During today’s ride while I stopped at the Texaco station before entering Valley Ranch for a water refill one of the men unloading a Grocery Supply Company truck told me he is restoring a Shogun bicycle and that the parts are hard to find. If you do not recognize the Shogun brand I remember it from the 1980’s. Back then a lot of bicycles were made in Japan before they moved to Taiwan and then China. This link will take you a website where people are selling Shogun bikes. He asked if I went on many organized rides and I said the last one was the LBJ100 in Johnson City. He said he has ridden the Hotter’n Hell 100 two or three times. I left him one of my Texbiker.net business cards inviting him to check out all of the Texas biking news and events.

After yesterday’s 37 mile ride I decided to shorten today’s and go on my familiar route to New Caney and then back through the Valley Ranch housing development. This route came to 30.54 miles. I rode at an easier pace than yesterday as well with a 15.1 mph average speed, 20.8 mph max speed and 77.9 RPM average cadence. Riding time totaled 2:01:37 plus 14:36 time stopped. My start time was a little earlier at 10:33AM. I am watching the Tour of Switzerland and the stage did not finish until a few minutes past 10. Tomorrow’s stage is the individual time trial so I will not watch it live but on NBCSports via Dish satellite in the afternoon.

With this starting time the weather did not get to full strength yet. Temperature range during the ride: 87 to 93. Humidity: 63% to 48%. Partly cloudy with a south 8.1 mph breeze.

Mileage standings: 130.33 this week, 396.22 for June, 3,186.60 YTD. Link to data and map at RideWithGPS.com.

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