Tandemonium at Passion Trail Bikes

We’ve been tracked down from afar as one of those places where people know a thing or two about mountain bike tandems. So we’re doubling up this week with more riders and fewer bikes. Here’s the latest news on the trail, for July 20, 2010.

1. Wednesday Wrides: Tandemonium
2. Trailwork: Thursday Night at the ‘Dog


1. Wednesday Wrides: Tandemonium
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Sunset is at 8:28PM this Wednesday 07/21/2010. Twilight ends and near-darkness falls right around 9:10pm.

Bring your favorite stoker, this week we expect a handful of tandems to join us on the Wride!

Charles aims the front tire for the bank, Jay hits the afterburner, on Finch Trail

P. L. E. A. S. E. . . . P. U. T. . . . L. I. G. H. T. S. . . . O. N ! ! ! !

Please remember to put a light on your handlebar and have a blinky ready for the ride back to the shop! CA vehicle code requires it. Don’t get caught out on the streets in the dark! Also, a reminder that we need to be super conscientious about stopping at stop signs and lights, yielding to pedestrians, and operating our bikes predictably and responsibly while on the roads and trails. Let’s be safe and kind out there.

For all the details about what makes each group listed below unique, please refer to this webpage. If your questions aren’t answered there, you can also email us for info at info@passiontrailbikes.com.

All rides start pedaling from the shop: Passion Trail Bikes, 415 Old County Road, Belmont, CA 94002 650-620-9798.

The FRISKY rides will go out at 6:15 PM.
The REGULAR and TANDEM rides will go out at 6:30 PM.
The WHITE SOCKS ride will go out at 6:35 PM.
The FBG or Fat Bottomed Girl ride will go out at 6:35 PM.
The STRAGGLERS ride may form and start chasing around 6:45 PM.
For future planning, we have the upcoming start times each week for the first wave of the REGULAR ride posted on our Community Calendar

Note we may not have leaders for each ride but usually someone knows their way around. All groups will meet back here at Passion Trail Bikes right around dark for the usual story telling & beverage enjoyment. We will have stuff to eat plus chips and fatty snacks and EANABS to pair up with the Devil’s Canyon Brewery’s Full Boar Scotch Ale, Silicon Blonde Ale, and Little Devil Root Beer. We will hang out until about 10pm, so come on down, even if you can’t make the ride! Passion Parties are better with YOU in the mix!

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2. Trailwork: Evenings at the ‘Dog

Last week a small but charged group of helpers showed up ready for work and we tackled poison oak, encroaching brush, and leaning willows on the Lower Creek Trail in Waterdog Park. With loppers, saws, and a small sprayer of roundup, various bits of pesky vegetation were cut back to open up better sight lines and reduce the number of helmet bonkers, shoulder shovers, and handlebar twisters.

This week, we will meet again, and perhaps attack the bay tree car wash and the toyon bush helmet grabber on the lower parts of Chaparral Trail.

Upcoming trailwork dates are:
Thursday July 22, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Tuesday July 27, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

To get an idea of who might be interested we ask that you please RSVP to Patty at patty@passiontrailbikes.com, and let her know if you are a maybe or a for sure helper, and for which day. That way you’ll be sure to get the info on where we are meeting if we’re not at the dam.

Miro gets some upper body cross training in, operating loppers in dense brush

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Read back issues of the Passion Trail Bikes Community e-Newsletter on our website.

To contact us, email us at info@passiontrailbikes.com, or call the shop at 650-620-9798.

Happy Trails, from the PTB crew
Charles, Patty, John, Bret, Sterling, Pancho, Will, Derek, Matt, Peter, and Reba