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Been off On Vacation and other Adventures

   Since my last post I have been off on vacation.  The Guitar Ted HoF ride occurred, and was a success.  I define success as one other person showing up.  I am not in to huge numbers and huge

social media following.  I am not one to make something bigger than it is, of the best of the best.  I just 
want simplicity, put a date, time, location out and see what occurs.  Mark did a great recap of the ride, and I am sure if you are reading this blog.  You probably read Mark's and you read his re-cap.  

    Since then, Mark and I have launched another podcast, I believe episode #96, by end of the month I hope we have #99 recorded, but that is if we have viable stuff to chat about.  That should cover Riding Gravel Radio Ranch podcast.  So far, I need to be more crisp on my responses and thoughts.  You are getting my hot takes on what Guitar Ted (Mark) brings up.  I do not see his sheets or notes prior to the show.  So I read his blog, because that should give me an idea of what he wants to cover.  

   I did a two week vacation back in Western New York.  I rode a lot of road. Throwing in sections of gravel I could find.  My Girlfriend Morgan did her first adult organized ride with me on a 50 mile loop that was part of the Tour De Perry.   Morgan did really well, and I need to make some upgrades to her Stigmata to help with road riding.  Here in Iowa running a 1X11 set up with


a 40T front is ideal.  Western New York hills, I am thinking I need to make her a AXS Rival/GX Mullet set up.  Giving here a 50 or 52T bailout gear would of helped her out a lot.  

    On a personal note: I road my first 100 mile ride in Western New York.  To be honest it smoked my legs, but I am a better climber now.  I left my dad's house before 6am, and traversed up and down a hillside of Covington, over to Perry.  From Perry I went into Silver Springs, Castile, then Portageville.  From the gas station Portageville, I went south on Route 19A, into Casendea, and then looped around Rushford lake.  I got back on 19 again and then crossed the Genesee River and took a river road back across into Fillmore.  Again I stopped for a gas station and carried on up and out of Fillmore on a gravel road and popped out on a 10-20 Acre solar farm.  I then descended into Wiscoy and snapped a picture of the Waterfalls. Then climbed a 15% grade out, and over to Lamont, then Gainesville.  Gainesville was my final fueling stop.  I snuck over to the village park and drank two pops.  I then finished it off with passing through Warsaw, Wyoming & Pear Creek.  It was a good ride, and my 1st hundie on the year.  In fact, I think my first hundie in two years.  

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