Fred's Bike: Trials bike at Emma Long City Park

Monday, July 2, 2012

Trials bike at Emma Long City Park

Ryan Albert - above. Dirt Derby Promoter

It was raining, muggy and an ill fated ride at Emma Long Park yesterday. A.J. flatted out, Ryan lost his phone and I was shown to be extremely out of shape. There a was a bit of fun after the ride. We met several trials bike riders. They were gracious enough to let us ride their 2 stroke rock crawling beasts. One of the guys had this cool trials bicycle in the back of his truck. I'm kicking myself for not getting pics of the other bikes.

A.J. Camp owner of The Peddler Bike Shop

If you are in Central Austin and need a great bike shop. Go to The Peddler! They are super cool and they even make a Fred (the white socks kind) like me feel comfortable. The prices on service are great and they are very knowledgeable. If you have an extra buck throw it in the jar for the beer fund!

Directions to The Peddler:
They are located at 51st and Duval. 5015 Duval ST. is the address. (FROM I-H 35 NORTHBOUND) exit Airport Blvd. and turn left heading north, continue north to light at 51st. Make a left heading west on 51st. They are about three blocks ahead on the left. (FROM I-H35 SOUTHBOUND) exit 51st. Make a right traveling west on 51st. Cross over Airport Blvd. continuing west on 51st. Then they are about three blocks ahead on the left. (FROM MOPAC EXPRESSWAY) Exit on RR 2222 and travel east to Lamar blvd. Turn right heading south on Lamar. Continue south to light at 51st. Make a left onto 51st traveling east. Continue east on 51st approximately 1/2 mile and they are on the right.

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Bike Quotes

As I get older the tendency to stick my foot up someone's ass is starting to subside. - Fred on Pump Track Pricks

The 29 inch chingaderra rolls best downhill! ~ Fred

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

~ Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan

It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan Nobel prize winner

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884

PEDAL. Pray Every Day And Listen. ~ Rev. Johannes Myors, The pedaling preacher

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~Bill Emerson

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong

Never use your face as a brake pad. ~ Jake Watson

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing. ~ Jacquie Phelan

When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
When I race, I don't want to lose.
Dying and losing, it's the same thing. ~ Lance Armstrong

"It is no longer a beast of steel,
no it is a friend it is a faithful
and powerful ally against one's worst
enemies. It is stronger than anxiety,
stronger than sadness. It has all the
power of hope." ~  Maurice Leblanc