[RBW] Ride Report - HHH W Overnighter and Beer Sampling Adventure

[Ana Candela]

Delightful story and photos!

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[RBW] Ride Report - HHH W Overnighter and Beer Sampling Adventure

[ted]

Thanks for the great trip report and back story.
However the “... (wooden boat build) ...” buried in there grabbed my attention 
big time. I don’t know about other folks but if your so inclined, I’d love to 
hear all about that too.
Regards 
Ted

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[RBW] Ride Report - HHH W Overnighter and Beer Sampling Adventure

[Tony DeFilippo]

Thanks Patrick and Erl!  

Erl to be honest our ride only scratches the surface of Craft breweries along 
that route... You could do the same route many more times and never repeat.  :)

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[RBW] Ride Report - HHH W Overnighter and Beer Sampling Adventure

[WETH]

Tony,
Thanks for a wonderful report on the trip and the bike!  I am glad to learn how 
well everything went.  I also had no idea there were so many places for liquid 
refreshment along that trail!
Erl

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[RBW] Ride Report - HHH W Overnighter and Beer Sampling Adventure

['Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch]

Great set up and fantastic ride, Tony! What great use of the Hubbahubbah. I 
love the picture of you and your wife on it. Downhill returns home are an 
excellent way to do it!

With abandon,
Patrick

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[RBW] Ride Report - HHH W Overnighter and Beer Sampling Adventure

[Tony DeFilippo]

My wife and I got into tandem riding a couple years ago leading to the 
purchase of a sweet 90's era Burley Bossa Nova frame which we Riv'd up 
 and got in a 
number of short local rides before branching out on the C including an 
epic (for us) 2 day Harpers Ferry overnight 
.  That 
ride was all of a sudden 2 1/2 years ago and alot has changed around our 
household.  Our daughter Rebecca just turned 2 in June and we traded in the 
Burley for one of the last Hubbahubbah's back in April.  The HHH was an 
impulse purchase about a year in the making... I followed Grant's blahgs 
and newsletters regarding the development of the frame intently but was to 
caught up in baby stuff to make the move.  That and our inability to use 
the tandem last summer put the damper on things.  But last year we managed 
to get Rebecca out quite a bit on the XO-3 and Clementine via a Yepp Mini 
front seat and this year we added a Burley trailer which opened up the 
Saluki and the potential for an extra long tandem-trailer expedition.  So 
when one of the spring blahgs mentioned single digit HHH stock in size 
small I finally pulled the trigger and I'm glad I did.




Our HHH was bought through and partially assembled by James and Candice at 
Analog before they left MD.  It was nice dealing with a knowledgeable and 
enthusiastic company like them, thanks guys!  Even with the assist it took 
a while to sort the bike out into full ride-able shape and with all the 
rain we had in April and May and a competing project (wooden boat build) 
the HHH didn't see alot of action.  In the last couple weeks though after 
tweaking the rear disc brake to add a bit of caliper clearance and 
equipping the bike w/ a nice set of matched grey sackville luggage - 
Saddlesacks Small, XtraSmall and a Basket bag the bike was finally ready 
for a real test ride.  Finally on to the actual ride.

The initial plan was for a 'Leesburg Loop', consisting of a C outbound to 
Whites Ferry, overnight in Leesburg (hotel) and return via W partaking 
of the breweries and good bike shops along the way.  The temperatures 
(exceeding 90 on day 1) and the thought of being that remote on the first 
real extended ride for the HHH ended up convincing us to reverse that plan 
and start via the W  While the C would have been cooler w/ its shade 
I just wasn't comfortable being that much more remote on the first big 
ride, the W offers plenty of bail outs, bike shops and access to uber if 
there was a bike or toddler emergency.  The W is a real treat of a rail 
trail, it starts technically in Shirlington and goes all the way to 
Purceville some 43 miles.  We connected from our Alexandria neighborhood to 
the trailhead via the Four Mile Run Trail and started the steady climb out 
of the inner beltway area.  Its only about 460' of climbing over 10 miles 
but in that heat and with the full load of tandem + trailer I was 
definitely feeling it. 






We made our first stop at the longtime classic Vienna Inn 
, just off the trail in downtown Vienna it's still 
easy to miss but highly recommended.  We tanked up on the house specialty 
of fully loaded chilly cheese dogs washed down by a frosty mug of beer.  
The first leg was about 14 miles non-stop and we decided to make the 
remaining segments a bit shorter as we were really hot and tired easily, we 
averaged 11.2-11.7 mph over both days (moving speed measured via strava).  
Momentum on a tandem is a fickle beast, once rolling its amazing but the 
many starts and stops especially in Vienna and again in Reston along the 
W make for alot of lost momentum.  Stop #2 is a big favorite of mine, 
the Green Lizard Bike Shop  which is 
also serves coffee and beer now.  We were mostly interested in their Port 
City Derecho ale 
 - a local 
brewery and an accidental beer recipe resulting from a significant power 
outage changing the brew sequence for an ale they were brewing.  It was 
very refreshing and I took the opportunity to upgrade our lock situation to 
an Abus bordo lock during this stop.  Green Lizard is a great shop in a 
great location, about 22 miles from home for us its a good destination in 
and of itself. Not exactly BOB-ish, but they are friendly and have more 
fatter tired bikes on the rack these days than ever before at least.  The 
last stop