purple cow ride 8/18

Edit 8:55 am: It's raining as I write this, and the weather prediction does not inspire hope. I'm cancelling the ride.

We're going to re-do that road ride from the Blackwells Mills/Six-Mile Run parking area (just below where Blackwells Mills Road crosses Canal Road in Franklin) to the Main Street Cafe (Yummy!) and back. It's just about 17 miles, and the pace will be set by the group; NOBODY gets dropped on these rides.

This map of the starting area shows the parking lot entrance; it's that little bit of dead-end just below the Canal House.

As always, the Purple Cow Ride is the lowest-pressure ride offered by the club: no attitudes, lots of stops, nobody dropped, and the only lectures will be the safety lecture (which I always flub) and the ORAM (Obligatory Rant About Mirrors), which I've edited down to about sixteen pages or so.

The Excellent Wife will be on a hybrid. I might be, too, if I can figure out why the tube keeps puncturing on that rear wheel. Road bikes welcome, but at this pace, you'll be able to do it on pretty much anything that could reasonably be called a bicycle.

Start at 8:30; plan to be there by 8:15. Bring helmet and water bottle, per club rules (the rules don't say what, if anything, is supposed to be IN the bottle).