Wow! Loaded indeed. Enjoy your trip! Perhaps make a radical step for a shorter trip and go with half the poundage and see what happens?
With abandon, Patrick On Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:03:17 PM UTC-6, Kelly wrote: > > We are headed for a week on the Cowboy Trail. Here is the Bomba after > she was loaded up and test ridden. > > Managed some high speed down hills, dirt, curbs, coffee and assorted > ramblings. She's ready for the ride. > > Here are some photos in front of the House. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/8893702606/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/8893054333/ > > The coffee shop -- > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/8893701496/ > > So I tried to pack lighter this time around. Though I ended up with lots > more space / room the weight only dropped about 5 lbs. So in the photos is > 70lbs of gear including bag and pannier weight. That's ok I traveled a lot > of miles at 80ish pounds so why fight it. > > > > > On a side note I took the AHH to the Horsey Hundred this last weekend. > Carried about 15 to 20 lbs of camera gear and stuff both days and had a > great time. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/8892736746/ > > Note the large saddlesack makes a great camera case with the addition of > some foam padding... > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/8603144807/in/set-72157632471917923 > > > Have a great week next week while I'm riding my bike... > > oops another side note..... of the 9 people going with me from St Louis > for this ride, there are four Rivs, all from the St Louis area. Not to > mention but a beautiful Bruce Gordon, 2 LHT, a Giant OCR Tour (my old one), > and the Holdsworth resurrected again as a loaner bike. > > > One more day of work and I'm outa here.. !!! > > Kelly > > -- 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?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
