They also make toe clips, which you can see on my bike in those pictures. They cost a lot less (around $25) than buying clips pedals and shoes. I highly recommend picking up either one. They will help you a lot especially when pulling hills. They allow you to dig into your pedal with your shoe without fear of your foot slipping. A new lightweight bike will be night and day difference compared to your old bike.

I am game for riding any time. I usually ride 75+ miles a week and anyone is welcome to join me any time. I also do the Taco Run to Mineola almost every Thursday. The trail Wabash Trace starts just down the street from the Iowa School of the Deaf and goes all the way down to Missouri. It is a 64 mile crushed limestone trail which has a 2% grade up hill in some areas. The trip from the beginning of the trail is 10 miles to Mineola, we eat taco’s or whatever you prefer, it is a steak house, then we ride back another 10 miles, so 20 miles round trip.

 

If I remember it was abour $300 for the bike, at least I remember seeing a decent bike there for that price. Don't remember if it was a GT or Diamondback though, want to say Diamondback but then again could be wrong.

 

05 - Which used bike shop are you referring too? I would like to go check it out.

 

It's called the used bike shop and it's on Cotner just North of Holdrege

 

Yep what cory said.

Phone number is :

402 464 5110

 

Ya I have the regular toe clips now and they make a night a day difference on the uphill power transfer. I can't ride a bike with out those now. And if I lived up there in Omaha I would love to make that taco run. Who knows maybe some time I will just head up to make the ride. I can always drive up there wouldn't be that bad for a good ride.

 

Let me know and I'll ride along with you and go for the ride as well. Would be fun.

 

Yeah there is also a Nacho ride in Lincoln where everyone meets up at the trailhead on 84th South of O and rides to Eagle eats then rides back.

 

Will do of coarse like cory said we could meet up and do the lincoln ride out to eagle.

 

It is every Thursday, however you need to be heading down the trail by 5pm or it is a wait for a table. Also the parking lot fills up very quickly so it is best to get there by 4:30pm. It takes an hour give or take to get down to Mineola. That place gets really busy fast. There is also a $1 cost per person to help maintain the trail. Just let me know when you would like to go and I will be there.

I have heard of that ride. I definitely want to go at least once.

 

Bummer - guess I'm out then. I don't get off work until 6 pm. I'd have to leave here by 3:30 to get up there by 4:30 so maybe on a day off.......

(yeah right...day off?? what's that???)

We'll have to find out what time the Lincoln ride to Eagle is. I might be able to make that one.

 

Yeah unfortunately if you get off at 6pm and it takes you an hour to get up here. Trying to find a parking spot would be hectic. Then leaving after 7pm getting down to Mineola after 8pm, you would be waiting for a table and riding back to Council Bluffs in the dark. Here is a picture I took 2 weeks ago when we arrived at 5:30pm. As you can see it was packed already and we got the last table in the restaurant.

 

Here's the info on the one in Lincoln. It starts at 5:30 but I bought my road bike from the guy that started it and he said it's pretty much ride when you want just a group goes at 5:30.
http://greatplainsbikeclub.org/list_of_rides.html

 

Busy thread today, looks like we got another hot topic. Toe clips would be good for the mountain bikes. true clip-ins would be a little scary. I've fallen over twice when I was learning my clips. Didn't get clipped out, right onto my side from standing.Makes you feel a little stupid, but everyone has done it. I usually work Thursday nights too, but have done taco ride twice this year. Fun riding in the dark after drinking some beers, that's for sure!!

 

We also do other rides.

One is called the Bellevue Loop run. We leave Culvers located south of Cornhusker and 36th street in Bellevue right next to Twin Creek Cinema Theater. Take that south until we reach Hayworth Park near the Bellevue Toll Bridge and back. Total distance is 26 miles. The other is called the Walnut Creek run. We leave the same location and head west until we reach Walnut Creek Lake Reservoir, ride around the lake and back. Total distance is 20 miles. Some time we ride north until we reach State Street in North West Omaha and back. That is 22 miles. All of these are on the paved Keystone or West Papio trails. It works out because that location connects three trails (North Keystone, South Keystone, and West Papio Trails) so we can go any direction, usually against the wind first, so we have the wind with us on the way back.

I tried the clip-in with shoes once… Once, until I fell over right on my side because my shoe was stuck in the clip and I couldn’t get it out when we were slowing down for other traffic to turn on a bridge. Yeah let me tell you, that was the last time I ever used those kind of clips. Now I only use the toe clips. hehe