Owls Ride Report July 14 2009

by Eugene Kase

I volunteered to lead this ride and was glad to see a small gathering at the church parking lot when I arrived about ~10 minutes early. More and more riders trickled in and as we were discussing a variety of topics waiting until the start time of 5:45pm, we all heard a loud pop and one unfortunate fellow’s tube popped. He replaced the tube and it popped again, at which point he gave us the go ahead to proceed without him.

At that point, 26 of us proceeded down Rogers thru Hyde Park, cut across on St. Remy to Smith road and up to 45.

We stopped at the beginning of Mt. Gilead and took a head count.
We took Mt. Gilead to 45, left, to Tunnel road where we stopped again for a quick refueling.

We proceeded down Tunnel a short ways and took Robinson, which had little to no traffic. At the last part of Robinson it does get a little rough but we stopped at Robinson and Old 37 and see if there were any takers wishing to go up Boltinghouse. Indeed there were, as 6 from the group took the challenge.

The remaining group stayed on Old 37 and up Fire Station hill. The 6 that went up Boltinghouse split at the top, with one going left toward 45, 3 going down Hinkle/Griffy Lake, and two going toward Old 37 where they hooked up with some of the Fire station hill route riders. We headed toward Cascade Park, then by IU Stadium and then home.

I want to thank everyone for riding and I hope you all enjoyed the ride as much as I did. Special thanks to Glenn, who was my sweeper for this ride. Also thanks goes to my daughter who took the pictures of us riding down Olcott/Hyde Park. I’m sure she would have taken more, if one of her hands wasn’t on her cell phone.