Having traveled up Pikes Peak many times in a car, I will say that making any progress up that mountain, on a bike, is a significant achievement!
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 2:34:35 PM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Well, not really an attempt at the summit as the highway’s only open to > mile 16. I made it to roughly mile 14, at which point an incoming storm > front attempted (and nearly succeeded) at blowing me back down the > switchback I’d just made it up. > > Amazing ride down! Curvy, steep mountain road. Leaning into curves. What a > blast! I got to pass a few cars creeping along from lowlander states. Poor > folks were white knucklin’ it at speeds slower than I was on the way up > (exaggeration, but only slight). > > Here is the switchback I wimped out on (the previous four photos are the > ascent as well). > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/18178512836/in/dateposted-public/ > > With abandon, > Patrick > > *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org>* > *www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.OurHolyConception.org>* > > -- 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.
