My first outside bike time in two months, due to the snow that just would not go away. Rick called for a 40-mile ride with the usual suspects, and I declared myself "in" but opted for doing a shorter, 28-mile version, intending to split off from the others. In the end, all four of us set out to do that version except it became 32 miles due to a Bridge Out detour.
It was a bit dicey for a mile or so on a stretch of state two-lane heavy with trucks moving at speed thru a village with virtually no shoulder. Watch your six, as they say, which is what I did using my helmet mirror and bellowing out from the sweep position, Truck Back! Then a few blocks on the four-lane main drag past the county court house also kept our heads in the game.
The last leg, five miles on Telegraph Road, found us riding thru a drizzle, which turned into a shower while we were loading our bikes back into our vehicles at the Alloway Lake boat launch parking lot. A good safe time was had by all.
Map, route profile and pics here:
