Going for Beer Ride

Post #26: Tammy and I are going for a late (for us) morning ride of gravel from Waverly to Charles City. The route is mostly gravel and with a Charles City beer stop.

This leads to me talk about my route creations. Well it is no secret that I am on the board of directors for the Sterile Iowan. I watched Dangerous Dan create his route based on a river valley. Since then I have done the same for a few of my rides. It is pretty genius concept to follow the river. A few reasons as to why it is genius. The first reason is that almost guarantees you passing through a town that has a C-Store. Secondly, it will give you hills to ride as you go up and down the river valley walls. Lastly, it creates a course with a lot of turns and twists, and that in of it self breaks up the grid square riding Iowa gravel is known for.

So Saturday we ride, and we ride back. Simple things like to get a beer are to be prized during these COVID times, delta be dammed.

In closing, the picture was taken in Letchworth State Park in the always fabulous Western New York.

Cheers and Godspeed.

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