[OrRando] Screech Owl...

David Rowe david.readytoride at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 18:28:26 PDT 2006


Thank you, Susan.  It was good to ride with you last night, if only for a
little bit. I am so glad we came along and were able to join you for the
fix.  Well - looking forward to next weekend ... the longest ride of my life
is now just 6 days away.  I am psyched - it is my stomping grounds --- Cape
Lookout is one of the best surfing beaches on the West Coast - and I have
had some magical days in the water there.  Getting to ride there on my
Atlantis seems like a homecoming; my first and second most favorite sports
intersecting at my favorite place on the planet.

All the best.

dr

On 4/16/06, Susan France <susanfrance at teleport.com> wrote:
>
> 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/
> > >                      portland, oregon
> > > ==
> > >            i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
> > >                                  after she got that bicycle...
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