My Soloica 2020
I was gonna post pics to the Virtual Eroica thread but this turned into quite an adventure and I took a lot of photos. So here goes:
Bike: 1984 Basso Gap with Super Record 6 speed. Magic MA40 rims to Record hubs with Challenge Paris Roubaix tires measuring at 29 mm. I took of the 26, supposed to be 28, Gravel Kings as I was expecting rough gravel. I was right. I was pleased to see the Gap took these with room to spare. Plan was to ride 40-50 miles in Western Albemarle County. I use these roads to train for Eroica but alas first time I got on most of these this spring.
Grand Depart - I put on a big saddlebag to carry extra fluids and food as even if there wasn’t isolation precautions, ain’t no supplies out here. I dispensed with pedals and clips since it’s a hassle to adapt my shoes for cage pedals, but as a compromise I wore my acrylic “wool-like” shorts. Non-vintage camera-lights for safety/security since I’m not surrounded by hard men today.
First
secteur of gravel is 2/3 mile from start. 15+ of the first 21 miles were gravel.
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N = '96 Colnago C40, '04 Wilier Alpe D'Huez, '10 Colnago EPS, '85 Merckx Pro, '89 Merckx Century, '86 Tommasini Professional, '04 Teschner Aero FX Pro, '05 Alan Carbon Cross, '86 De Rosa Professional, '82 Colnago Super, '95 Gios Compact Pro, '95 Carrera Zeus, '84 Basso Gap, ‘89 Cinelli Supercorsa, ‘83 Bianchi Specialissima, ‘VO Randonneur, Ritchey Breakaway Steel, '84 Paletti Super Prestige, Heron Randonneur