Man, that looks like fun. Good lookin' Bleriot too. Ryan
On Apr 11, 9:37 pm, jinxed <hbcl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Saturday morning I set out on the Bleriot with a friend of mine for a > little 100 mile jaunt. His new years goal was to do at least one > century ride each month. My goal was to accompany him on an "as of yet > undetermined" number of them. Well this month we decided to mix in as > much dirt road rough riding as we could to grab some better scenery > and get out of town. I went to work plotting out a course that took us > from the town of Parker CO, south into the rural dirt for 50 miles out > and back. I did just that, but unfortunately failed to take a gander > at the elevation profile of the route. I had inadvertently set up a > real gut busting gravel grinder. > > We did it, and endured multiple levels of pain in doing so. Our final > mileage was 101.4 and took us through some wonderful sights. We rode > through Castlewood Canyon state park and the ruins of a dam that burst > in 1933. It sent a 15ft wall of water some 30 miles north to Denver > destroying everything along the Cherry Creek in it's path and killing > over a hundred people. We were treated to a wonderfully clear view of > Pikes Peak 50 miles to the south of us. Right in the middle we decided > to shoot off a section of bike path and ride a 2 mile mountain bike > loop atop a rocky mesa. In the end I think we managed a 40/60 dirt/ > paved split and enjoyed the dirt exponentially more. > > I don't have all the pictures yet, but here is a little set: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/42027...@n00/sets/72157623711195863/ -- 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.
