jreese86 Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Since the weather was so nice today, I took the day off to go for a ride. I took 77S and took 800, 22, 250, 151, 164, 39 and 212 back to 77. 270 miles in 6 hours start to finish. An hour of that was break/food/gas etc. I was pretty surprised with the pace I kept. 164 is a fun road, that's for sure. Good condition too except for two consecutive corners with gravel which caused my back wheel to get loose even though I let off the gas and straightened the bike up. Other than that it was a great ride. Definitely made me realize that the stock seat w/ a pro-pad just is not enough for 200+ mile rides. My ass is quite sore. Managed to get some pictures along the way too: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreese86 Posted April 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 On a side note I'm up to 1566 miles in the 37 days I've owned the bike =)That averages out to 42 miles a day. I love this bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsuMj Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 looks like a nice scenic route!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hailwood Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Nice pictures!MadMax, jbot, and myself were on quite a few of those roads yesterday too.The gravel on 164 was pretty surprising, but fortunately our pace was pretty sane through that section so no trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMax33 Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Rt. 164 was PERFECT until after the junction at 43, then the gravel showed up all of a sudden on a very tight turn. Not good. Now Rt.9 I can do all day and not have to worry about gravel at all. We need to go down 800 soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hailwood Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Rt. 164 was PERFECT until after the junction at 43, then the gravel showed up all of a sudden on a very tight turn. Not good. Now Rt.9 I can do all day and not have to worry about gravel at all. We need to go down 800 soon...Speaking of that...My wife and I will be headed down to Morgantown, WV next weekend, and the weather forecast is looking so good I'm thinking that we're taking the FZ.I would definitely be up for heading down 800 to 536 and making our river crossing there.If the forecast holds out I'll make a thread in the Cleveland forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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