…with a new ride, sore back and expecting unpleasantly toasty temperatures.

The bike is awesome, more about that in later posts, below another teaser pic. I’m taking a bit of a risk doing such a long ride with it immediately - nothing like an imperial century on dirt to break in a new bike! But last weekend I took it to far more technical terrain than what we can expect in the Tahoe Sierra 100 and it held up perfectly (after tightening up things here and there). And it feels so damn fast - maybe I should call it the ‘Red Rocket’ (now if only I could ride it real fast, but that’s another topic).

Tylenol should take care of the sore back (a bruised vertebra? old age? my entire lower right side and leg are acting up these days). I’m kinda dreading the heat though, my frail Northern European constitution is more set up for cold. Anyhow, my goal is just to finish it, preferably way before darkness falls… it should be good masochistic fun!