[OHPV-list] Peach Century!!!

[Jeff Wills]

> What a ride the Peach Century was today!!!   Some people travel the
> Anartica to experience what we have right in our own backyard.  A mild
> morning at 8:22am, 48 degrees and off I go with arm warmers, leg warmers
> and a windbreaker for ride around the Willamette Valley.  Got to the start
> at Chemetketa College about 9am in a light rain and wind.  Headed out
> looking for my bent buddies.  Saw Edna and stopped to sya Hi and make sure
> everything was OK, about then John WIlliam and Todd showed up returning
> with mechanical problems, what a bummer that was, imagine missing a fine
> day like today!  Headed out and about five miles later came accross Dave
> and a cute woman on an Aero with a flat, she had already fixed flat and
> was putting in back on the fork.

Maybe that was Marilyn (Tweety).

 Off I went still not at the first rest
> stop yet, a few miles more and come accross anothe rrecumbent stopped on
> the side of the road, was a gentleman from Vancouver on a Bachetta
> (John?),

That was Bill Van Houten, methinks.

any way he was fine and off I go again, about two more kmile sand
> another bent stopped alongside the road, I stop and find everythign is OK
> and take off again.  There is a fairly strong cross headwind with light
> rain, fun, fun fun.....
>
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>
> I never saw John Climaldi but know he was out there somewhere, think I saw
> Jeff and Diane somehwere but that brain cell seems not to have survived
> the ride.
>

We passed just after we were leaving the first rest stop- you were arriving.

Diane was slowing down for the last 20 miles or so- when we got back, we
discovered she had about 20 psi in her front tire. Her Schwalbe Marathon
Slick seems none the worse for wear, though.

We started in the rain & wind, and finished in a downpour. I think my rims
were completely under water for the last mile or so. Viva Oregon weather!


Jeff Wills

"My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening
through a cosmic vapor of invention!" --Mel Brooks