Dirt Bikes

August 20/09
KOA - Missoula, Montana
Mileage: 72.12 km
Ride time: 3:56 hrs
Total: 623 km

First of all, the daily mileages do not always reflect the mileage point to point. The mileages recorded include campground to campground, campground to grocery store, grocery store and back, and any other round about riding we do. Just so nobody does the math on a map and calls me a liar. However, the mileages over the long run should be fairly accurate. I'm far to lazy at the end of the day to reset my sigma speed and subtract additional riding.

Anyway, the road construction started just south of Arlee and continued for about 20 km up a continuous grade. Much of the construction consisted of gravel detours. Deby's Surly was right at home with this, but my Nishiki with the 27" skinny tires fell a little short. Never the less the old bird carried me through (the bike I mean).

The grade, a headwind, and the construction was tough, but we forgot it all with the long smooth descent into Missoula.

We spent the rest of the day running errands in the city and got a second specialized Armadillo tire put on Deby's bike at Big Sky Cycle.

Tomorrow before we set out we are going to an all you can eat pancake breakfast...$2.50. Oh America the beautiful.

Temperature today was about 100 degrees.