Ted, Excellent photos. Glad to have finally met you in person, both at the shop on Thursday and the ride on Saturday. Today's part of the ride was another adventure, but I bailed out before the last serious gravel climb of the day. All told, the trip was 80 plus miles with about 20 or so on gravel roads. And six water crossings. In fact, the Red Wing, Minnesota water crossing today was up about 6 inches from yesterday. Only time I got my feet wet.
The part Ted rode with us was on multiple back roads in Wisconsin, with lots of climbing. We scaled the bluffs twice. And were rewarded by two amazing downhills. One at high speed, the other, not so fast, but perfect road conditions and essentially no auto traffic. Could have been better. Saturday night the group that was left stayed in Wabasha, Minnesota, either camping or at a hotel. Had a late start this morning, and immediately began climbing for about 4 miles. Not the most difficult grade, but persistent. Figured it couldn't have been that steep as I didn't use the small chainring today while on Saturday my Sam Hillborne used all of the 21 gears available. The views from the road was fantastic and the descent into Lake City, MN was exciting to say the least. Topped out at 37mph which is the fastest the SH has done with a camping load. After a stop, wound up on another country road that turned to gravel, and then back to pavement. After a bit of decisionmaking near Frontenac, decided I would ride back to Red Wing by way of Highway 61. A decent paved road, but with heavy traffic on a weekend. The rest of the group ended up heading over to Hill Ave to climb another bluff on a gravel road with a pretty serious descent. (Have done the road in the past and didn't feel up to it today.) Highlights of my ride back included seeing a number of deer, including one doe and fawn at the corner where Hill Ave. dumps back onto 61. We also saw an immature bald eage with a fish fly directly above us in Lake City. Was also great to meet a few other folks and just have a great bike riding weekend. My pictures are here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/14126468@N05/sets/72157630035172498/ Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Frank Brose <fkbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the pics Ted. One ride I wanted to attend was this but my > work load said no way. I knew Jim would put together a great ride. > Jim looks like he's going to cross te continental divide. Nice > pictures and now I'll try to slip out of my state of manic depression > for not being able to make it. > > On Jun 3, 12:12 pm, Ted Durant <teddur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The weather gods smiled upon Jim Thill's excellent organization of the > Riv Rally Midwest. Unfortunately, I had to leave at the end of Saturday. > I'm sure they're enjoying another epic, scenic tour today. > > > > Some photos from Grant's appearance at Hiawatha, the ride from > Minneapolis to Red Wing on Friday, and the ride from Red Wing to Wabasha on > Saturday. Outstanding riding and company. Thanks, Jim. That was fantastic! > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/7627416@N06/sets/72157630029377718/ > > > > Ted Durant > > Milwaukee, WI, USA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
