Originally Posted by
rm -rf
there's the
"medio" route,
60 miles and
4900 feet....
....
Get the
mountain derailleur and a
32 or
34 low gear--see my comments at the bottom of this post.
Do the 60 mile instead of the 100 mile. That's plenty hard, but since you've done 100 mile rides, you should handle it okay.
Thanks rm -rf, Trojan and Vintage.
I have taken your advice. I'll get there. I now think I can make it with the right climbing gears, and while I might start out on the 100-mile route, there is a bailout that I'll have in the back of my head. No shame in that for my first fondo (which just happens to be in the mountains arg!)
btw rm -rf - I just got your username as I typed it out. Many years ago I self-taught myself to do some unix admin in a small tech shop. I was dangerous. The only better commands in my arsenal was "su -" and "chmod 777". The latter fixed everything!