Heading towards the end of October and the start of Late Fall Weather

 Heading into late October and the unstable late fall weather patterns! So here is a few more rides, enjoy!

October 17-Just a beautiful day for a ride and the Creekside Coffee House too

Just a bit of Indian Summer on this Saturday so we had to get in a ride, headed out to get an errand in and then via the T-Gap Trail, back over to the Cottonwood Creek Trail and headed to the Creekside Coffee House for our bag lunch and iced tea. We thought it might be "hot tea", but it warmed up enough heading up the trail to change back to "iced tea"! The surprise was a "Family Halloween Carnaval was being held so the grounds were packed. We did find a table, and they were happy to get tea for us, so we enjoyed the madness and they even said a prayer for us, not bad at all! After that we rode back down Cottonwood Creek to the Pikes Peak Greenway and stopped for a late afternoon 2nd. tea and snack bar and then headed back to the apartment.

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October 18-Food Run and Lunch Ride 

Ah, time again for a Bi-Monthly Food Run to the Walmart Market just off the Rock Island Trail and Union Blvd. Did the shopping, loaded the cargo trailer and headed back to the apartment to stow away the food and supplies. Decided we wanted a good hot dog so we headed up to Smash Burger at the UVC Center of the PP Greenway-North. Man, they were Jam-Packed so it took a bit of time to get our order, but it was worth it, excellent dogs and the Bunns are excellent!

Decided to do just the Vincent St. Bridge Loop so we headed under Nevada Ave over to the "Cracked Trail" and Nevada Ave access trail over to the Vincent St. Bridge, looped around and then headed west on the Cottonwood Creek Trail.

Back to the PP Greenway, getting late we just headed back to the apartment and called it a day!

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October 19- Out and About on the Rock Island Trail

Been a bit since we rode to the current ending point of the Rock Island Trail at Powers Blvd. It was a bit of a chilly morning, we got to a small, dirt trail that heads to Constitution Place over to Constitution Ave. Picked up the sidewalk down to Powers Blvd and crossed over to get to Whataburger with a really nice patio area for our bag lunch and iced tea. Only problem it was in the shade with a bit of breeze so by lunch end, we both had goosebumps!!

Headed back to the Rock Island and then rode to the endpoint and did a turnaround. We headed back down and over to the PP Greenway a bit, then headed to Building 3 Coffee Roasters for their very smooth iced GREEN tea and a snack bar. Headed back to the PP Greenway and then decided to keep riding south to Duck Lake for a video shoot and then it was late afternoon and headed back home, a very enjoyable ride and got a needed errand done too!

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We will save the ride on the 23rd. for YouTube videos and video-shorts upcoming on the 25th and 26th. Will and them and probably the last October rides before Halloween! Until we Come Together, AGAIN-My FRIENDS, HAPPY TRAILS!

PS: the BLOG address is now: Out and About on the Recumbents-BLOG

(http://outontherecumbents.blogspot.com)

More October outings

 A bit more October outings to update the Blog!

October 10- PPRRN Meet & Eat Ride to Good Neighbors Meeting House for Lunch

Time again for the monthly PPRRN Meet & Eat, this month of October. Jo and I headed up to Criterium Bike Shop, just off the Pikes Peak Greenway. We are using it as a "meet point" to lead a ride over to the Templeton Gap Trail, east to Union Blvd. We pick up a short accessway to Templeton Gap Road, cross Fillmore St. and continue on the T-Gap Road bike lane to head west on the Rock Island Trail, picked up, Shooks Run Trail, south to Columbia St. and the Good Neighbors Meeting House for the EAT part of the ride. 

If you're not able to ride, we encourage meeting us and joining in. We had 4 riders and one person that was recuperating from a minor injury. ate, talked and enjoyed a beautiful day in So. Colorado! That was the "official" end of the ride/meet but we ended up taking Jill back to the Sinton Trail towards her home as she needed to go to a meeting of some sort. Jo and I went up to the Garden of the Gods Rd./Centennial Blvd intersection to see if the actually, closed down a Starbucks we have used in the past to get iced tea, RATS, it's closed up, they even took down the signs!! So, we headed to the Mavrick Station and had our iced tea and snack bar.

We headed back on the Sinton Trail to the PPGW and back to the apartment.

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October 11- A ride to Manitou Springs for a Picnic Lunch

Another beautiful day on tap so we headed out on the PP Greenway to the Mesa Springs Greenway to get to a few city streets to get us over to Midland Trail heading to our favorite picnic spot in Manitou Springs, just off the Creek Walk Trail. 

Headed back, to America the Beautiful park in downtown, Colorado Ave Bike Lane over to Pikes Peak Ave bike lane. Picking up Shooks Run Trail north and for a second time in 2 days ended up at the Good Neighbors Meeting House for iced tea and snack bar. Headed back home via Shooks Run Trail and Rock Island Trail Connector. Enjoyed a really kickback day of a ride!

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That's it for this Blog Enty folks! Today is gray, cloudy and rainy so it might be a few days before we get ridable weather around here, until we Come Together, AGAIN-HAPPY TRAILS! 

October 5, 2026-Food Run and Lunch Ride

 It was "that time" again to hook up the cargo trailer and head out on the Rock Island Trail to go to the local Walmart Market.

October 5- On a sunny morning, we got to the food store and as usual I did the shopping and Jo, stayed outside to do "Guard Dog" duty! After the mad rush and the pain of having to go through the register, finally got out of the store and loaded up the trailer and panniers for the ride home. 

 Arrived at home and set about unpacking and getting the supplies upstairs and the cold goods into the refrigerator and freezer!

After discussing what we wanted for lunch, we decided on getting a "burger" and headed north on the PP Greenway up to the junction with the UVC or University Village Colorado Center Smash Burger. After lunch, we headed out to ride the Vincent St. Loop and head home but wasn't ready to quit the ride so we headed down to Duck Lake just of the PPGW westside trail.

Starting to get late afternoon so we headed back up the PPGW, westside and home. Nice day even made a dreaded errand enjoyable!!

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Thanks for checking out the blog, more October rides coming up soon, HAPPY TRAILS!

October 4, 2026- Motorless Morning at the Garden of the Gods City Park

 October 4- Motorless Morning at the GoG Park

On an absolutely beautiful day, we rode the October version of the Motorless Morning at the GoG Park. This is where they block all CAR traffic through the park so only, runners, walkers, bike and trike rider, skaters and skateboarders can use the roads of the park from 5 AM to 12 Noon! This happens in late April and early October. The Garden of the Gods is a beautiful city park that has "National Park" numbers of visitors each year! 

So here, for your pleasure is the "Nickle Tour" of the GoG with Jo and I on the trikes and lot's of other folks just "GROOV'IN" on a Sunday morning! Come on along for the ride and ENJOY!

After leaving the Garden Area, we headed through the park and all the fun and fast downhills and did a quick photo op at Steamboat and Balanced Rock. Turned around and then headed to a different section of the park.

 From this point we rode by the GoG Trading Post, (great cafe and souvenirs) and back into the park to pick up the exit road. As we were coming to the junction to go out of the park, we managed to get a video shot of a Heard of Big Horn Sheep! Heading out we picked up the Foothills Trail over to the 31st. bike lane and headed to Starbucks for our brown bag lunch and green iced tea.

Then crossed over Colorado Ave to get to the Midland Trail and head east back into America the Beautiful Park and head to Monument Valley Park. We stopped at that park "Garden Area" to eat our snack bar and get a break from the sun in the cool shade.

  Picked up the Pikes Peak Greenway, westside trail and headed back to the apartment, a very enjoyable ride, hope you all can check it out someday!

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September 26- Heading towards October, last of the September Rides

 September 26- Back home in Colorado Springs, Multi-Trail ride, Creekside Coffee House and Angletech visit.

My younger brother, Bob had a major medical/surgical procedure the day we got back from Ohio!! We had just turned in the Mini-Van, got a call and caught the city bus to the hospital, (Cab service SUCKS here). The whole week was constant visits to the hospital and lots of rides on the city bus so NO Riding.

He got through the surgery, barely, it was touch and go for 3 days! He came around and is now very slowly healing, we decided we needed a RIDE to bring down the craziness and headed out via the PPGW to the Cottonwood Creek Trail and up to our favorite little coffee house, Creekside Coffee House, right off the trail. Man, the sunshine and the Ride felt so GOOD! Ate a good panini and iced tea, then decided to head back down to the PPGW and pick up the Sinton Trail, West up to Angletech to have my "chain stretch" looked at. Only 25% used up so won't need a new chain for a bit, YEA! We rode a bit of here and there and headed home.

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September 19-20, Recumbent Cycle-Con at the Greene County Fairgrounds Complex in Xeni, Ohio

 September 15-23-The ROAD TRIP to Xenia, Ohio for Recumbent Cycle-Con and to ride 2 of the 5 major trail systems in the area.

We have wanted to go to the yearly Recumbent Cycle-Conk, Tradeshow and Convention for YEARS! Finally decided, "No Time like the Present"! So, we rented a Mini-Van packed the trikes and gear inside, packed the snacks and drinks and headed EAST toward Ohio! We drove through 4 States and yes, I-70 was a bit of a disaster, but we managed to get through 4 major cities without a lot of problems! 

We arrived on Thursday, and headed to Springboro, OH. to visit my youngest brother and his wife Linda. It's been a lot of years, so we had a lot to catch up on. Had a great overnight stay and after a great breakfast, we headed to Xenia and our motel on a beautiful back country highway. Arrived at the motel, a bit lower end that expected but it turned out quite and easy access to the trails. Being, late afternoon, we headed out to eat and just kicked back. The next morning, we headed out to try to figure out the trails but, LOL, we got our directions crossed up and couldn't find Xenia Station Trail Hub! No biggie, we headed up what we found out later was the Creekside Trail (#2) but missed the fairgrounds as there was no signage directions off the trail?? We stopped and asked a local rider as there were lots of folks on the trail. We found the way to the fairgrounds but getting lost made us a bit late for the 9AM entry on Saturday. 

Locked up the trikes and headed inside Recumbent Cycle-Con, all the major trike mfg'ers. were set up and the demo rides in full swing! We rode lots of different trikes and even a couple of recumbent side by side tandems too!! 

Recumbent Cycle-Con was a full Sat.-Sun. show but we felt like we did all we wanted to and decided we drove 1500 miles to get to ride NEW TRAILS! We finally figured out our directions and headed to the Xenia Station Trail Hub:

Sept 20, Sunday: We decided to ride to Yellow Springs, OH. and hopefully beyond to Springfield, OH. and figured out we needed to use the "Little Miami Trail (#3)" (it runs along the Little Miami River) and headed out to find Yellow Springs and it's Trail Station! Saturday night had the wildest Rainstorm we have seen in years! The trails were still a bit wet but the fenders kept us dry as the sun came out. This trail is beautiful, has lot's of "tree cover" and shade and is very FLAT, making for easy riding! 

Lot's of pull overs and benches along the trail, we came upon a railway style bridge and then, WOW, we went under a "Covered Bridge", it's been a "Bucket List" item to ride thru a Covered Bridge but since it was over the trail we figured no way to access it, RATS!

From here we kept on riding up the trail and having an excellent time! It's been a while since we have gotten to ride a totally new trail for the first time!! Alas, all good things end, we made our way into Yellow Springs and Stopped at the Yellow Springs Station. 

Just across the trail was a great diner called Peaches Grill, so it was lunch time! Had an excellent sandwich and a cold iced tea! We walked around the town a bit but lot's of traffic made us head back to the trail, we continued up for several miles but as it was getting late afternoon, we didn't get all the way to Springfield, OH. We headed back down and then got to the motel.  Being tried, we decided to jump in the Mini-Van and head to a local Italian Restaurant, we found just off the Creekside Trail and had an excellent dinner to finish our time in Ohio. Monday morning, early with the wind howling and the rain pouring down, we packed up the mini-van and started our 3-day road trip back to Colorado Springs, CO. 

It was totally worth the looooong drive and a lot of gray, cloudy and rainy weather and somehow, we want to return and spend 2-3 weeks getting to check out many more of the Trail Systems out of Xenia, OH. Station Trail Hub!

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September 2026 Rides and More!

 It's been a crazy 6 weeks since my last blog posts so let's jump right in and give you the highlights!

September 9- Checking out the new bike lane in downtown, headed to Starsmoor Nature Center and Lunch at Fuzzy's Taco

Using the Cascade Ave bike lane through downtown Colorado Springs, we found that they put in a new bike lane between Cuchrues St. and Fountain to make it easier to get over to the Tejon St. bike lane to head south. Hooking up with the Cheyenne Blvd bike lane and heading west into North Cheyenne Canyon Park to check out the Starsmoor Nature and Visitor Center.

Headed back down to St. Elmo St. as a back street and over to the new retail center off Cheyenne Road and Nevada Ave to do lunch at Fuzzy Tacos! Took some photos at the Creek Walk Center stage area and then headed back home.

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