Tuesday – Around Las Campanas and Santa Fe

Tuesday, 17 Riders headed out from DeVargas Center for a rough ride around the dump to Las Campanas. On the Las Campinas downhill outer loop, the pace line fell apart and turned into a series of sprints. YAHOO!! Exhausted, we regrouped at Caja del Rio, then headed to...

Back From Bike Tour of National Parks

Hi all, as some fellow SOB’s know I had been planning a mountain bike tour for this summer, but injured my hand and switched over to a road  bike tour mostly through Utah and Arizona of some of their national parks. I normally blog my tours on a site called...

Vineyards of La Cienega…

Saturday’s ride included an unwelcome guest – a stiff NW New Mexico wind joining us as a training partner. Thirteen SOB Riders saddled up and headed out of El Camino Real Academy on South Meadows, across to Richards Ave, around the Institute of American...

Round and Round; Up and Down…

Thursday’s SOB Club Rider took riders round and round the inner and outer loops of Las Campanas; and, up and down Pos de la Tierra to Las Dos and Opera Drive (aka 285 Frontage Road). Then it was a downhill run along the 599 Frontage Road back to our start point...

We Went Where For Lunch?… Albuquerque???

SOB Riders made a special dash to Albuquerque on Tuesday for lunch! Bob put together an “ABQ Flat Ride” that had 2 short stints on I-25, but for the most part put us on familiar roads used on the SOB Club Cochiti and San Felipe rides. The weather was...

We’re lost… but we’re making good time…

Saturday, SOB riders headed north from Camino Real Academy in search of favorable winds; then west; then east; then south… always facing a stiff head wind!! Ehecatl, the Aztec god of wind from all directions, was vacationing in Santa Fe; and, wanted to make his...