jeez blueskies, i hope i can ride all through the winter??!!!! We're in a La Nina year and either it'll be a very wet winter or a very dry winter.....so we'll see.

thanks for the links! checkin out each and every one....you all cheer me up!!

now about that bag...see how little space there is between the back of my saddle and the rack? I'm not sure I could do a banana style...I was thinking like a carradice barley bag would set right on the rack nicely...that riv bag is too small.

Last time we rode we stopped and got snacks and for the first time in my entire life I didn't have a bag big enough to hold a drink and snack...(I have the carradice roll on my Globe)...DH had to carry mine in his banana bag....our friends of course have a pannier each.

i'm gettin right sick of lyin' here...that's a good sign!!