That's pretty brave, taking off with a 70% rain chance. I usually dodge recreational riding at 40% rain chance. I rode both days of the weekend in broken light rain with scattered peeking blue sky, and racked up 88 miles. My friends were RV'ing at a KOA on the Salado Creek Greenway in the near southside of town. Two couples, trained chefs, one a homebrewer - it was an event not to miss. Saturday, I started at the north end of the greenway and rode down to meet them, then guided them to the south end of the greenway, which includes a loop around a lake.
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/Viner/aaPB010001.jpg> My bike is built on a cross frame, with no holes for anything. I've been very happy with the Raceblade XL fenders, adding a PDW Origami splash guard to the seat tube to make them close-enough to full-coverage. It takes about 3 minutes to install them and they even provide adequate coverage for my 38mm Barlows. With a fold-up tire, two tubes, tools for every fastener, chain kit, saddle cover, and personal sundries, my saddle bag is pretty much loaded. So after a mounting epiphany for a Mark's front rack, Ely at Ruthworks made me a 3-l front bag. In it, I carry my wind/rain shell, goretex helmet cover (worst part of a vented helmet in the rain is the wash coming over your eyes), shortie socks, and have room to stuff layers. I affectionately call her the Italian Huffy, roadies call her a cruiser (a strange pedestrian girl on the greenway questioned her gender - some rude comment about the bag), but I think she should at least be considered a Sport Tourer, and I like to think of her as an Upright Rando. I started off the morning in knickers, knee socks, long-sleeve merino base with a Columbus tee shirt (from Chuck Schmidt). Peeled the knee socks before our noontime ride down the greenway. My friends loved the ride - one couple is from a town in the hill country, and this was their first ride on the greenway. It follows the creek through cypress tunnels, connecting a series of parks - there were go-kart races at Covington park. The KOA was also very nice, in a pecan grove. After the ride, IPA was exceptional, as were the carrabba burgers off the grill with sweet potato fries from the scan pan. The carrabba burgers include copious sweet onions, jalapenos, chipotle peppers and sun-dried tomatoes chopped in with the ground sirloin. -- 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.
