It was a really fun, sometimes challenging ride with good friends. Some interesting bikes in the group: purple Rambouillet green Redwood white Weigle blue Surly LHT red Rawland dSogn red Miyata 1000 (totally refurbed and hotrodded) red Trek something (1980s) and my manly-pink Univega
All steel bikes, all Brooks saddles, and at least seven wheels that I built (luckily none of them pringled during the ride). The Amtrak station had some used (free) boxes, and most of us were able to travel with our bikes for just $5 over the passenger ticket price. It would be nice if Amtrak had bike hooks on this route, but the boxes are easy to use and really not a deal-breaker. Winona is the first luggage stop, so that's where we go. It just so happens that there's some beautiful countryside between Winona and Minneapolis, both from the viewpoint of the train passenger cars (along the backwaters of the Mississippi), and from the back road route through the downhill-rich "driftless area" we rode on our bicycles. On Jul 15, 2:58 pm, Bill Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > Rather than tack this onto the triathlete thread, i thought i'd start > something new on traveling to a ride, and tie into the earlier threads > on British cycle touring. > > The vast majority of my bike riding (aside from most CX races) start > and end from home. Over the 4th holiday weekend, however, a few > friends and i got an assist to the start of a ride that ended at home > - we took the Amtrak a couple of stops south and rode home. Three of > us did this ride a couple of years ago, but were thwarted last year > because flooding on the line stopped the trains on that stretch for a > couple of weeks. Things worked out great this year with beautiful > weather and a challenging new route mapped out by Jim Thill, who > commented on the ride down "the great thing about this route is that > it has lots of descending!". That guy really knows how to look on the > bright side of 150 miles of hills, gravel, and beautiful southern > Minnesota riding. > > My ride > report:http://wjc.fidean.net/log/2009/07/08/the-2009-winona-trainbike-extrav... > > Jim's report (i don't think he'll mind me linking > here):http://planetary-gears.blogspot.com/2009/07/winona-riders-2009.html > > -- > Bill Connell > St. Paul, MN --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
