Molly Bish Ride
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Well, we couldn't have been luckier than we were today at the Molly Bish ride. We kept on top of the radar loop all morning and saw that the rain looked to be well north of us and decided that we would take a chance that the forecast was correct. And if not, we would just be mentally prepared for the fact that we would get a little wet at some point during the day.
Ray donned his rain pants and we rode to the Shell Station where Munds awaited. He was enjoying a morning snack when we drove up. He, too, had on rain pants. Back-ups pants are always welcome. Bob B showed up shortly after. During the 20 minutes we were at Shell, the sky cleared right before our eyes without a cloud to be seen. We all peeled of a couple of layers as it was getting pretty warm. Ray even put away his rain pants, but Munds kept his on for a while just in case. We hopped on the bikes at 10:30, made a quick stop at MSI but nobody was there, so we went directly to the staging area in Sturbridge.
The weather was perfect all day and there must have been 500 bikes in this ride today. BTW, there was no issue with speed at all. It was a very nice, long ride through some new areas and some familiar ones from years past. As always, the crowds were out in force cheering and waving, some with signs in hand - Thank You Riders For Molly and Thank you Bikers. We returned to the staging area after the 1+ hour ride, and the 4 of us decided that we would head out to Hot Dog Annies in Leicester for, well, hot dogs! After a relaxing lunch (yummy cream soda) and some conversation, we all went our separate ways.
We hope you guys got home safe and dry. Ray & I did. We pulled into our garage probably around 4PM and about 20 minutes later the sky opened up dropping rain AND HAIL. (I'd hate to be caught riding in hail! That can't be fun.)
Talk about perfect timing. Maybe it was Molly's way of saying "Thank You".
Well, we couldn't have been luckier than we were today at the Molly Bish ride. We kept on top of the radar loop all morning and saw that the rain looked to be well north of us and decided that we would take a chance that the forecast was correct. And if not, we would just be mentally prepared for the fact that we would get a little wet at some point during the day.
Ray donned his rain pants and we rode to the Shell Station where Munds awaited. He was enjoying a morning snack when we drove up. He, too, had on rain pants. Back-ups pants are always welcome. Bob B showed up shortly after. During the 20 minutes we were at Shell, the sky cleared right before our eyes without a cloud to be seen. We all peeled of a couple of layers as it was getting pretty warm. Ray even put away his rain pants, but Munds kept his on for a while just in case. We hopped on the bikes at 10:30, made a quick stop at MSI but nobody was there, so we went directly to the staging area in Sturbridge.
The weather was perfect all day and there must have been 500 bikes in this ride today. BTW, there was no issue with speed at all. It was a very nice, long ride through some new areas and some familiar ones from years past. As always, the crowds were out in force cheering and waving, some with signs in hand - Thank You Riders For Molly and Thank you Bikers. We returned to the staging area after the 1+ hour ride, and the 4 of us decided that we would head out to Hot Dog Annies in Leicester for, well, hot dogs! After a relaxing lunch (yummy cream soda) and some conversation, we all went our separate ways.
We hope you guys got home safe and dry. Ray & I did. We pulled into our garage probably around 4PM and about 20 minutes later the sky opened up dropping rain AND HAIL. (I'd hate to be caught riding in hail! That can't be fun.)
Talk about perfect timing. Maybe it was Molly's way of saying "Thank You".
