72 degrees, 18% humidity, cloudless skies, dry trails, deserted trails. What’s to hate? How much is too much of something great? Full moon days away. Desert camping @ Beaverhead. Sipping a beer and 6 hits in the wind.
So funny: I am a quasi local w/ friendships in the community. Tourons I know will visit Sedona where I will be the local. I need to grow my group bigger perhaps.
My repaired fork arrived today from PUSH and is now on my bike thanks to Scott @ Bike and Bean. Fee for fork remove and replace is 2 breakfast burritos for Scott and Jimmy tomorrow. Scott loaned me his Pike coil spring that was very supple but heavier and 10 cm less travel. The Revelation is an air sprung 150cm travel fork lighter by .5 pound. My repaired fork is less supple that the old Fox fork. I am back on what i know.
Today was a chiro appointment where she repositioned moved bones. Still no relief from eye pain and headache.
I am bored also.
The rest of today was a lazy rest day. Diesel is $3.95 a gallon. I parked in a parking lot in west Sedona exposed to the sun to do computer tasks. Shortly the sun baked the van, I got cooked out. I hung @ BnB mid afternoon.
Yesterday was a BnB shop ride leaving @ 12:30 for a longer ride. 9 riders me bringing up the rear. We rode 21.29 miles in 3 hrs 7 min riding time and climbed 2326′. Our route was the following trails, I might have left out some:
Shades, Highline, Baldwin, road to cross Oak Creek on the bridge, Cakewalk, Old Post, Hurkinham, Special Ed, Witchdoctor, road back across the creek, Baldwin, Templeton, Sleezy Breezy, Shades. Find just a few on the official mapped trails. Ya gotta know where to turn where the locals steer their bikes. Our route took us past the collar bone break crash and manzanita flesh teared crash. Successfully negotiated each w/ no latent fears. We finished up just b4 5:00. Day started out chilly as I wore a light wool long underwear top. Others had their layers also. B4 Highline entrance we doffed layers. Darn hot. OK, 72 degrees. We sweated. Somehow 70 degree days consistently at this time of year doesn’t seem right. Back @ the Bean I drank just one beer. I invited myself to Danny’s for a shower and a city camp.
Anne and Jen from Fruita’s Hot Tomato are visiting. I visited Flat Tire and met a Canadian couple down for riding who had read the Bikemag article.
Men and their bikes
Solitary night @ Beaverhead. Tomorrow is laundry (already a week has passed), a ride, decide a dinner, drive to camp spot, fix dinner & cleanup, and sleep. My time.