Originally Posted by mountaindave

Another rider picked up the plate. Long story short, we have a “road find” competition going at the shop. However, hard to beat my coworker’s switchblade, hatchet, 5# mini sledge, and a solar charger!

Originally Posted by Robvolz

What are the Cino peeps using to clean the dust?

good ol’ soap and water?

air hose?

Originally Posted by davester

Cuteness heading into pranza:


Cuteness heading into pranza

Owen at pranza tending to the lubrication needs of his sublime 1930s (or 1940s) era Pitard (with matching bags). He won the Fausto Coppi award (most stylish, authentic retro outfit and bike)

Reaching the top of the biggest climb of the day (that's why she's smiling)


While sitting on the side of the road massaging my heat cramps out I took a picture of my bike:

Originally Posted by Andy_K

I mostly don't have any pictures with people in them because I was following through on my announced intention of bringing in the laterne rouge. Alas, you have to finish to be the lanterne rouge, so I didn't do ot after all. I was feeling pretty good at the bacon lady stop, and that was possibly the best bacon I've ever had.

I walked the first quarter mile or so down through the moon dust because I'm still healing from my last crash. Once I got down to solid ground I really enjoyed that part of the descent and I was feeling pretty good about my chances for completing the day's ride. But then the road went uphill again and the trees parted enough to give me a preview of the afternoon.

At some point one of the support drivers came by and mentioned that I wasn't likely to make it to lunch before they closed up, but he said he'd make me a plate and I should keep going. About 1000 yards later I saw the same driver talking to @bikingshearer. A gentleman's agreement was made with regard to whose idea we would say it was to sag and we both got it the car. Another 1000 yards down the road we found a rider on his back trying to fight off heat stroke. It turned out to be @gugie. Rich took one for the team and got back on his bike to give up his place in the sag wagon to our fallen comrade. I wasn't so noble.

Given the realities of the road surface, we didn't make it to the lunch stop a whole lot sooner than the riders we saw on the road. For instance, I had been leap frogging with @ollo_ollo most of the day, and he passed our sag vehicle at least once before we got to lunch and he was at lunch before I finished my sandwich.

Finally, facing temps approaching 100 degrees and no shade in the afternoon I called it a day and road to Hot Springs in the backseat of a support vehicle.

Next year for sure!

If you look really close, you can see @ollo_ollo riding away from me in this first picture.

Originally Posted by jiangshi

Who brought the flags?

Originally Posted by Andy_K

Those belong to the guy who owns the land where pranza is served (as well as the waterfall!).

Originally Posted by jiangshi

Seems totally appropriate for a vintage bike ride.

I wouldn’t have lasted long there.

Originally Posted by mountaindave

It's the gentleman's private property, which he is happy to share with us and he has never asked for compensation. Best I can describe him is as a cowboy gentleman - he doesn't bring up politics unless someone else starts something. For years he has opened his property to Cino and he has never judged us, so I kindly asked participants at the pre-ride sermon to do the same and they obliged. He was at lunch greeting people and we all had a fantastic time.

That's all I'd like to be said about that. Politics belong in the politics forum, not here.

Originally Posted by VRJAKE

The first dusty summit on Sunday

Originally Posted by Spaghetti Legs

Gonna bump this for some advice. What have you folks done to clean your Cino chain? Finally got around to cleaning up my bike and hasn't been bad except for the caked up dust inside the chain links. If I do my usual wipe and lube it will get pretty ugly. Thinking about hosing it off and then soaking in mineral spirits.