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The next sponsor of Team Moose Tracks is Slingshot Bikes. If you need a great, high-performance bike, I'd recommend you checking them out. Please visit their website and let them know how much you appreciate their generosity towards The Sparrow's Nest.
The next sponsor of Team Moose Tracks is Hoffman, Steensma, and Plamondon, P.L.C. This is the company that does all the accounting for Denali Flavors. They are great -- if you need accounting work done, I would highly recommend them. Please visit their website and let them know how much you appreciate their generosity towards The Sparrow's Nest.
Some great new bike pics (of the moose!) from team member Craig -- taken on the White Pines Trail north of Grand Rapids. Enjoy!
The next sponsor of Team Moose Tracks is Gertrude Hawk Chocolates. This is the company that makes the delicious peanut butter cups that are found in Moose Tracks ice cream. Please visit their website and let them know how much you appreciate their donation to The Sparrow's Nest.
The next sponsor of Team Moose Tracks is Kerry Foods Group. This is the company that makes the delicious Moose Tracks fudge that people love so much. Please visit Kerry's website and let them know how much you appreciate their generosity towards The Sparrow's Nest.
For the next week or so we'll be focusing on the sponsors that are making our efforts very successful so far.
The first, a major sponsor of Team Moose Tracks, is Resurrection Life Church in Grandville, Michigan. We encourage you to visit the church's website or a blog about it and let them know that you appreciate their generosity towards The Sparrow's Nest.
Here's a story from Scott, one of the members of Team Moose Tracks:
If you have not heard what happened last weekend during our ride (John, Brian, and I), here are the details. We traveled the white pines trail (30 miles total). We started at 8 am to avoid bike path traffic. It really was not that cold out but one should layer up and wear gloves.
The excitement happened 20 miles into the ride when I decided to look at my rear tire with my head bent down while traveling 15+ mph. Anyway, I started to drift over to the side of the trail and I felt branches hitting my sunglasses and helmet. As I looked up, I felt my front tire go down in the ravine and I proceeded to fall off the bike with the bike following me for part of the fall. I landed on my left shoulder/back of my helmet (thankfully I was wearing my helmet). The only damage was a slight tear in my shirt that happened to skid on the asphalt and my handle bars were slightly turned (thank goodness we had an engineer along for the ride).
It has been recommended that I wear a helmet cam so we can capture all the fun things that happen on the trail. I know I will be taking a camera on each ride just in case this happens again (hope not).
This was the first big ride of the year and I was a bit saddle sore for the rest of the day and my energy was zapped for about 7 hours (I had a pretty good breakfast - half bagel with cream cheese with two fried eggs - but we burned about 1200-1500 calories during this ride and my system was not ready for that). I thought my riding endurance was pretty good as I was keeping up with John who has been riding for many months in his basement. So at this point, John will be the one leading the pack so we can draft behind him.
If this sounds like fun, let me know and I will give you more details as Brian and I will be hosting this ride each Saturday morning and John will be hosting the Sunday afternoon ride. A reminder if you plan to ride the big rides on the weekends remember to bring a power bar, water, Gatorade or what ever.
Thanks for listening to my banter.
Scott, aka dairy geek / milkshake
Three members of Team Moose Tracks went riding last night. It was a beautiful evening in West Michigan, made all the better by the fact that the Moose Tracks moose (or at least a stuffed version of him) went along for the ride. Here are the highlights in pictures.
Here's the moose ready for a big ride. Hanging out in my garage.
Here's the moose taking a break with Bill.
Moose on a rock.
Moose using the brake.
As we wrap up the riding inside versus outside series, I wanted to leave with a few miscellaneous thoughts (the series started here):
· Though I’ve talked about all the bad things about riding outside, there are a lot of good things. The best is just being outside in the fresh, clean air. Another is feeling free. Another is making the bike fly down a hill or around a corner. Another is the wind (hopefully to your back) blowing around you.
· Bikes can go places that cars can’t. This makes riding outside even more fun. Bikes can go into construction areas (road construction projects are great to ride on after the people quit working for the day – they are paved roads with no traffic on them!), on sidewalks, on grass, on bike paths, and on and on. It’s just another thing that makes biking outside fun.
· It’s really important to ride as close to 90 rpms as possible. This is easier to do inside, but it can make an especially big difference in saving your energy when riding outside.
So that’s it for my riding inside versus riding outside series. I’ve had a blast doing it. In hope you enjoyed it as well.
Here’s the next part of the riding inside versus outside series. The series started here.
Inside: Your weight doesn’t matter very much. Your only point of resistance is the back wheel.
Outside: Weight matters a lot. Every extra pound is another pound you have to haul 20 miles. Outside you have your weight over your front and back wheel – and they both make friction with the road. Which, unfortunately, makes it much harder to pedal.
Now to Part 9.
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