Between the Glaciers Ride--to Madison and back again

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Time: June 22, 2013 at 6am to June 23, 2013 at 11pm
Location: Madison WI and then back again!
City/Town: Madison WI and then back again
Phone: 773 865 7445
Event Type: cm-style, distance, ride
Organized By: David of the North (David606xx)
Latest Activity: Jun 21, 2013

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We'll get up early, jump on the Metra to Harvard, ride 75 miles of gorgeous hills on Wisconsin's smooth two-lane blacktop to Madison where Becky Jollay will host us at her big house by the lake. Home cooking, local beer, mattresses on the floor. In the morning, we wake up and ride back to Harvard unless we get waylaid at New Glarus or something. Who's in?

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Comment by David of the North (David606xx) on June 20, 2013 at 12:26pm: if by "fx" you mean fixed gear, then you'll have a very hard time. It's been done, but the folks who did it swore never to try it again.

Comment by Crystalicious on June 20, 2013 at 12:01pm: What do u mean by gearing David? I just got a trek fx.

Comment by David of the North (David606xx) on June 20, 2013 at 9:30am: We'll be crashing indoors--got a good friend with a house in Madison and a bunch of spare mattresses. Heather's gonna cook up a big batch of curry so we won't need to eat out. Pace will be on the slack side, no racing, but we do need to get to Madison before they stop selling beer at 9pm. (9pm they stop selling beer! the hell???)

Comment by Kevin Mulcky on June 20, 2013 at 7:37am: I saw this event just now...I need to check the calendar more often. I'm seriously considering it. I need to get out of the city.

Do we need camping gear, extra food, sleeping stuff, or anything more than the standard stuff to bring on a long ride? What's the pace gonna be like?

Comment by David of the North (David606xx) on June 20, 2013 at 6:52am: the hills are awesome! Heather clocked us at 40 mph on a downhill last year--I've never gone that fast on a bike before! I didn't have the gearing for it on my old bike, so I ended up walking up a couple of the biggest ones.

Comment by Crystalicious on June 20, 2013 at 5:17am: Hmmm. Thinking. Of going. Got new bike. How are the hills?

Comment by EevelWeezel on June 19, 2013 at 9:17pm: We'll be taking the 8:30 Metra from Ogilve to Harvard on Saturday.

Comment by EevelWeezel on June 19, 2013 at 9:08pm: Google Map of the route:

http://goo.gl/maps/4pThw

Comment by David of the North (David606xx) on June 2, 2013 at 5:12pm: crap, I also just now realized that's Pride Weekend. Oh, well, I'm going anyway.