Cehoward, I love to read your posts. Your enthusiasm and joy in riding just shines through and makes me jealous: it's 12 degrees at my house with four frozen inches of snow. I can't get my car out of my steep driveway, much less my bike down the road. Typical vacation. Thought I'd be sick for the whole thing as usual, but no, instead it snows and then freezes solid. Sigh. Ride on, so I can read about it.