Minh, That's really funny, we'll have to plan and ride the route together sometime soon!
Today's ride up'ed the mileage to around 30m with a rainy trip to Mount Vernon along the appropriately named Mount Vernon Trail. This is my third attempt in this ride and the first time I made it up the last hill without dismounting... the first time I bonked out and quit with 100 yards to go not knowing how close I was, the second time I dumped the chain as I attempted to downshift at about the same point, and third time is apparantly a charm. I didn't get the opportunity to dump the chain because apparantly my FD isn't quite dialed in yet and I couldn't get a shift to the granny gear... oh well, I made it after all! The brakes also got a workout when my riding partner Joe did a fairly controlled tumble in a slick, descending S-Turn on the way back. I was about a bike and a half length behind him riding my brakes already. Lucky for me it was clear he was in trouble immediately on the turn and I was already braking so I neither fell avoiding him nor ran him down... happy for both of us. He and his bike were fine and able to complete the ride! <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mahPnEU26kM/UhE4aNC2VbI/AAAAAAAACro/dPwyn-4BLqY/s1600/Rainy+Mt+Vernon.jpg> -- 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/groups/opt_out.
