After two weeks of pretty much zero riding due to the rains, Sunday’s century was better than I had expected. Two days of sun and lower humidity helped out considerably.

Drove up to Waterford with Psimet. We didn’t get lost this time, as we did for the K/R ride in the spring. A good sign. Found Dave342 at the registration and got ready to roll out at about 7:15. We were going to wait to see if anyone else showed up and at one point I jokingly hollered out, “Where are all the Bike Forums people??!?” To which a random guy walking by said, “I’m on bikeforums.” Whoa! Anyway, he was on his own agenda and I can’t recall his name. If he sees this, I hope he responds.

Getting to the Elkhorn stop, we saw and older gentlman rolling along sporting a Tour de Phil jersey. Hipcycler would have loved seeing that, since that was his big bike ride in Spain a few years back. I was going to get a pic of him at the stop, but couldn’t find him.

This ride has a fantastic route. It winds around a lot and rolls up and down. Little to no traffic on most roads made it comfortable to ride two and three wide for good conversation. There are 5 rest stops on the century route, so it’s never far to the next table of goodies. And there are tons of people on the ride. Plus, there’s the low-rent spaghetti, meatballs, salad, and lemon ice (yum!) at the end that tastes like a four star restaurant after 6 hours in the saddle.

As much as I’d like to ride the Bike Psychos ride, this Cream City century is almost too good to miss. HIGHLY recommend this one to anyone.

Now for some pics:

Long shadows show an early start to the day


Dave342


Psimet2001 (and my left shoulder )


Self portrait


Typical scenario… dave342 pulling the out-of-shape FIBs throughout the ride


Fixin’ a flat tire. The guy walking across the street is SAG. He brought a pump, which saved some CO2.


The haute cuisine payoff!