Conference noted::bicycle

    	This sounds like a diamond frame bike ride.  It's on my calendar.
    		- Chris

    re .0	Reg is riding very slowly and not very far this year.
    I will not get to the pool first and pollute it with my normally
    profuse ...umm, "skin oils".  This will leave it tolerable by the
    rest of you and less of a fire hazard.   I happen to know that Jay
    Norton (Mr Kathy) knows the short cuts on this ride, so I won't
    even try to get anywhere first.
    
    	Reg
    

    	I'd like to be a part of this thing, if for no other
    	reason than to meet some of the other folks in this
    	conference.
    
    	Unfortunately, John Wasser, some friends, and I are
    	planning on scuba diving that day. Of course, John
    	and I could bring our gear and scuba dive in the pool
    	(somehow I don't think it's too good an idea).
    
    	Oh well,
    	Scott

    I'm torn. If it's a nice day, I'll be on the Cape. 
    How about this....If the day is REAL nice, I won't be there. If
    it's not perfect, I'll be there. Can't ride, but the doctor told
    me the perfect excercise for the shoulder is to turn an Ice Cream
    maker. As long as I get to lick the paddles!!!!
    
    
    I can just hear Reg now..."if HE shows, that ruins a perfect day!".
    
    
    Oh well
    
    =-=-=-=-=-=-=gary=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I'm leaving that very day for a one week bike trip through the
finger lakes in New York State.  But for an ISCREAM ride I
will consider leaving late or cancelling the trip!

	~Mike

    Sounds great!  Count me in.
    
    Kratz (and his beat up Fuji).
    

    Please don't anybody get psyched about this pool.  It's a little
    kid's pool, just barely big enough to get wet in.  Don't bother
    bringing a bathing suit.
    
    Kathy  

    	That's kinda what I was thinking when I read `Sesame
    	Street pool.'
    
    	But, when you're hot and tired, just about anything
    	will do.
    
    	Scott (I wouldn't be the first there, but I'll bet
               you'd get out of it if you saw me coming)

    I recall being the sag driver of the (in)famous Six State Ride
    wherein every rider but one used the fountain in the center of
    Barry for some reason.  The fountain was no bigger than a "kiddy
    pool."
    
    (the "one" rider had just sat in a lake for an hour or so.)
    
    ed

    I'ld like to come for this "event", but have to discuss it with
    Mrs Black.  This might necessitate us all (five) comming, with the
    three little buggers in the bugger and kidy seat.
    
    Will the Norton Bugger be atending?
    
    	Andrew
    

    I'm afraid the Norton Bugger is going to wimp out on this one. 
    I'd consider it if I had a triple, but even with my granny gear 
    it's still tough going up some of those hills. 
         
    Your three little buggers (and Mrs. Black) and more than welcome,
    whether they ride or not.  
    
    Kathy

    
    	Thanks again Kathy, super ride, super day, sorry I had to leave
    so early.  Yup, they're about as steep as I remember them, but I
    had forgotten the extra 6 or so miles at the end, *KILLER* !
    
    	Now then, where were the rest of Y'all ?
    
    	Reg
    

    	Kathy,  Thanks for a challanging ride and the 'pool' party
    afterwards.  Although I wimped-out and only did about 30+ miles,
    I was there unlike most other noters.  [ It reminded me of a locker
    room in a Catholic School - hot, sweaty, and all male, with Mother
    Superior nearby.]   Thanks to Jay, too!   - Chris

    	RE: .12
    
    	I would have liked to ride (as I previously mentioned). But
    	I hadn't been diving all year, so Saturday I was down about
    	25 feet or so looking at the sea life.

Kathy,
   Thanks for a wonderful ride with some great downhills and greater ice
cream.  I hope we can do it again next year.

--David

    re .15	"downhills" ?	
    
    I s'pose there mustabinsum, maybe I blacked out or napped through 'em. 

    	Reg	
    
    (Who did sit in the pool, like he promised not to, but took a garden
    hose shower first) 
    

    I'm glad you guys had a good time.  Sorry I didn't get to socialize
    too much afterwards.  That's how it is when you're a mother!!
    
    I've got another ride I'd like to plan for the fall.  It's got some 
    GREAT hills!  More details later.
    
    Kathy
    
    P.S.  Who left a t-shirt and towel behind?  

    re .17	Ummm, the towel and T-shirt.  Yes, they could be mine,
    I'll have my clothes inventory manager run a check later.  
    
    	Reg
    

    I wooda been there. Actually got my Trek out of hock and began to
    ride UP to the Norton's...but I forgot how out of shape a broken
    shoulder and a month's layoff can cause. So in Sterling I turned
    north and ended up wimping at my daughter's home in Leominster.
    
    Happy to say that I am not taking the doctor's advice. I'm riding
    again in spite of the PAIN. We'll be riding to Syracuse on the
    Counterpoint come August 1!
    
    Thanks for the offer, Kathy. From what I see others saying about
    the ride, it makes me want to be there next time.
    
    For the fall...a ROTTOM????
    
    
    =-=-=-=-=-=-=gary=-=-=-=-=-=-=

    want to add my thanks also for the really enjoyable ride and post-ride
    food/pool and rest. Most impressive sight: the mother who pulled
    into the Barre ice cream joint where we were eating with 30-pound
    kid
    on the back of her bike in the Cookie Monster bike seat, having
    just hauled UP the hill into Barre (not the same hill we took, she
    came up 122 from the south, but a substantial hill nonetheless).
    Gave her a round of applause as she got to the top. Most comical:
    the kid out on a drive with his girlfriend trying to depart same
    location with his emergency brake on. Now that was a GOOD BRAKE;
    I guess that's required in that town. For those of you not there,
    he was able to move the car 2-foot increments before stalling -
    leaving rubber on road from back tire that was positively NOT
    TURNING. His face was somewhat red on revalation that brake was
    on. All in all, fine day... Reg & I both discovering our legs were
    unhappy on the LAST HILL and wanted to go into cramps...well timed!

    Everybody must have recovered from last year's ride by now, so let's
    do it again!!  How about Saturday, July 9, starting at 9:30 a.m. with 
    Sunday, July 10 as a rain date.
            
    Check out note 333.0 for a description of the ride and directions
    to the start.  If you need better directions, or want to vote for
    a particular flavor of ice cream, let me know.
                           
    Kathy

    I'm going anyone else? I guess I'll have all the pool all to myself.
    
    I know K, Thats all it'l fit :-)
    
    Tom

    
    	I might NOT make it this year.
    
    	I'm sick, I seem to be getting worse and its only two days away. 

    	Reg	{Musta spent too damned long in that icy lake, they
    		said it was COLD, but I was too numb to notice}