Yesterday the Coasters joined in the celebration of PorkChoppd Custom Bicycles 2nd anniversary. The event included a show, awards, a ride, food, prizes, raffles and the now famous Porkchoppd cookies. Music was provided by Accent Mobile Music. We had a record setting temperature of 102 for the show and winds of 26mph for the ride but neither seemed to effect the fun we had. Thanks to PorkChoppd Custom Bicycles for another fun show and ride.
Photos from the afternoon here.
Today 13 of the Coasters Bicycle Club celebrated Opening Day For Trails by riding our local rail-to-trail the Prairie Sunset. We rode a total of 18 miles with a few stops and surprises along the way. One stop was at a temporary rest stop that a fellow Coaster surprised us with, another stop was for lunch at the Frosty Treat in Garden Plain. What a beautiful day and great time we had.
What a surprise to find a fellow Coaster provided us with a rest stop on the trail!
This is a leisurely ride on the Prairie Sunset rail-to-trail with 4, 12 and 16 mile options plus a stop at Frosty Treat in Garden plain.
Meet at the park at Main and Santa Fe in Goddard, KS. We leave at 10:00am sharp.
Good things to bring are water, helmet, spare inner-tube, sunscreen.
The Prairie Sunset is a crushed limestone trail on a former rail road bed. Wider tires, easy gearing might make for a better ride but not necessary. More on the trail here.
Another great St Patrick’s Parade in Wichita’s historic Delano district. The weather was gorgeous for most of the day. Those that stuck around pub pedaling got a little wet. Thanks to all who participated. Someone said they counted a little over 100 bikes in the parade.
All the photos here.
The Eagle also has photos here beginning with photo 58.
The Coasters will be riding in the 8th Annual St. Patrick’s Parade on Saturday, March 15th, 2014.
The parade starts at noon. Please be at the staging area in the Metropolitan Baptist Church/Lawrence Dumont Stadium parking lots no later than 11:30am.
As is our tradition we’ll follow up the parade with a pub Pedal.
If you ride with us in the parade, please give $1 to help cover the cost of the parade entry fee. Look me (Randy) up the day of the parade to donate.
In order to continue to be asked to participate in this fun parade please follow these simple rules…
You must decorate your bike and/or yourself in a St Patrick’s Day/Irish theme.
No fast or trick riding allowed!
Do not throw candy or gifts but you can hand these things out.
More info on the parade here.
Photos of the bicycles at this year’s Starbird – Devlin Rod & Customs Charities Car Show sponsored by Tom Sawyer Bicycle Shop & Softstrip LLC.
All photos courtesy of and copyright Ed Antrim. Thanks Ed! What an awesome display of bikes.
First up are the class winners. Click photos for details.
All other entries.
After the merging of YouTube and Google+ (I’ll spare you the details) I found it would be easier for me to manage our channel if I started from scratch creating a new one. So after days of sorting through and uploading videos I think the new channel is ready for prime time. You can visit our new channel here https://www.youtube.com/user/CoastersBicycleClub. Please subscribe and check out some of the 132 videos that document all the great times we’ve had.
Thank you!
I’m in the process of making changes to the Coasters YouTube channel and while sorting through 100s of videos I came across this one I don’t believe I ever shared. It’s just a couple of clips of those that braved the cold and rode at our New Years Day Dinner and Ride back in 2013.
12 showed up for our 7th annual New Years Day pot-luck dinner and ride. We had a nice time, a lot of good food and a cold (windchill 11), short bike ride. Adam & Dave’s ride being longer as they rode down from Wichita. Thanks to all who made it out.
Photos from the ride…
