[ORRando] Birkie ride report

[Keith Kohan]

Philippe,

I had a plastic bike.  Actually it's principal structural component material is a mix of carbon fiber and epoxy resin.  

But then Alex and I had no intention of hitting six hours.  We like goofing off too much at the controls :)  But then again I had fenders.  And boy it was fun racing up Gales Creek road before I made the mistake of stopping to take my jacket off.

Keith Kohan

--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Philippe Andre <philippe_cycliste at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Philippe Andre <philippe_cycliste at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ORRando] Birkie ride report
To: cecilanne at comcast.net, orrando at orrandonneurs.org, ebsolutions1 at qwest.net, "Heli" <kentheli at yahoo.com>, "Stephen Lamb" <steve_lamb at comcast.net>, "Terry Keele" <terry.keele at wachoviasec.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 9:39 AM




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Thanks for the Foggy Berki Report Cecil. And, a big thank you to Sam, Del, Mike, Susan and Michael R. and anyone I missed for putting on an epic Berkie. 

 

Cecil,

I would like to correct a rumor about randos on plastic bikes predicting sub 6 hour 200K times.

 

First: I wish I had known those guys were trying to beat 6 hours, because I feel like I was wacked by Tony Soprano for trying to follow the rat race pack. I predicted 7:35 for myself.

 

Second: I observed that Rider#1(Heli) and Rider #2(Terry) rode their heavy-ish steel full fendered commuter bikes (nothing as elegant as cecil's sweetpea), Rider#3(Lamb), #4(Myself), and #5(Michael W) rode titanium full fendered bikes, and finally #6(Alan) rode a steel full fendered bike. So that would be 50/50 on the steel/titanium bikes and 100% full fendered w/courtesy flaps. Where are the plastic bikes? I don't know about you, but Plastic bikes make my skin itch just like asbestos or insulation material. Ok...I forgot about the carbon forks on the ti bikes.;)

 

My bike (Eddy Merckx Majestic Ti '02) is still making me smile....bonne route 

 

Philippe      
 


Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:58:26 +0000
From: cecilanne at comcast.net
To: orrando at orrandonneurs.org
Subject: Re: [ORRando] Birkie ride report



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Whoops, my report is HERE






Cecil "still FOGGY" Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Johnson" <mjawnson at gmail.com>
To: orrando at orrandonneurs.org
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:45:27 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [ORRando] Birkie ride report

So I started a blog and posted a ride report. I really enjoy reading  
ride reports and figured I'd contribute to the mix. You can find it  
here if you're interested:
http://randobooks.blogspot.com/

--mike
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