The crew arrives

Well first, sorry no pictures today. Howie's boy, David, his nephew Alex, and brother in law Paul arrived today for a weeks stay here at mobile central. I stayed back and got some work done and put the other's bikes together for a ride this afternoon while howie went to the airport to get them. Well the boys ended up taking a nap since they didnt actually go to bed last night and Howie and I took Paul out for a shorter "welcome to altitude" ride. Well this one actually was rather easy, about 9.5 miles and 1000 feet or so of climbing. It was on some trail just on the outside of Park City, as we had to navigate through one rather upscale neighborhood to connect up the trails. It was Paul's first time with real outwest switchbacks and he only went down once, no major carnage. We took a quick trip into Heber City to grab dinner, really good sandwiches at a local place, then over to the grocery store. We seemed to have been able to get everyone's stuff stowed away without issue.
A quick update on the bikes. Knock on wood, everything has been working pretty well. We had that one flat that was sealed up with Stan's pretty easily. I also found a splayed chain plate on his chain while lubing it one morning, but a quick link later and everything was OK. I knew that my brake pads were about finished even before we left state college, but I wanted to get a few rides out here on them. Well on Sunday they were really starting to make some strange noises so I pulled them monday morning. One of the fronts was just about on metal and the rear weren't much better so I changed them both out. Amazingly, changing out the front set actually fixed my rubbing issue, so now the only noise is from the rear suspension pivots. We'll have to see how long these organic pads last.
And I have manged to misplace the first item, my bug spray. I know I put it in a most logical place, but cant figure it out for the life of me.
Entertainment for tonight is listening to comedy central recordings the boys have on their ipods.