August two years ago, I bought my first bicycle as an adult after talking with my neighbor, Charles, about bikes. Got a new Trek Navigator 1 the best uses of which I outgrew pretty quickly. Still, considering the bikes I was riding when I was nine or ten, the Trek was a technological marvel. Lately, I’ve been riding the Miyata a lot more than the Razesa. I like its large frame better, as well as randonneur (probably misspelled) handlebars and placement of the brake levers. The bike’s a horse – huge, sturdy, heavy. Almost a year ago last Saturday, 31 August ‘13, I rode to Lynchburg with my friend, Adrian, and his oldest son, Tim, in preparation for the Elk River Century. Saturday morning, I just rode out to the Lynchburg Lookout Tower, climbed up it, rode over to a friend’s house, then over to my mom’s house for coffee. My Iphone’s Cyclemeter app failed miserably – it clocked my time but only registered 1.76 miles of my route in my friend’s neighborhood. The app seems to have recovered and worked fine Monday evening.
Here are a few photographs from Saturday. I’ve been wanting to get a picture of that church-sign for almost 20 years, and finally did get one; helped that it was near my ride’s goal. If you’re going to name a church, you better name it good (and hold your mouth right while you’re doing it)…
