[RBW] Re: Ride on the Bosque Trail in Albuquerque - a set on Flickr
Looks great. I am envious. The 4 foot high, 12 foot long snow pile at the end of my driveway, and the 3 inch thick hard pack ice on my driveway, have made me think that it is not a good time for a bike ride in Massachusetts Jim D. Massachusetts On Feb 11, 1:10 pm, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote: I was in Albuquerque on business yesterday and met up with fellow Riv list member Patrick Moore, who was kind enough to lend me a bike (a fixed-gear Rivendell!) and give me a tour of the Bosque Trail near his home. It was cold (around freezing), but we swaddled ourselves in wool and headed out for a nice ride, followed by a great lunch of New Mexican food at a local eatery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176895@N03/sets/72157625900271073/with... Thanks to Patrick for his fine hospitality! --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.comwww.campyonly.comwww.wheelsnorth.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Ride on the Bosque Trail in Albuquerque - a set on Flickr
Eric, Thanks for the photos. I'd like to ride the Bosque Trail sometime when I travel next to New Mexico. I was born in Socorro and went to school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, it's still my home state in my memory and bones. Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Feb 11, 11:10 am, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote: I was in Albuquerque on business yesterday and met up with fellow Riv list member Patrick Moore, who was kind enough to lend me a bike (a fixed-gear Rivendell!) and give me a tour of the Bosque Trail near his home. It was cold (around freezing), but we swaddled ourselves in wool and headed out for a nice ride, followed by a great lunch of New Mexican food at a local eatery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176895@N03/sets/72157625900271073/with... Thanks to Patrick for his fine hospitality! --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.comwww.campyonly.comwww.wheelsnorth.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Ride on the Bosque Trail in Albuquerque - a set on Flickr
First: Eric, nice photos. I wasn't paying attention when you mentioned the poster and thought you said Wolf festival -- we've had that sort of thing here, with the re-introduction of a certain wolf species into area wildlands within the last 10 years. I'd have paid more attention if I had understood you. (And my eyesight is not all that it could be, frankly.) Others: Eric got me out of my winter hibernation -- very little riding during December and January, and I was pleased that I did not do worse over the 25 miles. I was on the 1973 Motobecane and wore my original style WoolyWarm, rear pocketed jersey for the first time and at about freezing, it did find over a single, base wool layer. Do my knickers make me look fat? The bosque is wonderful: no great shakes compared to the best natural beauty of No and So Cal, but in contrast to the surrounding high desert it is a wonderful strip of green, about 1/2 mile on each side of the ~ 1/2 mile wide Rio Grande. Of course, it is much greener and less dusty looking in summer. Jim: I think we' corresponded via tangent off the Boblist, no? Please do knock when you next visit. The bosque beckons. And Garcia's Kitchen, near 4th and Montano, *does* serve beer! On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jim Cloud cloud...@aol.com wrote: Eric, Thanks for the photos. I'd like to ride the Bosque Trail sometime when I travel next to New Mexico. I was born in Socorro and went to school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, it's still my home state in my memory and bones. Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Feb 11, 11:10 am, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote: I was in Albuquerque on business yesterday and met up with fellow Riv list member Patrick Moore, who was kind enough to lend me a bike (a fixed-gear Rivendell!) and give me a tour of the Bosque Trail near his home. It was cold (around freezing), but we swaddled ourselves in wool and headed out for a nice ride, followed by a great lunch of New Mexican food at a local eatery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176895@N03/sets/72157625900271073/with... Thanks to Patrick for his fine hospitality! --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.comwww.campyonly.comwww.wheelsnorth.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Ride on the Bosque Trail in Albuquerque - a set on Flickr
Does the Bosque ever get to flood? Looks like a good fast ride place. Put the head down and go! As for the knicker, nah, just all bundled up. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:58 PM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote: First: Eric, nice photos. I wasn't paying attention when you mentioned the poster and thought you said Wolf festival -- we've had that sort of thing here, with the re-introduction of a certain wolf species into area wildlands within the last 10 years. I'd have paid more attention if I had understood you. (And my eyesight is not all that it could be, frankly.) Others: Eric got me out of my winter hibernation -- very little riding during December and January, and I was pleased that I did not do worse over the 25 miles. I was on the 1973 Motobecane and wore my original style WoolyWarm, rear pocketed jersey for the first time and at about freezing, it did find over a single, base wool layer. Do my knickers make me look fat? The bosque is wonderful: no great shakes compared to the best natural beauty of No and So Cal, but in contrast to the surrounding high desert it is a wonderful strip of green, about 1/2 mile on each side of the ~ 1/2 mile wide Rio Grande. Of course, it is much greener and less dusty looking in summer. Jim: I think we' corresponded via tangent off the Boblist, no? Please do knock when you next visit. The bosque beckons. And Garcia's Kitchen, near 4th and Montano, *does* serve beer! On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jim Cloud cloud...@aol.com wrote: Eric, Thanks for the photos. I'd like to ride the Bosque Trail sometime when I travel next to New Mexico. I was born in Socorro and went to school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, it's still my home state in my memory and bones. Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Feb 11, 11:10 am, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote: I was in Albuquerque on business yesterday and met up with fellow Riv list member Patrick Moore, who was kind enough to lend me a bike (a fixed-gear Rivendell!) and give me a tour of the Bosque Trail near his home. It was cold (around freezing), but we swaddled ourselves in wool and headed out for a nice ride, followed by a great lunch of New Mexican food at a local eatery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176895@N03/sets/72157625900271073/with. .. Thanks to Patrick for his fine hospitality! --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.comwww.campyonly.comwww.wheelsnorth.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Ride on the Bosque Trail in Albuquerque - a set on Flickr
No, at least not for a few generations, since they've so dammed and diverted and controlled the Rio Grande. My next door neighbor has an inflatable kayak that he'll drive up to a trailhead a few miles north, float down, then get on his bike to pick up his car and in low spells, told me that after the spring runoff and before the monsoon the river is barely 3 feet deep in the main channel. We are in much more danger from forest fire than flooding. In the past, though, I think it did flood and there are leftover, huge, steel-girder X's scattered throughout the bosque to hold back floating debris -- the city or Corps of Engineers or whoever has started to remove these. It is a good gofast place, if you are in shape and you choose a weekday afternoon when it is lightly traveled. The route we took (apart from the detours due to a 5 mile stretch closed for repaving) is 21 miles out and back and when I am in shape (hah! it has been some time!) I can average 18, winds and all, on the gofast 75. Head down is right, as I use the hooks a lot in the wind. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Bill Gibson bill.bgib...@gmail.com wrote: Does the Bosque ever get to flood? Looks like a good fast ride place. Put the head down and go! As for the knicker, nah, just all bundled up. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:58 PM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote: First: Eric, nice photos. I wasn't paying attention when you mentioned the poster and thought you said Wolf festival -- we've had that sort of thing here, with the re-introduction of a certain wolf species into area wildlands within the last 10 years. I'd have paid more attention if I had understood you. (And my eyesight is not all that it could be, frankly.) Others: Eric got me out of my winter hibernation -- very little riding during December and January, and I was pleased that I did not do worse over the 25 miles. I was on the 1973 Motobecane and wore my original style WoolyWarm, rear pocketed jersey for the first time and at about freezing, it did find over a single, base wool layer. Do my knickers make me look fat? The bosque is wonderful: no great shakes compared to the best natural beauty of No and So Cal, but in contrast to the surrounding high desert it is a wonderful strip of green, about 1/2 mile on each side of the ~ 1/2 mile wide Rio Grande. Of course, it is much greener and less dusty looking in summer. Jim: I think we' corresponded via tangent off the Boblist, no? Please do knock when you next visit. The bosque beckons. And Garcia's Kitchen, near 4th and Montano, *does* serve beer! On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jim Cloud cloud...@aol.com wrote: Eric, Thanks for the photos. I'd like to ride the Bosque Trail sometime when I travel next to New Mexico. I was born in Socorro and went to school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, it's still my home state in my memory and bones. Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Feb 11, 11:10 am, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote: I was in Albuquerque on business yesterday and met up with fellow Riv list member Patrick Moore, who was kind enough to lend me a bike (a fixed-gear Rivendell!) and give me a tour of the Bosque Trail near his home. It was cold (around freezing), but we swaddled ourselves in wool and headed out for a nice ride, followed by a great lunch of New Mexican food at a local eatery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176895@N03/sets/72157625900271073/with... Thanks to Patrick for his fine hospitality! --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.comwww.campyonly.comwww.wheelsnorth.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at
