I did the Oahu Perimeter Ride some 17 years ago (are they still doing that
ride)? I had never been on the island until the day before the ride, so it was
an adventure just finding the start of the ride. What a beautiful way to see
the entire island in a day.
One memory from the ride was when we had to ask directions from a local. He
asked if we were on the perimeter ride. When we told him that yes, we were, he
laughed and told us, Just keep da ocean on da righthand side, mon! Can't get
lost!
--Eric
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On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Robert F. Harrison rfharri...@gmail.com wrote:
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/DoE/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
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