Turkey Ride 2006

20th Annual Turkey Ride out of Danville was fun - only my 2nd year doing it, but quite a spectacle. Gotta estimate around 500 riders roll down San Ramon Valley Blvd to PleasanTown and back on Camino Tassajara. Most of the usual suspects plus every fitness Fred in town were present. This shot was with my cell phone camera while twisting back at the mass from the very front just as we leave Danville. One dumb crash with a number of bodies and bikes piled up while we were going straight. No fatalities. Good times. I got caught a bit far back when we hit the one-lane squeeze and watched the lead group of about 100 (!) ride away. While chasing and dodging the castoffs, my last shot at bridging was Larry Nolan, but I was red-lined already - my buddy Rod jumped on and went up the road with Larry completely ignorant of what a high quality world class wheel he was sucking. Great job Rod! NCNCA needs your fresh talent in the cat 5 stable.

One for the poets & poetry lovers

My Uncle Gair blogs too - his is The New Mexico Poet's Corner. One of my fav's of his is there:

Who I Am

I don’t carry a briefcase

I don’t get off the train every night at five-thirty

I don’t have adoring or rotten kids waiting for me

I don’t have a sexy
nagging
or servile wife either

What do I have?

All I have is this

About once every ten thousand years or so
A real goddess of love will grant me refuge in her temple

I will sing songs
fix her swamp cooler and roll on the floor with her dogs
I will sip wine and chop potatoes

She will create a stew more piquant than might any man’s legal wedded doxy

Crickets will sing and stars will shine in through her screen door

C 1993 Gair