THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!

Bike PGH DORCs MS Team

Why We Fight MS

Having multiple sclerosis means that you may suddenly have blurry vision. Or that your memory will fail you for no apparent reason. Or that you may not always be able to walk, let alone ride a bike. The symptoms of MS are different, and devastating, for everyone – the only certainty is that it will affect yet another person every hour of every day.

This year we have teamed up with bike pgh! to form a voltron super-team. Join, sponsor, volunteer. Whatever you do, just get involved.

i will be reposting this each week until the ride.

Mike and i have been discussing this and i think we are going to add a couple novice friendly rides to our schedule.

We will be doing friday night rides in Frick that will last about 2 hours and get in some work on technique on iron gates, nature trail and rollercoaster that will be a nice easy pace so beginner to intermediate folks can concentrate on building skills and not trying to keep up with the pack. These rides will start this week and we will be meeting at the tennis court parking lot at braddock and biddle at 6pm. try to get there right on time so we can get the whole ride in before dark (again, trying to keep it beginner friendly)

we will also be doing longer easy paced rides on saturday afternoons at some of the less technically demanding trails around here. we are aiming for 4-5 hours of riding at places like bavington or south park or settler’s cabin. we have to finalize a time but i’m thinking that we will probably meet at thick around 1pm and caravan to the ride from there. this ride might not start till next weekend, but after that it will be a regular weekly ride.

this place is awesome. They have done a ton of rehab to the trails and from the camba guys we talked to they are planning a ton more work on the trails and the campground. Mike fucked his leg up and probably broke his pinky on our preride and I took a dip in a bog. Kaloz only got lost in the car. Twice. Race day should be interesting. They are expecting about 200 people to show. Oh, fuck gears. I switced back last night after the ride. single speed ftw yo! I’ll have another report after the race. I’m gonna go drop the kids of.

I was planning to do a mellow MTB ride with Jen in North Park but instead I decided to stick a pair of scissors in my hand and had to make a little trip to the emergency room to get a few stitches as a result. We ended up doing a mellow around town type road ride where I rode one handed over every bump and rough spot. I don’t know if any DORCs rode in the woods today. The good news is that this Wednesday Alex is off from class, Larry is back from Florida, and I’m sure there will be a ride somewhere.

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