Sonoma: Crazy hard ride Sunday?

[maillotpois]

Anyone up for a crazy hard ride Sunday out of Sonoma? I am wanting to make up the team ride I missed last week when my chain broke, so a friend and I are doing a make up ride. It's "only" 40 miles, but over Sonoma Mountain Rd. and Trinity Grade with about 4000 feet climbing.

It will be a SLOW ride. I'm doing the 200k on Saturday.

What can I say, my family's out of town, what else am I going to do this weekend? Last time they went out of town, I did a 600k.

Anyone interested, PM me. Ride start at 9 from Sonoma. Self-supported.

[jobob]

Oh now that's just sick.

[Trekhawk]

LOL - I agree with Jo.
I cant imagine I will want to look at my bike the day after the Brevet never mind get on it.

[SadieKate]

I think I'll just look at bikes the next day (at the Handmade Bike Show).

[maillotpois]

It'll be slow. But I have unfinished business with this ride. I was looking forward to it all last week, and then the chain snapped and I was out. So we'll just have a relaxed day. Riding with a teammate who was sick and missed the ride, so she's unsure about how strong she'll be also. It'll be a ramble. A vertical ramble.

It turned out to be a good thing that my chain broke and I brought the bike in, though. Rolf the tall German ex pro turned wrench (who was on some amateur team with Jensbob) was very Teutonically disapproving of some of my component adjustments. So I feel very happy about how my bike is right now.

Torn about which bike to use tomorrow and will probably just go with the Merckx. Packing light.

[Veronica]

She says she's going to ride easy. I bet we see her at the beginng and the end only on Sunday.

Happy riding tomorrow SK, JB, TH and MP! I was going to wish you good luck, but you don't need luck. You're all in great shape for this ride. You guys will have a blast tomorrow!

V.

[Veronica]

Or was it a llama giving birth or a crazed bull?

That's the sound your hub makes when it's seizing up. It made for an interesting ride. So glad this didn't happen to MP yesterday on her 200 K, but rather today. It was absolutely bizarre.

We still had a lovely ride up Sonoma Mountain Rd. We decided not to do Trinity in light of the angry bull. And since it was a fun ride (not a training ride) we stopped for coffee and a brownie at a bakery.

Definitely want to do this again.

V.

Oh Kim - the section we did today wasn't bad, except that section where the road had dropped five or six feet. That was fun riding. Not crazy hard, but it did not include Trinity!


Actually we walked the dropped section. I'd have tried it on my mountain bike.

[SadieKate]

Hmm, I was wondering how today's ride went. Something tells me there was a story there. Maybe two or three.

[maillotpois]

The story is that Sonoma Mountain Road HATES my bike. Last Saturday my chain broke 1/4 way up. Yesterday, the sound that started coming from the freehub on descents was absolutely terrifying. It took some sleuthing to figure out what it was. Observant Thom noticed the chain got very slack at the top, and the sound was like the worst brake rub you have heard - when the brakes were not being used.

It was very disconcerting, made me creep down the hills, and cut the ride short. But you know, it was a super fun day and it was probably good to do just the part of the ride before my legs started hurting. Because they would have hurt on Trinity.

We'll do this ride again some time. I don't think it's going to be that bad.

[Trekhawk]

The story is that Sonoma Muntain Road HATES my bike. Last Saturday my chain broke 1/4 way up. Yesterday, the sound that started coming from the freehub on descents was absolutely terrifying. It took some sleuthing to figure out what it was. Observant Thom noticed the chain got very slack at the top, and the sound was like the worst brake rub you have heard - when the brakes were not being used.

It was very disconcerting, made me creep down the hills, and cut the ride short. But you know, it was a super fun day and it was probably good to do just the part of the ride before my legs started hurting. Because they would have hurt on Trinity.

We'll do this ride again some time. I don't think it's going to be that bad.

See MP your poor bike was trying to tell you it was tired after Saturday and wantd a rest.
Glad to hear you girls had a great ride even with the tired bike. My bike says its still tired today so Im going out for lunch with a friend instead of riding just to keep it happy.

[maillotpois]

TH - I think your bike would also like a spa treatment.