Bike Feast

We had a weather pattern here: start off the week with mornings in the single digits and end it on Friday with a day in the 50's. (Last Friday it set a record for the date at 67.) But now it's decided that rain is the new pattern. We've gotten inches of rain. If it freezes, we are in trouble.

Saturday I got my bike back from shop already for the summer. It was a day late: the rain had already started. But Saturday night was the Bike Feast. This event was started 23 years ago by the Downriver Cycle Club and three other local bike clubs. It takes place about a month before biking season starts (and after about 3 months of winter) and gives a chance for bicyclists who haven't been able to bike for months to talk about biking. This year it was sponsored by LMB. In past years you had to bring a dish to pass. This year we ate off china and used real silverware. I don't remember ever using real silverware as a bicyclist. There was a drawing for free registations to upcoming rides and I won one for the Farm Lakes tour. A woman presented a slide show of a tour of Utah. The views were spectacular, but I noticed that she always took pictures at the top of the climbs. There were lots of signs warning of 6%, 10% grades. She said that the climbs were gradual but the descents were steep. She zoomed by any pictures of herself: helmet hair.

Since LMB sponsored the dinner, they passed out copies of the 2009 ride calendar and the current LMB Quarterly magazine. And who was featured in a long article: Kevin Degen who was with us at the Feast. It was great spending a couple of hours talking about biking. Afterwards we had to go home in a cold, hard rain. But did I mention that I saw the first robins in my neighborhood yesterday?