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• Mar 10, 2024

  Aliens, Spaceships and Indian Motorcycles - revisit

  This post is a revisit of a blog I did for the Active Network website. Today on the  group ride, we went to visit the spaceship and sadly it is gone. I was then motivated to go dig up the following post from 2007.

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  I must admit that I planned to see aliens and spaceships on the group ride today. My first encounter with the spaceship was in 2000 or 2001 and I’m a believer. Yes, a spaceship landing pad exists just outside my hometown of Loveland, Colorado. Hard to believe, I know.

  Steve Douglas, one of my riding buddies from the Ft. Collins Breakfast Club group ride, was not a believer—until today. And we have photos.

  Before I get to today’s ride, I must go back to August and the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race. Steve had mechanical difficulties that day and it wasn’t such a good race for him. Similar to others that have had not-so-good races, he proclaimed the day after the race, “I will NEVER do Leadville again.”

  Several days after the race was over, he posted the gory details of the event on an August 21, 2007 post titled, “Leadville, Aliens and Suffering”. You can find that post here.

  The most critical piece of that post is:

  “Would I ever do this again? … Mark these words:  I will only do this one again under 2 conditions:  1) When Aliens announce their presence to this planet  or 2) If my brother says he wants to do it.   Keep in mind there is little chance of either of these things happening!” 

  I present to you photographic proof that Steve has met with the aliens—well, at least one alien. Below is Steve posing with the handcrafted spaceship and one small green alien, whose name I did not catch.

   

   

  This alien spaceship was handcrafted by Russ (Russ’s Machine Shop). In all the alien excitement, I did not get a photo of Russ and Rick, who I assume is Russ’s son. I’ll have to go back another time.

  In addition to handcrafting the spaceship, Russ has a garage filled with ever so beautiful Indian motorcycles, a gas pump, a handmade three-seat motorcycle (Ed, help me with that engine again in the comment section) and even a John Deer bicycle. Check out the photos below.

   

  Now I think the aliens may have been a bit peeved at non-believers because our 45-mile ride had five flat tires, one mechanical chain drop/jam and time in the ride when the group was separated by a series of errors. Apparently, the aliens were testing us.

  When the group got split, I received a call from Ryan in the other group asking if our group had been abducted by the aliens. This was proof to the aliens that people are indeed believers.

  The ride finished safely, with several people talking about aliens. I think we will have great rides from this point forward because we have full alien support.

  And Steve, I’m sure you’ll be cutting a check and sending in your entry form for Leadville in January of 2008. With alien support, I’m certain you’ll be selected in the lottery.

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