Quality Caffeine, Served Fresh

Show up early. Peckerhead sponsor Relax It's Just Coffee will be serving up iced coffee and espresso Saturday morning to make sure we're all jacked up before hitting the road. You could just take some bennies, but that's nowhere near as elegant.

2016 Route Maps are Live

Course is marked and the maps are live. The Half Pecker (36 miles) and the Full Pecker (65 miles) have stayed consistent this year. They're about as good as I can make them. Full Pecker riders will go up Garber this year rather than Stoffer. Variety is the spice of life, they say.

The John Holmes returns to form after a couple of lackluster years. Tipping the scales at nearly seventy miles, Mr. Holmes is longer and harder than he has been in years. Riders see the return of Snyder Road, the full length of Swigart, and then take an eastward swing past Malabar Farm. From there, these adventurers will visit Stout Road, Gladden, and Moffet in succession, finally heading toward HQ by swinging west on Berry Road.

Mr. Holmes will finish them off with a run up Hanley Road, across Woodville and Straub, and then a steady run-in on South Main.

Create Routes or Search for a route from millions at MapMyRide

2016 PKR is set to go at new HQ

Just have to mow the lawn and we're all set.

Management is hard at work marking courses, sending e-mails at work, and getting the new HQ up and running (at right).

We've consulted our attorneys, and are relatively sure that we won't get sued by our new neighbors when you knuckleheads show up Saturday morning.

So far, RSVP's are piling in and we have folks headed in from as far away as Delaware, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

If you're just tuning in, here's the basics:

June 18, 2016

Mansfield, Ohio

536 Chevy Chase Road

No entry fees, ample parking.

Open for business at 7:30 a.m.,

Staggered start at 9:00 a.m. sharp

3 marked routes

Beer, hot dogs, and juvenile behavior well into the evening courtesy of your hosts.

RSVP to lawsonallred@yahoo.com

We Debut Our New Broom Wagon

Veteran Peckerheads have come to accept over the years that the Invitational is a self-supported ride. Support vehicles are for TOSRV, we have always reasoned. Our rugged individualists would be insulted at the thought of riding home in a minivan. In fact, some of our best stories have come from those who cracked and had to find their way home. Who doesn't remember when Neil Llewellyn was going so slow he fell over on Dill Road. Or when I dry-heaved my way home over the 20 miles in '06. Or when AARP Peckerhead Jack Bargaheiser plowed himself under 50 yards from the finish? Good times, baby, good times.

For Peckerhead management to sign off on a follow car, such a vehicle would have to present a set of distinct advantages that our riders could appreciate. We think we may have found such a mode of transport. See above.

Dangerous. Impractical. Environmentally hostile. A parachute! 

2015 PKR Update

Whew. Preparations this year have been like no other. I guess selling your house and preparing to move while rolling PKR style will do that.

Anyway, we are totally up and running full-steam, though there will likely be more last minute stuff than usual.

PKR HQ will be at 651 Sloane for one final year.

Your invitations will drop in the mail early this week or - if you're lucky - be hand delivered by Mgt.

For those that ordered PKR kit (THANKS!), things are right on schedule. Podiumwear has even agreed to cover drop shipping on all orders. So your stuff should arrive directly at your doorstep.

In other news, the routes are not yet marked. We are actively looking at some road closures and other stuff. So routes may be shifting around a bit up to the last minute. However, the 2014 routes are representative.

Finally, our sponsors have once again come through huge and we'll be delivering the baddest SWAG bags in cycling to luck raffle winners. Make sure - when you are throwing your money around - that you direct a good deal of it at the sponsors.

More to come. PKR Mgt.