Perfect Saturday

Though it wasn't a high mileage, epic, or that much of an adventure ride today it was fun. The Tomster and I did a little Towpath ride from Clinton to Massillon and back for 26.25 miles on the Big Dummy. I actually was going to check out one of the campgrounds down that way that I hadn't seen before, for a S24O in a couple weeks.



The camp area is super nice and is about 30 miles from my house so, it is perfect. For an added bonus you can actually build a fire in the fire pit!



We also got to see some Canal horses on the ride, though we really wanted to see the Canal boats running, but they weren't.



Just a fabulous sunny July day! One thing we did, that I had never done before was, stop at Ernie's Bike Shop/ Ice Cream Shop/Deli for lunch. I had a Rueben with chips and shared the chips and a Orange Crush with Tommy. Now I am home relaxing in the hammock!

Salsa Vaya

40 miles on the Vaya so far, and have already changed the drivetrain. Swapped out XTR rear derailleur and 12-34 mountain cassette, for a Ultegra rear derailleur and 11-25 road cassette. The mountain bike rear with road compact up front was way to low.



Also, I've added fenders and a rear rack. Mostly out of boredom.

Happy 4th of July!

I had a great 4th of July. The wife and I went down to Pittsburgh to go to REI, lunch, and a little bike ride.

After shopping at REI, we went to Fat Head's restaurant and had some great cheese steaks. It had really fresh jalapeños, tasty beef, exceptionally fresh bread, and of course cheese and onions. I washed it down with a Founder's Centennial IPA and a Stone Arrogant Bastard. When we were ready to go ride our bikes, it started to rain, so I had a Stone Pale Ale until it stopped. Coincidently, Fat Head's has it's own beer, which I did not have, is actually brewed in Cleveland.



When it finally stopped raining we went for a short ride around the Southside of Pittsburgh.



This was my wife's first ride of the season, so we only rode 11 miles, which was fine because the humidity was high and it was close to 90 degrees.




We finally got to ride across the Hot Metal Bridge, and get a good view of the river and Pittsburgh.






Then we finished our fun off with a milkshake.