Thursday, May 23rd.
Woke up and had coffee w/ Barb, Chiovan, and Smoke. Had a couple of chores to bang out today. #1- figure out the loud, high pitched noise coming from the van, and #2 get my brake bled. We hit up Big O in Kelowna and they were nice enough to tell me that it was just my front brake pads. Best news I've heard in a long time!! I buy some pads and head back to Smoke's to do a brake job. It went smoothly and we headed to the bike shop around 4PM. We went to Outbound Cycle and they were nice enough to have it banged out in less than a half hour. Lily and I wandered over to Il Mercato, the locally owned Italian bakery/shop. The owners were super cool and we chatted our way through the huge selection of fine meats and cheeses. He grilled them up and fixed them to perfection. We walked back to the bike shop immersed in the delectable Paninis. I grabbed the bike, flipped them 15$ and we headed to Postill for a group ride. Lily and I headed up and met up with Andrew where he was working on finishing a huge section of woodwork. His trail starts with a small hip to the R, then onto a wood wallride-like entrance onto a ladder that steps down 8'. Then where he was working will be a huge wall ride then hip up over a boulder onto another ladder that does a steeper step down to step up. Another 8' drop (still in progress) will lead into a road gap which takes you into an uphill corkscrew that will drop off into a step up wallride. Just CRAZY!! We carry some wood for him, then jump on our bikes and rip out of there. Addiction is just as ripper as I remembered and I actually hit the first step down the smoothest yet. I railed the ski jump and Lily got a cool video of it. We had a little difficulty getting back to our cars and a mix of less than stellar dudes left Andrew and I jogging a K and a half to retrieve the vehicles. French Johnny jumped on board and we did a Technical Difficulty (TD) lap while Lily did a solo Addiction lap. TD was awesome and they let me jump out in front to get full on-sight value. Some steep rock moves led to a sweeping wallride L which had mass exposure (as I found when I looked back up), and finished with a 5 stage rock roll to the road. We hustled back up and did a HOT LAP down Addiction (hitting every move) that left me speechless and out of breath. Another great day of riding!!! We took Andrew out to dinner at a Chinese restaurant that loaded us up w/ the dinner for 3. After dropping him off we went back to Smoke's house. This is where we made the worst decision of the trip (and overall worst decision in a long time). We left the bikes on the van (locked up) instead of taking them into Smokes yard/house. When we woke up the next AM Lily went out to the van to get something and came back in tears. Our bikes were gone. The cable lock on the ground next to the van, and two pairs of loppers in the bushes next to the van. Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! We looked around the neighborhood and in the woods nearby but no dice. We put out the APB and filed a police report. We have a lot of people looking for our bikes, but they are likely gone. Super bummer. Won't make that mistake again!!!! We headed back the next day (after hitting the Italian Bakery again where they gave us some free delectable coffees. There was some talk of a couple of heli missions this summer on the way out the door which makes me get butterflies just thinking of it!! Ah the ups and downs of life, EH?!!
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