Riding the Road

The weather has been great for the last few weeks. It's allowed me to ride my new mountain bike and what a fun ride it is. Unforntunately, my rear shock went kaput after about 20 hours of riding and is sitting down at Hutch's awaiting a new one from Specialized. It's supposed to be 2-3 days. Soooo...for the first time in many, many years, I'm riding the road again. And I mean really riding the road. The last few years, since living in So Cal, I gave-up riding the road and rode my road bike on the bike path instead. The traffic freaked me out. But things are different here.

I rolled out the "pocket-rocket" and went up Skyliner Road the other day. Today, though, I went on a little adventure out to Tumalo via Johnson. What fun I had. I forgot how fun the road can be. The temp was perfect, little wind and clear, blue skies beckoned me to go much further than the hour I had originally allocated. I figure I rode about 25 miles today, 2 hours in total.

Hopefully, my mtn bike will be back in time for the first weekend of the year in the 90's. But if not, I have a quiver of bikes to choose from and the roadie may be my first choice.