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Another interesting video.

We talked to a rider at the shop about that ride. He said the locals hate cyclists so much they actively try to crash them and destroyed a monument to a killed cyclist and have been known to fire their guns into the bike shops.

We are still waiting for her to show up.

Day 3 was tough for me. Really should have been riding more leading up to this so my seat did not feel like a razor blade on the last day. I ended up being a full .5 MPH slower than the group as pedaling was not a lot of fun as I was approaching 100 miles for the weekend. Had a great time and really appreciate most of the Florida crew showing up to make it such a great HC Cycling Team event.

We found a storage space for Raffy.

Day two is down. Raffy, Ben and I are around 80 miles total now but adding Mike and JP today made a big difference as did riding with the group. Today was a much more enjoyable ride.

Cycling Supplements.

Yeah, everyone was pretty fit and I really saw no one that wasn't able to keep up a decent speed. My biggest challenge was trying to keep with Raffy and Ben when I could get no draft off either. After not being on the bike in 5 weeks I am seriously out of bike shape. The park was quite nice, kind of felt like riding through a zoo as everything seemed so well groomed in the park. Did not see any gators but we did see a dead catcoon and a snake.

23 miles in.

Happy Birthday Tom.

I think it was when he equated the climb for the whole ride to riding up a driveway up in our area. The event hotel reeks of moldy popcorn oil, that is burnt.

No I think she was offended when Ben started making fun of the climbs as we heard the group warning each other about a certain route that had a lot of climbing. I have still not seen a participant younger than 65.

At registration. We are the youngest people here by 30 years. We have been told the climbs will be pretty serious at 300 feet over 36 miles.

Ben is putting his bike together while I watch and offer advice instead of help.

I am not picky at all. I think Mike is bringing my take from his raffle to share and legacy bikes is having a party Saturday night.

Sportscar racing at Sebring all weekend. Should be an awesome time killer after rides.

Nebby and I are in lovely Sebring. We decided to use the hotel bikes for the ride tomorrow.

I think we are set. Everything is in the box, hopefully it survives. I had to go with the heavy ass Zipp wheels because the spokes on the MF make it impossible to make everything fit as handlebars need to go through the spokes to make this work. Part of my concern is whether to lock it and attract the attention of the TSA goons or not. I might just throw a gun in there so those fucknuts can't open it up and screw up the packing.

Been at the shop all day and they cannot get the Calfee to fit in the S&S box with either the MF or Zipp wheels. If they don't get it done soon I am going to have no bike for the bikefest in Florida.

How tight are your freakin pants? I am a wallet snob, I will admit I compare my wallet to other guys wallets in lines at stores when paying. Used to have some competition in NYC, guys in DC are all bums.

Grahame, you are supposed to have everyone with you take a picture of the biscuit and all send it to Brent via text at the same time. He likes that.

The fire pot is just fine it is the hopper where the pellets are stored. The pellets do not fall to the bottom of the hopper where they would enter the auger, they just line up on the walls of the hopper and don't drop in.

Yeah I vacuumed out the pit before I started. It was just pellets hanging up in the hopper and I was inside trying to do the beans. Ended up being gross as it never got hot enough and fat never rendered enough to make it tender. Disaster.

Happy Birthday Gene. Hope it was a great one.

He actually did.