Today I went back to the car show taking the 2 Grand-Sons. Blake never met a car he didn't like. Ethan's favorite was a Lamborghini.


All car photos here.


Bike photos here.

Video I took of just some of the bikes...

The other night I put the new wheels I built on the Monark Mutt. This morning I went for a 20 degree ride to test them out. They ride fine.



This afternoon my Dad and I went to the Starbird Devlin Rod & Custom show where our bike club has bikes on display. I don't have any bikes in the show as I was mostly too lazy I guess to get my bikes ready and entered. I've always enjoyed this show (formerly the Daryl Starbird Rod & Custom Show) and would go with my parents when I was a kid. Here is just a small sample of cars and motorcycles at the show. I'll have bike photos later.

Yesterday we took an hours drive to the small town of Partridge Kansas to attend their fall festival which is centered around bicycles. The town is really small (pop 250 or so) and the Main street which the parade takes place on is dirt.
After the festival we met another couple in the near-by town of Hutchinson where we ate, unloaded the bikes and rode around.

Just some of the bikes waiting for parade to start.


Nova on one of many of theses trikes there to ride.


At the Amtrak station in Hutchinson.


Video from the Partridge Pedal Party...


More Unicycle Hockey action here.

Last night we attended our club's 7th annual Art Of The Bicycle Show and the World's Largest Bike Ride. It was a great show and good time.

Couple videos I made...

Show...


Ride...


Making a late night/early morning doughnut run...


More of my photos here.

Our bike club was asked to put on a display at the Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina, KS which is a 3 day music and art festival held this past weekend. I couldn't make it all 3 days as I had to work and had this event going on in town. My parents graciously agreed to haul my bikes to the festival for set up and then we went on the last day. It is a really nice event and our bike group did a great job of setting up and managing our display.

My photos from the festival here.

Video...

We spent Friday night and Saturday downtown in the big city attending our clubs 6th annual Art Of The Bicycle show on Friday and the related swap meet on Saturday. As always it was a nice show and a fun time. More on the show and swap here.

This morning was the first Mayor's Family Bike Day in the big city. Four generations of our family attended. We participated in a couple of rides, an obstacle course and the paper boy throw. Ally won a bike and Blake won a few bike accessories. We all got event t-shirts. Two nights ago the kids and I made Coasters t-shirts using printer iron on transfers. They wore them today.







More photos and a video here

I spent the day with our club showing bicycles at two locations. One in the morning an the other in the afternoon. First was at the Farmers Market in the big city which we've been doing annually for a few years now. The second show was part of a first year event to promote cycling along the big city's main street Douglas Ave. In addition to our bike display this event included safety and maintenance workshops, guided bike tours and a pub pedal hosted by our club all taking place on the main street.
We started our day off with breakfast at an old establishment on Douglas. I took the John Deere bike to show at the Farmers Market. For the afternoon show I went home and picked up two additional bikes. By the end of the day I was too beat to attend the evening pub pedal.

More photos from the day here.