Weather looks pretty good for this coming Tuesday so let's keep on truckin' and don't forget your front & rear Blinkies!!!

The Tyranena Brewery Octoberfest Ride is now in September, a naming problem resonant with the name of the brewery itself, which was the banner Lake Mills gave itself in 1866 to recognize the indigenous term for sparkling waters but then changed its mind a year later. Anyway, about 1500 riders showed up on a very hot and windy day for a fine ride that included at least eight Beloiters. The demographics ran from impressive racing kits to a rickshaw exodus. I myself began the day with a intrepid purchase of a case of assorted beers to stash away for another time, and then joined my cohort for the 65-mile loop to the northeast, which meant we all paid in kind with the return into stiff southerly headwinds and rest stops that had run out of Gatorade. But the pulled pork and music and incredible beer options in the endzone were all excellent, and I can recommend their double IPA and an oatmeal stout midwifed in bourbon barreling. Here is a photo of our very own RAW-Spinner Phil Shields, with whom I kept up a 20-mph pace into an urgent headwind and a discussion of campus politics until I could keep up no longer on all three fronts and just decided that the browning corn and rusting soybean and a solitary road would have to be reward enough as a goodbye to summer. The other shot is a factory in Watertown that captures my aspirational cycling philosophy.