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Rider: mwburden [2 comments] Ways to connect: Location: Kentwood, Michigan Club Affiliation: Rapid Wheelmen Member Since: April 2004 1 Year | 5 Year Distance Chart goal distance 2010 Miles Traveled: 2,035 2010 Rank: # 1,834 of 6,082 riders (outdoor rides only) Lifetime Odometer: 24,391 miles History: 2008: I got off to a slow start. I rode 260 miles in the N24HC (I lost time helping someone gather pieces of their shade pavilion that was destroyed by the wind and then spent more time in my tent waiting out the storm.) 2007: TBurd's father passed away the day after Thanksgiving, 2006, so we drove to Plymouth a lot of weekends in 2007 to visit her Mom and help out with the house. I rode some with AABTS, but it still took a bite out of my mileage. If that wasn't enough, we also did a lot of work on our house, sold it, bought a new house, and did (and are still doing!) a lot of work on it. The upside for 2007 is that ABangma and RBangma loaned TBurd and I a tandem for the summer. We're hooked, and we bought a tandem of our own with my year-end bonus (year-end for my company is in October.) I also rode 266 miles in the 24 Hour Challenge (a personal best, even though I didn't make my goal), and did my first two 20mph+ Century Rides this year (the 100 Grand and the Holland Hundred). That was June and July, and after hardly riding in August, September and October I couldn't do that right now if my life depended on it! The day after Thanksgiving (one year after TBurd's Dad died -- almost to the hour) my Mom died, which more or less killed my enthusiasm for much of anything for a while. 2006: TBurd said last year that if I was still going after two years then I could get a new bike. The new bike is a Jade (local framebuilder) Solar Ti with Dura-Ace 9speed and Mavic Classic wheels. Wheeeeeee! Unfortunately it was over 100F on the N24HC this year, and a lot of riders (including me!) SAG'd out at Delton (96 miles) 2005: Still riding the steel bike (which a friend of mine describes as being made of "lead, concrete, and rebar"), I proceeded to put in 6,000 miles for the year, including 232 miles at the National 24 Hour Challenge, and 500+ miles on the DALMAC quint. Commuted to work (4 miles one way, but I come home for lunch) nearly every day. -- Click for More -- I get my recovery rides riding with my wife, Tanja (TBurd)

Bicycles 2006 Jade Solar Ti Road bike Description:  2006 Jade Cycles Solar Ti built up with Dura-Ace 9sp, a Look carbon fiber fork, Mavic Classic wheels, FSA stem and bars, and Shimano PD-6610 (SPD-SL) pedals. 2010 Odometer: 1,420.3 miles Lifetime Odometer: 11,014.6 miles Tires: 700 x 23C Continental Gator Skins, front, 10,979 miles 700 x 23C Continental Gator Skins, rear, 10,979 miles 2006 Fuji Absolute 4.2 Tandem Road bike Description:  After ABangma and RBangma loaned us their Trek "Winter Beater" tandem for the summer, TBurd and I were hooked. A few weeks ago I went to Alger Bike and asked Brad if they had a good, entry-level tandem. At first he started to tell me that since Burley got out of the tandem business, and Fuji stopped making the Absolute, that they didn't have any tandems above the "beachcruiser" variety, but below the $2,500 Canondale level, but then he stopped, thought for a second, and said, "We might still have a Fuji tandem from a couple years back that needs to have the wheels rebuilt because a bad batch of spokes went through the industry that year." He led me up to the attic, and there it was! A couple weeks later, we got our year end bonuses at my office, and the next day I went back to Alger and bought it! 2010 Odometer: 17.7 miles Lifetime Odometer: 565.5 miles 2004 Marin San Rafael 700c Hybrid bike Description:  2004 Marin San Rafael 24 Speed, Alumninum Frame, Shimano components. I got this for my birthday this year (2004). This is now my commuter bike, and has the rack, trunk, a 10W Halogen headlight, and a 7 L.E.D. headlight (as a backup, and also because it has a "blink" mode to be extra attention getting). 2010 Odometer: 50.5 miles Lifetime Odometer: 2,704.5 miles 1983 Sanwa  Road bike Description:  12 speed, Chromolly Frame, Metalflake Grey, aerobars, SPD-SL pedals. 2010 Odometer: 127.5 miles Lifetime Odometer: 8,341.3 miles Tires: 700 x 23C Continental , front, 4,150 miles 700 x 23C Continental , rear, 4,150 miles other MT-1800 XC Mountain bike Description:  My "Winter Beater" bike. It's an Open Road MT-1800 Mountain Bike (made in Korea, sold in the U.S. by Montgomery Wards). I picked it up at a garage sale for $20. Lifetime Odometer: 272.0 miles other Loaner Bikes Road bike Description:  Bikes that were loaned to me 2010 Odometer: 419.0 miles Lifetime Odometer: 937.6 miles

No planned events for 2010