Re: [RBW] Ride Reports - Where You Defied the Weather

2024-03-18 Thread John G
Visual ride report of a day that ended in pretty hard rain. About 6 minutes into the video the rain came. at 9:40 we're making wakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRgZG5d10ZY Cheers, John G Union Bridge, MD On Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 7:40:07 PM UTC-4 Jay wrote: > Where riding and work mee

Re: [RBW] Ride Reports - Where You Defied the Weather

2024-03-17 Thread Jay
Where riding and work meet to make for interesting stories is memorable indeed. That sounds so different from where I live, other than the wind. My first bike as an adult was a Kona Blast, and I had two wheel sets. I remember trying to keep up with my brother in law one day with the road whee

Re: [RBW] Ride Reports - Where You Defied the Weather

2024-03-17 Thread Patrick Moore
Nothing epic here either, but I'll play. This incident sticks in my memory as one of those incidents that you laugh about for the rest of your life. Probably 30 years ago, young, spry 38 or 39 year old, working in Gallup, Four Corners NM, outskirts of the Navajo Reservation. Took long lunch break,

[RBW] Ride Reports - Where You Defied the Weather

2024-03-17 Thread Jay
Some of my most memorable rides involved bad weather. I recall many moments from a ride close to 20 years ago, where halfway into a 60k ride it started snowing, a lot. I rode home 30km in what accumulated to 5cm of snow, on 35mm tires. I used a small backpack with a water bladder and the hos