I'd cycled past Ross Road for 20 years, always thinking that someday I would check it out. On the last Saturday of July, on a whim, I turned the Mercian off Flatwood and headed west. I was rewarded with a lovely 3.5 miles of varying gravel, loose stuff and hardpack that carried me between large closed off tracts of woods, past a couple of pastures, and eventually brought me to the outskirts of scenic blink-and-you'll-miss-it Hodges, SC. I had recently removed the 18T fixed cog from the other side of my rear hub, so I just rolled with it in 42x16, around 70 gear inches, and all was well. 28 mm Pasela tires managed just fine.
A while later, I realized I'd brought a substantial part of Ross Road along with me!
