I'm aboard, riding my 62cm Romulus with a buddy on his Bleriot. WRT the beer question, there's a beer garden at the Community College (and everything else from showers to live music to a baked potato and lasagna bar with TdF coverage in the cafeteria), and as Ryan calls out, plenty of local options. Hope to see you all on the road or at the halfway. After doing this ride year after year, I've concluded that STP in one day is a challenge, and one worth doing, and STP in 2 days is more like a festival. It's a fun, relaxed ride, and well, yes, there's a hill, but there's really just the one, and it's kind of a nice change.
If you haven't camped at a community college with 6k cyclists before, it's helpful to have earplugs at night, a headlamp for the morning, a cap with a bill (it's hot and you'll be out and about), cash for the vendors, flip-flops for locomotin', a bike lock in your luggage bag (there's a bike corral, but it can be a bottleneck in the morning), a spare key for the lock stashed in your bike bag or wallet just in case you pack the other key in your luggage in the morning, throw the bag onto the truck before breakfast, only to later understand that given your order or operations error, your bike is locked, the key is in your bag, your bag is on the truck buried under 2k other bags, and the security guys don't carry bolt cutters (or so I've heard). Breakfast opens at 4:00, and coffee runs out at 4:30 until they make more. And finally, Team Parkinson's has a fantastic meal offering at the 3/4-way point on Sunday, which eliminates the food line and provides healthy, organic (vegans accomodated) options for a very fair donation. Travel well, and say hey if you see us. Frank -- 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.
