High Sierra Fall Century?

[maillotpois]

sounds like gnat's describing the expansion joints. oh well. I am still doing this.

[Veronica]

Here's what I said about it in my write up for Eastern Sierra...

This is where the road turned ugly. Now I have ridden some pretty nasty roads, filled with potholes, patched and re-patched lumpy roads. But I have to say Rte. 120 is the King of Vicious Roads. They get snow and freezes in the Eastern Sierras and to handle the contractions and expansions of the road there are expansion joints. Big, ugly gaps in the pavement that the bike does not glide over. KACHUNK, KACHUNK, KACHUNK! Mile after mile of expansion joints, they went on and on. The GPS decided that this was too much, and kept turning off. These expansion joints so rattled the bike that the batteries would not stay on the connectors. It would blink out, I would turn it on. Fade to gray and it was off again. If I was lucky, it would stay on long enough for me to check how many more miles to the finish. I was riding with my butt slightly lifted off the saddle, so my hands and feet were the only connection points to the bike. My wrists and ankles were a little sore when I woke up Sunday morning.

Bu the good news is it comes at mile 70 instead of at mile 140.

V.

[gnat23]

KACHUNK, KACHUNK, KACHUNK!

Heh, and thus: we are in agreement.

Maybe if I can suck it up and pretend I'm riding in the Paris-Roubaix...?

-- gnat! (I tried using a different cuss word every kathunk, and by golly, I ran out of obscenities)

[michelem]

Rollie Pollie,

I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, but if you need an alternative to the High Sierra Century you might want to the try the Gold Rush Century:

http://www.folsomcyclebration.com/Go...y_Century.html

These are pretty good roads, so you can skip the KACHUNK, KACHUNK, KACHUNK!!!