Yet another post raving about the GAP... this trail is truly a national treasure! My Dad and I did the trip from Frostburg, MD to Pittsburgh, PA over 3 days last Thurs-Sat. Through some really fantastic luck we actually avoided getting drenched till a random cloudburst near Mckeesport finally got us on Saturday. The tremendous deluge on Thursday hit Rockwood literally as we rolled into our guest house accommodations and the storm passed early the next morning making Friday a chilly but wonderful riding day. I took alot of pictures along the way and I'm splitting them up into segments on my blog, I should probably edit a little deeper but for anyone trying to get a feel for the trail I think more pictures might be helpful so I'm indulging in a pretty heavy dose of photos! I'll post up here as I get them up.
Riv Content - The purple-luki handled the trail with every bit of grace you would expect. We were pretty lightly loaded given that we were B&B or guest housing it for accommodations. I only needed clothes, personal electronics, spares, tools, water and snacks. I need to weigh the kit but my guess is less than 30 lbs. I'll put up some more gear related thoughts soon once I've had a bit more time to think about it. My cargo carrying was accomplished with a Carradice longflap in the back over a Nitto R-14 and a Sackville Medium in a Wald 137 up front. That did put most of my weight carried up hi but as it is my general commuting setup I didn't notice any handling issues. I'd like to try a lower riding pannier setup sometime to compare. One piece of gear I wish I'd had - An Axe! :) or a folding saw anyway, we came across a number of downed trees that we could mostly get the bikes up and over easily but I just saw on the GAP Facebook page that a landslide caused a more serious blockage just after we'd gone by. Mostly I'm bemoaning missing the opportunity to strap a hatchet to the bike... next time! I'm already three posts deep in my GAP retrospective on the blog so here you go; Preview<http://dr2dc.blogspot.com/2014/05/farther-son-gap-trip-preview.html> Frostburg - Mason Dixon Line Gallery<http://dr2dc.blogspot.com/2014/05/gap-trip-gallery-1-frostburg-mason.html> Mason Dixon Line - Rockwood Gallery <http://dr2dc.blogspot.com/2014/05/gap-trip-gallery-2-mason-dixon-line.html> I'll leave off w/ some more Riv Content... I rode the Purple-Luki all the way to Pittsburgh but I returned with a Fairway Green-Luki courtesy of Bill E. The Purple torch has been passed, I enjoyed my time with her very much and I'm really looking forward to getting the Fairway Green Saluki built up. In the end the agapanthus purple just wasn't for me but I can't wait to see what Bill does with her. I've got some stripped down side by side frame shot's coming soon from our meet up and swap. <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3mQx9gOy7_A/U3niuXgp59I/AAAAAAAAD_4/LNF6rj0rdUQ/s1600/DSC_3258.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
