With the Clunker Challenge completed for the year, I thought it was time to return to the fixed-wheel. I pulled Maitre Jacques the ‘71 Gitane TdF from his pegs, pumped up the tires to 80 psi and set off for at
least a few miles, because few miles beats no miles all hollow.
I was late getting started and it was soon beastly hot - no, not really, any beast with sense was sheltering in the shade. Almost immediately I was struck by how smoothly and well this bike runs. I romped up the hills of Deadfall Road, alternating seated turning-‘em-round and dancing on the pedals and while I felt the climb, it wasn’t bad. From thence it was across 246 and 25 and over to Dixie. I didn’t have the Hodges Run in me, so I took Deadfall’s extension to its end at Clem Road, then Old Abbeville to Langley with a side trip to the Y. On then to Northside Drive, grateful to avoid the church traffic that would crank up a few minutes later and back home with 12 miles in. I need more time on the bike!
No new photos, it was too hot to stop for them, but here’s a photo of today’s mount -
