Located over at the CycleSmith blog group rides have started up. Despite being wasted from Midnight Mass from the prior night, I was intrigued and opted in for the Saturday ride that meets at CycleSmith at 9pm.Previous rides of this nature have left something to be desired. Once, I rode with a group that met at Contender and they ended up leaving me behind when I attempted to clear the pathway of fallen tree branches. So, when I showed up I was skeptical.
Only two others rode. They seemed polite. I was skeptical. It is rough being the odd man out on a ride, and I thought that would be me. So for the first half hour I was a drafter riding to the back of two spandex clad gentlemen. But then I took initiative, and squeezed into the roadie mass conversing with them an assortment of random and quickly forgotten topics.
Eventually sweat took over and we all went quiet. Listening to the road and just enjoying the ride. The route we took was from the shop, down 2nd south, to north temple, over to redwood road, to davis county, looping back to beck street, and then to the city creek area. They didn't ride too hard, but enough to make me breathe and roll sweat from my head. I was informed it was their off season. If this was their off season, I don't really want to see the on season.
So they were quite redeemable folks over the crap I had to put up with over the last bike shop bike ride. They tended to like to run red lights like the many cowboy bicyclists around here, but for the most part they were decent folks. It wasn't close to the sheer awesomeness of Critical Mass, Midnight Mass or even my own one man mass as the Night Rider of nights past, but it was informative (I didn't know how Redwood Road connected to Davis County or about Beck Street), and a chance to spend time with riders who I wouldn't normally ride with in order to further my understanding of the bicycling community. They were cool. I am still not going to wear spandex.
Just Added. The Route We Rode.
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