Bike Boogie !!! Fall 2009 #1 - yippee!!!

It's that time again!! Hurrah!! Yesssss........ Even bike guy is excited!--->

Everyon in Peddie is invited to join in this fall's firsrt Bike Boogie!!, a low key attempt to set aside our cares and woes and pedal through the handsome backroads of central Jersey. This is an old fashioned "people's ride," so you don't have to be a fancy dancy pro ride to join in, though the go-fast people are welcome and are always helpful to the neophtytes. This is fun. Honest.

If you want to ride, email me, pclements@peddie.org, so I can gather up necessary info. If yoy think you need to borrow a helmet (required) or a bike (necessary too), you must write me pronto, so I can see of I can gather the necessary gear. We have some loaners, but not scores of them.

Interested? Let me know, then head to brunch at 10.00, eat up and snag a bananna, and gather in front to of the Science center. Bring a couple of dollars for food down the road. Back 1.00?? 1.30??

-- PJC

Ride a bike. Be happy.

Bike Boogie !!! -- Rain soft smooth

Four dampish cyclists enjoyed the first official Bike Boogie !!! of 2009, heading out from Peddie down Old York Road, then right-left-righting our way into the WPA town Roosevelt, where we stopped for a lesson about a stimulus package from the 1930s. Nimrod Hayet, Caitlin Heim, and Ms. Marisa Green were patient auditors and lovely cyclemates. We then headed up into Assunpink Wildfire Management Area, leaving the pavement for a route south along an disintegrating old road, a perfect slow ride in the soft wet of the halted rain. Leaves dripped, mud and sand slurped on our wheels, and we wobbled along the double track waterway of the south route to Imalystown. When we hit Stagecoach Road, we turned left and headed east on to Clarksburg, where we checked out the old Methodist church, its cemetery and defunct outhouse, and then the general store for fuel. Then we headed back home up 571. The day started out in drizzle, but ended in grace and calm, a lovely morning. -- PJClements [pclements@peddie.org]

Bike Boogie !!! #1 3.29.2009 -- Sunday (plus, >600 mpg!)

 WHOO-HOO!!! It's that time again! Bike Boogie!! Yesssss.... 

 Everyone in Peddie is invited to join in the first Bike Boogie!! of the season, a low key bike ride designed to strip away the frantic world as you pedal through some soft, damp New Jersey farmland in the quiet of a Sunday morning. This is a "People's Ride," and you don't have to be a fancy pants cyclist for this, though Peddie's go-fast people, all lovely, kind people, are frequent participants and nifty riding pals for first time Bike Boogie-ers. Don't fret about whether you are enough of a rider for this: we're riding bicycles, like in fourth grade.

Participants include faculty and staff, partners and pals of Peddie people, freshmen and PGs, younger brothers and sisters, football players, swimmers, theatre folks, center campus people, grill people, left-handers, right-handers, the ambidextrous, the part my hair on the right people, people with no hair organization at all, people who need to stretch, and people built with flexo-doodle bodies that bounce softly. If you can breathe and can ride a two wheeler at the same time, and if you think getting out for a spin and feeling cool again like the fourth grader you once were might be good for your spirit at the end of the first week of the spring term, come on out.

 We gather in front of the Walter and Lee's Science Center at 10.30 am, giving us time to get to brunch right at 10.00 and fuel up. We usually head out ten to twelve miles or so (not far on a bike), stop somewhere thereabouts for food and drink and chatting, and then head home. Back by 1.00 or so, faster people earlier.

·  What you need :
-a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road.

·  What I can provide for a few:
-a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road....but only if you let me know ahead of time so I can scare up enough gear. My supply of loaners is small.

Interested? Reply and let me know that you?re interested, or are thinking about riding. Need gear? You must let me know via e-mail, so I can find supplies. Even so, no guarantees.

Finally, check out the photo of Neils Bohr and and get a whiff of how smart !! you can be if only you ride your bike. Come on out and be a genius on a two-wheeler yourself.

 We believe in bikes. >600 mpg.

 -- PJC