June 28, 2008
Cycle - 10.5 hours - 6/29/2008
grand tour 08. lots of pics:
homebrewed bike rack:
do not try to chase these guys or you will feel like I feel right now: (thanks keith, for keeping us on track):
lake sherwood:
peaches:
citrus:
almost the last climb, ocean breeze from here:
tje, the route goes like this. all miles ridden on saturday:
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 06/28/2008
- Time: 16:44:32
- Total Time: 10:32:58.00
- Distance: 196.66 miles
- Average Speed: 18.64 mph
- Ascent: 13,751 ft
Filed by bigdave_nv at 4:44 pm under Cycle
Digg! this story.
you don’t need me to tell you that you rock, but . . . you rock. was the 200 all in one day?
[...] Now, the rear brake/shifter assembly has finally degraded to the point where it wont hold a gear. Sticks on the downshift and constantly jumps gears. I rode through grand tour with this fickle autoshifting disorder & I’m certainly not willing to do all that death ride climbing with the chain jumping. [...]
[...] Did the ride this year on my own trusty aluminum trek frame. Knocked 40 minutes off last year’s time & rode the course on a double (using a SRAM 11-2 instead of last year’s borrowed carbon fiber Kestrel triple. Suffered less this year using less gears, so that’s good fitness progress. Did a much better job with nutrition in the saddle than grand tour. Good ride. [...]