Anyone know these two??
06-08-17, 05:54 PM
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Anyone know these two??
So I'm driving on a rural two lane road in Colorado headed out to do a couple weeks of riding in the Rocky Mountains. There isn't anything for miles and it's fairly warm outside. In the far distance I spot a couple of bright safety yellow cycling jerseys going in my direction. I pass the two cyclists and see they have panniers for traveling.
The next spot I can find I pull over and wait for them. As they approached I flagged them down with bottles of water. They welcomed the lemonade I offered plus peanut butter crackers and fig newtons. I guess fig newtons must be a local name as they didn't know what they were until I gave them packs.
They were from Sweden and cycling across the US. They'd flown into D.C. and were headed to San Francisco. They were 40+ days into their trip. We got to share stories on crossing the US. Pretty Cool.....
The next spot I can find I pull over and wait for them. As they approached I flagged them down with bottles of water. They welcomed the lemonade I offered plus peanut butter crackers and fig newtons. I guess fig newtons must be a local name as they didn't know what they were until I gave them packs.
They were from Sweden and cycling across the US. They'd flown into D.C. and were headed to San Francisco. They were 40+ days into their trip. We got to share stories on crossing the US. Pretty Cool.....
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I don't know 'em, but that's waaaay cool.
On the HooDoo 500 a couple of years ago, we encountered a tourist coming the other way. We haled him down and bestowed a lot of our food on him ... including some pizza. He was from Germany, I think and was very grateful.
On the HooDoo 500 a couple of years ago, we encountered a tourist coming the other way. We haled him down and bestowed a lot of our food on him ... including some pizza. He was from Germany, I think and was very grateful.
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Did they bring their bikes over with them from Sweden?
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You didn't get their names ? 
Very cool of you to offer some hospitality, I'm sure you will be brought up frequently when they get home and talk about their trip.
Very cool of you to offer some hospitality, I'm sure you will be brought up frequently when they get home and talk about their trip.
06-09-17, 08:54 AM
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Don't know them. A few summers ago I was riding and saw a guy stopped in the middle of a sketchy intersection looking at a map. It was a British guy just finishing up a cross country ride. Of course stopped and helped him figure where he missed a turn and told him how to correct it with out back tracking.
It was the fourth of July, him being British I gently reminded him that we won. Couldn't resist.
It was the fourth of July, him being British I gently reminded him that we won. Couldn't resist.
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Met plenty of people like them while touring myself. Back in 2011 the GF and I stopped to chat with a Scotsman who was riding x-country east to west. Not all that far down the path we were on we encountered another Scotsman doing the same thing. He had no idea a fellow countryman was not that far ahead of him.
While touring across PA back in 2014 a guy pulled along side me in DuBois, PA. Tunrs out he was also a BF member, and I recognized his user name.
It's a small world out there. I crossed the U.S. in '99 with a small group of people. The next year, while touring out west, a car pulled along side me in Yellowstone. The person in the passenger seat said "Hey, Dave." I looked over and saw it was a woman who had been on the x-country tour the year before.
Later in that trip I was having lunch at a picnic pavilion in a city park in Kremling, CO. Two other touring cyclists pulled up. I had seen them the year before during my x-country trip riding in the opposite direction along Lake Koocanusa in Montana. I recognized them because they had custom racks and panniers made by the same guy who had made mine, only theirs were a different color. They remember me shouting out to them about their Beckman bags.
I am flying out to Montana a week from tomorrow for a two-week loop tour that includes one night in Idaho and two nights in Glacier National Park. I am so damn excited I can hardly get any work done.
Here is the route:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19192705
While touring across PA back in 2014 a guy pulled along side me in DuBois, PA. Tunrs out he was also a BF member, and I recognized his user name.
It's a small world out there. I crossed the U.S. in '99 with a small group of people. The next year, while touring out west, a car pulled along side me in Yellowstone. The person in the passenger seat said "Hey, Dave." I looked over and saw it was a woman who had been on the x-country tour the year before.
Later in that trip I was having lunch at a picnic pavilion in a city park in Kremling, CO. Two other touring cyclists pulled up. I had seen them the year before during my x-country trip riding in the opposite direction along Lake Koocanusa in Montana. I recognized them because they had custom racks and panniers made by the same guy who had made mine, only theirs were a different color. They remember me shouting out to them about their Beckman bags.
I am flying out to Montana a week from tomorrow for a two-week loop tour that includes one night in Idaho and two nights in Glacier National Park. I am so damn excited I can hardly get any work done.
Here is the route:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19192705
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@jppe you rock, man. Probably picked up their pace after meeting with you. Too cool!
06-09-17, 07:21 PM
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Met plenty of people like them while touring myself. Back in 2011 the GF and I stopped to chat with a Scotsman who was riding x-country east to west. Not all that far down the path we were on we encountered another Scotsman doing the same thing. He had no idea a fellow countryman was not that far ahead of him.
While touring across PA back in 2014 a guy pulled along side me in DuBois, PA. Tunrs out he was also a BF member, and I recognized his user name.
It's a small world out there. I crossed the U.S. in '99 with a small group of people. The next year, while touring out west, a car pulled along side me in Yellowstone. The person in the passenger seat said "Hey, Dave." I looked over and saw it was a woman who had been on the x-country tour the year before.
Later in that trip I was having lunch at a picnic pavilion in a city park in Kremling, CO. Two other touring cyclists pulled up. I had seen them the year before during my x-country trip riding in the opposite direction along Lake Koocanusa in Montana. I recognized them because they had custom racks and panniers made by the same guy who had made mine, only theirs were a different color. They remember me shouting out to them about their Beckman bags.
I am flying out to Montana a week from tomorrow for a two-week loop tour that includes one night in Idaho and two nights in Glacier National Park. I am so damn excited I can hardly get any work done.
Here is the route:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19192705
While touring across PA back in 2014 a guy pulled along side me in DuBois, PA. Tunrs out he was also a BF member, and I recognized his user name.
It's a small world out there. I crossed the U.S. in '99 with a small group of people. The next year, while touring out west, a car pulled along side me in Yellowstone. The person in the passenger seat said "Hey, Dave." I looked over and saw it was a woman who had been on the x-country tour the year before.
Later in that trip I was having lunch at a picnic pavilion in a city park in Kremling, CO. Two other touring cyclists pulled up. I had seen them the year before during my x-country trip riding in the opposite direction along Lake Koocanusa in Montana. I recognized them because they had custom racks and panniers made by the same guy who had made mine, only theirs were a different color. They remember me shouting out to them about their Beckman bags.
I am flying out to Montana a week from tomorrow for a two-week loop tour that includes one night in Idaho and two nights in Glacier National Park. I am so damn excited I can hardly get any work done.
Here is the route:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19192705
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