my turn for bad idea ride

this i guess is pretty much every big ride, right?

tomorrow is bad idea ride ...

been too long...

also?

been a while since I've had a good long ride alone. 

tried to wrangle up a few folks, no dice.

weather's looking iffy, riding alone is fine in a thunderstorm, no muddy spray from the other riders. 

on the other hand I guess it will be interesting to see how the roads do with the big fat tires

and singlespeed

and the 8% grades

not the MTB

no the CXy bike - the same set up I did the Coast to Coast on, but this time one gear. 

mark shared the gearing for his ride - and well, i'm smack in the middle of 2nd and 3rd... in his opinion pretty tall. 

but this is the east coast, it ain't west coast, we've got short punchy hills, not long sloggy silly things that go on forEVER.  AkA single speed is just fine.

i hope

we'll find out

best get home and start organizing everything

water is the one variable i've not totally figured out

but fuck it - that's part of the game right?

course is loaded on the Garmin...

lets see what happens...

worst case it'll be a good story...

heddwch
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