Put the Monster Trucker (Surly Trucker DeLuxe 26" touring bike with S and S couplers, shod with 53mm Compass Rat Trap Pass Extralight tires) on the road for the first time this season, for 20 miles on the Minuteman before dinner and before the promised thunderstorm.
It took me about 2 minutes for my body to remember what that bike is all about, and I had a fine time of it, keeping a brisk pace and pulling some idiot on a CF bike up one of the long climbs (I've always thought drafting people you don't know, without discussion, was simply rude). With temperatures in the balmy 70s, it was a dandy ride.
The clouds stacked up to the West.
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