ALC5---It's real now!

[roguedog]

what this world needs is a lending library for saddles, like Netflix only better.

Hey great minds think alike.. that's why I was asking and started this thread:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=9531

BTw, I'd love to be able to do this one day... It's always sounded really cool to me.

[Trek420]

roguedog "BTw, I'd love to be able to do this one day... It's always sounded really cool to me."

it is really cool

but you'll need a good saddle.

Maybe secret sister theme can be "send someone a saddle you bought but didn't like" and everyone rotates.

[roguedog]

ya.. am starting to look into the saddle thing. that's why i was perusing all those brooks saddle pages and tryign to figure out the whole measurement thing..

hehe.. this is one sport it's good to start *** backwards, i guess!

sorry for temp thread drift...

[ACG]

I am number 1132!!!

[Trek420]

whoo hoo. ACG, when I get the Amici Veloci team number just let your rider rep know and s/he will put you in the team. OK?

We'd fund raise individualy but this will allow us to sleep together. No, wait a minute, that sounds all wrong I mean we can have our tents adjacent. There, now that's better. This is a family ride.

[ACG]

Great, let me know. I'm not planning on riding with my group from last year as they don't really ride.......... and the company would be fantastico!!!

[Duck on Wheels]

This is a family ride.

The Trek420/UK Elephant family is already planning on a cheer team road trip next summer. Maybe I'll even try riding a stretch, just to see if I can (/{*** theeeeenk ***}/) about trying to do this the next year. Any way I could arrange to test ride a Bike Friday around then?

[Trek420]

check this site for Bike Friday dealers There was a guy on the ride last week who had one, he said it was not their "high end model" and he is very happy with it. He's ridden it around Europe and tours in the US, it fits in a bag/pack at the airport....

http://www.bikefriday.com/main.cfm?f...n=dealers.home

also here:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ht=bike+friday

sorry for the thread drift

Back to subject, the ride route will not be finalized sometimes till the day of the ride.

While last years route is posted on the website and it's usually pretty close to that.

The campsites will be established but not posted till maybe April for anyone planning on seeing us in camp.

For one thing that's because road conditions, permits can change up to the last minute. On ALC 3 I think it was there were fires and it was thought they'd have to bus us around 1/2 of the day 6 route. In the end that did not happen but we were close to the action.

This makes things difficult for anyone planning on seeing the riders.

That's the point, to purposefully keep traffic low, drivers away, no distraction. And if you happened to be riding that day, even the opposite direction if you crash or are otherwise in need of help that could be a drain on the crew.

Heck, the first year I rode they even helped a cow in distress delivering twin calves. (Mother did fine, calves unfortunately both stillborn. Vet said Mom would not have survived without our medical crew).

I've read a rule of thumb that if you can do back to back centuries or even back to back metric centuries, consider yourself ready.

I dunno, I've never done that myself but here i go again.