The Los Gatos Turkey Ride 2008 is almost here.  Last year mountain bikers came by the hundreds, many carrying complete meals to share with everyone at the top.  This year I am excited to have more of my friends interested in this ride as they will be joining me to the top of the hill.  To prepare we started to go on longer bike rides, the first of which was to the top of Kennedy trail.  I am glad we started to get ready before the big day because we were clearly needing to rest a few times.  I wanted to do it again last weekend but the rain prevented us from leaving the house.  Weather permitting we should be up there again getting in better shape for a more enjoyable ride on Thanksgiving morning.

It looks like people just started to talk about the ride on the mtbr forums located here:
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=465893

If you don’t know what the Turkey Ride is, here is a brief overview.
On Thanksgiving at ~7:00AM, Summit Bicycles in Los Gatos provides coffee and healthy refreshments and is open for business for a short time to help people prepare for their ride up Kennedy trail.  Many people have kid trailers for their mountain bikes and they fill them with ready to eat turkeys and all of the other yummy stuff everyone likes to enjoy on Thanksgiving.  Other people bring beer and other things to drink.  People share everything that they tote up to the top and everyone is very friendly.  The ride to the top is not very technical but its also not easy, especially if you have not been riding, but people seem to rest everywhere along the way and there are enough people that you never feel left behind.  Last year was my first year and I didnt bring anything, this year I will figure out something to bring to share.

… also if you have not read my previous post from last year about Turkey Ride 2007, it has some videos and additional information.  It is found below, sadly it has been a year since my last post.