Here I go again
Ripplebrook, after a delay of 40 days (this fall has been pretty terrible in the bike riding department), on a cold winter afternoon after a s-l-o-w creep up the hill.
Discoveries on this ride:
- fog is really really cold when I’m out of shape enough to not be able to generate enough heat to keep the freezing cold mist away from my skin.
- pea soup fog is really fun when there’s oncoming traffic at night – headlights diffuse and make the air into an opaque milky mass. I ended up rerouting my return twice because of this fog; first I switched from Eagle Creek Road down to 224/211 so that there’d be an actual bike lane to ride in instead of hoping that oncoming traffic would see me, and then after 6 miles of absolute terror every time a car approached I rerouted the return through Boring and the Springwater Trail because they don’t have oncoming traffic like Barton Ferry Road + Springwater/Clackamas River Road have.
- Amisigger Road still sucks dead bunnies through a straw in the climbing department.
- The tubeless tires on the born-again Trek worked out without a glitch; I ran into one tube-eating pothole somewhere along the line and all that happened was the front tire burped a couple of psi and a thimbleful of sealant, which I noticed some time later when I saw a flash of white on the sidewall as I climbed up to Pipeline Road from 224.
- I think I prefer the born-again Trek to the Midlifecrisismobile. I’ll have to glue up the tubulars and see if they push the mlcm back into the primary spot.
Comments
Michael Wolfe Mon Dec 30 08:41:51 2013
No kidding! Climbing Amisigger in that fog was a little too special for my blood, though it did get me away from the river fog in the long run.
David Parsons
Mon Dec 30 11:03:25 2013
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They really can’t finish the Cazadero Trail down Deep Creek soon enough!