In which the beer is barely going

Present: Tenacious V (our fine host), Sleepy D, the Awesome One, Gram the lesser, KK, the secretary, C & G, the energizer.

Essentially, it's going to Vic's. Sunday. 

Let me now back up. The evening started with an ambitious avoidance of the critical topic at hand. Eventually, we got to the matter of fires, which naturally led to the matter of where we were not going.

It was heavy slogging. A lot of ins, a lot of outs... a lot of tangents and rabbit trails. Rest assured, we addressed the idea you are wondering about, and many you weren't. We don't have time to enumerate them here today.

After all parameters were in the bucket, we shook it, and came up with a scenario which, by far, allows the most people to participate this year. We will meet at the Forks, Sunday, May 25 at 2:00pm for a meandering mountain bike ride which will culminate at Vic's for a dogfest at 6:00pm.

Let me take one editorial side trip here--Spring Ride is unable to be the priority event in many people's lives it maybe used to be. It seems clear that, once we moved from Cayuna as the option (a 6ish hour drive), to Falcon, (1.45hr drive), a number of people scheduled other things into their lives, or allowed other demands to rise up based on the capacity to attend at less than a full time level. No judgement here. Just a note for the minutes that this happens.

So there you go. That's what happened. No question that this is a disappointing outcome for some. On the other hand, it means more of us will be able to gather. It should also be noted that the Awesome One tried to get us to promise that we would have a Fall Spring Ride. I think it's a good idea. Stay tuned for that.

We are exactly what we are.

the secretary

In which the beer becomes destined for Falcon

For more recent adherents to the Klub, today's title references a near mythical event, in which, when debating the location of a long ago spring ride, the President determined the location for said ride by stating that, "the beer is going to Ingolf". Apparently it is in the comments of this blog. It is a near mythical because it's been repeated so many times, but I can't find the original statement. Here are two helpful sources on this.

https://bikeclub2003.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-beer-is-going-to-ingolf.html

https://bikeclub2003.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-report-from-president.html  

Further context: at our old klubhaus (RIP), they would tally our annual beer consumption and give us a percentage of those sales in beer at the related vendor. It required a van to pick up all the beer. So much, we rarely (maybe never?) finished it.

Tuesday's decision was in no way edicted by an absent President. We heard from some folks who had good reasons for not crossing. For this year, that's good enough. Fuck it dude, let's go bowling. In other words, Spring Ride is one of those times when no one will be dropped.

The photo is, of course, the DFL peforming feats of strength and bravery circa 2006. This is the kind of good shit we come up with when sitting too long in the Falcon group use area. May it be so again.

 

Winter Ride 2025

 Meet at Folio Cafe, 2299 Grant Ave, 9:30am. Saturday, Feb 22. A list of destinations and routes has been discerned by the TNR quorum. It was agreed they were not to be published. If you need to find out where the group is at any point in the day, contact someone in the photo.

 

Spring Ride 2024

 

Winter Taproom Tour 2 - Saturday February 18, 2023

 

Who could forget some of the highlights of previous such tours. Guess which one is the original and which is AI.

Route TBD, but will include a stop at Trans Canada Brewing Co for some pizza.

When: Saturday, February 18, 11:00 AM
Where: Meet at Harrison’s at The Forks (the establishment formerly known as Espresso Junction)

Cousin Thomas funeral livestream

Hi all, the stream will be here, or a link to its location.
The archive will sit here for as long as we can take it. May get the words of tribute from the pizza lunch up here too, but not for a while.

Rider down. In memory of Cousin Thomas. Faithful club member from 2009 to last week.

CT enjoyed his last spring ride a couple weeks ago. Send me pics if you have them. Here are just a couple gleaned from this very archive of good times. Won't be the same without him.

Spring Ride 2014

Halloween at the Camp 2011

First race: MennoCross 2009. Before he even had the sweetest jersey in the world.

Team White Russians at Falcon 24hr.

at CX worlds