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Old 08-23-16 | 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BlazingPedals
If I rode the same route all the time, it'd be so I could track my improvement. It'd be like when I rode the Wolverine 200 -- 5 miles per lap around the park, 40 laps. After the first couple of laps, I'd be bored to tears.

But that's me and you're you.
Hey @BP,

I also did that ride early in my adult cycling lifestyle, about 1973, on a 5-speed Schwinn Suburban. During the ride a cyclist got off his antique penny-farthing cycle, tripped and taco'ed my rear wheel. I called my mother and she bought and brought me a new wheel to finish within the alloted 24 hours.

Just the milieu of all those riders on a closed course riding all night on Belle Isle in the middle of the Detroit River was memorable.
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