We are packing! Not for the big trip, but for a "shake down" ride with Doug this weekend. Last year we did an overnight trip to test out everything (see one of our first posts). Doug will join us midway through our trip. He now has a recumbent and trailer and needs to see how it all works for touring. Filmore to Ventura again. I sense a trip to REI is coming.
We leave July 1st from LA Union Station and take Amtrack to Vancouver. We are both very excited, but the reality has just hit us that we leave in a week. Training? Some. Ready to leave my company for three weeks? No. Have everything? Maybe. If we can find last trip's list it would help. Healthy? We'll see how the back holds out. (We did not complete the century ride in our last post. My back went out one week before. Twelve-weeks-of-physical-therapy later it is much better. It is not 100% and I fear that it never will be again. Getting old sucks.)
We are expecting more inclement weather this trip so in preparation we have changed out our carbon forks to steel so we could install fenders. The front were relatively easy to install. The rear was a little harder working around the disk brake. Seriously considered changing out the rear braking system and going with a drum brake and V brake but never got around to it. Guess the down hills will again be an E-ticket ride!
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