And if it were sunny, I still wouldn't do this ride again. Did it about 6 years ago, and the one major downside is very little shade on the route. Most of the roads through open fields, and a hot sun is unrelenting.
Would be a much better ride in early October. > On Aug 20, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Jeff Lesperance <jeff.lespera...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Weather forecast is not getting any better for tomorrow on the route. I'm > moving my status to questionable. I really don't mind riding in the rain on > occasion but I'm not sure I'm keen to ride in predicted thunderstorms all day. > >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: >> Back in the day, they didn't have a total rider limit and they allowed >> pacelines. After several years with a number of bad crashes, they decided >> to cut back on the number of riders and actively discourage pacelines. Bike >> VA bans pacelines for the same reason. Pacelines may be just dandy for a >> relatively small group of experienced, practiced people who know each other >> and have trained together, but with a large mix of total strangers of >> varying skill levels, pacelines can become very dangerous indeed. >> >> >> >>> On 08/19/2016 05:36 PM, Lungimsam wrote: >>> I was glad to see that they discouraged pacelines in their mailer. >>> >>> I guess after the ride I'll have to hose off any mud from the inside of my >>> fenders. >>> >>> I'll have to remember to unscrew the lid before drinking from my water >>> bottles. >> >> -- >> 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 https://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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
