Hi All,
I am so stoked that I made the ride that I did today. I achieved a goal! I love it when that happens. I climbed this pretty steep (at least to me) and long hill up to the shopping center on the mountain (WV Mountain, not the Rockies...those are huge!!) Anyway, I was so excited when i got to the top I pulled over, threw my arms in the air, "YES!!! (people stared and smiled at me as they drove by. I also did all this on my new tires which are so much smoother than my knobby mtb tires. You all were right! Thanks again.
So that's the good stuff.
The bad, my LBS ticked me off. Well one guy did. He is apparently their road riding guy (all of the others do mtb) and when I asked him where the safer road routes were he looked at my bike then at me and sneered,, "you're riding road on THAT?!?" Grrr! Then he told me, in a condescending manner, "Well I suppose that if you wanna only get about 20 maybe 30 miles you could try..." Grrr! I'm so mad! He was a jerk. I hate that. So that was the bad. The good was very, very good. So I still come out ahead.
See ya later,
Gray