By: C. Kent, aka (Superman) After a great ride Monday I was ready for another on Wednesday. I got up early, watched some of the Tour de France and then headed for the bike shop. Digger and Earth Dog were waiting with Minotaur. As we talked Newboy arrived and we were ready to leave. I took us out onto Lyon and down to Acacia before we moved over to Kirby before heading north towards Cypress.

It was a planned simple ride that would end up taking us east and back home in about 2.5 hours. We rode up to Cypress and over to Johnston and finally to the light on Sanderson. Newsboy led us to Stetson and Minotaur and I took us to Domenigoni and caught the light there. When we turned east towards Searl Minotaur and I rode together puling everyone else. We dropped Digger on the rise at Searl and the stop light so we decided to ride to State Street and regroup around the corner. Once we were all back together we let Digger pull us to McSweeney and through the houses before coming back out onto State street and heading north. Earth Dog was nursing a sore knew so he stayed back with Digger as I stopped to talk with Minotaur and Newsboy. We let Digger play the rabbit and head for Chambers first. We slowly closed on him and I managed to get away from Minotaur and Newsboy while they were talking so I caught Digger just before the bump at the speed sign and waited for the group to catch up and make the turn on Chambers.

We worked our way over to Santa Fe and onto Stetson before heading towards the high school. Minotaur wanted to make the Mayberry Loop so I said I would stay with Digger and Earth Dog and the two of them could head for Fairview and we would meet them at the Fairview Fire Station. Minotaur and Newsboy faded into the distance and we worked our way past the high school and north towards Florida. We got to the Fire Station and took a break till the fleeing twosome got there. As soon as everyone had rested we headed towards Ramona to make our way to Soboba.

Once again Newsboy and Minotaur took off and once again I tried to pull Earth Dog and Digger to Soboba. We stayed together pretty well till the little jump hill at the light on Soboba and Digger never got back to speed. Earth Dog stayed with him and I moved down Soboba till I met up with Minotaur and Newsboy. Earth Dog pulled up at the parking lot while we waited for Digger. Digger rolled right by and headed south on State and we had to chase him. We had decided to change the course a bit and head over to Sanderson and down to the Starbucks on Esplanade. It was pretty smooth sailing to Starbucks and we stopped to some all of the political problems of the US before heading back to Lyon and back to the Bike Shop to end the ride. It was just starting to get hot by the time I got home.