Bloomington Road Ride

Yup, just what the title says. Managed to get in 40 miles between family festivities yesterday. It's a little easier to break the 20mph average here in Indiana than in NC, got in the 40 in just under two hours of riding time.

Here and There

Lisa and I and my parents went out on Btown last night, and got the chance to do some post-Christmas shopping. We made a stop in at one of my favorite places here in Bloomington, Revolution Bike and Bean. I scored a great deal on some Mavic shoes and picked up some coffee beans...hooray!

Indiannannanannanna

For all the lack of posts recently, I have been occupying my time. Family pandemonium ensued in Ohio, and now that we are in Indiana we are visiting the other side of the family. I've been able to get onto the trainer a number of times, but the wealth of snow on the ground has not allowed me to get onto the roads or the trails. Yesterday, I got to check out the Big Woods Brewing Company in Nashville, Indiana.


After all the hubbub on the Hoosier Mountain Bike Forums, I had to give it a go since we were already in the area. The atmosphere is fantastic, the beer (especially the IPA) even better. I picked up a growler deal with some of their custom glasses, and was thoroughly impressed again later that evening!

Registered

And now to begin a few months of suffering to get ready....


Photo stolen from here

CL and Batch One

A heavily modified city loop was in order for today. It was the second back up, but still worked to be a fun ride.


Kunstler would be proud of this urban decay



Afterwards, JillyJill made us some pizza and another attempt at our own embro was made. This guy tells the story of how we felt about batch one:

Batch Zero

After having used some embrocation from Mad Alchemy, Erich and I had made mention of possibly trying to make some of our own. It was a relatively fleeting thought, but as we did some more research on the process and possible recipes, it became apparent that we could give it a shot. Our first attempt at making a batch was today, after having done some shopping around, and it came out about like we had expected.
And no, I wasn't doing some vodoo trick on the emrbo, that's just my natural look of disdain:


We decided that there needs to be some work done around the base of oils, we aren't entirely sure about the consistency. Also, we are thinking that our makeshift warming agent may be a little on the weak side and may need to buy some of the weapon grade capsicum. seriously.

Straining out the warming agent from the oil tincture:



The scent, and the look is pretty appealing, but we've already started to hatch some new plans about recipes. Be looking for Batch One soon!

The final product: Batch Zero:

Something Wicked This Way Comes...

What will it be? And how wicked? The latter has yet to be answered...