They bump fists and whoop like boys at the bottom of a sledding hill. Except it’s 90 degrees, and the five guys are on road bikes, not Flexible Flyers. Only a few yards in front of me, they’ve just passed the 100-mile mark of RAIN, the annual Ride Across INdiana. There’s no roadside marker here. [...]
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RAIN 2009
Posted in road bike, tagged bicycle, bike, Cycling, RAIN, road bike, U.S. 40 on July 18, 2009 |
Another Barbie. Chattering endlessly in an animated voice, she latches onto my rear wheel, figuring my slipstream is good for the last half dozen miles to the finish line. She thinks wrong. Not today. Not when it’s someone who doesn’t offer so much as a polite “do you mind” to the guy she expects to [...]
Pushed by the coming cold
Posted in road bike, tagged bicycle, bike, Indiana, Knightstown, RAIN, road bike, U.S. 40 on January 12, 2009 |
Riding through winter. Riding in front of it. U.S. 40 is relatively flat across my part of the state, and well maintained. On winter days when the Greensboro Pike remains littered with sand from county highway trucks, I haul my bike to Knightstown for an out-and-back trek down the old National Highway. Today’s first leg [...]
