There was one interesting event from the Oct 4 ride that Top was supposed to describe but hasn't yet. So I will.
It happened at our stop in Orleans on the way back. We had been resting and hanging out over the bike racks when a beautiful tall blonde, statuesque, long-legged woman came through on a large-frame (61cm?), black, experienced-looking Motobecane Super Mirage and parked it in one of the racks. All of our middle-aged guy-eyes bulged and guy-heads swiveled as she went by, and all of us were thinking "Wow! Nice Moto!"
(We struck up a conversation and complimented her bike. She rode most of the way back to the Harwich rotary with us. She even took a picture of us. For some odd reason we never got a picture of her.

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