It was reading about other people's long rides, posted in the rec.bicycle.rides newsgroup, that motivated me to try long rides of my own. I remember the first time I actually rode more than 60 miles in a day (a metric century) and felt like I just might someday be capable of a ride worth reporting on. Eventually I did some rides and wrote some reports. Some of these are getting a bit old, but hey, a ride is a ride. Just in case they might inspire somebody else to ride farther, here they are...
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The Ride... |
The Link |
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| In the drought year of 1992, a delicious ride on a weekday. Ride reporting is a branch of travel writing, and in this, my first posted report, I was trying very hard to give clear visual images of the countryside to people who might not know it. | Calaveras 1 |
| My first real century, the Grizzly in the Sierra Nevada foothills. | Grizzly |
| Two years later and in the spring, on one of those rare days when you can see forever. As near to a religious experience as I know, is to stand on the top of a high place at dawn on a crisp, quiet Sunday morning and pick out landmarks miles away... | Calaveras 2 |
| A ride over the Golden Gate Bridge on what turned out to be a stunning day. (Here is a picture [100KB] taken crossing the bridge on another day, a winter day when the hills are khaki-colored.) | Sausalito |
| My longest ride to date, one fine Easter Sunday . | Easter |
| On the Tour of the Unknown Coast 1995 I had a bit of a problem. | TUC 95 |
| Back in the saddle and a year later, a Memorial Day ride. | Mount Hamilton |
| Six-day tour of marin, napa, lake counties in 1997 | Six-day tour |
