On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bring your bike to GFM: A ride through the Blue Ridge Mountains with > Frank Theriault will make the Himalayas seem easy! I'd like to go, but it might be difficult to do both GFM and Chicago. It might depend which (if any) Chainsaw might decide to go to. I will have a road bike this year, so if I do GFM, the bike will be making the trip, too. Keep in mind, Mark, we didn't do any big hills on our little 40 mile jaunt to the Tennessee border and back to the cabin, and I didn't have anything approaching alpine gearing (42-21 was the smallest gear I had). If we'd have been riding in the mountains closer to GFM I'd have been a goner. Geez, some of those ascents are long and steep! I'm thinking maybe a 39 tooth small ring might help a lot. Anyway, to answer the initial question, I'll say "I'd love to but can only say maybe at this point." cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
