I decided to try something different this week. My poor Fuji roadbike had been languishing unused since I got my Quickbeam. I bought a new cog for it a while ago, and I had it set up on the indoor trainer, but I really needed to get it out on the road. One of my Christmas gifts provided the nudge needed. I felt the new bike computer would be best mounted on road bike. Getting it set up was an experience. Worse that programming a Video player. In addition, I had also joined some online aquaintances in a frendly contest to combine weight loss and bike riding. To be a part, I needed to ride a three mile time trial, and I didn't want to ride a knobby-tired bike for that. The TT went well.
After that I headed over to the Loys Station Park to start the real ride. The fuji is geared higher that the quickbeam, at about 75 gear inches, so I was hoping for not too many big hills. There were a few shorter steep ones, but I made it up everything.
I crossed several grid decked bridges today, some were well posted with warnings and some had none, but at the speeds I was riding, things were not too bad. Slow and easy. If you think that regular road kill is bad, roadkill in a grid decked bridge is even worse. I spared you all photos of that.
| Loys Satation Covered Bridge. |
| Cool looking sentiniel trees along Mumma Ford Rd. |
| Mumma Ford is no longer a ford. |
| Sixes Bridge. |
| Sixes Rd. is closed further on for this bridge repair. |
| Dern Rd. ends at this nice looking farm. |
| Gregg Rd. gave me my dirt road fix. |
| There seemed to be a lot of goat farms along Bollinger Rd. |
| Today's Map. |
| Today's Profile. |
Roads Completed 1/8/2006
| Road Name | ADC Map Grid | Subdivision | |||
| APPOLDS | RD | 8-E-8 | N/A | ||
| BOLLINGER | RD | 8-J-5 | N/A | ||
| DERN | RD | 9-E-1 | N/A | ||
| GREGG | RD | 4-F-11 | N/A | ||
| E | GRIMES | RD | 9-E-1 | N/A | |
| GRIMES | RD | 9-C-3 | N/A | ||
| MUMMA FORD | RD | 8-J-6 | N/A | ||
| OLD MILL | RD | 8-G-9 | N/A | ||
| SIXES | RD | 4-E-12 | N/A | ||
| SIXES BRIDGE | RD | 3-K-13 | N/A |