
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This morning she saw my bike go into the big rack in the way it needs to for the trailers, so she was standing there pointing at the trailer hitch bracket as if to say hurry up and hook it up - I'd not even got her helmet out at that point!
 
jembourbe said:
Feeling your pain
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Ive ridden a total of 5 rides since January. It’s amazing how quickly the body deteriorates. I’ve just been so overwhelmed by my workload and trying to build my own truck for Rubithon in June.

Even my trainer is angry at me. All my friends are even angry with me. But I work long hours and most of the time I just need sleep.

Luckily; this is temporary. I’m going to hammer in summer and Fall/winter
 
OGBeno said:
Ive ridden a total of 5 rides since January. It’s amazing how quickly the body deteriorates. I’ve just been so overwhelmed by my workload and trying to build my own truck for Rubithon in June.

Even my trainer is angry at me. All my friends are even angry with me. But I work long hours and most of the time I just need sleep.

Luckily; this is temporary. I’m going to hammer in summer and Fall/winter
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I've been on probably 10 total this year. (4 in the last month, 1 short ride 20-25 miles per week) Found out in back in February I have a torn hip labrum. Been doing PT as a conservative, first measure. I've gotten stronger but it's not helping to mask the problem. Surgery is looking likely later this summer. Will be 40 soon and am suddenly "feeling my age". 😓

Like you, I've had to put myself in the mindset of "it's temporary, I'll be back" but damn has it done a number on my mental and physical health in the short term.
 
Specialeyes said:
I've been on probably 10 total this year. (4 in the last month, 1 short ride 20-25 miles per week) Found out in back in February I have a torn hip labrum. Been doing PT as a conservative, first measure. I've gotten stronger but it's not helping to mask the problem. Surgery is looking likely later this summer. Will be 40 soon and am suddenly "feeling my age". 😓

Like you, I've had to put myself in the mindset of "it's temporary, I'll be back" but damn has it done a number on my mental and physical health in the short term.
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Totally. 100%. I’m 51 with a very checkered (read: terrible) health history. The ability to come back from temporary bouts of life definitely does impact overall human health— Especially if the rhythm was one of intense body exercise (me since 2023). Going to almost none has hammered me as a human.
 
jembourbe said:
I think the biggest upside to having a real community is that everyone holds each other responsible out of love and respect, not hypocrisy and shame.

Hang in there
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OGBeno said:
Thanks homie. Community is indeed real.
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Yes! Community is real but comes in alot of shapes and flavors.
I often do various s*** (wrench/bike/hike/music/tree work/etc) locally but enjoy following alot of mud folks vicariously & am inspired into action because of what you all are doing. I think more community of any variety is key. Having said all that....face to face, middle fingers, hugs, high fives, and hand shakes rule.....
many times for me its also super cool to be away physically from your home (100 yards? 5000 miles? more?) and encounter/engage with people I think we prob. have more in common than we're willing to admit.

well?....Sorry 'bout that.....I'm getting stoked to take advantage of some super cool VT weather and straddle my bike tomorrow!
 
Community is what you can create as well; I caught up with a neighbour yesterday who had seen the partner of one of the other Dad's on Bikes and she said how much he'd enjoyed the ride - the neighbour must have said she'd heard he was out with us. This Dad thinks nothing of doing 100+km day rides, so a 15km ride with his son, a stop at the play park, chat with other Dads and then onto a coffee where we met some of the Mums is a bit of a difference.

Wife ran into the brother of one of the others, and he was saying how much his brother had enjoyed it.

I now need to keep an eye out for at least 1 more trailer, probably one Shotgun seat and other bits and pieces for a couple of others who have kids that are nearly old enough to join in!
 
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