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The Veloscience New Year's Day Ride Report

1/1/2017

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Yes, the sidewalk and parking lots were filled with cyclists in a gleeful mood as demonstrated by Todd Larson, who photobombed the image but that's ok as it added much to the image.  I walked into the Veloscience shop and....
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...the place is packed with new bikes.  Some where in here is Scott Billman's new ride which I am told has a motor in the frame but it was in a roped off area and I could not get close to it.  Later, somehow, lots of people carmmed in here for Mellow Mushroom Pizza and Kristie's cookies.
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I wandered out to a filling parking lot and hey, there is Dirty Dan, Flyin Tuna and Steve Oxley, ready to roll. 
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The Cookie Lady, Kristie on the left with Don N and others with whom I would end up riding the 40 mile route.
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The odd thing about today, other than a one in eleven billion weather day of sun and warmth (sort of) was I did not recognize very many cyclists.  Some who I thought would be here were not but on the other hand, you could be my brother or sista and with all that clothing, I would not recognize you
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The crowd mounted and I counted a bit over 80!  Amazing!  Some Riveters were here like Philippe, Doug M, Travis, Ken Buddell, Danny A, Kyle, Sergej, ...Riveters disguised as A's; Scott Billman and Paul Djupe, etc... It got to be about 10 after the official start time when suddenly a guy wearing a Veloscience kit (maybe Geoff?) rode through and....
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...we started to ride except for the dude in summer clothing who crashed but quickly remounted and was good to go.
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Steve Fields on the left and others got stopped at #62 and already the large group was split and slit many times at various stop signs and intersections.  I got in with the Kristie and Don show with Allen, Andres, Michael, Cindy and a couple others.  Good group and we motored around with....
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...a few stops to regroup.  A great day for a ride and we finished with a bit under an 18mph average.  Others on the long route finished with a 20.5 so no one was killing it and watching the Strava Fly-bys, looked like other groups regrouped too. 
      
    
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Jeff link
1/3/2017 09:50:35 am

Looks like there's a lot of new toys in that shop! Haha. Seems like a nice day for a bike ride! Hope you guys had a great time.

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Mark
1/4/2017 08:45:45 am

I've never seen it so full of bikes. Probably Geoff took advantage of some bike deals and they have to go somewhere.

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