On SUTURDAY may 26^th was a long day, I got up about 7 o’clock in the morning at igors house and vasil was already up working on the map route. I was tired because we only had about 3 hours of sleep. My self and Amanda got into a disagreement and she decided to go back home and igor would give her a ride, while vasil’s parents will stay with us as we do the ride. This was a very strange day, it was like we had signs written all over that day, to not ride that day.

We put the bikes on vasils parents truck so we could go back to the same starting point we left off, as vasil backed up the truck he bottomed out and bent his front tire a little, but we didn’t know this Until we got on starting point from our ride.  We took the bike to a bike shop and the person working on it didn’t have the right tools so he turned the spoke too much so we had to take the bike to another shop and the guy in the shop fixed the bike and did it for free, once he found out what me and vasil where doing for the YAI. The moment we got ready to ride it starting to pour out side so we got some chineese food and waiting for the rain to go away.

Once the rain stooped we got ready to ride, we got our bikes ready and started to ride, it was ironic vasils mom told us it may be a better idea if we just go to the hotel get some rest and start the ride the next day, but I think both of us were just too anxious to ride and get it over with. So we go on our bikes and started to ride. We rode for about 20 minutes or a half an hour it was all downhill, and the hills where pretty big, we must have done about 45 miles an hour while holding my breaks light going down those hills. Then we hit another hills this one was a little different it was very grainy and wet also extreme curvy, vasil was in front of me cause he had the route on his phone and he was leading the way. I had my break on while going down so I was behind a about 30 feet away from vasil, as we made a turn I saw vasil front tired shaking a little, then I saw him come off the bike, it happened it seconds I got to him in about 5 seconds , I saw his bike on one side and then I saw or thought I saw his camel pack next to the rail, I thought vasil fell down the hill and his pack was there, as I ran to the bag I realize that it was him against the rail, I pulled him off the rail and his faces was full of blood with a huge gash on his fore head, he was foaming from the moth like a seizure. I took off my shirt and cover his head injury, while his parent came down the hill top on their truck, his dad ran towards us and we kept him vasil down while everyone around us helped us. We got ice from a lady driving a truck, he was in shock, man! If it wasn’t for that helmet he would’ve never made it. Sometimes is hard to believe in god or something bigger than us but when you see what I saw yesterday is hard not to believe. The ambulance came very fast and the cops too, they got him on a stretcher and we took him to geisinger wyoming valley hospital in plains PA. We didn’t know if he was going to make it to through the night, he was in and out and it was a horrible site to see, a good friend almost gone in a second a young guy at the middle of his life waiting for a miracle to happend.

The rest of vasils family came to the hospital later on and they moved him from the ER to CPU section of the hospital to wait for the night. We all stood there

and waited for day 3

Hi everyone this is day one journal for the n y thrill seekers ride the challenge bike tour from nyc to Chicago.

On Friday may 25^th we set pour to do and epic bike tour called ride the challenge to promote and raise money for the young adult institute, an organization that help and provides relives for mentally disable people and children, also known as YAI.

On Friday we took off from morning Side Park in nyc, at about 1130 am, it was myself David Coello, Vasil Ranchinskiy founder of NY thrill Seekers and Amanda Greer. We when up town to the George Washington bridge, while crossing the bridge myself and vasil hit a bridge connector on the floor and we both got flats on our bikes, I lost both of my water bottles on the bump. we had to ride our bikes out of the bridge and try to fix them asap, but we ran into some problems with the bike pumps it turns out we had European tubes and not American so the mouth is smaller and I wasn’t sure how to make our pumps fit that air gage. After working with the pumps for a few minutes without any positive results, vasil and I took on the power of technology and looked for a bike shop near us on our phones. vasil found one within minutes it was about a mile away from us, We walked towards the bike shop on jersey.

At the bike shop we got both bikes fixed the people in the bike shop were the best, great personality good prices and took care of us in minutes, after that we go on our way. Our original route from map my ride got lost, that application is pretty cool but very difficult to use for long distance I think google will be better. So we had to reset a new route, we took route 46 all the way up for the first 50 to 60 miles into the ride, we met our friend Igor at the first stop point for the night. Due to the hills on this route it took us about 7 hours of riding with stops in between when we got tired and breaks for water snacks, energy drinks and to stretch. Some of those hills were brutal!!!   Then he invited us to his house near Poconos so we could spend the night in his house and have a home cooked meal. We met vasil parent at igors house then igor and I cooked steak, corn, macaroni salad, potatoes and pasta.  After our meal Vasil and I had to go back to staten island and pick up some items that where left on my truck we drove there at about 12 and got back around 4 am.

After all this items and road blocks we managed to deal with and finish our first day on our bike tour.

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