On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:12 PM, frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > > >> Bring your bike to GFM: A ride through the Blue Ridge Mountains with >> Frank Theriault will make the Himalayas seem easy! > > I'd like to go, but it might be difficult to do both GFM and Chicago. > It might depend which (if any) Chainsaw might decide to go to.
I would love to go, but i mentioned earlier its 4 weeks before school lets out for the summer and i would lose out on the bonus, providing i don't get sick and lose it any way. If so, what the hell:-) Dave > > I will have a road bike this year, so if I do GFM, the bike will be > making the trip, too. Keep in mind, Mark, we didn't do any big hills > on our little 40 mile jaunt to the Tennessee border and back to the > cabin, and I didn't have anything approaching alpine gearing (42-21 > was the smallest gear I had). If we'd have been riding in the > mountains closer to GFM I'd have been a goner. Geez, some of those > ascents are long and steep! > > I'm thinking maybe a 39 tooth small ring might help a lot. > > Anyway, to answer the initial question, I'll say "I'd love to but can > only say maybe at this point." > > cheers, > frank > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.