I had given the bike I had built for our Grandson Ethan to my Sister-in-law's Grandson also named Ethan who lives in Nevada. She delivered the bike earlier this year but I just got these pictures from her while they were here.

I can't make out what's going on. Looks like the right tire is coming off?

This morning I made a quick ride mostly on gravel roads to the Southwest for a total of 10 miles. Temp was in lower 80s and the humidity 66%. Sure thought it was hotter than that.

A 1986 movie about BMX racing.

"It's going to take a lot more than skill for Cru Jones to conquer the toughest BMX challenge in the world. It's going to take a miracle."

I thought this was a great feel-good movie. It has all the makings of a good movie like... boy meets girl, good guy vs bad guy, underdog takes on top dog, a single mom, a small town, boy & girl fall in love, plus tons of stunt riding, BMX racing and 80s cheez. It even stars Mr Hand. I give it 2 thumbshifters up.


Sleeping beauty wasn't awake during enough of the movie to fairly rate it. Maybe later.

Side note: The Star of the movie was born in the same area and the same year that I was.

Tonight I decided to go for a short ride outside of town on a hybrid bike I recently acquired. Fields of milo, corn and soy beans, cows, barns, windmills, hay, hedge rows, hedge apples, oil wells and a animal carcass are just some of what I saw. Photos and video from my camera phone...









Video...

This morning we took advantage of the cooler weather and went for a ride. It's been in the 100s for the past couple of weeks and today's high was forecast-ed to only be in the upper 80s. We decided to ride the Gypsum Creek path in Wichita. We hadn't ridden this path in probably 20 years. We began at the South end at Planeview Park and rode to it's end at Douglas street. I think the trail is about 5 miles one way. Nova got an extra 2 miles in as we had a dispute over which way the trail went at one point so we separated ways and then she had to back track after determining I was right after all
At the north end of the trail we stopped at Target where Nova bought a shirt. On the way back we stopped to do a little car shopping on Kellogg and then stopped at the Bagatelle Bakery (just off of the trail to the West on Harry street) for coffee and a croissant.
Once back to our starting point we wanted to keep riding so we continued on the Planeview path and then over to the Arkansas River path and rode it up to Harry street. The South end of the Arkansas River path takes you across the historic John Mack rainbow bridge. The morning ended with a ride up the old Soap Box Derby hill. Here is the partial track from the ride. My phone battery went dead and didn't track the entire ride.

Last night we picked up a couple of these cool water bottles we found at Target. Every style of bicycle you can think of is printed on these aluminum bottles.



These are bottles I grabbed for this morning's ride which are from bike shops we've visited on our travels. Bayou Cycles in New Orleans, Neptune Cyclery in Tarpon Springs, Florida and Revolution Cycling in Oklahoma City.

Fat Bike. A 27 minute long documentary about winter bike riding in Alaska and the Susitna 100 bike race. Found it on Amazon.com.

I found this short documentary pretty interesting. Briefly covers the evolution of the "Fat Bike" and winter riding & racing in Alaska. I give it 2 thumbshifters up.



My movie date (Sleeping Beauty) also gave it 2 thumbshifters up.