Bicycling in 2009 - planning starts now!!

The LMB had a booth at the MMBA Expo, and the ride organizer from last year's MUP tour was there. We chatted with him for a while, and had to tell him we weren't sure we'd be riding the MUP tour this year. Maybe, but there are so many tours and so little time (and money). We might do the MUP, but there are a number of other tours we'd like to try, and we can't do them all in one summer.

Also at the LMB booth, we picked up the LMB Ride Calendar, which lists many - perhaps a hundred? - Michigan rides throughout the spring, summer, and fall of 2009. Now is the time to start planning and signing up to get those early discounted rates. We'll try to decide on some of our favorites rides to do this year, and I hope we'll be picking one week-long tour. One ride we've been thinking about, which is not in Michigan, is the Eastern Tandem Rally in Strasburg, PA, July 10-12. Doesn't that look like fun? We'd just have to commit to it and sign up before it fills up.