Yesterday was the Honolulu Century Ride, an often lovely (and sometimes not so much) lovely ride from Kapiolani Park at the base of Diamond Head north along the coast to Ka'a'awa and back. To be honest I prefer the Haleiwa Metric Century, not because it's shorter, but because it's all out in the country and one doesn't have to ride though so many suburbs and parts of Kaneohe. Still it can be a good time, especially on a Quickbeam.
Sadly I wasn't able to ride the entire hundred miles yesterday. I had obligations in the afternoon which meant I had to stop at 50. However, instead of doing 25 miles and turning around to retrace my steps I chose to ride the entire route out to Ka'a'awa and take the sag wagon back...our sag wagon being our regular bus system known as TheBus. For $2.50 my bike and I got a pretty quick ride back to town and I could make my appointment. All our buses have bike racks these days so it's a great way of riding out and not having to worry about back. My Quickbeam is setup with the regular 40-32 up front and in back I've got a 16-19 DOS and a bailout 22 on the other side of the wheel. I used the 22 this weekend our own 'heartbreak hill.' Normally I take side road which avoids the steep climb and opt for a longer shallower climb but the route took us up the hill. I only mention this because I didn't take pictures on the ride, not wanting to take breaks and cut into the time I did have for riding. As luck would have it someone else caught me in a picture at the bottom of the 'hb hill' as I was flipping my wheel. You can't tell it's me unless you know the way I dress, but there's a bit of my back and wee bit of my front wheel with fender. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xXnIGRxDyQ0/TJ-_sM2vtnI/AAAAAAAADoE/4bS8xwa00eY/s1600/DSCN3498_edited-1.jpg Here's the blog I found it on... http://theflattire.blogspot.com/2010/09/honolulu-century-ride-short-version.html I think I saw about 5 other bikes (out of thousands) with fenders. I saw no other Rivs but mine got quite a few comments. There were some other riders without derailleurs out there...but their bikes didn't look as comfortable as mine. :-) Anyway I had a great time but I do wish I'd had time for the whole 100. Aloha! -- Robert Harrison rfharri...@gmail.com statrix.statrix.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
