Awesome! You're inspiring me to try the rando stuff. Keep the pics coming! I'm itching to try more than the 50 miles I did a few weekends back. I've been thinking about getting a rando bag for the front now that I have a large Acorn bag for the back (yep, y'all talked me into getting that last black one...) Today would have been a perfect day in Seattle, too - sunny and mid-sixties. Hmmm - I gotta get out of the spring cleaning mode...
Brian On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, what a day. This was my first brevet of 2010, my third time > riding the Birkie 200k, and the first time I ever rode it without > rain. In fact, the weather was awesome. A little windy on the return > trip but overall fantastic, especially considering that it rained for > the entire ride last year and most of the ride the year before that. I > started today's ride with 2 goals, first to finish and second to > finish under 8hrs both of which were accomplished. My finish time was > 7hr 52 min. > > Besides the fantastic weather other things came together to make this > ride a success. I remained fueled and hydrated throughout the ride. I > rode my Hilsen and it handled fine with no mechanicals. Last year I > rode Jack Brown blues for the brevet series and wasn't completely > satisfied with them. While they are a sturdy tire they felt a bit > dead. Earlier this week I put some JB greens on and have to say that > they are an entirely different tire. They felt so much faster. I had > no problems with flats which I was worried about considering they're a > lighter weight tire. Tentatively my plan is to use them for the 300k > although that route does take in rougher roads with more debris. > > It was great to see people from last year and after the ride I had > food with some fellow randos. Just can't get enough of talking about > bikes and randonneuring after a great ride like that. > > Here's a few pictures: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/41335...@n00/sets/72157623660202938/ > > --mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
