Photograph courtesy of Ira Ryan Cycles.

From a cyclist’s point of view, the attributes of a great place for road bike riding include beautiful routes, lots of organized rides, friendly clubs, and custom frame builders.

Frame builders?

Unless you live in Oregon, you might not consider the impact that independent bicycle builders have on a community. But for those of us who live here, the benefits of riding among men and women who make their living making bicycles makes us smarter riders. Their work challenges us to reconsider long-held opinions, most of which are formed by reading magazine advertising or listening to sound-bites on The Tour de France.

By definition, custom bikes are in limited production. A typical frame builder might finish between 25 and 50 bicycles each year, depending on how well the shop is organized and how many individuals are involved. For most, it is a workforce of one, completing one bicycle at a time. The end product is often a reflection of the builder’s own riding style. As a result, the diversity of designs in a given region is directly related to the number of frame builders located there.

According to Bikeportland.org, the city of Portland is home to some 17 custom frame builders. More live down-state, and their numbers are growing. With so many builders in Oregon, it is relatively easy to find a one who is riding the same roads that you do and understands the nuances between bicycles that are similar, but different.

Take long distance bicycles, for example. The differences between frames that are built for centuries, brevets, and loading touring are huge to riders who participate in these riding styles. The distinction is simply too fine for manufacturers to address in mass production. But a handcrafted bicycle can be dialed-in to reflect those nuances - and fit precisely to your body, too.

In just about every other city in America a cottage industry like custom frame building would go unnoticed. Not so in Portland, which by just about any measure, has emerged as the cycling capital of America. In fact, the city’s lead economic development agency is investing in the growth and development of Oregon’s independent bicycle builders by providing them with training in small business management, and investing in marketing and promotion for their industry.

In April 2008, the Portland Development Commission (PDC) unveiled an exhibit featuring ten custom bicycles from around the state. Located at Portland International Airport, the exhibit will be seen by as many as 3 million air travelers. The show will expose visitors to the art and science of handmade bicycles, And, it will put an exclamation point on the fact that Portland has emerged as the center of the renaissance of handcrafted bicycles in America.

If you aren’t able to get to the Terminal E at the airport before October when the exhibit closes, you are not out of luck. PDC has produced a short film to give you a glimpse of the exhibit. If you have never thought about riding a bicycle that was built especially for you, this video is bound to get your wheels turning.

Have you ever noticed that the rides with the biggest pay-off are the ones that we consider the most difficult? When you say that something is too hard or too difficult, what do you mean, exactly?

Are you talking about the skill that is required? Are you talking about muscle strength and cardiovascular endurance necessary to sustain your pace for 100 miles? Or when you say, “that ride is too difficult,” are you talking about the terrain and the weather? Or are you thinking about the emotional toughness required to keep the pedals turning and not quit?

Easy rides are the ones we know we can do.

Difficult rides are the ones that our local heroes have done. We might dream of riding them, but we don’t, because we believe we aren’t up for the challenge on some level.

Have you also noticed a rider in your club – a regular Joe or Jane just like you and me - that has taken on one of these “too difficult” rides and succeeded? Have you wondered how they have done it?

Everybody has their own technique for breaking out. But if you are new to the game of stretching yourself beyond your comfort zone, here are a few tips that have worked for me in the past, and I hope will work for me again on the Rocky Mountain 1200.

Load it up

The first step to finishing a challenging ride is to catalog the benefits of finishing. No kidding - make a list and be specific. If the ride organizer offers medals, write that down. If the jersey rocks, write that down. If the ride is in a great location, and you can tie-in a family vacation, make note of how much the kids will enjoy the time away. If riding this event means you’re going to need a better bicycle, add that to the list. Load as many positive associations into finishing that ride as you possibly can.

Chunk it down

Riders who are successful at cycling’s most challenging rides chunk them down. They take that big, hairy, nightmare-of-a-goal ride and slice it into smaller, easier, increments that they know they can do because they have done them before. The longer, more difficult rides become a string of short, easy pieces the riders are confident they can manage. Randonneurs may blow your mind because they can ride 1200 kilometers in less than 90 hours. But the most successful Randos will tell you they focus on one leg of the route at a time, often resetting their odometers at each check point. They do so because thinking about how far they have to travel is just too daunting.

Feel the fear

As human beings, we are twice as likely to act to avoid pain as we are to seek pleasure. So try this mind game when you roll out of bed, thinking it won’t hurt to miss just this one training ride. Link the decision to failing at your goal. Think about how you would feel if you aren’t fit enough to climb that mountain pass. Picture your family at the finish line waiting for you, and how you would feel as you roll up to them … in a SAG Wagon. Make as many negative associations as you can between failing to train and failing to finish, and you will be surprised to see yourself up and moving for the coffeemaker.

Buy the jersey

Organizers spend hours debating the designs and the colors and the fabrics of their jerseys. They post them as early as they can before the ride, because they know the jersey symbolizes the event, and everything it stands for. Even the toughest riders go weak in the knees when they hold their official finisher’s jersey. The tougher the ride, the more value it has. They wear them with pride on club rides. Some even frame them.

If the event you’ve picked for this season is really important to you, then put your money down early and buy that jersey before they sell out. You might be hesitating, especially if you aren’t confident you will finish and you don’t want a jersey for a ride you couldn’t complete. To that I would say, ‘all the more reason to buy it.’ Fear of owning a jersey for a ride you didn’t finish could be the motivation you need to keep the crank arms turning and get that ride done.

Here is a more positive spin a negative neural association: imagine how lousy you will feel when you cross the finish line, having completed the ride of your life, and all you have to show for it is the stinking t-shirt.

Back in the 1970s, when young American frame builders were perfecting their craft, I was perfecting my own. We were all serious riders back in the day, but unlike these dudes, my first love was riding waves, not roads.

Oh, I had a road bike, and a nice one, too. I rode it every day from my apartment in Cardiff-by-the-Sea to UCSD in La Jolla. And, when the ocean was flat, I would get on that bike, point it east, and just ride. That Peugeot was everything I needed in a bicycle. If I needed more, I wouldn’t have had the words to explain it.

Fast-forward 30 years. The roles surfing and cycling play in my life are reversed. To put it in terms my old surfing buddies would understand, the Cascade Range is to cycling what the north shore of Oahu is to surfing.

I have been riding the roads of Oregon and Washington for close to 20 years now. But it wasn’t until I started riding brevets that I discovered the short-comings in my bicycles. Randonneuring requires a bike that is comfortable, durable, and serviceable on the road - by the rider.

Like a lot of new randos, I came to the sport with a production frame, and optimized it one component at a time, as my understanding grew and my budget would allow. Some would consider my Rivendell Atlantis a bike well suited to randonneuring. In fact, it is, as long as it is ridden within the bounds that its designer intended. Push any bike beyond its limits as I did on the Glacier 1000 and you can expect problems.

In the months that followed the Glacier, I thought about the performance characteristics that I was looking for in a rig that is ready for randonneuring. I thought back to the days when I was riding waves as intensely as I now ride the road. There were two tenets that I lived by. First, I knew that it was unlikely that an off-the-shelf design would suit my needs. Second, I believed it was imperative to have my boards designed by a shaper who was active in the sport, doing the kind of surfing that I did. I figured those same tenets apply equally to cycling.

I have been a student of bicycle design for the past few years. In addition to all the reading I have done, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on the subject of long distance bicycles in 2006. It was through that panel that I met the Steve Rex.

Steve is well-known as an accomplished ultracyclist and randonneur. He is a frame designer and builder who understands the challenges of riding unsupported on rough, wet, mountain roads. We spent a month talking about what I wanted the bike to do. In the course of those conversations, I gained a deep appreciation for his points of view on the aspects of bicycle design that yield a stable ride with a front-end load, without sacrificing responsiveness when you need it.

Steve has designed a new custom bicycle that has been optimized for randonneuring in every way. Even more important, it has been tailored to reflect my skills and ability and the way that I want to approach the sport. Without a doubt, this is the ultimate randonneuring bicycle for me, but it may not be so for you or for anyone else. But that is the singular beauty of a custom bicycle. There won’t be another one exactly like it.

Certainly, there are aspects of frame design and component selection that make a long distance bicycle different than a road racing bike, and these should be integrated into every rando design. But, as riders, we need to know enough about our sport and how we want to approach it to be able to explain it in terms a designer can understand and interpret with tubing and geometries and components.

The rest is just turnin’ the pedals.

It takes a lot of emotional strength to build the momentum necessary to accomplish a really big goal on the bike, especially early in the season, when it’s cold and wet and dark outside. But once the training becomes habit, the rider gains momentum. The physical improvements begin to show up in strength, speed, and endurance.

Then, an injury sets you back. You can’t continue the training without risking further injury. But you can’t back off your program, without jeopardizing your fitness and ultimately, your ability to finish the ride you are training for.

How do you keep a positive attitude in the face of a seemingly no-win situation?

You must face up to the fact that you are injured. Just as it is with any other aspect of your training, dealing with a sports injury requires discipline and time. You can’t keep pushing the edge of the envelope and expect to recover. Healing must become the training priority. And, because of the anxiety you will experience, knowing your goal ride is in jeopardy, the focus of your riding, when you return to it, should be as much on healing the soul as healing the body.

So shift your focus to healing. See the health care provider that is most appropriate for your situation. Ideally, you will already have a doctor and a physical therapist that knows you and will help you get back on the bike as soon as possible. If you haven’t established these relationships, you might begin by asking riders in your club for the name of a clinic with a sports-medicine focus. That way, you won’t have to go far if your treatment requires multiple disciplines.

As you begin your treatment, it is crucial that listen to your body. That means staying off of the pain meds (if your doctor recommends it) so you are getting unfiltered feedback from the injury zone. If you can tolerate it, treat the pain with healthy doses of rest and ice. If you can’t, then riding the bike really isn’t an option.

Once you are ready to ride again, begin by spinning on the trainer, so you can control the intensity with absolute precision. When you decide to take it outside, do so on routes that are flat, short, and close to home. As you begin to feel stronger, you can add distance and climbing. Your objective is to complete the ride without pain, not riding to the point where it begins to hurt before turning around and heading home.

Most importantly, don’t over do. Instead, find a beautiful stretch of road where you can let the pedals turn over without so much effort, and just celebrate the fact that you are riding again. The time for ramping it up again is just over the horizon. For the moment, just sit back and enjoy the ride there.

One of the keys to success in cycling or any endeavor is achieving “self-unification.”

Author and time management expert Charles Hobbs defines self-unification as aligning the actions we take with our most deeply held values. When our actions are an outward extension of our core values, the world seems to revolve around us.

But when our actions are out of alignment with them, we experience disharmony. When these feelings come to the surface, they can take many forms, including anxiety, depression, anger, despair.

Have you ever arrived at a date with your significant other, but instead of feeling jazzed about the time you will spend together, you are distracted? Irritable? Did your partner mention this to you? How did you respond? Did you reflect or did you react? Have you ever arrived at work and by mid-morning, when you should be at the top of your game, you feel sluggish, unproductive, and just not motivated to tackle a project that would normally excite you?

Both of these situations could be the result of either too much riding, or not riding enough. The outcome is the same: you aren’t able to live in the moment because you are experiencing disharmony in your life. Something is dragging you down and you can’t quite put your finger on what it is. You are at one place, thinking of another place. You are not living in the moment.

Another example is training for 10 weeks, or even 20 weeks, and then quitting an event ride before you have exhausted every possible option to stay in it. That is one situation most experienced riders hope to avoid no matter how much pain they are in, or how crippled their bicycle may be. There are others who are more comfortable with a “DNF” and who believe that it is better to make the effort and fail, than to never make the effort at all.

In the end, there is no standard for handling this situation, beyond what is right or wrong for you. What is important is that you know why you are there in the first place, and be true to the values you are in the act of realizing.

Great frames are the ones that go the distance. They are the ones that are ridden, not hung on the walls. As a result, they need new paint and new chrome from time to time, so they can continue on. And that’s just what we’ve done with Ready to Ride. We’ve got a frame that’s stood up to the test of time; we’re in our third year on the Web. But now, we are updating our design, the chrome on the frame. We’ve given R2R a more streamlined and contemporary look that should help give it a leg up against the competition out there on the roads.

In addition to the aesthetic changes, there are several new features on the site I’d like to point out to you, and in some cases, quick overview. Hit the jump (new feature number one!) to get the full skinny.

As you have undoubtedly already noticed, we’re switching to a format that shows the summaries of posts on the front page. The goal here is to decrease the amount of clutter on the front page and decrease the amount of scrolling readers will have to do in order to browse through the rest of the posts. Except for in instances where a post is no more than two or three paragraphs, you will now always see a blue “read more” button at the bottom of these posts summaries while you’re browsing the main page. Slick, eh?

Bookmarking & Syndication
At the bottom of every post, you’ll now see a “bookmark” button. This button provides quick and easy access for our readers to share their favorite articles with their friends, family or fellow riders. You can even send stories to Digg if one of them grabs you in the right way!Additionally, we’ve moved our “Syndication” box in the sidebar up towards the top of the page so that the links for our various syndication options are more readily available.

The New Sidebar
Speaking of the sidebar, you’ll undoubtedly notice a fair amount of change over there to the right! Starting at the top, we’ve replaced the traditional search function with a shiny new AJAX powered search plugin. From now on when you want to search R2R, just type in your query, wait a second or two, and the results of your post will appear right below the search box! To reset your search, simply clear out the search box, or instantly search for something else. Go ahead, try it out!

We’ve also breathed some new life into the “Recent Comments” box, so that it now shows more of the comments left. Lastly, we’ve split the sidebar up into two columns so that the Categories, Archives and Links list sit higher up on the page where they’re more accessible. The new layout for the sidebar gives us more flexibility to add extra features, widgets and tools on the fly, which will allow us to make the R2R experience richer and more engaging for you, our wonderful readers. Be on the lookout for more stuff to pop up here in the near future.

Commenting & You
We’ve got a new system in place for commenting, something that I hope many of you will be glad to hear. To begin with, commenting is no longer broken, which is major plus. The issues we were experiencing with the commenting system earlier stemmed from the insane amount of comment spam we have been receiving, and the methods we’ve taken to combat that being so effective that they stopped comments from anybody and everybody, not just the baddies! So, we’ve eschewed that system in favor of something a little more friendly and convenient.

From now on, in order to leave comments on Ready to Ride, you will need to register an account with us. This is quick and easy; just click on the “Register” link under the “Meta” heading in the far right column, fill out the form and presto! You’re all ready to go. The plus side of this is that the system will remember who you are and you’ll only have to login as often as your cookies reset. As an added incentive for you to register your commenting account with us, we’ve set up a system for custom avatars that will appear alongside your name and posting date!

The avatars are easy to upload; when you’re logged into the WordPress Dashboard, click the “Your Avatar” tab underneath the “Users” tab, select the image you want to use for your avatar, and upload it. WordPress does the rest and automatically inserts your avatar alongside your comments. Now you can add that extra level of your own personality to your comments, if you so choose.

The other new commenting feature we’ve installed will insert your comments into the page on the fly. You can actually watch it fade in right before your eyes as soon as you hit the “submit” button. It’s an aesthetic touch more than anything else, but it’s still a nice bonus. Give it a spin when you get the chance.

Organization
As you may have noticed, there is now tabbed navigation at the top of the page. Right now, these tabs hold links to the home page, to the About R2R page (which provides some basic information about the site and biographies for David and me), and the More Info page (which provides our contact information). In the future, as R2R continues to expand, we’ll be looking to add additional tabs to the lineup that will help you navigate the site quickly and easily.

That just about wraps things up for the new set of site features. Hopefully you’ll all enjoy the new paint on the R2R frame; I’ve sure enjoyed getting this ready for all of you. Keep those pedals turning, folks.

In many parts of the world, it is just too nasty outside to ride in winter.

But every once in a while, even in the most extreme environments, there is a break in the weather. The temperature rises above freezing, the roads dry out, and the sun begins to shine through the clouds. Whether for a day or just a few hours, we see our window of opportunity and we feel the urge to get on the bike and ride.

And so you do. Then you notice that you are breathing much harder than you did the last time you climbed this hill. This is one of your most familiar routes, yet you find yourself working harder to turn the cranks than you did just a few weeks ago…or could have been a few months?Wait a minute. This doesn’t make any sense. You just finished your best season ever. You rode thousands of miles. Is it possible that you could have lost the gains of an entire season in so short a time?

Actually, muscle strength and power diminish relatively slowly. Studies have shown reductions of 8% to 14% following six weeks of inactivity. That is good news if you race criterium or track. But if endurance cycling is your passion, the news isn’t good. Muscular endurance declines significantly within a period as short as two weeks. The cause is a reduction in glycogen stored in the muscle tissue. Glycogen is the fuel the body uses as fuel when we cross the lactate threshold, like when climbing a mountain pass.

The affects of are even more pronounced on a rider’s aerobic fitness. “The cardiovascular system detrains rapidly with inactivity,” say Wilmore and Costill, in their book, Training for sport and activity.”Highly trained individuals will not be able to afford long periods of inactivity with little or no endurance training. An abstinence from training following a full season will produce much fitness regression and will require much training to recover the previous season’s level of fitness.”

While you may not become aware of these negative effects until you are back on the bike, early warning signals to be aware of include small changes in your body shape. Lean body weight decreases and total body fat increases with inactivity. When your pants feel snug, or your skin is hanging over your belt, you might consider it a warning sign that you need to step up your exercise, rather than your pant size.

Taken together, all of this presents a fairly good argument for staying in shape the year round. It isn’t possible to maintain peak fitness 12 months a year. But you can enjoy the benefits of time away the bike and still avoid the negative effects of detraining with active rest. For endurance cyclists, that means committing to a minimum of 30 to 45 minutes of aerobic activity, most days of the week.

Cycling Coach and author Fred Matheny recommends cross training during winter months with activities like running, hiking, snowshoeing, and cross country skiing. Building a winter bike, complete with fenders and wider, heavy-treaded tires, will allow you to ride when the weather is less than perfect.So what about the rider who has been off the bike and totally inactive since fall?

Wilmore and Costill have some good news for those who find themselves in that category. They say that far less effort is required to regain strength, power, and muscular endurance than what was required to first develop it. And, athletes who were well-trained during the past 12 months may have lost no more than half of their past level of fitness.

The key to regaining last season’s fitness level is to get moving again. Be sensible in your re-entry to the sport. Make your first rides no more than one-third the distance of your longest training ride last year. If you were comfortable riding 45 miles on Saturday in July with your club, then keep your first ride in February to 15 miles at an easy to moderate pace. Wait 48 hours before judging whether you went hard enough; it can take that long for the pain associated with soft tissue damage to surface.

Matheny’s Off-Season Training for Roadies could be just what you need right now for inspiration, motivation, and planning a season that will be successful and injury free. It is available for immediate download at RoadBikeRider.com.In the meantime, you might want to try this: get up from the computer right now, put on your coat, and take a brisk walk outdoors. When you get back, record it in your training log as the first workout in preparation for that Century in July 2008.

How you ever planned a ride, but when the time came, you experienced an overwhelming desire to avoid it, to sleep in, to stay on the couch, to put it off until later?

Some say that it is a craving for endorphins that drives endurance runners and long distance cyclists to train well beyond the limits of what is deemed normal, or rationale. Endorphins are released into the blood stream and create a euphoric affect, commonly known as runner’s high. Its affects are typically most pronounced when the athlete is exhausted, but continues to exercise by sheer will power.

So what is it that explains the urge we feel to remain inert? Is there some chemical compound, produced naturally in our bodies, that robs us of the energy and motivation?

The answer could be related to muscle memory. Muscle memory is a neuromuscular process that allows us to accomplish basic tasks, like brushing our teeth, or combing our hair, while thinking of other things.

On a higher order, musicians and athletes develop muscle memory so they can sing while playing the guitar, or to read a cue sheet while turning the cranks on a bicycle.

Could it be that the pain we feel when we are getting back into shape is stored as part of muscle memory? Could there be an anti-endorphin?

Two compounds enable muscle memory. One of them is serotonin.Among other things, Serotonin is believed to play an important role in body temperature, mood, sleep, sexual impulse, and appetite.

Endorphins may be addictive, but apparently, not as powerful as deep-rooted memories of the physical exertion required to feel their affect. Perhaps, muscle memory triggers the release of serotonin as a defensive mechanism.

I am not an endocrinologist, so all of this is pure conjecture. But if that is the case, is it any wonder we feel like staying under the covers instead of exercising?

Oregon Randonneur Bert Lutz with the Salsa Casseroll

Ready to Ride is testing a number of new products that will be of interest to long distance road cyclists. Of course, a true test of gear that is meant to go the distance requires that the test last a relatively long period of time, over hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles. The goal is to create a the test to simulate the conditions a road rider is likely to encounter.

We have done our best to do just that. As a result, the products aren’t what you might call “fresh from the floor of Interbike.” But a good long distance bike - and components and accessories to match - are hard to find, which may explain why products that are “new to me” are just as good as ones that are “new to the world,” as far as many distance cyclists are concerned.

We have been using a number of products throughout 2007, and we are happy to report that much of the gear we’ve tested is worthy of your consideration. All of the reviews will eventually be shared here, but two new products (the Salsa Casseroll and the Schwalbe Marathon Supreme) will be considered for publication at theRoadBikeRider.comweb site. We will let you know where to look first, as the reviews go live.

Here are a few of the products we are currently testing:

Salsa Casseroll

All-steel, all-rounder, road bike

• Test conditions: brevets, day trips, commutes to work, training rides
• Test duration: 24 hours (cumulative) / 400 miles
• Estimated publication date: March, RoadBikeRider.com. April, Ready to Ride

Schwalbe Marathon Supreme

Space-age, bullet-proof, all-weather road tires

• Test conditions: brevets, commutes, training rides, indoor trainer
• Test duration: minimum 1,000 miles
• Estimated publication date: April, RoadBikeRider.com. May, Ready to Ride

Polar S725x Cycling Computer

Multi-sport heart rate monitor with speed, cadence, altimeter and power

• Test conditions: brevets, commutes, training rides, indoor trainer, running, swimming, surfing
• Test duration: 12 months / 6,000 miles
• Estimated publication date: April, Ready to Ride

Delorme Topo USA 7.0

3D PC-based mapping software

• Test Conditions: route planning for day trips, brevets, training rides
• Test duration: 8 months
• Estimated publication date: June 2008, Ready to Ride

Delorme Earthmate PN-20

Hand-held GPS Receiver

• Test Conditions: day trips, brevets, training rides
• Test duration: 5 months
• Estimated publication date: June 2008, Ready to Ride

After starting out in Houston, Texas, in 2005, then spending two years in San Jose, California, The North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) is coming to Portland, Oregon. It is a fitting home coming for a show that has emerged as the world’s showcase for custom-built frames. Portland is widely considered to be the best place in America to ride a bike. It is also home to a growing industry cluster, including frame builders, component and accessory manufacturers, and a local government that is willing to invest to keep the momentum going.

On Sunday, February 10, 2008, Ready to Ride will host a live panel discussion at NAHBS. Getting Ready to Ride Centuries and Beyond will feature a stellar line-up of experienced long distance cyclists. Our goal is to provide road cyclists with a rapid introduction to the most exciting areas of sport-recreational cycling. Access to the workshop is included in the price of show admission, which is $15 in advance or $18 at the door.

Riders who are interested in tackling longer, more challenging routes want to avoid the most common mistakes. The panel includes a line-up of accomplished road riders who are actively involved with many of the most noteworthy cycling events in the Western United States. They will share their experiences to help riders focus on the fundamentals to get them up to speed in the shortest amount of time, with the greatest potential for success.

Panelists will discuss the unique aspects of centuries, double-centuries, multi-day rides and ultramarathon events, to prepare riders physically, mentally, and mechanically for their 2008 cycling season. The panel will feature presentations from:

• Michelle Grainger, Coach and Personal Trainer, Athletic Excellence
• Chris Kostman, Chief Adventure Officer and Race Director,AdventureCORPS
• Jonathan Nicholas, The Oregonian columnist, and Co-Founder, CycleOregon
• George Thomas, Co-Director, Race Across Oregon
• David Rowe (panel moderator), Editorial Director, Ready to Ride

We hope that you will join us at the show and attend the panel. But if you can’t, you are not out of luck. The edited transcript and photographs of the panel will be compiled into an eBook and distributed this spring byRoadBikeRider.com.This eBook will be the second we have published on long distance cycling. The first, also distributed by RoadBikeRider, is titlted A Rider’s Guide to Building the Long Distance Bicycle. It, too, was based on an NAHBS panel discussion.

The show opens on February 8 to the trade. It will be open to consumers on February 9 and 10. NAHBS will feature a battery ofworkshops and seminarsfor those who are active in the custom frame building industry, or just curious about breaking into it. Getting Ready to Ride Centuries and Beyond will run from 11:00am to 12:30pm on Sunday. Visit the NAHBS web site for more information about the show and for advanced ticket purchases.