Originally Posted by
irish pat
Nice bike Pcad. good for you, I read most of the other thread and really see no reason why the routing would be done that way.
If you prefer it over the less visible way, then that's a horse of a different color.
I got a new Tarmac SL but won't be taking it out until the weather gets a lot better, I did do 26 miles today tough, 10deg-pretty chilly but sunny.
Man, Pat, it was friggin nasty out there today. Not so bad with the wind at your back, but I did have to grind into that headwind on a flat road (after I came out of the hilly route I take on windy days to mitigate my exposure to the prevailing winds on this route) for a few miles and that part of the ride was gnarly. 26 miles for me too. It's hard going longer; on days like today that takes two hours. I do a route with a bunch of steep hills on days like today just to keep my body temp up and the speeds lower.