Happy Father's Day to all our Dads! Great day wished for all !
The Denver Bike Century was held yesterday - with multiple route options that would suit riders of all abilities. This annual ride showcases a lot of neighborhoods in the Denver urban and suburban area, and benefits BikeDenver, a great cycling organization. BikeDenver offered Bike Jeffco an opportunity to have a booth at the lunch stop that would be frequented by all riders no matter what route they chose to ride yesterday. Bike Jeffco accepted this offer.
One of the things learned through participating in all kinds of organized rides throughout the years is that riders at all rest stops or aid stations always want to see a route map (even if they have one folded up in the back of their jersey), and see how far they have yet to ride. So I brought a route map. This turned out to be even more valuable than in previous years because this year the Denver Bike Century course route directions were all electronic. Riders were supposed to download an electronic guidebook. This eliminated a lot of map litter that can occur on a course when paper maps fly out of the back pockets of the riders' jerseys. Didn't work well for everyone, though. What I wished we had had was a larger map with a bunch of sticky notes where riders could post comments about the sections they had just ridden through....always room for improvements!
And, in my "there are no coincidences" category of events...what are the chances of two bike volunteers having the same Bike Friday model (well, his had a triple chain ring) in the same unusual color (Enno orange)??
How Saturday was spent....
You've heard of Guns N Roses, well this was Bikes N Roses!
But the COOLEST thing....a guy and gal pulled up on their tandem. Instead of searching around for a place to try and gently lay the big bike down, they had a portable kickstand that they used. Upon seeing this, I immediately went up and said "where did you get that ?!" and the guy told me it was called a Click-Stand, billed as the world's only folding portable bike stand.
http://www.click-stand.com/Home_Page.html Now that learning was worth the whole six hours that I was at the event....well, it was an added bonus to the good conversations had with multiple people on bikes!
But I digress...hahaha!
Season meters as of 46/365 = 10,677,681 m
Total meters on the day = 140,402 m
Oars in space (participation) = 15 percent
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
900 K Richard T .... heading for the ONE million meter milestone and top of the leaderboard!
250 K Minnie
200 K Brian C
Thanks, everyone, for rowing with us! You're the best ever !!
Luna 
m 
Brian C 5,000 m
Paul B 6,008 m
Tim P 
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Dan W 10,840 m
Bruce 10,850 m
David W 11,691 m
Minnie 12,827 m
Bill 15,000 m
David T 16,000 m
Stephen 20,309 m
Richard T 24,000 m
Onward to enjoy the day !
Wildfires raging in Colorado again - and the high temperatures and high winds aren't helping a lot. They fill the slurry bombers at the nearby regional airport. 
Coming soon to an erg near you..... 
Word has it that bg is running in rain boots these days... 
m ...much appreciated meters! 
