Peninsula Bike Party met at Redwood City Caltrain. There was a bit of waiting while the preride from San Francisco got there, so I ended up taking pictures of most riders that were waiting.

        

     

I hurried through the last few. Maybe that's why they were blurry. It wasn't an issue with the camera's mode. That was the same as it was for the previous few. Then we rode to this baseball field.



We didn't stay long, just long enough to contemplate briefly the huge area of grass just sitting there.

  

We had a regroup on the top floor of the parking structure at Oracle.

     

        

Grrr... Maybe Cosmo has some force field built into his personality that makes my camera go blurry when it looks at him.

  

The view over the side of the parking structure is the first good time lapse photograph I've managed to get out of this camera.

     

About half an hour after we left the parking structure Flavio told me that he had been riding without touching the handle bars for a while and had decided to go for the record on that. I told him I'd document it in my pictures. That's when I started taking these pedaling pictures.

        

     

     

The trail took a sudden steep curving dip at the edge of this parking lot. Flavio had to grab the handle bars. For sure his record was at least 11 minutes, but it couldn't have been more than 42 minutes.





We stopped again in another park on the bay.



  

Flavio had an accident in an area where the trail was fairly narrow, running between a marsh and the freeway. He explained that he'd been riding without using the handlebars, going for another record. Something had happened with the fence. The helmet had probably helped some, but he was woozy for a few minutes after the accident. I told him in those situations you have a lot more control with your hands on the handle bars. Safety first.

I was sort of freaking out, kind of in a "get an ambulance" mood. They told me to be cool. Omar got Flavio up and walking and we rode on.



When we got near the end the guys going to the train station went right and we, the ones going south, went left. Lloyd Adina and I rode on to Menlo Park. Adina showed us the right road to take and then peeled off. She was home. Lloyd and I continued south.



There is this amazing traffic obstacle in Palo Alto that's got these lit trees. We stopped and took pictures. Then we rode on. Probably I got home about 2 AM. It was nice to ride most of the way with others.