City Loop Night Ride

Chancey and Sirena met me to do an old school city loop through Winston tonight. We had some closer than what is normally comfortable encounters with cars on Peace Haven. Once we got to the West End, however, things chilled out a bit, and there were significantly less cars. We climbed Summit street (me likie) and headed down Fourth to Runnymeade. Back onto Country Club and we were spotted by another CLM member. We rocked it on CC, back to the elementary. We had a little pose off...


After hanging out at my truck for a couple minutes, Rob, the aforementioned CLM member, pulled in and hung out for a few. Plans were made for another ride on Turkey Day...too bad I'll be enjoying the (possibility) snow in Ohio!

Thanks Chancey and Sirena for riding tonight, much fun!

Hanging Rock

CLM members Mitch, Rob, Duane, Curtis, Erich and myself all wanted to do a nice longer ride yesterday to one of the local mountains. We opted for Hanging Rock since last week we (myself and Mitch unincluded) hit Sauratown. The round trip is about 50 or so miles from my place with about 3500 or so feet of climbing. The day was a little chilly, but it was beautiful! It's amazing to me that it is the week before thanksgiving and its still in the 60's and we have Petunias still blooming. It's a far cry from Ohio! Anyways, onto the pictures...

The crew with a couple of tag-a-longs on the back on Moore's Springs Road


Curtis and I coming upon a little fawn. We were hoping it wouldn't come out in front of us on our way back down going 40+ mph.


Curtis cheesing at the top of the climb

The lake at the top of the road



Regrouping before route 66. The ride back was foreboding after climbing Hanging Rock then Moore's Springs

More Sponsor News!

I saw another message today from Andrew (Pirate Race Productions team manager). We've officially been sponsored by Magura, Syntace and Uvex. I'd love to get my grimy hands onto some of these or this But first, I must rid my basement of one of my bikes. The Karate Monkey must be sold!

CLM Video

I put together a little video with photos of the CLM so far.

CLM Photos! from Barry Stevenson on Vimeo.

Another Good Stokes/Surry Ride

I just got in from another great City Loop Mafia ride. 8 CLM members showed up for the ride on parts of the Three Mountain Madness. Everyone was riding very strong. A majority of the climbing comes in the first half of our route and we were mustering an 18.5 mph average. At about the halfway point, we were at Sauratown Mountain.

A few of the guys taking off up Sauratown

Mitch, Sirena, and myself opted not to climb it since everyone was pushing such a quick pace. We hung out for a bit, then decided to strike out on our own, but stick to the route.

Sirena is always smiling, so happy!


Judging by Mitch's face here, there must be some whiskey sour in his bottle...


We met these two cool dogs at Old Mill and decided to stop and wait up for everyone.

Once we regrouped, we changed the route a bit, and headed back to the cars. The pack broke up a bit on Old 52 since we all knew we were within striking distance of the cars. Erich took off up the last climb with myself, Rob, and Duane right on his wheel. Right about at the top of the climb, I blew up and let Rob and Duane pass. These three are ridiculously strong, even after climbing Suaratown, they were still throwing down, climbing a decent grade at about 23-25mph. Craziness!

Exciting News!

I got an interesting e-mail today while at school. I submitted my race resume (albeit a rather unimpressive season) to a few different teams over the last two weeks and heard back from one of them today. I'm happy to announce that next year I will be racing for team Pirate Race Productions. Details of what companies will be sponsoring us for the upcoming year have yet to be hashed out, but needless to say, I am excited at the prospects that are being talked about...Pirate Race Productions


Oh, and just for the heck of it, a cool pic that Mitch posted over on the CLM blog

City Loop!

Pre-ride silliness and banter


Erich, Scott, Mitch, Curtis, myself, and guest rider Charlie hit up a city loop this afternoon. The weather was UNBELIEVEABLY nice, think mid 70's and sunny. Awesome November day.

Evidence of the beautiful day


The loop was modified to include some alternate roads. We rolled through downtown and Old Salem.

Scott cheesing it up Downtown


Refilling bottles in Old Salem



Along the way we had a guy at the gas station ask us if we were going to France...apparently the kits look pro enough to fool unsuspecting onlookers. After downtown, we wanted to stop by Mafia member Camerons house, but to no avail...his truck wasn't in the drive. We continued on our loop and onto Country Club where the pace always quickens. Fun ensued back to the elementary school where we meet!

Another great day on the bike!

Mountainview Ride!

CLM members Erich, Scott, Curtis, and myself (Barry) had a good ride today. We all met in the cold this morning at my place and headed out through King towards Hanging Rock. We looped around and ended up in the neighborhood of Pilot Mountain. After taking in some good views, we started in the direction of my house. A great ride, Curtis, Erich and Scott were all looking strong today!

My GPS got a little screwed up a couple of times, but the ride was about 45 miles, with about 3600 feet of climbing. Definitely a good ride, much fun was had by all. I suffered entirely too much towards the end of the ride, due, no doubt, to the fact that I've only been riding my mountain bike over the past month.

City Loop Mafia Kits

Mafia party Wednesday night! The new kits will be in, can't wait to see them!

Hopefully I'll be able to get out a few nights this week for some night rides, probably on the road bike since the ribs are still hurting. I sneezed tonight and thought I was going to cry.