Beautiful Weekend for Riding

The weather is stuck in repeat mode. For the past 6 days, its been 85 during the day 50 at night and never a cloud in the sky. It has been getting dark earlier and earlier each day so we don't venture too far out on our bikes(or scooter) after we finish our workday.

The weekend, however, is a different story!

All things Scootering!

Saturday morning we headed to Scoot Over to check out windshields for Laura's Buddy. The crisp morning air is getting up under Laura 's helmet on her commute and freezing her face. Not good since the morning are only going to get colder as we get into the winter. Laura decided that the medium height was most appropriate for her. Good thing too, it was the only size they had in stock :)

Here is the Buddy with the new windshield "mod"!

While we were at the store Laura got information on a group scooter ride happening on Sunday. It was going from the Tucson Mall to Biosphere 2, 60 mile round trip. Since we already knew what the weather was going to be (repeat of the day before) Laura decided to head out for the ride!












Now, this is NOT Laura's group (nobody thought to bring a camera) but I'm sure you could have taken a similar picture as the group made it's way up Oracle Rd to the Biosphere :)

Laura was really glad she went on the ride. She met some fellow scooterists (it's a word, I got it from the Scoot Over website), learned how to ride in a group, got some more "big road" experience and got to test out the new windshield "mod" ( determined the windshield is a keeper)

All Things Biking

We have some world class biking, both mountain and road, available to us, right from our front door. On Saturday afternoon, I headed out on the road to the Biosphere(we did the tour last year, you can read our review HERE ). I had no idea it was 1,000 feet higher in elevation then our "home". So, only averaged 12 miles an hour out. It took me just over an hour to cover the 15 miles to the Biosphere. Because of the hills, this is a major training route for "roadies", so there was a ton of other cyclist on the road. On the way back (downhill!) I averaged 28 miles an hour and hit a max of 38mph :) It took me just a little over 30 minutes to cover the miles back.

On Sunday, I went for a mountain bike ride on the 50 Year Trail. The trail has everything you could want in mountain bike trail, elevation change, some easy sections, some crazy technical sections and a really fun section called "the chutes" that reminds me so much of the trenches at one of our favorite trails in Michigan, Fort Custer Recreation Area in Battle Creek! Including the road ride from home to the trailhead and back I was able to put together a nice 20 mile ride.


We finished up the weekend by feeding our "neighbors" Dolly and Poncho a snack and watching the sun turn the Catalinas a brilliant orange. Here is Laura feeding Poncho. The arena is right across from the coach so that view of the Catalinas you see in the background is the view from our porch, everyday :)

-Rich-