Re: Our Club Keeps Growing

My mind is slipping. Sorry, Isaac.

On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Robert Leighton wrote:

> One small correction, Isaac also started with us at 7am. He picked
> up his
> car about 30 minutes after we finished, so hopefully he had a good
> ride too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oriel Mor [mailto:oriel61@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 1:36 PM
> To: Isaac Seinuk; Arthur Finkel; David J. Shereck; David Wargin; Gus
> Condiles; Barry Feirstein; Greg Keller; George Uribe; Bill
> Eisenberg; Robert
> Leighton; Mitchel Lang; Larry Nipon; Jan Lemerman; Yihao Ou
> Cc: northshorerenegades@gmail.com
> Subject: Our Club Keeps Growing
>
> Had a great tough ride today. Lot's of climbing and hammering.
> Somewhat humid but not too hot.
>
> Bob and I picked up a new member yesterday. Say hello to George,
> another great rider from Great Neck.
>
> George met Bob, Barry (a.k.a. Twitchy) and yours truly at base camp.
> We did one of our usual favorite routes: left at Wheatly, through
> Locust Valley, Horseshoe, Mill Hill, Moore's Hill, Lawrence, Snake,
> Huntington, etc.
>
> In Old Brookville we swept up Herb who was trying to catch up to the
> rest of the Wheelmen. They were waiting for him at one of their usual
> stopping spots at the corner of Chicken Valley and Piping Rock. It was
> quite a sizable group of about a dozen or so. We politely stopped for
> a minute to say hi to those who are still on speaking terms with us
> and started off again. Jan, who inexplicably has still been riding
> with the Wheelmen, jumped at the opportunity and joined us, again.
> (He'd done that before at the Wheatly meet.)
>
> Another strong rider (I can't remember his name) also joined us for a
> short while, then peeled off to go home while we were climbing Mill
> Hill.
>
> Isaac apparently got dropped on Horseshoe, while George had
> disappeared from sight after Lawrence. I had also neglected to warn
> George about the sudden stop sign at the bottom of the steep descent
> of Mill Hill and he blew through the crossing screaming something
> about not being able to stop. Fortunately no one got hurt. A heck of
> an initiation into our club though. If you can survive this you can
> take anything we can dish.
>
> So after we reached Cold Spring, the 4 of us (Bob, Twitchy, Jan and
> Beast) were able to stick together for the rest of the ride, even with
> Twitchy's sudden afterburner bursts of speed and my occasional drops
> in speed. In proper Renegades fashion, we finished off with Vista
> Hill. Did it hurt? You bet it did!
>
> I'll be away next weekend. Check with Bob about meeting at base camp
> or elsewhere, if he's not around to ride.
>
> See you on the road.
>
> Beast
>
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