Since we're touched upon Rivendell touring setups, can I ask for your experience, hints, and advice doing this ride, southbound, and especially if you started in SF? How did you get to Portland? Amtrak?What routes/places should I try to hit, and what things should I try to do? Conversely, what routes/places/things should I avoid?
I'm planning a mid-Oct start and had bought *Bicycling The Pacific Coast* by Vicky Spring as reference. I'll be riding solo, and don't have any particular goal other than enjoying myself for a couple of weeks. I won't go hardcore and do a full-on bike-camp, so it'll be mostly credit card touring; I will be bring some rudimentary camping equipment (e.g., tent, sleeping bag, stove, etc) so I won't be caught out if I fall behind schedule and fail to make checkpoints in time. I must confess that I've never done any cyclotour before (not even a S24O), but I've camped, and my cycling fitness isn't terrible; for example, today's ride was ~70mi/6000ft and I averaged ~14mph. I do hope the route won't be so hilly, as I want to take time to enjoy the scenery and do vacation things. Riv content: I will do this ride with either my Custom or Atlantis. If I get nutty enough, I may even ride my Wilbury. LOL -- 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.
