It's a day off work AND school. So instead of a quiet morning, the Phineas and Ferb movie is rolling on the 50". Oh joy...
There will be little done today that resembles productivity.
Saturday, I slept in and decided to do a loop of Lower Richland. One two hour ride reminded me exactly why I stopped riding out there. The roads are shit. The terrain is shit. The drivers are shit. Nothing like getting buzzed by Methuselah's older brother, driving an ancient pickup truck, pulling a fossilized pop-up camper. Yeah, it's WAAAY safer out there...
Old State Road, which is DIRT, is smoother than about 50% of the tar and chip garbage roads out in LR.
You guys can have it...
(Let's compare)...
A stretch of the aforementioned tar and chip in LR...
Or a stretch of road out in Lexington County...Tough choice, I know...
Sunday, 5 of us did a really nice ride out into Lexington County. It was quite nice, and the antithesis to Saturday. Nice smooth roads, rolling hills, very little traffic, and a road that had remained undiscovered until recently. We didn't get passed by a car for the first HOUR of the ride!!!
Oh, and for the naysayers, when you ride out into Lexington County, you come home with a tailwind...and it's largely downhill. Shocking, I know!
Downhill + tailwind + 52/12 + 120rpm = yesterday's top speed. As the Brits say, do the maths...
And the rumors are true, Lay-An-Egg Trek is folding itself into the Radio Smack organization. I guess Levi booked out b/c he knew that he'd be playing 3rd or 4th fiddle to the Schlecks...or whoever....
Another rumor floating around is about the custom Pinarellos that were delivered to Team Sky Service Course. They were small frames and had the initials "MC" written on them. Hmmm....rhymes with Park Spavendish...
Anyway...enough of this nonsense. Time to go ride bikes with Junior Management...
4 comments:
Thanks for the props on Lex.Co. I have been saying it for years. It's all about where you go. Being an A hole behind the wheel must be a Southern thing. Be safe out there.
I ride out into LexCo pretty much every day at this point. It's so easy to get out now that 12th St. is open. Once out, the roads just stretch out and meander through the country. Good roads and low traffic.
I used to do a ride that incorporated Platt Springs past the airport, Ramblin, Princeton, 302 to 178 and back up Calks Ferry. Some surprising hills at the end of 178. One turn off I remember put you on an old style asphalt block road that reminded more of a long driveway, like 3 miles of it, than an actual road. That's somewhere at the end of 178 before you turn back up Calks Ferry. There were little to no cars on that ride when I used to do it from the Lake.
I'm gonna map that ride out...
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