Backward Mutters

  • "…take me back to Muhlenberg County"

    I was shocked when I made the left turn off Hedgecock and onto Teague Road. Shocked. The trees are gone and Caleb’s Creek is coming. I wonder if it will mean more patient and sympathetic drivers? More road for cyclists and drivers to share? More of the fall’s thorns and…

  • Give me muffins!

    JACK: How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless. ALGERNON: Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat…

  • Fabled "Bridge to Nowwhere"

    Tailights! took this pick of a jump at a local MTB trail. I’m thinking, Wow. Seems to me this could be bridge to the hospital. Too many questions come to mind. In a Monty Pythonesque vein, I’d like to ask, “Ay, Mate, your cycling buddy, is he a go-er? No…

  • Polar Bear Ride for Courage

    Chum loaded up the 747 and flew Der Jan and Big Red to Our House, office of Cancer Services for Forsyth County, to ride the ‘hunerd k’ Polar Bear Metric. Chum, Jan, and Red rode in memory of our good friend, Tom Chewning who died of cancer on October 1,…

  • Year’s End

    Great job, Ramblers! As of 8:30pm on Dec 31 — provided you didn’t bank your miles so that you could poach the lead prior to midnight — here are the mileages for our peleton. GC Rider, the Good Doctor, logged 8041 miles.Chum peaked at 6 Gap, started doing landscaping, watched…