Category: Bicycling

I’m here at the airport, delayed for a flight to my “side destination” because continuing on to the Oregon coast bicycle tour. Though at least after the storms pass through this week, it should be great weather next week!

I’m off to the Oregon coast soon for a bicycle tour in July. With this post I am now in “trip mode” and so now the blog posts will automatically update Facebook and Twitter  (using Simple Facebook Connect and WordTwit) for ease of updating on the road. I couldn’t resist making last minute changes to the…

Did I mention that the cable for my bike computer/speedometer was broken when I pulled the bike out of the box in Crescent City? Since I also left my Garmin at home (one less thing to have to charge on the road), I was flying blind on speed and distance the whole trip, relying only…

No one was in a real hurry to roll out quick this morning. It was overcast and a little misty, almost to the point of threatening to rain lightly overnight.  Also, we all had short riding days today – I was just going 40 miles to Olema, while the others were planning on riding to…

First, a couple of other things I forgot to mention from last night. The bolts holding my water bottle cages had loosened during yesterday’s ride. I had hand-tightened them during the ride, and then used blue thread locker (which I carry!) to make sure they didn’t wiggle out anymore.

One again I was the first one to leave camp today. Just outside of the campground, the route leaves US101 and heads down CA1.

I woke up with the sun, as I always do when camping, and I was rolling out well before any of the other cyclists had started packing. I told Rex and Roger I’d wait for them at the restaurant in Myers Flat. But there was no restaurant there (ummm, maybe I should have checked inside…