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    showard
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    "Work" has dominated my life for a couple months with the last three
    weeks taking up every waking minute. Because of this I haven't ridden
    at all for a long time.

    Yesterday (Monday the 25th) was the drop-dead date for shipping the
    project we've been working on for so long. In the morning we had a room
    full of food packaging/processing equipment to load on two semi-trucks
    but still lots of work to do. Amazingly, we were able to finish up odd
    and ends, load the trucks (bolting parts on machines all the while) and
    quit work with som daylight left. Enough daylight for a Coker ride!
    Yesterday just happened to be my 49th birthday too.

    I arrived home at 4:30 pm to the amazement of my family. My wife and
    two daughters were just leaving home for "the barn" for some horse back
    riding and mucking. The barn is 6 miles away so I took off on the Coker
    to meet them there, then go to dinner after riding. We put my littlest
    daughter's 20" Torker in the car so we could ride together after meeting
    up at the barn.

    The temperature was cool - in the mid 40's - but pleasant after warming
    up. I still have Harper's 175mm Kooka cranks on my Coker and I had a
    GPS hanging around my neck so was able to see how fast I was going. I
    found that anything over 11 mph was pretty tough to maintain with those
    long cranks but the control they give is great!

    I didn't push it, instead I just plodded along at a slow easy rate just
    enjoying the ride and feeling good about getting that job done. The
    last half of the ride was into a pretty steady head wind but not too
    bad. After arriving at the barn, my little girl and I rode laps around
    the barn spooking all the horses. Good fun!

    Here's the stats from my GPS: 6 miles ridden - 8 mph average speed -
    11.3 mph maximun speed. Not much of a ride really but in this case it
    was more about quality than quantity.

    SH

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  2. S_Wallis
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    Happy Birthday Steve!
    And most of all congrats on getting the project out. Man, do I know
    that feeling. But usually by drop dead day I haven't slept for several
    days so a ride isn't really an option. I just "drop dead". Always a
    good feeling to get the job out, though.

    Scott

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  3. harper
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    Where did you get a clever idea like a birthday Coker ride? Why are my
    Kooka cranks on your Coker? Why wasn't I invited on this ride, are you
    embarrassed to ride with someone who has a broken leg?

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  4. nathan
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    Happy Birthday Steve! Sounds like you had quite a day. Since your 49th
    birthday was such a success, think back to it a year from now and maybe
    you'll want to repeat it. Again and again.

    ---Nathan

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  5. daino149
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    Happy birthday Steve. Also congratulations on finishing the job. Does
    that mean you are going to have more time to ride and build those sexy
    toys of yours?

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  6. tomblackwood
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    harper said:

    *Where did you get a clever idea like a birthday Coker ride? *

    😎 Wish I could take credit, but I'm just one in a long line of
    copyists on that theme.

    Steve, nice write-up...and especially nice you got to ride with your
    daughter. I rode a lot on my birthday and shared some miles with some
    great people, but missed sharing any miles with my son Miles. Hopefully
    next year, we'll be making the journey together.

    Nice to see another person buying into this tradition...

    Tom

    PS: when are you going to ship me those old red Kookas of Harpers that
    you sold me?

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