See why I used that song lyric? Last Seinfeld episode….Its time again for me to summarize the event and let you go back to your lives until next year, I think.  Another song quote that I almost ended on was from Show of Life (yes, Trey): It’s been perfectly planned, it’s completely insane, it’s a revolving cast, but it’s the same old game.

By that I mean–well yes, it was perfectly planned based, once again, from the ever valuable advice from Mr. Martin aka the 6 P’s: Proper planning prevents piss poor performance. I can’t tell you how true that is–I also refer to it as solving for success. Which we did meaning the ride was long enough to be a real ride but you still felt great when off the bike which was helped along by our fabulous team AND the ridiculously nice weather for the week.  Its pretty hard not to be happy when its 85 degrees and this is your view for the day:

And to the rest of the lyric:  it’s a revolving cast, but it’s the same old game–that refers to the change of the group for this years ride vs last year. Both were fabulous but we did miss Maust, Dom and Bobby J.

But we replaced em because that’s how we roll on RR’s! This year we added Joe and Andrew:

Yes, they are the ones with the beards. This generation is all about the beard. If I grow one it comes in totally grey and, as my Daughter Sarah said, “you look super old with that”, so Shred and I refrained. Andrew did day 2 of the ride and is a wonderful young lad with Joe taking on the work of 2 men (well for RR2 it was 2 Dom and Maust) to run the entire support operation including driving the highlander! We couldn’t have done it without you and thanks for safeguarding our high end technology that we used for the ride! Both Andrew and Joe told me their favorite movie is The Highlander, favorite town is Del mar AND favorite food is Robertos. I concur gentlemen I concur.

For the riders we lost Bobby J but picked up Reinecke and Shred. Reinecke cut out a day early so missed the gala dinner hence not in the photo but was with us for the rest of the awesomeness. Additionally, Shred drove BOTH ways with me (including to and from my house) so he is a solid sport which will be remembered during next years cuts for RR4!

The main differences from last year was we did the ride about a month earlier which meant–warmer days/longer days AND a much more robust crowd scene as we moved down the coast.  At L’auberge there were 4 weddings during our 2 day stay which sold the place out. Man those Del Mar people are a good looking and wealthy bunch.  I clearly did not fit in but could see us living in a lovely house OVER looking the cool crowd…the biggest regret for the trip was not getting a better picture of Larry David–we got QUITE a few angry emails about that including this one: “You suck” Signed Tom Tierney. Ok he always did get straight to the pt.

Before I get to a plethora of high quality pictures lets get to a few recommendations shall we:

Good shows/movies to watch on the wars overseas (this comes from my near career in the Navy Seals) mixed with other shows I like: Restrepo, Battleground Afghanistan, The Fighting Season,  Korengal,  Narcos, The Wire,  War, Bomb Patrol Afghanistan, The Night Of, Both Fargo seasons, and just to keep it brief I will stop with the book Zero To One . For Alaska shows Life Below Zero is great, the Last Alaskans, Ultimate Survival Alaska, etc.

Q&A: Will you do it again next year. Probably. But like the calendar nobody knows when I move onto the next thing!

Would you consider making the ride bigger? Nope. 5 riders is the max and 1 is the min.

That seems like a good place to end it.  A bunch of pictures and we call it a day.  We start with Nathan making some emergency fixes to the rack–luckily he brought his travel Arc welder.

Ryloride3 Shirt quotation taken from this Gif:

And so we conclude RR3 with another quote from the Highlander–Have an awesome rest of the year and Holiday season you know how much I love Xmas!

“I am Rylo MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am The Rylo”

 

The End.

 

Hello,

Pardon me for going a bit out of order but there is just so much to say. After a glorious “down day” in Del Mar post RR3, we packed up the highlander and headed home. She was still sporting the broken windshield from the gunfire we encountered on the ride down but fortunately I upgraded to bullet proof glass when I purchased the vehicle so we are glad I made that decision as it could have been much worse. To kill time on the VERY long 500 mile drive Shred and I played that new game that is all the rage–car Karaoke. Shred was a theater major in college and he really got into character for every round. First we banged out Candle in the Wind and Goodbye Yellow Brick road:

Then right into Do you Think I am sexy by Rod:

And then he went all Ham on us with is Lady Gaga impersonation during the Roma Tomato song of hers-we crushed that song.

The 5 was fine but we did hit some traffic approaching the GrapeVine:

But before our journey, we enjoyed the last evening gala followed by a Private team dinner at the Poseidon. At the gala everybody was in a fabulous mood as toasts were plentiful as was the praise heaped upon Rylo for another successful ride. Here we have Joe and Andrew enjoying a moment:

And Shred put on his finest garb for the evening–his Handmade Peacock Feathered Jacket that he once used to woo his lovely bride-

Nathan wore the outfit from his recent video which looked quite stunning:

At one Pt Nathan really mixed it up and got a Peach Coolie

One thing we noticed was that we were a pretty mellow crew. With the Baseball games starting at 4 we tended to be viewing them early/eating early and getting a good night sleep. This is a big difference vs last year and we all knows its because we dont have Bobby there trying to always take it to the next level:

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I tried to make up with Bobby but well this was the selfie he sent me:

Hopefully time will heal these wounds. Well I gotta go for now but I will still comeback and finish this up with my book and tv reviews, more RR3 memorabilia, Q&A, Advice and worthwhile sayings, whats next and we finish with Nathans song that he sang us on the last night–he took his cue from last years performance by Bobby and man he really nailed it. Until then!

Hello. Yesterday we enjoyed a leisurely day spent roaming around the area and eating at Robertos. We started with a late breakfast early lunch at the one near my former house in Solano Beach, banged out a visit to UCSD and the book store and then stopped at the Robertos on Carmel Valley Road for a quick 2 taco late lunch/snack. Here is round one and then round 2:

I am wearing my safety cone orange shirt so people notice me.

We then did some more shopping in lovely Del Mar/did a few trips down to the beach for pictures/generic viewing/rested and then were back out there again watching the Giants lose, again, tears, before eating another huge dinner at the Poseidon in Del Mar. I have to get those pictures off my phone later. For now, I gotta go meet shred/go to robertos and drive 500 miles so I will work on the blog more when I return to home base. We have learned a lot on the ride with many White Paper ideas floated for the Ryles Institute so stay tuned. We all think Nathan should buy a second home in Del Mar which we could all rent whenever we want. Go Nathan! Pictures!

Those are dolphins!

That one is Mt Diablo isn’t it cool. Oh this one is also from Diablo:

Maui:

Some of you asked to see pictures of Co Ride Leader Nathan from when he was younger so I took this baby out of his high school year book.

Such a cutie! I must go motor up the 5 I shall return!

 

Hello all,

Before we get back to the ride, which was lovely, lets talk about me for a little while. As some of you know, I had my first real wipe out in June. It sucked. Falling and hitting the pavement is really just unpleasant especially when you land on your head–See attached:

Unfortunately, this isn’t my first head injury as I have had stitches 5 times in my fragile head–here was the time I had 52 stitches after cracking my head open on the dining room coffee table due to a fall while running in the house….

I was quite a cute kid–if I say so myself. Anyway I just bring this up because we had a huge emphasis on safety for RR3 to prevent bad stuff! Another reason I bring it up, I was out cold and had a solid concussion and due to my head injury I had this hallucination that the Presidential Nominees were Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I still can’t shake it…is it true?/…Inconceivable! Remember, .Im an Independent and Ayn Rand supporter/Fan:

Yes, I did go on a book tour with Bill Walton too. He wrote about our friendship quite a bit in his recent book so he asked me to accompany him on some of the stops in the area so we here we are at the Berkeley signing. I know I can use the same picture twice its my blog.

Isn’t his shirt awesome.

Back to the ride! We got on the bikes at 8:15 and headed south for the more leisurely 58 mile day 2 ride. The wind was still present but less forceful. We cruised along for 20 miles then did the run thru Pendleton, which is always cool, where I regaled the riders with stories of how I was almost a Navy Seal. Only my fear of sharks/oceans/people shooting at me/heights/scary places kept me from pursuing that path. I still feel guilty at times. We stopped in Oceanside dined at the same place as last year (they were out of Avocado Toast!) and then cruised thru the prettiest town in the world, Del Mar, to the Lodge at Torrey Pines for the mandatory Bloody Mary then down the hill Past the greatest school of all  time, UCSD,  to La Jolla Shores where the fans and media gathered to celebrate our greatness! You can see how thick and aggressive the crowds can be in the first picture–our fans are the best loyal and a bit rowdy!–so, lots of pictures! The Montana guy ran with us for 24 miles.

My Dorm Where I met my Loving and Lovely Wife (Ann):

Q&A:

Are you guys really mad at Bret and Bobby? Who? I dont know of any people who go by said names.

Do you really hate Tierney; Tierney knows Trey, Rylo Knows Tierney, Rylo Doesn’t know Trey but by the Transitive property I should so, yes.

How’s the weather? It is literally 80 degrees outside.

Any words of wisdom? Always stay with the group.

I gotta go so I will return later to give an update on how we spent our evening after arriving in the most beautiful place in the world– Del Mar.  But I will throw up one more picture of me and Shred practicing the lost art of sword fighting-he always has practical advice.

The first day went without a hitch away from Reinecke being an hour late thus making us wait for him. There was a penalty assessed I assure you. We departed the Huntley a bit after 8 and made good time despite a pesky but persistent head wind. To assuage his guilt for being over an hour late Reinecke set a blistering pace so we made good time.  The ride along the beaches is always enjoyable and Palos Verdes is a cool town to ride through as well. Then you come to Wilmington which is the scariest place ever for somebody on a bike–or for some group of bikers. It was more treacherous than I remember it being the last 2 years so we needed to use all of our survival skills. 10 miles of chaos but then you cruise down to Huntington where we dined on Fish Tacos before banging out the last 25 miles putting the ride at exactly 75 miles. We are staying at the Laguna Cliffs which is quite lovely.  We then ubered back to Laguna for a dinner at Boardwalk which was fantastic and is run by one of the Top Chef Contestants I liked. Ok, here are some pictures. The first one is of another of our riders Bruce Reinecke. 
I must complete the roster for the ride–We now are fully staffed with Joe:

and Andrew :

filling out the RR3 roster. We lost Maust and Dom to the Cold War Kids current tour. Now, The Mrs and I went to see the CWK last month at the Fox in Oakland–Maust is right there! Dom provides security for the band so he also was unable to join us but the band did dedicate this leg of the tour to RR3 so we say thanks for that!

You know what, I gotta go. Sorry I will have to come back and finish this later where we will go into my recent Book Tour with Bill Walton

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Yes we made it down the 5 and we must say it was a very lovely day in the State Of California even if we were on the 5. We pulled into the Huntley at 2:15 prettied our selves up/rested and then started the evening at a local pub where we watched our Giants BEAT the Mets to make it to the next round of the playoffs. Good stuff. Bret blew us off, much like Bobby, so there was a solid 15 minutes of sobbing but we are starting to get thick skins. We still love him but he’s buying the next dinner and movie let me tell you. At mile 59.1 Dave and I were singing along to Mandy when all of a sudden SHABLAM something smashed into the windshield and put a big old whole on the darn thing.  At first we thought it was a rock from the repaving project they are in the middle of but we realized it was gunfire.  Yup we were under attack on the 5. Luckily I have watched every show on Afghanistan and Iraq plus I’ve read every book on that plus we love the survival Alaska shows–so, my pt–we handled the situation calmly and are safe now. The guy in the car that fired up on us looked like this:

Next, as many of you know, I matriculated at Stanford in their Post Graduate Multi Disciplinary Studies Program with a focus in the Photographic arts. My pt, I’m a force to be reckoned with.  Well we are walking out of The Grill on Ocean and 20 yards away there is Larry David. The Larry David and this ride is dedicated to Seinfeld and The Highlander! He was getting in his Dark Tesla while tipping the Valet. He was dressed exactly how he does in Curb. I whipped out my camera put all my skills to good use and snapped this winner:

Thank you! That will be going on the xmas card. I really can’t believe I didnt leap in there and get my picture taken with him. I am so angry. But, I didn’t.

We are leaving now, so i must go, but I will introduce another 2 of the riders for RR3 (Yes, it is much bigger).  We have Dave Schroeder:

Yes, his likeness was also in the Highlander. Dave is very excited to bang out the ride and has studied the book that I give to all first time participants:

I gotta go, we will ride to Dana Pt over the next 6-7 hours while taking lots of pictures so be excited! Here is the back of the official RR3 Jersey.

 

Yes we will start with a Trey Lyric to explain the title of the first official post of Ryloride3 (which is sticking to the Seinfeld/Highlander theme!!): You decide what it contains/ How long it goes but this remains/ the only rule is it begins/ Happy happy oh my friend (s).  There you go simple as pie!

Although the ride is the same, mostly, as far as route down the coast, the participants have changed a LOT–don’t worry I will explain all of it over the next few posts.  First off the only riding member of RR2 NOT to be on RR3 is Bobby J. I know–BOOOOOO! BOOOOOOO!

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We are all deeply hurt but he has gotten a bit out of hand lately so he wont be joining us….the hurt runs deep…..When I told him he was officially out he took it quite well I think.

I have been training VERY hard both on bike and on land and I have let my beard grow–I look good.  Here I am on a stroll through the park–Why are all the kids and mothers running away and screaming?

In addition to the personnel changes, I also won’t be represented by Clooney on this years Blog. He demanded a HUGE raise due to the popularity of the event and well he’s out. Instead, this year the likeness that will be representing me is…..

Yes the Highlander himself. Im quite handy with a sword.

Away from that, we have Nathan back on the bike. Here is his promo picture:

Nathan is about to complete a Marathon (shortly after RR3 actually), so he’s in optimal shape for the ride.

I will do the rest of the team tomorrow!  But for now a few more  brief comments and then preparation for the drive down the 5 with none other than Dave Schroeder–aka The Shred. I made a mixture tape we can sing along with while discussing White Papers we are working on at the Ryles Institute.  I assume you are aware of the work we do.  We have changed one of the hotels due to unruly crowds of fans but only Nathan and I know the exact location which we picked very carefully while taking great precautions not to be overheard.

I will be back at it again after the drive tomorrow where we can go into greater depth about myself and what I have been up to etc.  Give the fans what they want.