I’ve got the beginning of an R12 going. I missed the December San Francisco Randonneurs event and made up for it yesterday with a solo 200k Permanent. I had done the route once before in 2011. It’s an odd route, called “Tour of OC Bike Paths”. It’s a big diamond shaped route around south Orange County featuring several bike path sections. Some of those path sections are meandering and windy with tons of turns at forks that makes the miles move slowly, particularly when you are sharing the path with walkers.
At any rate, it was a nice 145 mile day that started and finished in the dark. It was flat by SFR standards with a little under 6000ft of climbing. I did it on my Black Mountain Cycles road bike, making it my fifth different bike for 2018 brevets. It was my first 200k with helmet mounted lighting and that worked fine. It was my first 200k on an original Flite saddle and that worked out well also. My 2x8 DT friction drivetrain was ample. My RuthWorks storm series bags gave me all the capacity I needed. The lowlight was I forgot to bring a Mount for my Wahoo so the GPS lived in a jersey pocket. Riv content included: silver shifters, MUSA wool base layer, khaki newbaums, a rear triangle reflector, and attitude. Happy New Year Bill Lindsay El Cerrito Ca -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
