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Separated Shoulder

Well the Tuesday night MTB ride really became a lot of fun when I ran into a tree that just happened to jump out at me. After we had made a sweet fire and rode some trails and built a nice little feature to ride over it all went awry. Felling a little frisky I was following Loehr on his single speed through a trail we know very well. Loehr jumped off this root we have jumped off a billion times to clear a couple other roots. What happens next is something I can't explain. When I hit the root my bike all of a sudden wanted to turn right straight into a little innocent tree. At the last second I ducked to the right and quite possibly avoided breaking my collar bone. The tree hit my square right on the top of my shoulder and stopped me dead in my tracks. I sat there for a second in pain and was hoping nothing bad was wrong as I did not want to miss snowboarding this weekend in NC. I got up and it really hurt. I checked to make sure everything was moving and all systems were go. Got back on the bike in some pain and rode back to the fire. Mark and I just sat at the fire for a while, while the other guys went to do another lap. When they got back I said let's go I don't feel to great. Got back to the shop and painfully took off my jersey and jacket and that is when I saw how puffed up it was. Oh well no snowboarding and will probably be off the bike for about a week or two. That's what I get for riding a 6" travel bike that makes me get a little crazy.

Beautiful Fall

Check out this sweet shot I took while on a road ride this fall.

The pond is almost mirror like.

Fall Mountain Bike Pics

Just some pics of some MTB rides we have done this fall.

If you have any pictures of rides you have done send them

to ride@hubbikes.com and I will post them.

Couple of fires while building some local trails. The before

pics of bikes on my front porch. The Roscoe sitting at the

end of the trail going into the flood.

WBL first ride.

Yesterday 100+ brave soles showed up to do the first Winter Bike League ride of the season. It was postponed from the week before and people were itching to go. This ride was gonna happen rain or shine. When we got to Sunshine Bicycles in downtown it was 44 degrees. Started out the ride chatting with Jered "strongman" Gruber. We rolled out of town pretty fast. The group actually stayed together what a miracle. Maybe the ride would be a good ride. Pretty smooth first 2 hours. We dropped some folks coming up a long grade to the rest stop. We pulled up to the small cinder block building in the middle of I don't know where. The gas pumps were something out of the 1960's no pay at the pump surprised it was not manual crank. The Indian guy behind the counter did not know what hit him when 100 cyclist pulled up and filled the 20x20 square cinder block building. People pissing everywhere on the guys grass. I think it was his wife that came out and yelled at some people. No bathrooms and no water tap. I got cold just sitting there waiting for the ride to start again. After that point I really though about cutting it short. The temperature dropped by 5 degrees at that point it was now 39 degrees. Once we got started all I was thinking about was getting back and hopefully we were not coming back in on Hargrove Lake Rd. and those big rollers. When we reached the sprint point at about 65 miles I was thinking why are they having a CAT 4,5 only downhill sprint to a bridge. I would not be sprinting today somebody always crashes on this type of shit. Thank god we came back in the easy way not many hills. But the pace got picked up by Nasty Nick Housley because the rain started to fall. We rolled in through Winterville town center with the pace steady. People were done at this point. I looked around and the group was maybe about 40 people now. Made the selection I was happy. Got back to the shop and just sat down on the couch for a few minutes. I checked and it was now 38 degrees. The bullet rolled in a few minutes later he got popped in Winterville when they picked up the pace. Good ride man. We will see what next week holds.

Bimmers

Loehr showing off his Bimmer pimpin style.

Gordon's in a Z4

Hop Whallop in a 6 series convertible

Ebenezer Ale in a 3 series convertible

Happy Holidays everyone but sorry we are not giving out BMW's.

GOMB!!

In true fashion Hub faitful Alan Hartmann has gone above and beyond in paying homage to

The Hub Bicycles.