Good luck on your ride TexasPedaler! I'm sure you will enjoy it. For tires, I've been hearing good things about Continental Gatorskins. These are the tires I'm thinking about getting when the stock ones wear out, although at 304 miles they are showing no wear yet. They've held up surprisingly well and been pretty flat resistant for inexpensive tires. I think I might go with 700x28c but I'm still undecided.

Thanks for the support guys! I had another fun day on the Denali.

I had my personal longest ride of 22 miles today. Well, longest at one time anyway, I've gone longer in one day when I take separate rides. 304 miles on the Denali. Again, had no problems through the route. The Denali and I hung with the fast group until about 3/4 through the ride when my novice legs started showing and I fell back to the front of the middle group. After that I stopped to help a rider with a flat tire and fell further back, but the ride was nearly done then.

My bike is dirty now though! We had some hard rains yesterday and the roads are still nasty. I'll have to clean it up later today.

I think here in a bit I'm going to go for another short ride, and grab a video of me riding the Denali through a really fun, narrow, twisty, and fast course that I just discovered. Just hope I have the legs to make it up to the top of the hill to start the course. Also will take a pic of the bike as it is now, I've added a new bag so I can carry all the stuff I need.

More later!
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