[OrRando] Screech Owl...

Sun Apr 16 17:31:09 PDT 2006

We're OK, I know you were riding with John & Bert and neither of them
reported you missing at any time :-) generally you can just have your card
signed by an attendant in stores on brevets & populaires...unless the card
states otherwise. Receipts are OK too. It is only on permanents that we
require actual receipts.

Susan.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
[mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]On Behalf Of David Rowe
  Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:50 PM
  To: Oregon area Randonneurs
  Subject: Re: [OrRando] Screech Owl...

  Susan,

  I was just unpacking and found my receipt from the Mt Angel Market ... do
you need that?  So sorry!

  dr

  On 4/16/06, Susan France < susanfrance at teleport.com> wrote:
    So I've been playing with my pump all morning... one would think I would
    just toss it out and buy something else... but once a piece of equipment
has
    failed and you take it apart, get it all figured out, put it back
    together... ya just cannot toss it. My pump is missing a fairly large
    O-ring. Maybe it was never designed to have an O-ring in this particular
    place, but it needs one. It probably explains why my tires never held
    pressure when fixing flats in the rain.  But that is not it's only
    problem... last night the "rod" separated from the "piston"... I could
see
    that it screwed together but for the life of me I couldn't figure out
how to
    get the thing apart so that I could rescrew the rod to the piston... now
I
    know, and it wasn't obvious. And why would it unscrew in the first
place?
    Vibration... I often would find my pump handle lose from the pump and
    thought nothing of it... but slowing it was unwinding itself, until last
    night "surprise" pump handle in one hand, pump body in the other, flat
tire,
    sweep position, and riding alone.

    Luckily I made the route an out and back and Bert, David & John were on
the
    "back" portion and they come upon the lone cyclist with her pump in
pieces.
    (Bert, David & John were preriding the route,  putting up stickers at
    controls for the rest of the group.) So, I decided I'll just get the
flat
    fixed and ride back with them since I have no pump, I've lost a lot of
time,
    I was riding alone (which I really don't like at night) and I had "the
    backup wheel". So now Bert, David & John all know about "the backup
wheel".
    When I had the flat I just dreaded fixing it... The wheel is 16 years
old
    and like new ...because the aero style makes it nearly impossible to get
a
    tire on/off the rim... as the 3 of them soon learned. Bert didn't want
me to
    mess with pulling the shard out of the Gatorskin I had, he wanted me to
use
    his brand new spare tire. Then when he saw 3 patches on my spare tube he
    insisted I use his brand new spare tube... OK, but I do know that my
patched
    tubes hold just fine as I've never had a patch fail. But I wasn't going
to
    argue with 3 randos eager to fix "the backup wheel". Then Bert wants to
use
    his CO2 cartridge, so we all get a detailed lesson in the finesse it
takes
    to not blow the tube/tire off the rim.  I used CO2 cartridges years ago
with
    really bad results... as in empty cartridges and flat tire, stranded in
    Scappoose...luckily a cyclist with a pump just happened by.  My
wire-beaded
    Gatorskin was retired next to a Oak tree for me to retrieve later this
    week... (this is my stomping grounds). And Bert, David & John lost a
minimum
    of 1/2 hr battling "the backup wheel."

    And we are off now with a tailwind toward the last control. How nice to
ride
    with someone... you can see the road better with all those extra lights.
    Someone to talk to. We struggled a bit with attaching the bag of
stickers to
    the last signpost. I hadn't given Bert enough zip ties, it was cold and
very
    windy here, and the post was pretty much surrounded by mud... in the end
we
    used one of my spare tubes... again, I could just retrieve it later this
    week on a trip out into the prairie.

    And then just a short trip back to the start...

    Those roads were quiet... even hwy 219 was quiet after 11pm. I could
take
    the lane on a road I'm so used to riding with trucks zooming by at
60mph.

    I did hear an owl, a horned owl. I got pelted with hail, I did see the
    meteor...it looked blue from my vantage point.

    I say we do this again, hopefully on a night when the weather is warm
and a
    full moon.

    Cheers,
    Susan.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
    > [mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]On Behalf Of joel metz
    > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 9:37 AM
    > To: orrando at tire.patch.com
    > Subject: [OrRando] screech owl populaire report...
    >
    >
    > yeah, im up, and ive finished my report!
    >
    > i mean really, how long can a report on a 100k in the dark take to
    > write, anyhow? :) especially with no pics (i SO hate my stupid old
    > digital camera. NOTHING came out useable.)
    >
    > anyhow, its here:
    >
    > http://www.blackbirdsf.org/randonneuring/2006_100.html
    >
    > thanks susan for a great little ride, and del and nathan for the
company!
    >
    > -joel
    >
    > --
    > joel metz  : magpie at blackbirdsf.org :  http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
    > bike messengers worldwide : ifbma : http://www.messengers.org/
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    > ==
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    >                                  after she got that bicycle...
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