Cool Breeze Century - Facebook Page

Cool Breeze Century

The CIBC Cool Breeze Century now has a Facebook page that they started on August 3rd. Check it out.

Cool Breeze Facebook page

Cool Breeze Century - Ride with JV

Cool Breeze Century

JV (aka Jim Verheul) from Bent Up Cycles and a member of the 2010 Bent Up Cycles RAAM team will be joining us to ride at the Cool Breeze in less then two weeks on August 20th. It'll be great to have Jim join the "bent up" gang

Maybe JV will let us draft him for a little while.

Cool Breeze Century - Past Recumbents

Cool Breeze Century

I checked out the CIBC website to see if I could find pictures of recumbents from previous Cool Breeze Centuries. Here they are...all two of them.

2010 Cool Breeze

One trike surrounded by wedgies

Here you go...a close up. See her now?

I don't know who this young lady is but hopefully she'll show up for the 2011 Cool Breeze. At least she won't be a lone triker this year.

2009 Cool Breeze

I don't know who's riding this LWB bike but hopefully he'll come out for the 2011 Cool Breeze as well.

Maybe there were more "bent" riders in past years but the pictures don't tell much. This years pictures should tell a different story. We'll have plenty of  bent up cycles for the lens to capture!!

 Our "bent up" leader Joel has also arranged to have pictures taken. I also expect a cool video out of Glenn Frank from Orange County. Take a look at Glen's Videos

Cool Breeze Century - Group Contact Info

Cool Breeze Century

After signing up with the Cool Breeze Century stay in touch with the "bent" riders group by sending Joel Roberts (our "Bent Up" leader) an email and let him know you're ready to go. Joel will communicate with the group about meet ups and whatever else he has on his mind. He's also keeping track of how many riders will be in our group and the route they'll be riding.

If you're not signed up yet and have questions about the ride and our "bent up" group please contact Joel and ask away.

Joel's email is:

joelroberts@mac.com

Information to include when contacting Joel:

Contact information

Route that you will be riding

Are you arriving Friday evening or Saturday morning?

Hotel where you'll be staying (if arriving Friday)

What will you be riding? 

Anything else that's on your mind

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Other general information

According to the Cool Breeze registration site some of the routes are over 80% full.

Meal tickets are available for non-riders at $15 per person.

Registration price increases on August 14th.

The Cool Breeze organizers know that we're coming so let's not disappoint them. It'll be fun so if you haven't already signed up go ahead and sign up now. 

If you're still not sure about signing up then contact Joel and ask those questions. The Cool Breeze has a route for everyone!

Cool Breeze Century - Recumbent Style

28 "bent up" bike and trike riders have already signed up for the Cool Breeze Century in Ventura, CA and more are expected!! 

Registration is still open

Ride date: Saturday, August  20th

Read more about the Cool Breeze and sign up here: Cool Breeze Century

Thanks to the efforts of Joel Roberts and Dana at Bent Up Cycles recumbent riders from Ventura to Orange County will be joining the ride. This is a great opportunity to show off our rides and to let everyone know that we're cyclists too! 

Click here for: Cool Breeze routes. 

The Mini Metric and the Metric seem to be the most popular for the "bents" that have signed up already.

Mini Metric 38 miles, 300+ gain

Metric 60 miles, 1500+ gain

Century 100 miles, 3,500+ gain

Double metric, 124 miles, 8,500+ gain

I'll post updates as we approach the ride date Saturday, August 20th.
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Bent Up Cycles RAAM Announcement 


"Official RAAM team announcement. Dana Lieberman, Allan Duhm (FL), Chris Kaiser (NC), and Larry Graham (OH) are forming a team to compete in RAAM 2012. Alex Miller (TN) is our first alternate and Team Administrator. Watch for more announcements in coming weeks and ways you can get involved. Woo hoo! Here we go again! :)" Dana Lieberman

Picture from 2010 RAAM

Tattoo Break Again

Took a fast paced ride on my 700 last Sunday knowing that I won't be riding again till this coming weekend. Why? Another tattoo break. Tattoo Break July 12th  

Two to three times during the week I usually take Betzi on a ride. She'll have to wait till next week. I've decided to sacrifice our rides this week for 5 hours of pain and 3 days of healing. That doesn't make any sense...does it? Oh well, if we're always trying to make sense out of what we do, life can get pretty dull.

Next week girl

 Picture of Betzi courtesy of my daughter Leili

         

                                                        

Beach Bums on Trikes

Byron and I headed out to the beach today to ride trikes with some new friends. We started  our ride in Venice and soon passed Marina Del Rey and ended up in Manhattan Beach. The overcast of clouds kept the ride cool. Excellent summer day at the beach.

Leaving our meeting area and headed to the beach

Riding through the park at Marina Del Rey

My boy Byron cruising through the park

Still in the park but not for long

Ahh...the beach bike path and headed to Manhattan beach

Beach bum #1, my son Byron

Beach bum #2

Beach bum #3 being pursued  by the rest of the gang

Beach bum #4 followed by beach bum #5

Beach bum #5 (aka Joel Roberts) with his beautiful wife

Back home and ready to unpack...soon