Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure
Adam and Michael’s friendship is built on a shared love of cycling. From tough trails to leisurely rides, their adventures are filled with stories, banter, and authentic connection. Their podcast blends entertaining anecdotes, heartfelt conversations, and cycling excitement—welcoming you into their community and the joy of the open road.
Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure
One Air Traffic Controller, A Haunted Huffy, And Too Much Coffee Prop
Fog hangs low, headlights cut thin ribbons through the dark, and somewhere ahead a line of red taillights refuses to be caught. We lean into the season with a Halloween ride that blends ghost stories, travel mishaps, aviation quirks, and a surprising amount of laughter from two cyclists who prize the journey as much as the destination.
We kick off with Moonlight Mayhem bourbon, a yard-turned-graveyard, and a Florida trip that delivered 12-mile theme-park days and a front-row view of a Spirit Airlines plane getting impounded. From there, we talk towers, old-school air traffic tools that still run high-stakes skies, and the quiet competence that keeps travelers safe. Our Rants of Dissatisfaction pull no punches: language-targeted ads in the wrong place, a contractor who waited eleven empty days to start, and TV’s most unrealistic prop—the weightless coffee cup.
Then the hauntings roll in. Meet Larry, the red-Huffy rider of Randolph, Maine, who vanished without a trace and, some say, still cruises the old rail trail as orbs drift between the pines. A Devon mansion yields a Victorian figure watching a child cycling below, while a cliffside speakeasy’s famed Blue Lady is exposed as an engineered hoax complete with moving chandeliers. Charleston’s former bicycle shop, now a student health center, brings chills with neatly stacked books found on the floor at dawn. And the centerpiece: the WWI ghost cyclist reported by both trenches, silently crossing No Man’s Land—an image every rider understands in their bones.
We thank our VIP supporters, drop fresh listener spotlight clues, and tease the much-loved Cyclist Christmas List packed with road-tested gear, safety picks, and a few wildcards. Stick around for our original campfire tale, The Phantom Peloton, a modern myth about GPS loops, misty roads, and the whispered command every pack depends on: hold your line.
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Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure, the podcast for cyclists who understand that riding is not just about getting to the destination, but the experience along the way. Now, here are the original cycling men of leisure, Adam and Michael.
SPEAKER_00:Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure. As usual. What is that you're doing? Oh my god. Continue. As usual, I am Adam, and as usual, he has opening up something special. My good friend, all the way from Central Time, Mr. Michael Sharp. Hello, Adam.
SPEAKER_02:How are you doing? Good, buddy. Good, good. And yes, I opened up something. I mean, you know, I am a man of leisure, and uh in celebration of the holiday, the Halloween holiday, we've got a little uh Moonlight Mayhem, the saga of werewolves and bourbon. So drinking a little too what's that? Who's that made by? Oh, this is made by Filmland Spirits. It's out in Los Angeles, California, clearly. Um, I thought it was appropriate to help set the stage because we've got a really cool show going on.
SPEAKER_00:Ladies and gentlemen, it is our annual Halloween show. But first, we uh we got to talk about uh how have you been, sir?
SPEAKER_02:Been good, been busy. Um it's Halloween season, one of my family's favorite holidays. So we turn our front yard into a uh graveyard. Nice. So been working on that. You know, we've got some gravestones and some fence, and we even put an old like 1960 Sears beach cruiser out there and you know, put crows and ravens and things on it to make it spooky. And of course, uh, we've got the uh fog machine which will roll fog out around the uh the headstones. So been working on that, and uh my wife decided it'd be a great idea to uh to redo our uh garage. So um I epoxied my garage floor. All of my stuff was setting outside while I did it, and now I'm just getting it all moved back in. And ironically enough, my neighbor shouted over and go, Hey, get that stuff back in your garage. I'm the only one here allowed to have all my junk in the front yard. I was like, sorry, Billy, not trying to take your title.
SPEAKER_00:That's right. Well, uh, how'd the epoxy turn out?
SPEAKER_02:Uh you know, uh it's not a professional uh application, but I'm not a professional. Uh it looks really good, considering we'd never done an epoxy before and and all that. Uh, very happy with it, much better than just the old floor. Okay. Um, so yeah, and we're putting up some more shelves and we're downsizing a lot of stuff, so it it's uh it's good. But uh it's just been busy around here in my front yard. It looks like a uh uh uh you know graveyard now, so that's that's fun. How have you been? I know you went uh down to your uh your uh house with mouse.
SPEAKER_00:I did. I saw the mice. Have now um got their reloads of uh rations and provisions uh with my credit card in tow. So they're doing they're doing good down there. Uh actually we had we had a good time. No, I was you know, I was concerned last time we recorded, we talked about the government shutdown, and as a matter of fact, we said by by this by this show it should be back. And well, it's not, but uh um that's it didn't affect you as far as TSA, nope, anything like that. Okay, couldn't even tell. I mean, I I I'm um so through my company uh we were gonna have a TSA training for awareness and not not TSA from the airport, but you know, they uh TSA does a lot of other things, and so they were gonna come, but they did that has been furloughed and and not allowed right now, but as far as safety and security and air travel, no issues, no concerns, um got through just fine and and uh made it up and down and and um the one I guess the highlight of the trip and and is we did go to the new Epic Universe. Um my wife and I like to be active on vacation, so we do a lot of walking. We probably walked about 12 miles a day and music parks.
SPEAKER_02:That's not really active.
SPEAKER_00:Uh yeah, I mean you walk a lot of steps, but okay. I saw you were walking when I was down there, so I was, yeah. Yes, sir. But uh no, good, good, good, good, crazy, you know, it's a nice new park, and trust me, they're very proud of that uh from the from the cost aspect. So um, but uh we got to do most of everything. Um lot of a lot of really neat the way that the park is set up, so that was a lot of fun. Um but a lot of that was great. I call it a win. My wife and I went down uh about uh 11 days, and I'm here to tell you no fights and arguments, and that's pretty good when you're traveling and staying in multiple hotels, and uh we were able to do what you and I normally do, which we stayed in the Hyatt coming back through the airport. We took a 5 a.m. flight, and then we finished our trip in that hemisphere restaurant and uh watching the planes and the runway, and so uh all was good, but um, you know, that this is always our our October trip. We usually go down and we had a good time, but you know, in a weird way, I'm back. I'm glad to be back. We had a we had fun, don't get me wrong, but I'm glad to be back. This is always a fun time of the year for work and a lot of um, you know, like you said, Halloween. Funny story about Halloween, since it's our Halloween show. I used to, I mean, this just shows that weather is changing. I used to blow up my sprinklers on the night of Halloween, not to get the kids wet, but because it made everything so misty. And so it was really cool some years where I would blow the you know, the ps, and then there would be like just misty as the kids walk through for trick-or-treating. But got it. Yeah, it's kind of neat, so figured it was a Halloween.
SPEAKER_02:But uh I'll tell you what, here's the first horror story. What you don't know is I know that none of this affected your travel, but um uh there was only one person working the uh Orlando Tower that day. Just one.
SPEAKER_00:Well, lucky for me, that one person got me back and forth.
SPEAKER_02:And um he's he just moves from station to station. The one guy that showed up, the station. Uh flight 734, uh, please hold. Flight 419, you are now ready to land, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Both of our fathers were in aviation. I'm not sure if the leisure community knows that, but I'll never forget the first time that I got to go up in the tower and saw they were using little clipboards, like little I don't think people realize that what they use in in towers. It's like um it's like playing Scrabble. I mean, it really is. I mean, the the the flight is on there, and you would think like with computers and tablets and iPads and all that. I don't care if you like Android or Apple, you would think that the technology would change. Nope. Uh it's like a Scrabble board with the plane, and they move it over, and it's it's definitely interesting.
SPEAKER_02:So, but uh guess what they're still using in the towers.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly, exactly. Smoke signals.
SPEAKER_02:Uh uh job, give those guys kudos. Not an easy job, and I appreciate them keeping me safe.
SPEAKER_00:So you would appreciate this. We did see, I feel bad because Spirit Airlines, you can look it up yourself, they're going through some furloughs and some bankruptcy protection. We saw a spirit plane, I'm not kidding you, impounded. I mean, we were sitting in that hemisphere restaurant. I mean, if anyone's ever been there, it's all glass and it looks out over the runway on terminal B. And we were sitting there, and all of a sudden I'm like, oh my gosh, is something okay? I mean, just all kinds of lights and emergency personnel coming around this plane. We thought it was a safety issue at first. We later learned that they were impounding the plane. Turns out that a lot of those planes are owned uh by a different company, spirit, you know, uh leases and leased. Yeah, so the owners were like, You're not taking this plane off. So it's interesting.
SPEAKER_02:Let's hope they let the people off before they impounded the plane.
SPEAKER_00:I hope so, because otherwise they're still stuck right on their runway B. So there's that one guy still pushing the uh the assistant light.
SPEAKER_02:When's that, you know?
SPEAKER_00:Well, it's good to be with you again. I I I uh I always enjoy my vacation, but I I missed uh doing the show and and uh a lot of lot of lot of things happening behind the scenes, and um I'm excited, but uh I don't want to miss listener spotlights. Um I have some bad news though. Uh I searched all of our communication, I searched our emails. You know, they can they can text us directly from any podcast platform, the the leisure community. And I regret to tell you that unless you can tell me now I know you got corrected on something, but as far as guesses, uh uh unless you can tell me different, I don't believe we actually got a guest this time.
SPEAKER_02:Uh probably not. But this was this was a tougher one. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:I'll give them that. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what, in true spirit, here we go. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for listener spotlight.
SPEAKER_02:All right. The clues that I gave you uh for listener spotlight uh were as follows. The area was controlled by several countries through its history. Uh, the area saw many battles between native tribes and the U.S. Uh This city was founded in the late 1700s. It was named after a founding father of the U.S. Uh we can thank this city for an invention that originated there. Uh what we eat and how we prepare, and how it's prepared was changed forever. Uh, the early economy thrived due to industry and railroad jobs. The city is located on the uh confluence of three rivers, which made this city a very strategic location. And the city helped influence a place where everybody knows your name. So you have any guesses?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I do. I mean, when you first said this when we got done recording, I said the three rivers in Pittsburgh, but where everybody knows your name brings me to cheers. You want to go where everybody knows your name. So then I was thinking Boston. So I I I I'm thinking it's one of those two, either Pittsburgh or Boston area.
SPEAKER_02:Well, Pittsburgh uh has many rivers. Uh Boston, I do not believe it is on the confluence of three rivers. Okay. Um, and uh it was not named after a founding father. So um it's not Boston. But then again, it's not Pittsburgh either. But thank you for playing.
SPEAKER_00:Well, hold on, let's be fair because I mean if we're gonna give it to somebody else, we got to give it to me.
SPEAKER_02:This week's listener spotlight is Fort Wayne, Indiana.
SPEAKER_00:I'm so glad you did not say St. Louis.
SPEAKER_02:One of these days. Uh, the area of Fort Wayne, Indiana was uh at times controlled by the French, the British, and the United States. It was founded in 1794. It is named after one of our founding fathers, Anthony Wayne. Um, we can all thank the city for this invention. What we eat and how it's prepared was changed forever with the invention of the refrigerator. Well, I mean Fort Wayne. Um, three rivers. Uh, like I said, and the the one that you were on, the city helped influence a place where everybody knows your name. It is the birthplace of Shelly Long.
SPEAKER_00:Ah play Diane on the TV show.
SPEAKER_02:So there you go.
SPEAKER_00:Well, thank you, listeners of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Thank you, all listeners. Uh, but especially this episode, Fort Wayne, Indiana. You know, um, I think you know this about me, but I used to live in Southern Illinois, many, many moons again, which was Central Time. And when I moved, we would go 69 and go through Fort Wayne all the time. And there's a paper, paper mill right along the freeway. And let me tell you something. Uh there are times that that has to be the worst smell of the world. Oh, oh, awful smell.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Driving on the freeway, I would be like, oh my gosh. So two worse smells, two worse smelling plants, paper mills and creosote plants.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I have to believe that for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Remember, we rode next across uh right by one, yeah, um, Georgia, a couple of years ago, and oh, it was not good.
SPEAKER_00:I told the story about um, by the way, just to be clear, this is not offensive. This was actually a very cute thing. You and I were driving in Georgia, I mean, riding our bikes in Georgia. A very curious um person who lived in the town that we went through asked what we were doing. We told them we rode our riding our bikes across the state of Georgia. This beautiful African-American woman said, Oh Lord, I'm gonna have Jesus put a fence around you. And I told the story recently on vacation. And the question was, was that fence a one-day fence? Was that like a proverbial like that it ever end? And I'd like to think that the fence never ended, but so well, you know, she didn't really put speculation on it.
SPEAKER_02:So I'm saying I still have that fence, we still have that fence. Um, you know, it's it's kind of like on the movie Oh Brother Were Aren't Thou. Yeah, you get thrown out of the Woolworth. Now, is that just that Woolworth or is that all the Woolworths? So we're gonna say that that lady still has our Jesus fence around us, as she called it.
SPEAKER_00:You know what? And and we didn't have any flats or mechanicals, uh, and we've done pretty well since then. So we might still have the fence. So, but I was able to share that story recently, so I thought it's a good story. So now listen, I made a promise to you. What's that? I made a promise to you. Did you? I did. And what's that? Two episodes ago, you were you were chomping at the bit. You were you were just wanting to do listen uh ransom dissatisfaction. And I said, No, that's not the right time. And then you said, What about the next one? I said, I'm about to go on vacation. So I made a promise to you, and I want to keep that promise today, tonight, right now, ladies and gentlemen, I am keeping my word. I'm stalling while I get a a uh a ransom dissatisfaction, sir.
SPEAKER_02:The floor thank you finally. By the way, when you're stalling on radio or on a podcast, you don't tell people you're stalling, you just keep going. So we'll we'll work on that later. Never mind. Hey, we're this is a transparent show, buddy. Uh, we are, aren't we? You know, I've got many rants of dissatisfaction because they've been building up for a while, but because we've got such a cool other segment on our show, I'm gonna limit myself to two rants of dissatisfaction uh right now. And then we'll get back to it again. And I have one. All right. Well, let me do one and then I will we'll give you the floor. Um I don't know. I think I'll do this one.
SPEAKER_00:My first one is I'm your name still has their Christmas lights on.
SPEAKER_02:Well, they're just celebration lights, is what I'm calling them. It makes me feel better.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02:I watch I watch TV, I watch all the the streaming stuff. I mean, I still have cable in the wintertime because I like just variety and randomness. I can just turn it on and just plug through and something comes up, and I was like, okay, that's cool. What I've been finding lately that really, really irks me is I'll be watching a show, whatever channel you want, history channel, what have you. I'm sitting there watching it, and then all of a sudden, a commercial comes up. Okay, no problem. I understand commercials, you gotta pay for it. But the commercials are in Spanish, and this happens a lot, and I'm like, wait a minute. What clearly you're not marketing to me. Who exactly are you marketing to? The whole show that I've been watching is in English. Now the commercial is in Spanish. So are the Spanish-speaking people just watching the English TV and not have any idea what's going on? And then it's like, yeah, let's give them a commercial so they'll understand drives me nuts. And what's funny is when I was in Mexico a couple months ago, the same thing. I was sitting there watching a little TV, boom, American program, commercials were all in Spanish.
SPEAKER_00:I thought you were gonna say English.
SPEAKER_02:That would have made sense if I went to like this, you know, the Spanish channel. Let's mark, but no, I just drives me crazy.
SPEAKER_00:I know why it happened.
SPEAKER_02:The program's in English, the commercials are in Spanish.
SPEAKER_00:I know why. Why? You and I I've got to be careful how I say this. You and I shared I was gonna say we stayed in a lot of hotels, but no. Whoa. You and I shared a few hotel rooms, and both of us usually have to take meetings on the road, so we hear each other doing meetings and such, correct? C. You and I have shared cots or cot tenting camping areas or charters, such as we haven't shared cots.
SPEAKER_02:No, but yes, we've shared campsites.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, with pod rays. What did you do every night? Slept. No. You were taking lessons every night. What kind of lessons were you taking? Oh, I was taking Spanish lessons. Oh, well, that's why your TV is telling you commercials in Spanish.
SPEAKER_02:Well, shouldn't they be giving me their shows in Spanish?
SPEAKER_00:I I'm telling you every night I would hear you do your 10 10 minutes of of Spanish, yes. Yes, your your phone is listening to you, brother. It's it knows you uh no habla ingles, so it knows so anyway.
SPEAKER_02:It just drives me crazy. It's like I I don't get it. I'm sure there's some metrics out there so I don't know. Anyway, that's my first one. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00:I'll let you go for I'm not sure if the leisure community has picked up on it. I know you've made a mention of how I've done some landscaping in the basement, and I joked about getting the room done before you came to visit me. Well, the only thing left in all those projects was to get the final trim work done. And then the basement, which it's now done, but and then the basement was going to be finally done. My wife, kudos to her, great, good, great countertop, yada yada yada, a beautiful, uh modern, very, very high class, um all all all put together design work. I give her kudos. The tile, heated floor. The last thing was the trim. Finally, I'm at the point where I can I can I can spring for the trim. I get a contractor lined up. Reviews are great. My neighbor used them. Wonderful. Now let me tell you something. I have one of those locks on my house that I can create a digital, you know, digital, like a you know, like an Airbnb lock where you can go somewhere and they can create a code for a couple days. So I told this guy that I was leaving on this day and I would be back on this day. And I said, the house is wide open for 11 days. I said, you know, I've got great neighbors. If you have a problem getting in a lock, blah, blah, blah. He said, Oh, I'll have it done before you get back. I said, That's wonderful. Well, come on. It's 2025. I have cameras on my house, and I'm waiting for this guy to show up. And it's Monday, and it's Tuesday, and it's Wednesday, and it's Thursday, and finally I can't stand it anymore. I'm coming home on Sunday, by the way. And I finally text and I say, So what's the plan? You know, I mean, and and he goes, Oh, I'm coming tomorrow, and I should be able to wrap everything up in tomorrow. And I'm going, One day. That's a lot of trim. Yeah, and I'm thinking, and just to give just to give everybody an idea, it's a bedroom and a living room and a hallway and a bathroom and a laundry room. And I'm like, that's a lot. Now I understand if you take one 10-foot board and then you paint it, and you maybe you can get 10 foot down uh to give anyone any contractors out there. It was 186 linear feet. And so I'm thinking to myself, but I also had doorways, then and I'm thinking, man, that's a lot for one day. So on Saturday, shows up about 10 a.m. I get a notification from the lock, lock open, and then he locks it at like 10 o'clock at night. I'm thinking, well, maybe I need to eat crow pie. Well, I took the uh five o'clock flight out of Orlando. I'm back in Detroit at 8:30. Show up at my house around 10 o'clock by the time I get the shuttle to get my car. We did one of those things that you like to do, like hotel and park and all that. Get my car, come home, I get a text. Hey, I I need to finish some things up, I'll be there around 10 o'clock. I walk in the house and it's only like half done. This is before the guy gets here. And I'm like, oh my gosh. Now I'm tired, I've traveled, I got up at 2 in the morning, TSA, blah, blah, blah. And that guy stayed until 10 o'clock on Sunday. All not 10 a.m. 12 hours he was here. Now he finished, it looks great, but then I'm thinking to myself, this is where the rants of dissatisfaction goes. My house was open to him undisturbed for 11 days, and you wait until I come home. I was so mad.
SPEAKER_02:But maybe he had other jobs.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sure he did. I mean, he was just doing him in order. Yeah, he probably, in his defense, he probably doesn't take away the fact that it was frustrating, but I completely understand that he probably squeezed something else in, and I didn't want to be like, Why did you wait? You know, and so and he did a nice job. Everything was great. So uh, you know, it it but it was just so frustrating because it's like here we are, we just got back. We you know, my wife was starting a new job on Monday, and so it's like, dude, really? I mean, you're you're here all day. I can't I kept feeling like I'm like, hey, uh, I'm gonna go to Costco and get my, you know, hey, I'll be back. Hey, I'm gonna do my workout, you know. So I just kind of was like, oh my god. And then I never left. He never left. I offered him food, I offered him drinks. He's like, No, I'm good, I'm good. He worked all day, so but anyways, it looks good. It's basement is done, my friend. I can't wait for you to come see it.
SPEAKER_02:Cool. Look forward to it. All right, my my last one, and this is a tough choice, but we're gonna go with this one.
SPEAKER_00:Well, make it good.
SPEAKER_02:He gave me a hard time, so well, you know, back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s TV shows.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, those are good times.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, they were great times.
SPEAKER_00:18 writer.
unknown:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know, the main the main focus or the main prop that a lot of actors used were cigarettes. Yeah. Everybody smoked back then, uh, especially in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. When we got into 80s, people started going, maybe this isn't healthy. Exactly. Everybody smoked. Uh, and so so many characters on TV, um, they smoked, and they use that it was, you know, a prop. They'd you know, pull out a cigarette while somebody's talking, they'd light it up, and then they'd use it as like a dramatic, well, you know, and then blow the smoke out. And it was it was a great prop. It worked well, it fit in uh with the times. No problem. Do you know what they use as a prop nowadays? Coffee. Coffee, thank you. They always have, what's that? You're welcome. They always have a coffee cup in their hand. Okay, that's fine. We've replaced the the cigarette prop with the coffee cup. So everybody, cop shows, whatever shows you're watching, everybody's carrying around a cup of coffee. I've got no problem with that. What I have a problem with is could you put some water in it or something? Because you see, next time you watch a show and they're carrying around coffee cups, you clearly can see that just by the way they're carrying it, there's no liquid in it. So you'd think that the director would say, Hey, put some water, fill that halfway up. So, you know, because you carry uh a glass that's got something in it differently than if it doesn't. And so they're just like sitting here, like, well, you know, they'll be, you know, just swinging it around or whatever. But it doesn't have anything in it. And that's fine, you can act, but your body knows that there's nothing in that and you carry it differently, and it just looks like you're carrying around an empty cup of coffee, which you are. That just drives me crazy. Like NCIS.
SPEAKER_00:NCIS does it all the time. Gibbs had coffee all the time.
SPEAKER_02:Gibbs, and then the the gal that was back in the the forensic lab, he'd always bring her like the super big big gulp gulp. And there was nothing in that either. But you can see by the way they like tilting it, moving around, that there's nothing in it, and it just gives us doesn't sell me. Doesn't sell me, and that bothers me.
SPEAKER_00:So before we switch gears to the Halloween, I just want our community to know Michael. What kind of coffee do you like? Is that relevant to the conversation?
SPEAKER_02:I don't drink coffee, I don't have anything against people who do. But the point is, if you're gonna use that as a prop, which I have no problem, it's actually better than this the cigarettes, at least make it realistic. You know, have something in it because you're just carrying it and jiggling it around, and you can tell when they lift it up, there's no weight to it, just doesn't look real. So just to be clear, I'm not angry that the coffee is as a prop for most actors on TV nowadays. I am angry by the fact that it's just empty and they're just carrying around a piece of empty trash. And you can tell it.
SPEAKER_00:As we switch gears, I have to tell you, I've seen these funny, funny, funny social media posts about you're not really that thirsty or need a coffee, you're bored, that's why you go to Starbucks. Which is not cool when you're carrying around the glass. That's right. You just want to look cool.
SPEAKER_02:But uh but let's get to the really good stuff. We've got some really interesting things to celebrate the holiday season. And that is holidays. I mean Halloween. I know people are already getting into the Christmas thing. Halloween. And Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it all I mean, this goes back like 2,000 years. If you go back in the history of Halloween, it used to be called uh Sowen, and it was like a festival, uh, you know, end of the harvest, beginning of winter, and they had, you know, bonfires, and it was believed that on Halloween, that was the time when the barrier between the living and the dead was at its narrowest. And it was believed that perhaps uh spirits or demons or whatever could somehow come into the land of the living uh for that day. And um people would wear you know skins and things like that to ward off those those characters, um, and then later, who's adopted by the church, you know, all saints day, that kind of thing. But it's just cool because this goes back thousands of years. And because of the whole you know, barrier and spirit. It's coming into our world, that's really what's developed into you know the association with witches and ghosts. So I had the idea, and uh you jumped on board immediately. I thought we should talk about some ghost stories. Okay. Some hauntings. You're in one. You're in one. So I thought it would be cool to talk about um some hauntings, some ghost stories, some things that have happened. Maybe they're real, maybe they're not. We're not here to to say it either way. Um, so I dug up some interesting haunted stuff that revolve around bicycles and leisuring. I love it. And then you're you're gonna present us with something which is gonna be really cool. So stay tuned. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay. The first one I want to talk about is I've titled this one What happened to Larry. And what this is, is this takes place in Randolph, Maine. And there is an old rails to trail there called the old narrow gauge um volunteer trail. And many people have been on this trail and have seen and heard, you know, they've heard like a ghost uh train whistle, um, they've seen orbs, different stuff like that. But the most interesting thing is people have reported seeing this guy riding a bicycle on this trail, and he's clearly not all there, you know. I mean, he's transparent and that type of thing, but you can see the outline of a cyclist. And what everybody thinks is that there was this gentleman by the name of Larry Farrell or Lawrence Farrell, everybody called him Larry, and he went out riding one day. He was well known around the town, rode, everybody knew him as uh as bicycle Larry, rode a red Huffy around town, who was a fine Huffy, too. Um, so he's very well known, but he vanished one day. Um, there was never a trace of his body. There was never a trace of his bicycle. He just vanished. So no one ever knew really what happened to him. There is a belief that he was part of a murder suicide where this other gentleman in town had several disputes with Larry, um caught him one night outriding, killed him, buried his body back in the woods somewhere, uh, and then committed suicide of you know, sometime later and left left a message that kind of led people to believe that that he may have done this. But um so Larry is out there on this on this trail. So I thought that was kind of interesting. Larry on his red Huffy bike, still riding up and down that trail in Maine.
SPEAKER_00:It'd be kind of creepy if you like live there, and then like you know, as the sun started to go down, you were on the trail, you'd be like looking around.
SPEAKER_02:Well, what's interesting is is um there's like a mile and a half section of this trail that goes through like the forest in the woods. So that's immediately gonna make it creepy. And then you go there at night, and you know, you got the you know different sounds and stuff like that. Um, and then you go there and you're like, I've heard stories of Larry. You know, that's gonna freak you out a little bit, but for sure. There's like ghostly voices and orbs and and uh occasionally glimpses of Larry. So if you're ever in Maine, check it out. Maybe you can see Larry. All right.
SPEAKER_00:Do you do you believe in ghosts? You know, I I I I don't think so. I I mean I I say I've I've just never like my wife, big believer, um, like she always has the paranormal stories on YouTube and everything, and they have all these contraptions like, oh, talk to us, we hear you.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they got these little these little pod things and all sorts of crazy stuff.
SPEAKER_00:And I roll my eyes all the time, and I'm like, you don't believe that. She's like, I find it entertaining, you know. And I'm always like, no, it's not real. But you know, I mean, uh for those haven't met Larry yet, that's the problem. Well, yeah, and if I did, he'd probably outpeddle me. But I mean um the one thing I always found really interesting was you know, Shawshank Redemption is one of my uh favorite movies of all times, and um the uh Mansfield Prison had a had a had some really interesting things that happened there, and so um and that's the that's the prison where the movie was shot at, correct? Yes, that's correct. And so that was kind of in you know, things they heard or whatever, and you know, a lot of unfortunately a lot of prisoners passed away there, but um um so they had like some spooky stuff. I mean, I'm not saying that I'm so close-minded like no, never happened. I just never really, you know, I'm I'm a I'm a kind of see it believe it kind of guy, and so I just never never had anything really, really close. I mean, I I told last year at this time the story when I was on my deck, there was like this triangle light, and it was really weird because then it was I was just I would call it an unidentified flying object. I mean it it flew in the sky and then it was like there, and then I watched it really take off fast. And so that's the only thing in my my time on this earth that would be unexplainable.
SPEAKER_02:So by the way, they're not called UFOs anymore, they're called UAE's, unidentified aerial or UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena. So just gets you up to speed. Well, I appreciate that. Sure. Uh the next one comes from England, and I've entitled this one, Is There Someone Watching? And this is all about a report that in June of 2018, a mother is at a place called Old Way Mansion in Devon, England. And her son is riding a bicycle around the grounds in front, and she's filming it. Um, you know, great day, fancy, nice house. She's filming it out there. Later in reviewing the footage, uh, she noticed this ghostly figure dressed in this Victorian dress up in the window looking down on her son as her son is riding, riding the bicycle. Which is kind of spooky to think. Oh, there's maybe something. But further research showed that there was this name, uh, this lady named Isidora Duncan, and she was a dancer, and she had an on-again, off-again relationship with uh Paris Stinger, who is who owned the mansion back in the day. And um they had a child, and one day the child and their nanny drowned. And so that kind of brings that whole, you know, kind of death thing to it. And then a couple years later, she pretty much just became a shut-in at that point in time. You know, what else do you do? This is very traumatic. Uh, a couple years later, she was in a bizarre, she died in a bizarre auto accident. So apparently she liked to wear these long scarves, and it was an old, you know, old back in the day when the wheels had the the spokes, and apparently her scarf went out and uh basically jerked her out of the car or something, but caused her to die. So a lot of death around this one. Um, you know, could it have just been some lady up there looking out the window and was dressed in a long dress? Maybe. But uh you can go online and see the pictures. Uh, you know, maybe it's a ghost, maybe it's not.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe it's just a worker. Maybe it was, you know, reenactment day there. I don't know. But it's interesting. Kind of creepy, you know, thinking, oh, you're a mother, and there's like just some lady standing in this window just staring and watching your child.
SPEAKER_00:That would definitely be really, I mean, that would scare you to death if you were like looked up and you saw like a body and then, you know, I mean like a silhouette and then backed away, you know, or something like that. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So don't know about that one. Don't you know, I I, you know, I gotta see something to believe it. Now I've seen some weird stuff, and I think I talked about it last year, but we won't get into it. But I have seen some weird stuff that couldn't exactly explain. My next one, some people may have heard about this one, and this is Too Much Drink or Just a Hoax. And this all revolves around the Moss Beach Distillery in Moss Beach, California. So it's not cycling, but it is still, you know, distillery. Right up our alley. Yes, indeed. It's a former prohibition speakeasy. It sets up on this cliff overlooking the ocean. Very, very uh cool setting. It was established in 1927. Um, supposedly there's a famous apparition there called the Blue Lady. Now, I don't know what's with the color blue and gray. There's always there's always a blue lady, a gray lady, and a lady in white. I don't know. Maybe that's all they've got at the apparition store is those three colors. I don't know, but that's how it works out. Um, she is said to haunt the property. Patrons have reported cold spots and flickering lights and chandeliers and glassware moving and missing earrings that reappear in odd spaces. And this lady is supposedly uh died there by falling to her death, either pushed or accidentally fell or jumped to her death off of the cliff. So when you start talking about the blue lady and the gray lady and the lady in white, that at that point in time I just kind of check out. It's like, okay.
SPEAKER_00:I'm back.
SPEAKER_02:But the twist on this whole one is that in 2008, Ghost Hunters, the TV show from the two plumbers up in uh Rhode Island, they actually went on an investigation of this one. And I have seen the actual show. And what's funny is they found mechanisms that had been placed in the building to move the chandeliers and like shake like the the shelf that the glassware was on. And there was one part in the bathroom where they had like this weird image could be shown up on there, and they also had some speakers where they could do like you know, disembodied voices, things like that. So basically, it was all a hoax. And supposedly they hired a a Disney uh, you know, one of the Disney guys, imagineers, to come and do this. And of course, you know, if you can give people the allure that your place is haunted, that uh, you know, they want to come maybe experience. And a lot of people got to experience it, but it was all fake. And, you know, those guys are climbing around, they go up in an attic, and it's like, oh, look at this. Here's this thing that's doing that, and they just like busted them completely. It was pretty funny. So again, no blue lady.
SPEAKER_00:I'm dying to meet you. Uh, you know, um, when when Lauren does watch some of those things, they got those EAPs or whatever. I mean, I don't know, like it's set in the middle of the room and says, It's cold in here. Can you feel us? Hello? Can you talk? What did you wear? What did you? I'm always like, Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02:And the light just changes colors, it's like red and then it goes to green, and then it goes to red, and it's like but she enjoys it, so whatever. Entertainment, entertainment value only. Um the next one is really my cough is fine. That is my title for this next one, and this all revolves around not yet, all revolves around uh Brower's bicycle shop. And this was in uh Charleston, and it was a bicycle shop there. And basically, the College of Charleston bought the bicycle shop after it went out of business and was going and used was going to use the building um, you know, for purposes of higher education. Well, the bicycle uh owner's wife was murdered in 1971. We don't know how, we don't know why. Maybe Mr. Brouwer was, you know, just getting bored. I don't know. But um she was murdered in the building. Well, the college, when they took over the building, they originally established it as like their bookstore. And uh basically the semester was getting ready to start. All the employees are in there stacking up the books, getting them all ready to go. They left for the day. When they came in and unlocked the door and came in the next morning, all of the books that they had stacked up on the tables and stuff were now all on the ground, neatly stacked. Some stacks were as high as five feet tall, and they were all on the floor neatly stacked there. A little weird. So it's believed that it's haunted by the ghost of Miss Brower, who was uh, you know, murdered in there. What's makes it kind of even creepier for me is today it's the student health services building. Really? I'm fine. Yeah, absolutely. I'm not making that up. It's like I'm good. I I got malaria, but I think I'll skip it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I'm I'm gonna miss this one.
SPEAKER_02:Uh so I just thought that was that was funny. That used to be an old bicycle shop, and uh now it's possibly haunted, and it's a uh student uh health building. Interesting. Right the best for last for you, though. This is a good one. This is my favorite one. I'm calling this the trail is rough, but the challenge is worth it. I need you set the music, set the set the mood for me. Okay, imagine if you will. It's 1915. You're uh you're a young soldier, the British army, you're in the trenches in France. Uh, you know, 30 to 40 yards away is another trench with the Germans. They're looking at you, you're looking at them. In between is this area called No Man's Land. It's got bob wire and destroyed buildings and you know, bomb explosions have gone off there, so there's craters. Um, not a place you're gonna go hang out, because quite frankly, really as soon as you pop your head up and start taking a couple feet, they're gonna start shooting at you and you're not gonna make it very far. Um, really terrible situations. The soldiers that that were in those trenches, if you've never done any just looking at it or reading about it, you should because you start thinking about these soldiers lived in these trenches.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, come on, you yell at me about now you're getting all kinds of stuff.
SPEAKER_02:They live in these trenches. You know, they eat in these trenches, they sleep in these trenches, uh, you know, everything that they do is in these trenches, and they're there for weeks and months at a time. So it was just horrible, horrible conditions. So you're out there, been living in this trench for three months, and you're on like patrol or guard duty, so to speak, and that basically means you set at this post and you have like this little periscope thing that you put up there and you basically, because you don't want to stick your head up there, you just put that up there, and so you look around and you just check to make sure that the Germans haven't decided to do a sneak attack on you or anything. And that's your whole job. Gets to be two, three o'clock in the morning. You've been doing it for the last six hours. Um, and all of a sudden, going right in the middle of dead man of no man's land, is a soldier on a bicycle. And sometimes he's carrying a piece of equipment, other times he's got like one of those messenger bags, and he's just tootling, riding right down through uh no man's land. A little spooky. Now, experts will all say, well, it's because that they lived in those really bad conditions, and probably a lot of people were shell-shocked and traumatized, and they didn't want to be there, and so their minds wandered, and they just some reason, you know, got this vision of this bicyclist, and then one person said bicyclist, and then they were all seeing bicyclist. What I find interesting is that sometimes he's carrying equipment, sometimes he's just has like a messenger satchel. Um you can't really tell, they've never really reported what uniform he has, but you could tell that he had some military-type uniform on. What's interesting above everything else is that it was reported on both the British, the British and the French reported it, as well as the Germans on the other side also reported seeing a bicyclist going through no man's land. And that's what makes it even more intriguing to me is that it was it had been reported on both sides. If it was just one side, you know, some British guy goes, Hey, wait, some night when it's really late, you're really, you know, you're gonna see this cyclist, and then you put that in their mind, and then they're like, Oh, I'm looking for the cyclist, you know, and then but the fact that both sides saw this throughout uh World War One, I think is a very interesting story. So um he's known as the ghost cyclist of World War One. There's no, you know, tradition or legend as far as what side he was on or what his name was or anything, but there you go. So I found that one to be extremely uh extremely interesting. So I don't know, maybe there is.
SPEAKER_00:That would be one brave cyclist.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because you know, number one, the terrain is not going to be real conducive to riding a bicycle. Number two, I mean, the other side just waiting for somebody to pop up and so there you go. There's uh some of my tales of hauntings that I'm sharing with you for Halloween.
SPEAKER_00:I love it. I love it. Um, this is my chance to talk about reviews real quick. Uh we are asking for a review. If you enjoy the show, uh please take four minutes, actually 30 seconds, go to Chat GPT, ask it to give a cycling minute of leisure a review, copy, cut, paste, enter. Um, actually, if you enjoy the show, we're just asking for some reviews. It helps uh helps spread the word, helps us get picked up by the algorithms and bots. So if you could take a couple seconds, leave us a review if you enjoy what we do. On behalf of Michael and myself, we say thank you. So um do you know, sir, who Joe Grammer, Emory Norris, Dennis Keeler, Alex Bell, and Scott Garwick are? I do.
SPEAKER_02:You do all yes, you don't? Well, I do. I just I'm glad to remember. I I know who they are. These are all people who claim that they love the outdoors, but really meant patios and drinks. That's who they are. Close, so close, just a bit outside.
SPEAKER_00:These are five VIP ladies and gentlemen who, with their wallet, support our show, and we thank them. So thank you so very much. Michael is toasting you right now. So chairs, thank you. We appreciate it. If you don't have a wallet that you want to give Cycling Metal Leisure, that's okay. Just go back to that review. So our review will work just fine, thank you. That's right. So I've got um finishing up our Halloween episode, I've got a really cool uh I've got a really cool story, uh, but we do have a listener spotlight. Um, and we have a little teaser that I'm gonna let you give the teaser to. So dealer's choice, listener spotlight or the teaser.
SPEAKER_02:Uh let's do listener spotlight.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce it is now time for our next listener spotlight.
SPEAKER_02:All right. I got some good uh clues for you. This one is gonna be a little bit easier than the last couple have been. Town was originally started as a fort, constructed in the early 1800s with the purpose of um interring the native population. So, not not a great stellar start for this town. It was incorporated as a town in the late 1800s. The early growth was spurred by a rail line that passed through the community. Coal and iron were discovered in the area in the 1880s, um, but they fell far short of what people were hoping. Um, basically, there wasn't a lot of it. They found it and they were like, woo, and they started going crazy, and then it it immediately kind of went downhill. So the uh economy suffered a decline, but then cotton processing became a big economic boom, and cotton products uh, the production of cotton products became a huge business and economic driver for this community. The town has an annual festival that celebrates its world standing around hosiery, and it could be said that this city is truly a Dixieland delight. So I just told you what part of the country it's in.
SPEAKER_00:All right, a hosiery celebration, a festival like leader hosing.
SPEAKER_02:They have a world standing that involves hosiery in some way, shape, or form. Okay. Don't be jealous.
SPEAKER_00:It's not St. Louis.
SPEAKER_02:It's not St. Louis. And I will say, just to throw in an extra little uh clue, Adam has never been to this town. That helps anyone. That'll help Adam. Yeah, there's a lot of places. I say that with with uh the strongest confidence. You have not been to this town. There's a lot of places I haven't been. Well, okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:All right. I gave you dealer's choice. You went for listener spotlight. It is now time for the teaser, sir.
SPEAKER_02:The teaser. And by teaser, do you mean like uh what we're talking about on the next show or what?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, maybe next show or the show after.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, right in there. Okay. Maybe not the next show, but coming up in the very near future, in the next couple of months, prior to Christmas, uh, around the end of November, maybe the very beginning of December, we're going to have our much anticipated and often requested um cyclist Christmas list. That's right. As a cyclist, uh what do you get? What do you get us? Um, Adam and I will go through and we pick out some different items that are new to the market or that we've used that we really like, and we bring them to the table. They might be pieces of equipment, they might be safety gear. Um, we've done all sorts of things. Last year, we had some bourbon involved and some uh home decor stuff involved. So we try to do a little bit of everything. And um, what's really fun about this is we'll throw them out there, give you some ideas, and for the last couple of years, I have actually bought one or two of those items and uh and tried it out.
SPEAKER_00:So one of the neatest things for me is when we are writing and we're writing next to somebody, and they will actually show the item that they received as a gift from their family because they put it on their list and say, Hey, because of your show, I bought this. Or the one I can I can distinctly remember very well was the uh electric pump that you talked about, and then uh that was uh very well uh warm reception when many people uh listen to you, which I am surprised. That happens occasionally, and then you actually got to do a double review because yours came out of your bike, uh the holder on your bike, and it went down the road about 30 miles an hour, and you know what? It worked just fine. So you were able to give an endurance review after.
SPEAKER_02:So it popped out of my water bottle holder somehow, because that's it was a the bigger round olive uh oval one, popped out, scurried down the road. I thought, oh my gosh, picked it up. I mean, there wasn't even a crack or anything in it, uh, and still did well. And since that time, I've actually bought the smaller one, um, and it works really well. And I know, like last year, uh, I bought one of those bike locks that I talked about that goes in the handlebars of your bike. Not used it, but it's there. If I was really hoping this year on one of our rides, generally we go on a ride and people are like, you know, maybe we go downtown or something, and people are always freaking out. It's like, well, I want to ride, but I don't have a lock. What am I gonna do? I was really hoping that would happen because I was gonna walk over, pop that off, and say, here you go, here's a lock, here's that. Now you can lock it up.
SPEAKER_00:But we didn't use that when we went to Georgia.
SPEAKER_02:We did not, but that's okay because we're not big bike lock type people, but I I wanted to try it out, and it's one of those things that if you know, like I said, we right we have some friends who uh have some very, very expensive bicycles. I get it. Um like to have it, and I can just you know hand it to them and say, here you go.
SPEAKER_00:I think I I I know what happened. We were in the hotel in Georgia. You showed me the bike lock because of how you had to travel with it, you had to put it back and screw it in, and I think that's my memory of seeing it. And so you're right. Yep. Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I showed you because it just you just take the key, pop it up, it comes right out, and you can hook it up. It's very, very cool. Um, not expensive. And if you're one of those people that really, you know, are concerned about the your bike, which I don't fault you for that. They are not cheap things. That's a good idea. So we've I've already started looking at some things, and uh you need to start looking at some things, and we'll put together a really uh a good show around different ideas to uh perhaps buy uh the cyclist in your life.
SPEAKER_00:If you have an idea for a gift, please send us a message. We would love to get that out. Um you know, we usually either look at from a selfish point of view, like your folding helmet. You you had you had uh mentioned that before, and then now you're a regular consumer. But if you have something out there for cycling that is really one of those items, like if you were playing Survivor and you had to take one item. What would be your cyclist uh uh gift? Oh, look at that. The cycling bobblehead.
SPEAKER_02:Two years ago, cycling bobblehead, my wife took it, uh took the idea, and I now have a uh cycling bobblehead of myself. And that's everyone needs one leisure. I love that. It says cycling men of leisure. It does right there on his jersey, says cycling men of leisure, even has the receding hairline just like me. So well, that's all right, buddy.
SPEAKER_00:Well, it is what it is. I don't judge you for your hair.
SPEAKER_02:Or lack of as you take your hat off and run your fingers through Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at my how gray mine is, though. Holy's mine's gray too. But I can also stand next to a microwave and not get sunburned, which you cannot, so. Yeah, I got that going for me.
SPEAKER_00:This is true. We were talking about, you know, how they show presidents before and after, you know, before and after, before and after in the hair and everything. So it's like, I'm like, yeah, that's what that's what my job does for me. So funny, somebody somebody showed a picture, and I said, Oh, my job's not that stressful. But uh, all right. Well, listen, I have something a little special. I'm uh I'm pretty excited about this. I've been holding on for this whole time. So in the spirit of Halloween, I'm not gonna use the words I wrote, I'm gonna say I inspired a cycling story. Alright. Let me I'm gonna have a little bit of background music here. Oh, it's a spooky Halloween story. This is right. I'm gonna make sure this uh comes back around here. Pot it down just a shade.
SPEAKER_02:Perfect. Yeah, there you go. That's that's setting the mood for me right there.
SPEAKER_00:For those of you who don't know, pot it down. Michael used to be in radio. Pot it down means turn it down. This The Cycling Men of Leisure Halloween episode, the Phantom Peloton. They say you never truly ride alone even when the night's quiet. Even when your headlight cuts through nothing but mist. Sometimes just behind you, there's another wheel turning, a rhythm you can feel but never see. For years, cyclists across the country have whispered about the Phantom Peloton, a ghostly group ride that appears when the roads are empty and the air hangs thick with fog. Tail lights flicker up ahead, red, steady, perfect, but no matter how hard you chase, you can never catch them. Some say they're riders lost on sentry rides that never ended. Others say it's just fatigue, dehydration, the mind playing tricks after too many climbs. But every October, more stories roll in of GPS routes looping back on themselves, of segments recorded by usernames that don't exist, and of the one lonely rider who swears he heard someone whisper, hold your line. Look, if I see a ghost on a bike, I'm at least asking what is the tire pressure he's running. Cause if he's floating past me on 28, I'm reevaluating everything. So tonight, keep your lights charged, and if you spot a string of red LEDs fading into the mist, think twice before following. You might be joining a group ride that never ends. And on that note, sir.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. The group ride that never ends, the century ride that they never finished. That's right. That's awesome. That's a great way to uh to end our holiday segment.
SPEAKER_00:And I just gotta tell you that this AI, man, it is when it works and it works right, it is amazing. And so I I did ask it to write me a cycling spooky story for a podcast episode. And within about three triliseconds, it went. And then it does say that uh in all spirit, it said that I should have read, and then you should have said, look, if I see a ghost on a bike, I'm at least asking when the fire pregnant. Although it did call you, Mike did call you Mike, and I apologize.
SPEAKER_02:So I uh I didn't uh didn't get my teleprompt to say that.
SPEAKER_00:So I know, but I will show you right there.
SPEAKER_02:It says no, there you go. Mike, whoever that guy is. Uh a Mike style voice.
SPEAKER_00:What well listen, buddy, once again we have uh we have uh got to the Halloween episode. Who thought we would have got past three episodes, let alone another Halloween episode?
SPEAKER_02:Well, you know what? If I remember right, I think we're we're right now at three years. That's right. I think it was the end of, I don't know, is it end of October or beginning of November? Beginning of November was the very first. Okay. So we're only a couple weeks away from our third year anniversary of Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure, which, yeah, I would have given us four, maybe five episodes. Well, we have eighty. Soon to be eighty-one as soon as we get this one done, but that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. It's been a it's and and we've and just to let everybody know, we have um another couple of ideas in the works. A couple of guests we're uh working on bringing in, which would be really, really cool. Um actually, uh, we've got one guest that we're uh looking at trying to get back uh as a return guest that everybody seemed to like. So not going to give anything away. I'm just saying stay tuned.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I was gonna say today's a great day for a bike ride, except my bike I put on the wall.
SPEAKER_02:Um it's still a great day for a bike ride, so don't ever forget that.
SPEAKER_00:It is always a good day for a bike ride. We've just had a lot of unfortunate, horrible weather here. Right. I mean, I went to Florida and had 11 days of beautiful weather, and then I came home and it's been raining every day. So um, but um always good to be with you. Uh I look forward to these this time of the year. I love the the gift idea uh show. Um it's it's one of those things I look forward to, and and then give my wife a list of these are the things that I need for my 2026 rides. So that's right. Once we figure out what those are, we'll announce that a few of you have written us behind the scenes and asking us what which ones we're doing, and once we figure out our life and and schedule, we'll definitely we'll start uh advertising those.
SPEAKER_02:So I would say at this point in time we have a short list. Yeah. I think we've kind of narrowed it down. So we do have a short list, it's just a matter of figuring out logistics, scheduling, things like that. But we do have a short list of rides, and um yeah, we'll uh we'll be making that decision here in the next uh two months, probably month. Um just depends on registration deadlines as far as getting the the best deals and things like that. Yeah, we'll certainly let you know.
SPEAKER_00:For sure, for sure. With that being said, my friend, always great to be with you. And I am sure somewhere, somehow, today was a great day. Naker by Greg. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you for coming along with Adam and Michael on Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure. If you have enjoyed this, please subscribe to the show on the podcast app of your choice.
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