My stepdad Jim had his surgery today to remove his prostate. The doctor told my mom it went really well with minimal blood loss. Unfortunately, he'll have to stay in the hospital overnight....something tells me he'll talk his way out of it!
Now all he has to do is recover from the surgery and get back to his life!
-Kim
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Aw....aren't they cute
Dan had the day off today and had planned on going to a couple places to look at some dirt bikes, one being out it Loveland. I asked him about it when I got home and he said they were all pretty beat and that he didn't buy anything yet. He really really wanted me to look at my bike in the light since I only saw it in the dark last night so I followed him out to the trailer. When he opened the trailer....I saw the bike that he lied about not getting :) OMG! His bike is an '06, it's only been ridden 6 times and it still has the new tire tab thingys on it! He got a smokin' deal...he got a smokin' deal on both our bikes...he basically paid under $4000 for 2 dirt bikes! Can't beat that!
So, he started mine up and went thru the basics with me and told me to get on a take it for a spin in the backyard. I was scared and didn't really want to but after watching him ride it a few laps....I wanted on! So, I got on put it in first and gave it too much gas, it lunged me forward faster than I expected and instead of pulling in the clutch....I gave it gas and tried to stop the bike with my feet:0 and I almost crashed into the garage! Whoopsey! After a few more times, I was able to get it into first and move forward without taking anything else out and I was able to make numerous laps around the yard....only in first since our yard really isn't all that big.
So the plan for the weekend is to take the bikes up to Ned so I can ride it on some long straight roads.
Best thing about both bikes is they came with their ORV stickers that don't expire until 2009! So if I start to get the hang of it we can duck into some trails!
Let the fun begin!! I can't wait to get back on it!!!
-Kim
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Solo ride at Betasso
Dan had to work on Sunday so I decided to do a solo ride from our house out to Betasso after he left.
I put on my lucky socks, which I thought I had lost but found when when we were moving the dryer in our old place. Hurray!!! These are my lucky socks because I wore them during my first and only 100 mile race that I won....on my singlespeed....beating all the geared girls at 8 hrs 53 mins....this being my only claim to fame.
Anyway, I put on my lucky socks and headed out to Betasso. Man, I could tell I hadn't been on the XC bike in a couple weeks....once I started climbing the connector trail, I couldn't hold my bike in a straight line if you offered me a million dollars to do it. I only wanted to do one lap once I got up to Betasso because I wanted to walk the dog and I had a lot of running around to do. All in all, it took me 1hr and 15min from house to trail and back home again...which is pretty good seeing as this will become my quickie ride when I don't have time to go anywhere else.
My bike was very happy to be on dirt...
After I got home I walked Patch up to Mt. Sanitas and let him run around with the other doggies before I locked him in the house to run errands.
-Kim
I put on my lucky socks, which I thought I had lost but found when when we were moving the dryer in our old place. Hurray!!! These are my lucky socks because I wore them during my first and only 100 mile race that I won....on my singlespeed....beating all the geared girls at 8 hrs 53 mins....this being my only claim to fame.
Anyway, I put on my lucky socks and headed out to Betasso. Man, I could tell I hadn't been on the XC bike in a couple weeks....once I started climbing the connector trail, I couldn't hold my bike in a straight line if you offered me a million dollars to do it. I only wanted to do one lap once I got up to Betasso because I wanted to walk the dog and I had a lot of running around to do. All in all, it took me 1hr and 15min from house to trail and back home again...which is pretty good seeing as this will become my quickie ride when I don't have time to go anywhere else.
My bike was very happy to be on dirt...
After I got home I walked Patch up to Mt. Sanitas and let him run around with the other doggies before I locked him in the house to run errands.
-Kim
Looking for dirt bikes
Saturday Dan spent the morning unpacking all his clothes boxes and I scrubbed all the grime and dirt off the walls of our new place, thank god our place is small!
Fortunately we were both done around noon so we decided to go look at a dirt bike for sale for me, the bike was an '03 and it was a little worked but super cheap at $900...Dan was only going to offer the girl $750 for is since it was so beat, but that's a perfect for me because I'm sure I'll be laying it down and crashing into tree's in the beginning and I don't want to spend the money on a brand new spanking bike.
After that we headed over to Colorado Powersports to poke around because there was a leftover '07 inventory bike that Dan had his eye on. We sat down with a sales guy and figured out what his payments would be on the thing....very very doable in our opinion. Dan wasn't ready to commit yet because we were going to look at a used bike later in the evening. Unfortunately the used bike turned out to be in worse shape than the bike for me so Dan passed on it...I think he'll be back at Co Powersports on Tuesday to sign the deal :) Getting a new bike for Dan isn't a big deal since he grew up on dirt bikes and knows how to ride it....getting a new bike for me would be silly.
He's going to look at a '06 bike for me tonight that's only been ridden a few times and is also really cheap at $900...fingers crossed he comes home with it! I guess the guy that owns it only rode the bike around the track chasing his kids around when they were just learning and now he doesn't need to do that anymore so the bike is useless to him.
-Kim
Fortunately we were both done around noon so we decided to go look at a dirt bike for sale for me, the bike was an '03 and it was a little worked but super cheap at $900...Dan was only going to offer the girl $750 for is since it was so beat, but that's a perfect for me because I'm sure I'll be laying it down and crashing into tree's in the beginning and I don't want to spend the money on a brand new spanking bike.
After that we headed over to Colorado Powersports to poke around because there was a leftover '07 inventory bike that Dan had his eye on. We sat down with a sales guy and figured out what his payments would be on the thing....very very doable in our opinion. Dan wasn't ready to commit yet because we were going to look at a used bike later in the evening. Unfortunately the used bike turned out to be in worse shape than the bike for me so Dan passed on it...I think he'll be back at Co Powersports on Tuesday to sign the deal :) Getting a new bike for Dan isn't a big deal since he grew up on dirt bikes and knows how to ride it....getting a new bike for me would be silly.
He's going to look at a '06 bike for me tonight that's only been ridden a few times and is also really cheap at $900...fingers crossed he comes home with it! I guess the guy that owns it only rode the bike around the track chasing his kids around when they were just learning and now he doesn't need to do that anymore so the bike is useless to him.
-Kim
Friday, October 3, 2008
Marshall Mesa Nite Ride
Last night was our first night ride of the season, we started at UBikes and headed out....picked up a few people @ 15th & Walnut, The Southern Sun and at the Trailhead. We rode up to part of Marshall up to The High Plains trail, back to Dowdy Draw and back to the shop, we left at 7pm and got home at 10pm.
You can't really see the cows crossing the trail in front of us here, but we spooked one of them when we thought it was clear to ride and it charged us :0
I was beat from riding the CX bike and my light died just as we got off the trail, luckily we rode bike paths all the way home so at least there was light. We stuffed our faces as soon as we got home and passed out in bed.
I learned that on longer rides trail rides the CX beats me up! Next week I'm riding the 6.6 and have way more fun! Maybe my hardtail will even be built up by then :)
-Kim
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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