I had all day Saturday to myself, the weather was gorgeous, and I was eager to spend the day outside riding. After a dismally dreary and wet spring, the ground was finally dry enough to pull the fenders off, put on the 2.1 Thunder Burts and go ride some trails.
I totalled 101KM/60 miles over about 5-6 hours. It started off with running a few errands in the city, then riding gravel bike paths out to a nearby Provincial Park full of mountain bike single track. The headwind was brutal going out, but you know what that means coming home... Some of you may remember I didn't have a particularly immediate connection with the Albatross bar. Well, I'm happy to say that after some very subtle tweaks, I've had some big rewards. Raising the bars up just a pinch and angling them down a touch has made my wrists happy. No more pain, even after all day on the bike. I made some other changes as well - I put the Carradice Camper Longflap on the front of the bike, for a few reasons. First, I hate rear-only loads. The bike feels awful when standing up, and makes it difficult to hop over small obstacles. Second, while I do have a Swift Industries Ozette bag and a Wald/Shop Sack combo, neither of those are particularly waterproof and neither of them hold delicate stuff securely. The Ozette is rigid, so anything in there shakes around (ie: camera) unless you deliberately over-fill it to take up the empty space. The basket is better, but I just wanted to try something new. Overall I gotta say that this is a GREAT combination. It lacks accessibility while riding, but other than that it is the best system I've used yet. Everything is secure, it looks great, it's waterproof, and they are relatively cheap bags. I'm going to order a second one so I have matching front/rear bags. For stuff I want easy access to (phone, snacks, wallet) I use a Randi Jo Fab. bartender bag. The only thing I can't grab while riding is my SLR camera, but I'm hunting for a suitable hip pack to solve that issue. Anyway, trails were excellent, Atlantis shredded them all with ease. I did about 25km of single track and 75km of mostly unpaved bike paths. I packed some trail-side taco's and grapefruit radlers for lunch. Ran into a few friends on the trail, saw some nice wildlife, and got home with the bike still pretty clean! <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hP7c8yHzA-0/Vx2dcZXhjtI/AAAAAAAAQFw/RfpJfVJAHr4oF2EGcVGJBEtUpjUgpWoDwCLcB/s1600/untitled-2.jpg> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JmiwktBWDbY/Vx2dkBq15ZI/AAAAAAAAQF0/OUHnPmGyHeEfYLWkEPDNXfL0wMnwtpMrQCLcB/s1600/untitled-10.jpg> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LWmcEo4rIso/Vx2dyM2fbiI/AAAAAAAAQF4/blLxwCmATg0q760BX2EfaPtXZmc__Oc1wCLcB/s1600/untitled-41.jpg> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CDkDFUQpf1Y/Vx2d9F67uHI/AAAAAAAAQF8/6cdYckvSZdg6xiuyZv45kkTpYT9HW5uQwCLcB/s1600/untitled-46.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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
