Andy, there are plenty of goatheads strewn among the lovely deserts and mountains of Utah. The most insidious patch of them surrounds my bike shed.
Thanks, Robert, for the heads-up on the Boise goathead festival. It looks like a gas, and their website had a promising tip about picking up loose nutlets with squares of carpet. I'll have to give that a try on the decades of thorn buildup in my yard. Glad you enjoyed Templin Robert. I'd hate to steer anyone to a bad beer experience. =) Perhaps your Riv sightings mean we've coincided at Saltfire in the past, although I never noticed a Tuxedo Sam when I was there. I'm up and about post-crash, thanks for the well-wishes, but don't strain yours eyes looking for my cornflower-blue 62 around town until next spring or summer. It seems I won't be able to safely control an upright bike for awhile due to obstreperous nerves in my arm. Such is life. You could try to look out for me there as a person, but "bald, pudgy, bearded" tends to describe an overwhelmingly large proportion of the patrons at any brewery (or non-racy bike shop, for that matter), hindering identification. -- Mark "Anonymous" Anderson in Utah On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 4:16:10 PM UTC-6, Robert Hakim wrote: > > Sorry to hear about your crash and subsequent surgery, Mark! Hopefully you > have recovered well and are back on the bike! > > I checked out Templin, I like it! Nice environment- it is refreshing to > see one of these local spots that is able to serve full strength brews, > cocktails, and non-alcoholic beverages as well! > I do like Saltfire's proximity to Parley's trail and their indoor bike > parking- not to mention the fact they sell full flavor beers (and > kombucha!) - but I must confess- while I do enjoy their flavors, all of > their beers seem sort of... flat. I have had their beers leak out of the > 'sealed' cap before. That is, however, one of the few places where I have > spotted more Rivendells than anywhere else I have been in the valley! I > will keep an eye out for your 62 cm Sam- maybe we will run into one another > someday. > > > > Andy, thanks for sharing the vignette of your childhood riding. I'm sure > those desert evening rambles got you hooked on bikes for life! It is > amazing what a little taste of freedom will do to an inspired child with a > bicycle! > We do have goatheads here in the Salt Lake valley- they seem to be more in > the lower elevations of the central and western part of the valleys, though > I have seen them higher up on the eastern side of the valley where I live. > I haven't ridden in New Mexico, but I remember the goatheads being much > more rampant in Colorado's Front Range than they are here. I have heard > they flourish in New Mexico. > Boise, Idaho has created a clever event partnering with New Belgium and > local bicycle advocacy groups and they celebrate the removal of the weeds > before they dry out and spread their thorn. I haven't been to the Boise > Goathead Festival yet, but it seems like a good time full of costumes, live > music, and of course- bicycles! Hopefully I can mosey up there next year to > catch their community event. > > > Cheers, > Robert Hakim > SLC > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/79aba688-92f7-424d-9b89-abc9bfb2135c%40googlegroups.com.
