Ride Lugged

so mel and i have been laying down some road miles, now that i am outta pneumonia purgatory.  we’re trying to get her to be able to comfortably ride 40 miles before the 55 miler in mid may.  we’re at a point now where she can do 20+ miles, no problem.  but i think it will take a bit of work for both of us to get a better mileage base under our belts.  luckly school is out soon, for both of us, so we can throw down alot more.  anyway, these are pics from a recent ride we did this past weekend.  we headed out on our normal loop then included 1000+ feet of climbing, about half on a nice dirt road with a small stream running beside it. 

Mel climbing black hawk rd.  good views off to the left.  had to be there.

thats me.

proof.

this is what mel looks like when she eats too many fig newtons.  we stopped at a burned out restaurant on the side of a cliff.  the decent back down to the valley was paved.  i hit 54mph.  no shimmy, which i thought was interesting.

anyway, these pics are mainly to serve as imputus to get your lazy asses out to the may ramble.  spoke cards are in the works.  i wanna know where our czech made spoke cards are though.