Beautiful photos Deacon!! Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 30, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamontg...@mac.com> wrote: > > I barely made it out today. The place across the creek began jackhammering as > I was packing my stuff and getting ready to load the bike on the car (I cheat > on the up hill part of highway 24 — too much traffic!). I rode to a trailhead > a bit down the way, my wife drove the van there, and I loaded up in relative > serenity, unsure if I was already wrecked for the day (it’s not always > immediately obvious). I figured what’s the worst that can happen on remote > single track? Sardonic grin. > > I experimented a bit with gearing on this. I hoped to be out for a long day, > so I did the conservative thing and used LCG (lowest common gear, aka > walking) for the steeper climbing to save my legs. Good thing I did, as I was > tuckers with two hours to go. Grin. > > First long climb I used 32/22 gearing. It was frustrating because it was too > slow though the climb was steep. I discovered I have a much better rhythm > using the 32/19 (which I switched to after the first big climb). The standing > bits flow much better. > > Food: ate a hunk of cheese and an avocado creekside. I generally don’t eat > much on rides. Being a fat burner really helps lighten the load. Grin. > > Water: I drank (4) 28 oz bottles for an average of 12.4 oz/hour. That’s more > than I usually drink, I think. It was relatively hot (80˚F) and often sunny. > > I experimented with using a single layer ventile rain jacket as a shirt (no > shirt underneath) and it worked very well. Sweat breathed and evaporated and > I stayed cool. I also wore shoes the whole time to prevent my feet from > getting sore on the pedals. > > Amazing wild flowers again. I tried to capture them in the photos, but I > don’t have a macro on my iPhone. > > Fantastic ride that tuckered me right and proper and the longest Quickbeam > ride so far. Singletrack like this is under biking a bit, but the lighter > bike helps make up for it and it is loads of fun picking a line and letting > the Beam bounce away beneath me. 25 miles of single track, 8 of paved > returning home. > > Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/sets/72157645440910941/ > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > www.OurHolyConception.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
