In case you don’t remember Evan E’s recent post proposing a Rivendell Speedblend World Tour here’s the link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rbw-owners-bunch/evan$20speedblend/rbw-owners-bunch/8Zfrw3fZPyA/AH75KCEORUUJ Evan and I have ridden together several times with a monthly Bay Area Rivendell Riders group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bay-area-rivendell-riders) so I was happy to take him up on his offer to try out his Speedblend tires on my Rivendell and pass them on to the next person. Evan was hoping that they may travel the country (world?) being passed from Riv to Riv for photos in various locations around the globe.
Having just handed in final grades Wednesday, I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off my summer break and the Speedblend World Tour than a trip up Grant’s mountain, Mt. Diablo. Thanks to Evan’s Speedblends, I made it to the summit for my very first time. Tough climb but worth it. There are beautiful views in every direction from the 3849’ summit with windmill farms to the east, the peaks and valleys of the east bay to the south and San Francisco (completely fogged in) just past Grizzly Peak to the west. The wild descent provided a great opportunity to try out the color-changing feature of the Speedblends. I think they achieved the color of a white-hot flame! Photos prove I made it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/129545862@N03/18050611369/in/album-72157653249338088/ So, who’s next on the Speedblend World Tour? I will be in LA next week and can bring the tires if someone would like to take them on adventures in Southern Califronia. Let me know and we can arrange the exchange. I’ll also be bringing my Hillborne with trail and road wheelsets if anyone wants to get together for a ride as well. I may try out El Moro Canyon where I used to ride when I lived in LA in my 20’s. Want to see if anything's changed since I lived there 25+ years ago. I welcome any other suggestions for other SoCal rides. If you have a must-do ride, please pass it along. If anyone is up for a ride while I'm in town, let me know. John -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
