You did the 215 miles from Fairfax to Santa Rosa in one day loaded with gear? that seems like a lot...
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:27 PM nick b <brownfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > After I got over my teenage fear of riding bikes and got back on one in my > early 20's I found Rivendell on the internet and lusted over an Atlantis. > About 10 years later I decided to just do it and I saved up and went for > the Appaloosa since the Atlantis was so much more. Little did I know the > Atlantis would come out a few months later in a more affordable Taiwanese > version but to be honest I prefer this (that blue is heavenly). It's > pretty much everything I hoped it would be. Heavy, slow, comfortable, and > beautiful with my neck placed to look at the scenery instead of my bike > computer and the pavement directly in front of me (I have a bike for > that...). I took it on a 3 day tour up in Marin and Sonoma this weekend > and it performed admirably. I rode 215 miles from Fairfax to Santa Rosa > (Russian River Brewing!), over to Bodega Bay where I slept for the night > and dropped my gear. The next day I rode unladen up to Cazadero and over > King Ridge Road and then down the dirt road in Kruse Rhododendron State > Preserve and back down the PCH to Bodega Bay. The next day was down to > Bolinas for lunch and then over Fairfax-Bolinas Road (where I saw a dude > descending on an Atlantis) to my car. The racks seem a bit overkill but > every time I think about taking one off it loses functionality for me which > is why I put them on. I built it so that one day (and one day hopefully > will) live on it. Also riding though that area which I visited as a kid > but am unfamiliar with as an adult was a treat. Thought you all might like > to see it. Thanks! > > -- > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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.
