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2021: Bike MS is Back!
The past few years has certainly been full of letdowns for the Bike MS event planners. Tropical storm Gordon caused the cancellation of the 2018 ride, and the second day of the 2019 event was also cancelled due to storms. 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic. So this year, with the Delta variant surging,…
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2020 Bike MS: Inside Out
In my 20th year of riding for MS, we continue to define new “firsts.” In 2018, the entire event was cancelled due to a projected deluge from Tropical Storm Gordon. Last year, after a spectacularly beautiful day on Saturday, we were again hit with another storm that forced the staff to cancel Day 2. This…
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Bike MS 2019: The Jekyll & Hyde Weekend
Saturday September 7 was a picture-perfect day for a bike ride. Probably the best day weather-wise since my first ride in 2001. We’ve had nice days, but this was just beautiful – mildly warm with a mildly cool breeze to keep things comfortable. But Sunday showed another side of September that we’ve all seen before.…
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2018: The Bike MS Ride That Didn’t Happen
Over the years, we’ve experienced all kinds of weather, from hot and dry to cold and wet, and everything in between. But the ride went on in spite of whatever Mother Nature had to throw at us, even tents rolling across the field like tumbleweeds! But this year the ominous forecast of what the Gordon…
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Bike MS: Gateway Getaway Ride 2017
It’s been two weeks since the ride, and a very busy time since then. A 25th wedding anniversary cannot be celebrated in a single day, you know, and though the U2 concert in St. Louis was cancelled, the Cardinals played on, as did Billy Joel. Suffice it to say, there was hardly an evening on…
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An Open Letter to U2
2 July 2017 Dear, Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry, I started to write this three months ago, and was distracted away from it to attend to something else. Procrastination took over from there. Anyway, I was inspired to write this letter in spite of the fact that I have no idea how to get it…
