Updated on August 28, 2011
Hack the Hat – The Route
As we get closer to the Hack the Horn ride, it’s becoming pretty clear that a ride from Cleveland to Louisville isn’t feasible due to schedules and timing. We are going to ride from either Columbus or Dayton. I’m going to post the Route from Columbus to Louisville. It won’t be all here at first but as I tweak routes we will update it accordingly.
Here is the Columbus to Cincy Route, (about 120 miles) which we are planning as two days of cycling. We plan on catching up with the Cincy 2600 guys.
The final 120 miles will be Cincy to Louisville. I’ll update this post with the map soon.
Updated on August 18, 2011
Hack the Heat/Defcon Bike Ride Wrapup
Now that we’re finally back on East Coast time, it’s time to start planning for Hack the Horn. But first we wanted to drop a post thanking our sponsors, all our riders, and share some pics. Above is all of us right before taking off. But first, our sponsors:
Sponsors
A huge thanks to Bike Hugger and BioLogic: Byron from Bike Hugger sent a box of goodies including a ton of Buffs, a few tshirts, a BioLogic coffee mug, and some other gear. We gave most of it away the day after the ride from the Defcon Radio table. JP spent some time at the Defcon Radio table talking about our Biologic and Bike Hugger and they’ll have a stream up on 9/9/11. We hope to have Bike Hugger and Biologic with us in the future. Also a big shout out to @alien8 who brought us together and will have his own blog post up soon. Also – Bike Food kicked in a bunch of nutrition which I’ll post about later – not something you do for the first time on a ride in August in Vegas!
The Bike Shop
Holy Crap!!! I can’t say enough good things about the staff at McGhies! We def were a little high maintanence with 20 questions before the ride. But they worked with us, we were off by 6:30am, and they even opened up early at 9am for us when we arrived back so we didn’t have to stand around! A huge thanks to Randy and everyone at McGhies who help make our ride a success! Woot!
Everything Else
@alien8 also took a ton of pics and has a flickr stream.
Thanks for @myrcurial (and who was the other person?) who followed us in cars. We had basically 3 groups, the group that did the loop w/an extra 1000 feet of vertical, the main group, and those of us in the back. The cruise home was great — all downhill literally.
Please leave us comments on how your experience was, and if I forgot anything major.
I’ll leave you all with a few more pics!
Posted on August 5, 2011
Ride to Derbycon = Free Admission!
Hope everyone is enjoying Defcon!
This just in – the first 10 people to sign up to ride with us from Cleveland to Louisville to Derbycon will get free admission! We’ll have more info soon!
Posted on August 4, 2011
Where to Find us at 5:30am :)
Hey everyone — hope you all made it here safely! We will be meeting at the Rio where the taxi’s are. This is the Front entrance and Valet area. See everyone at 5:30.
Make sure you drink lots of water!!!